When the dark storm and the howling blast sweep with their wintry pinions over its troubled bosom, I shall think of the rocking ship and the tempest-tossed sailor, whose home is on the faithless sea.
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Tempest-tossed
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Like a battle-scarred, tempest-tossed warship, with her sails in tatters, her masts broken, and bilges awash, T. Mellon & Sons was, incredibly, still afloat.
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Shipwrecks on tempest-tossed seas are featured in a number of other ballets and operas.
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Divorced from Allan Wayne after a tempest-tossed marriage notable for locking each other out and scares over alleged kidnapings^([sic]) of their daughter, she married Arnold Grant in 1962.
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