1 Their voices had a dusky turbulence.
2 They soon relinquish this turbulence though, and when about three-fourths grown, break up, and separately go about in quest of settlements, that is, harems.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters. 3 But the children had abandoned their sports for their beds of skins, and the quiet of night was already beginning to prevail over the turbulence and excitement of so busy and important an evening.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 25 4 Everything was so quiet, and neat, and orderly; everybody so kind and gentle; that after the noise and turbulence in the midst of which he had always lived, it seemed like Heaven itself.
5 He mistrusted the turbulence and doubted the sincerity of such comradeship which seemed to him a sorry anticipation of manhood.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 6 The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
7 The turbulent voices, even Guy Pollock being connotative beside her, were nothing.
8 The Indians warily retraced their steps toward the place they had left, when the scout, placing his pole against a rock, by a powerful shove, sent his frail bark directly into the turbulent stream.
9 There came a turbulent stream of men across the fields.
10 It was now early spring, and the river was swollen and turbulent; great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters.
11 This person, a sailor, of turbulent character, and whom I suspected of Bonapartism, has been secretly to the Island of Elba.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 10. The King's Closet at the Tuileries. 12 At last he made his way through the mob, which was continually increasing and getting more and more turbulent, and reached the hotel.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 13 In a moment he restrained himself so powerfully that the tempestuous heaving of his breast subsided, as turbulent and foaming waves yield to the sun's genial influence when the cloud has passed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 94. Maximilian's Avowal. 14 I saw that turbulent emotions possessed her, so I asked what I thought would be some sedative questions about her little girl.
15 But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.