These little units boast they can withstand even the fiercest tempest, allowing the owner to remain snug and comfortable inside as the elements rage outside.

"And at this very moment it is possible that fierce tempests are raging above, and that men and ships are battling against the angry blasts just over our heads?"

Not long afterward, a Russian ship, the Demeter, having weighed anchor at Varna, runs aground on the shores of Whitby, England, during a fierce tempest.

"We have very sudden, fierce tempests at erratic intervals," Knot said.

As her convulsive shudders began, Niall was gripped by the same fiery talons of sensation, caught in the same fierce tempest.

Philogenes endures a fierce tempest that features the spirit of Discord, to reach an ensuing prosperous calm.

He had to recover his weather sense and quickly, for linked inextricably to the falcon's presence was the fiercest tempest ever to rage across the northeast latitudes.

But before dawn on Saturday, they ran into one of the North Atlantic's fiercest tempests this fall.

This lower stratum of cloud appeared to be the scene of terrific storms, compared with which the fiercest earthly tempests were mere zephyrs.

"I can as easily still the fierce tempests or stop the rapid thunderbolt, as command the motions and operations of my own mind," he lamented.