stormbound
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of stormbound
Example Sentences
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Trapper Courtois was stormbound, nearly frozen to death.
From Time Magazine Archive
A tiny peak of rock in the North Atlantic, 40 miles west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, it is stormbound for eight months of the year.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next room to mine is full of stormbound travellers, and they and the house-master kept up what I thought was a most important argument for four hours at the top of their voices.
From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
You remember the PHOS—phorescence?'—all so beautifully and vividly that I almost felt stormbound and in peril of my life.
From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm
On the 5th, imagine him at Dover with an equipage of five hundred persons shivering on the brink of the Channel, and stormbound there for fourteen days at a cost of 14,000 crowns.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper
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