"Storm center" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... alack! by one little move he completely changed Peggy's future and for a time rendered the present a veritable storm center, as will ...
— Peggy Stewart at School • Gabrielle E. Jackson
... may be said to culminate about the years from fifteen to seventeen with girls, and sixteen to eighteen with boys, or the period of Middle Adolescence. During these years the feelings and the imagination are a great storm center, largely because of the rapid development of the altruistic feelings, and the enlarged conception of life with the ...
— The Unfolding Life • Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
... the heart of each gale of events, a storm center of quiet. It is the very deadlock of contending forces, in which the individual has space for breath and apprehension. Into this lull Flora fell panting from her last experience, more frightened by this ...
— The Coast of Chance • Esther Chamberlain
... in war, coal spells life and power. It was the cudgel that the one-time proud and arrogant Germany held menacingly over the head of the unhappy neutral, and extorted special privilege. At the moment I write, coal is the storm center of controversy that ranges from the Ruhr Valley of Germany to the Welsh fields of Britain and affects the destinies of statesmen and of countries. We are not without fuel troubles, as our empty bins indicate. The nation, therefore, with cheap and abundant ...
— An African Adventure • Isaac F. Marcosson
... what to do with such a temper. Indeed, just this confused temper of believing and doubting, with miracles for the storm center, has offered a rich field for those interpretations of the miraculous, particularly in the New Testament, in terms of faith and mental healing, to which Christian Science and New Thought are so much given. We may conclude in a sentence by saying that since ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins |
