tempest-time

Updated: May 7, 2025

And over the starry waves, and broad out into the blandly blue and boundless night, spiced with strange sweets from the long-sought land the whole long cruise predestinated ours, though often in tempest-time we almost refused to believe in that far-distant shore straight out into that fragrant night, ever-noble Jack Chase, matchless and unmatchable Jack Chase stretches forth his bannered hand, and, pointing shoreward, cries: "For the last time, hear Camoens, boys!"

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War

For it was one of the characteristics of this man, that though when on duty he would shy away from mere dull work in a calm, yet in tempest-time he always claimed the van, and would yield it to none; and this, perhaps, was one cause of his unbounded dominion over the men.

Herman Melville - Redburn. His First Voyage