They awaited the word forward—awaited, too, with beating hearts and set teeth the gusts of lead and iron that were to smite them at their first movement in obedience to that word. The word was not given; the tempest did not break out.
And the moon dimly gleamed through the tempested air.
As every sailor knows, a spicy gale in the tropic latitudes of the Pacific is far different from a tempest in the howling North Atlantic.
The media frenzy over the actor's drunken behavior was a tempest in a teapot.