It was a dark and stormy night.

-Lytton
  Opening words of Paul Clifford.

Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils.

-Luther, Martin
Quoted in Vincent Cronin The Flowering of the Renaissance (1969).

Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.

-Sandburg, Carl
  Chicago Poems,'Chicago'.