In 1917, an Ottoman garrison was expecting an attack from the sea when an Arab army under TE Lawrence stormed in from the mountains.
Front and center was Gabriel, who looked like he'd stormed in from a commedia dell'arte show in the theatre next door.
In Tigantourine, the attackers turned their focus on the workers' camp, storming in from two directions, according to one hostage who gave an account to French television.
Seen through the wide eyes of a preteen version of Philip Roth himself, his hermetic little neighborhood is beset by fear of a pogrom storming in from those middle places in America, where Jews are often viewed as aliens or worse.
After hours of flight diversions and cancellations, the airport reopened for business at 2pm, slightly more than 14 hours after the men dressed in the uniform of the Airports Security Force stormed in from two points near a VIP terminal more than a mile away from the main passenger building.
Like a soap, there's endless repetition, so you can miss half the debates and still feel current; there are implausible plot whipsaws; figures from the past return unexpectedly (like Newt Gingrich, storming in from the Clinton era to prove that 1990s-style petotally totally holds its own in today's combative political environment).
The Pentagon began extensive retraining of Iraqi troops in 2014 after Islamic State guerrillas first stormed in from Syria and seized large parts of western and northern Iraq.
On D-Day, June 6 , 1944 15,000 young American men jumped from the sky, and 60,000 more stormed in from the sea, to save our civilization from tyranny.
Even if it means a few storms in teacups from time to time.
The storm clouds rolling in from the Irish Sea and people along Blackpool's promenade struggling against lashing gales offer apt symbols for this year's Conservative Party conference.
