Weltering

A&W may not have been around to experience "a translucent '48," but the revelations of '73 were, I imagine, "weltering" for many of us. ❋ Abbot, Steven (1975)

Driven from our stronghold on deck, indiscriminately crammed in below like figs in a drum, "weltering," as Carlyle has it, "like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers," the cabin windows all shut in, we tried to take it coolly, in spite of the suffocating heat. ❋ Frances Erskine Inglis (1843)

"weltering," as Carlyle has it, "like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers," the cabin windows all shut in, we tried to take it coolly, in spite of the suffocating heat. ❋ Frances Calder��n De La Barca (1843)

-- [MS.M. erased.] [437] [ "I doubt about 'weltering' but the dictionary should decide -- look at it. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

Freddie Drummond accepted the doctrine of evolution because it was quite universally accepted by college men, and he flatly believed that man had climbed up the ladder of life out of the weltering muck and mess of lower and monstrous organic things. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here is a great and weltering mass of individuals which we call society. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Up through the foam of green and weltering waters wells this great mass of hatred, in wilder, fiercer violence, until I look down and know that today to the millions of my people no misfortune could happen,—of death and pestilence, failure and defeat—that would not make the hearts of millions of their fellows beat with fierce, vindictive joy! ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

What substratum of endeavour does he descry beneath the weltering chaos of disappointed expectations, frustrated ambitions, misdirected affections, ruinous loves, insuperable vanity, pathetic ploddings, forlorn waitings, dejected wantings, neglected cravings? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Agamemnon, lies weltering where he fell; return thanks to heaven. ❋ Unknown (2008)

If he survive this night until to-morrow's dawn, neither Achilles nor Aias, stout spearman, can stay him from utterly destroying the Argive fleet, razing its palisades and carrying the onslaught of his lance far and wide within the gates; slay him, and all is thine; let Hector's sleep alone, nor hope to leave him a weltering trunk, for he shall find death at another hand. ❋ Unknown (2008)

She made him no reply, but straightway baring her blade, smote him on the nape and the blade came out gleaming from his throat-tendons, whereupon he fell earthwards, weltering in his blood, and Allah hurried his soul to the Fire and abiding-place dire. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Not long before, I had read in the newspapers, how a gentleman unknown had come to the Hummums in the night, and had gone to bed, and had destroyed himself, and had been found in the morning weltering in blood. ❋ Unknown (2007)

  And Slaughter heaped on high his weltering ranks: ❋ Unknown (2007)

The second part of the poem is grewsome reading at best, with its weltering corpses and torrents of blood. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[32] In the midst of indescribable confusion, the chariots rocking among the weltering mounds, Abradatas was thrown out and some of his comrades with him. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When he recovered from this, he was riding out one evening, when he was shot through the hat and hip by men on each side of the road, and fell weltering in blood. ❋ Unknown (2007)

You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow; you ride down steeples and staircases and over precipices; you hover in horrible suspense over inhabited towns, vainly seeking for a brake your hand cannot find, to save you from a headlong fall; you plunge into weltering rivers, and rush helplessly at monstrous obstacles. ❋ Herbert George (2006)