87 examples of whelm in sentences

Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Such fate to suffering worth is giv'n, Who long with wants and woes has striv'n, By human pride or cunning driv'n To mis'ry's brink;

This world's thick vapours whelm Your eyes unworthy of that glorious show, Blind to His splendour, bent upon His shame.

Thou shalt whelm these cities utterly and drive the people forth, and I will smite them in the shelterless places and sweep their desecrations from the sea.

And if we do not reach that spirit realm, Where bodyless each soul may ages whelm With joy unutterable; still we live, With bodies knew upon dear Earth, and give Our newer life to children with our blood.

Through this gap On and say nothing, lest a word, a breath, Bring down a winter's snow, enough to whelm The armed files that, night and day, were seen Winding from cliff to cliff in loose array, To conquer at Marengo.

No! if we are doomed to perish, Man and maiden, let us fall; And a common gulf of ruin Open wide to whelm us all!

break their ranks, And whelm them in the Rhine!" IX. Have you seen the tall trees swaying When the blast is piping shrill, And the whirlwind reels in fury Down the gorges of the hill?

Still, although this act of self-seclusion May create irreparable schism, Whelm the Conference in dire confusion And produce a cosmic cataclysm; Let us, musing on his past achievement, Bear with calm our soul-consuming grief And condole in their supreme bereavement With his Staff, deserted by their Chief.

And our own darling Whelm us in woe!

too soon the fated hour Saw the dire tempest 'whelm th' expanding flower!

Far be it from the Judge of all the earth to whelm the innocent and guilty in the same destruction!

Far be it from the Judge of all the earth to whelm the innocent and guilty in the same destruction!

Far be it from the Judge of all the earth to whelm the innocent and guilty in the same destruction!

Far be it from the Judge of all the earth to whelm the innocent and guilty in the same destruction!

'Tis well, for else The spectre of my duties and my dangers Would whelm my heart with terror.

And for nearly a hundred years men doubted the green jade god, and then they worshipped him for a thousand years; and after that they doubted him again, and the green jade god made a miracle and whelmed the green jade mountains, sinking them down one evening at sunset into the earth so that there is only a marsh where the green jade mountains were.

the giddy bark at sea, 'Mid waves that woo it down to death, From helm and compass wafted free, The toy of every tempest's breath, Is but a type of him who goes, Trusting to nature, on the tide Of life, where breezy passion blows, To whelm the adventurer in his pride.

"This trifling wish befits a little soul, Let the great Ganges o'er my meadows roll!" Thus Raschid spoke, and thus the God replies, Rage, as he spoke, rode sparkling in his eyes: "Insatiate man, this boundless wish recall Ere ruin whelm yourself, your flocks and all; See you these sheaves?Now mark this dreadful sword, Those are the wise man'sthis the fool's reward.

I should not marvel, Though to the lake these rocks should bow their heads, Though yonder pinnacles, yon towers of ice, That, since creation's dawn, have known no thaw, Should, from their lofty summits, melt away Though yonder mountains, yon primeval cliffs, Should topple down, and a new deluge whelm Beneath its waves all living men's abodes!

ARTHUR in fine fighting trim; Ministerial bark may be labouring in troubled waters; a suddenly gathered storm, coming from all quarters, has surrounded, and threatens to whelm it; MATTHEWS may be sinking under adversity; the Postmen may pull down RAIKES; GOSCHEN is gone; OLD MORALITY'S cheerful nature is being soured; there is talk of Dissolution, and death.

too soon the fated hour Saw the dire tempest 'whelm th'expanding flow'r?

We have gay companions on our way; for a breeze overtakes us, and a hundred little simooms of drift whirl along beside us, and whelm in miniature burial whole caravans of dry leaves.

Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard And whelm him o'er!

Teach thou thy erring mortal to resign, Make me be patient, let me not repine Beneath this chast'ning rod; Though storm and tempest whelm, And beat upon this naked barque, 'tis well; And I shall smile upon their heaviest swell Hush, rebel thoughts!my heart be calm and still, The Master's at the helm! HENRY VANDERFORD.

The fraud exposed, the known lie, The bribe at length betrayed, Must whelm this sham detected, But what may be expected From "Honour" shame-infected, And "Kingship" in the shade? * *

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