87 examples of whelming in sentences

Whom, late bewildered in the dank, dark fen, Far from his flocks and smoking hamlet then, To that sad spot [where hums the sedgy weed:] On him, enraged, the fiend, in angry mood, Shall never look with Pity's kind concern, But instant, furious, raise the whelming flood O'er its drowned bank, forbidding all return.

He loved them both, but both in vain, Nor him beheld, nor her again, Not long beneath the whelming brine, Expert to swim, he lay;

The inscription is placed over the large Indian shell: "Snatch'd from an Indian ocean's roar, I drink the whelming tide no more; But in this rock, remote and still, Now serve to pour the murmuring rill.

Unequal is the fight, Beneath the whelming element.

In 1828, as Adams' Secretary of State, he could not be a rival to his chief, and so escaped the whelming overthrow with which Jackson defeated their party.

That night the rain descended upon the doomed Kureisch like the spears of the Lord, whelming their sandy soil and churning up the rising ground in front of the troops into a quagmire of bottomless mud.

The idea which had occurred to her was over-whelming.

His oath, His covenant, and blood, Support me in the whelming flood; When every earthly prop gives way, He then is all my hope and stay.

But when Death riots, when with whelming sway Destruction sweeps a family away; When Infancy and Youth, a huddled mass, All in an instant to oblivion pass, And Parent's hopes are crush'd; what lamentation Can reach the depth of such a desolation?

and blacken all the skies with smoke of Tophet, pouring its streams of boiling mud once more to dam the Rhine, whelming the works of men in flood, and ash, and fire.

All that knew Frank, in or about Ridgefield, and all who had sons or brothers in the army, swarmed to do him honor; and the quaint, homely array crept slowly through the valley, to the sound of tolling bell and moaning wind and the low rush of the swollen river,the first taste of war's desolation that had fallen upon us, the first dark wave of a whelming tide!

The last whelming wave approached and buried him for ever in the foaming sea.

" Finallyan explicit, and unexpected admission, that an "over-whelming majority" of the present Congress concede the power to abolish slavery in the District, has just been made by a member of Congress from South Carolina, in a letter published in the Charleston Mercury of Dec. 27, well known as the mouth-piece of Mr. Calhoun.

Why should parents labor to amass wealth enough, and much of course it required, to send their daughters to Europe to receive their educations, if they were to return only to become the victims of an all-whelming concubinism!

" Finallyan explicit, and unexpected admission, that an "over-whelming majority" of the present Congress concede the power to abolish slavery in the District, has just been made by a member of Congress from South Carolina, in a letter published in the Charleston Mercury of Dec. 27, well known as the mouth-piece of Mr. Calhoun.

Why should parents labor to amass wealth enough, and much of course it required, to send their daughters to Europe to receive their educations, if they were to return only to become the victims of an all-whelming concubinism!

While with permissive gaze I glanced the scene, A whelming tide of rich-toned music roll'd, Waking delicious echoes, as it wound From Melody's divinest fount!

All that remained, a worda tonea look, Impressed, by chance, in those bright joyous hours; Blossoms which, culled from youth's light fairy bowers, Still float with lingering scent, as loath to fade, In spite of sin's remorseless, 'whelming powers, Above the wreck which time and grief have made.

The one-time Saxon port of Twyneham and present borough of Christchurch (the change of name, like several others in the country, was due to the over-whelming power of the ecclesiastical as opposed to on the secular) has a similarity to Southampton in its situation on a peninsula between two rivers before they form a joint estuary to the sea.

But some, sad outcasts from this prize, Wither down to a lonely grave, All hearts their hidden love despise, And leave them to the whelming wave.

And yet it was a pride to see how manstrong in his godlike willcould bid defiance to those whelming surges, and bravo their wrath unharmed.

But when Death riotswhen, with whelming sway, Destruction sweeps a family away; When infancy and youth, a huddled mass, All in an instant to oblivion pass, And parents' hopes are crush'd; what lamentation Can reach the depth of such a desolation?

United States wealth and military equipment have been sufficiently over-whelming to support the program of an American Century during which one nation might establish a universal state exercising planet-wide authority along the lines of the Universal State established by the Romans at the zenith of their power.

The death-list like a river flows Down the pale sheet, And there the whelming waters meet.

The ghosts of our slain appeal: "Vain shall our victories be" But back from its ebb the flood recoils Back in a whelming sea.

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