| 单词 | whelm |
| 例句 | Now we wait simply for Engagement, & hear continual Word that Gen. Gage shall march from out the Town and try to whelm us all. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Inside it, the kingcups bloomed and the brook whelmed up from its source. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was like a worn small rock whelmed by the successive waves of his voice. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Brooks, who made the films The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, said before the ceremony: “I am not overwhelmed, but I am definitely whelmed by this singular honour.” La La Land fails to win Baftas landslide on night of diversity 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z She’s walking through the school quadrangle, ruminating on whether one “can ever just be whelmed”. Token ethnic friends: how pop culture taught me I was support, not the lead | Zoya Patel 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z That would be up to you, and if you go that way, spicy is available, too — definitely whelming, if not overly so. Restaurant review: The Chicken Supply supplies some of Seattle’s best fried chicken — and it’s gluten-free 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z I reviewed it and found it completely ...whelming. The MacBook Air: restore default 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z Even some critics of the name were underwhelmed by the announcement. Washington Post editorial board stops using the word ‘Redskins’ Your advice would result in doctors being over whelmed with requests for toxic tests on all sorts of things. Acetaminophen Linked to Fatal Skin Reactions 2013-08-03T05:05:23Z I was under whelmed and bored by 4, and I haven’t seen any indication that we’re going to be solving that games problems with the next title. Grand Theft Auto 5 Will be Bigger than 4, Red Dead and San Andreas Together 2012-11-09T16:28:25Z Better be whelmed beneath the waves, and shun, Even in destruction's death, her foreign foes, From whom submission wrings an infamous repose. Poems on Travel 2012-04-23T02:00:31.163Z I felt another overwhelming satisfaction in my Anghiari: the horses were alive and came to me as I looked at them... Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z I only of the gods Thwarted his will; and, but for my strong aid, Hades had whelmed, and hopeless ruin swamped All men that breathe. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z He could not deny that the landlady had trounced him, and black bile whelmed all his better feelings as he climbed the steep track behind the inn. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z For the desire to see her before he died, to look into her eyes, to touch her hand once, only once, assailed his mind and all but whelmed his will. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z In the old days he was like a break-water to stop the Indians who in waves came to whelm the scattered settlements. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z As a writer on social and political evils—his chosen field—Carlyle whelms the reader deeper and deeper in the abyss of wide-weltering wrong—and there leaves him. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Surely now the tyrant gathers All his hoarded wrath to whelm me. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z He looks back for some friend who might aid him,—his friends are whelmed beneath the torrent, or have turned back disheartened. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z And she, too, had other thoughts at times, dreams of her young lover, spasms of regret, a wild revolt of heart, a cry out of the darkness which had suddenly whelmed her. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z Ever resistless fact: No more than the passive clay Disputes the potter’s act, Could the whelmed mind disobey Knowledge the cataract. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z Long ago has the moon whelmed this uncompleted temple. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z Under no circumstances, would I charge Mr. Talmage with being an infamous man, unless the evidence was complete and over- whelming. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z But some, sad outcasts from this prize, Do wither to a lonely grave; All hearts their hidden love despise, And leave them to the whelming wave. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z And Moses and the children of Israel sang: I will sing of Jehovah, for he is glorious; the horses and chariots he whelms in the sea; Jehovah, the God of my father, will I praise. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z The cutter's bulwark caught the boat under the keel; it seemed she must be upset, and men and boxes whelmed in the sea, unless a miracle happened. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z And when I passed your balcony Expecting only blows, From height or vantage-ground, you stooped To whelm me with a rose. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The apprehension was whelmed in the possessing movement with which he drew me to his breast. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z O injur'd Nature, whelm me in the deep, And let not Europe hope for my return, Or guess at worlds upon whose threshold now So black a deed has just been perpetrated!— The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) 2012-01-04T03:00:43.800Z I'm now a lonely wanderer; my sorrow whelms me o'er. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Storms whelmed them in lofty spirals of whirling, choking sand. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z Must we behold, with eyes of impotence That universal wrack, even though it whelm These our usurpers in impartial doom Beneath the shards and fragments of the world? The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z Those first stifled moans of almost sullen desire so whelmed him that he wondered how Persis and Mrs. Neff and her guests should dare to be late and lose this precious expression. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z I would some black storm, bursting suddenly, Had whelmed them and their fleets, ere yet they dared To waste an innocent life! The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z In comparison of the moral ruin around us, what was the late catastrophe of a hundred South-American cities, whelming in a common destruction men, women and children to the number of forty or fifty thousand? Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z Even pure gold, as they told the materialistic world who worship gold, was penetrated and whelmed by this subtle, superlatively refined spirit of matter. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z “And that will not be before the meeting of Parliament,” replied Tresham; “for they intend to whelm the King and all his nobles in one common destruction.” Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z She traces back the solemnity in all its horrid details; she recalls the maledictions with which she was whelmed by those who just before commiserated her. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Have not strong Will And high Ambition rotted into Greed And Wrong, for any, as of old, and whelmed The struggling soul in ruin? The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z A falling branch, a whelming wave, a sudden ill, and in a moment that which was is not. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z Then, strangely enough, the desolation of the surrounding landscape brusquely whelmed her again. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Whatever judicial dignity had been his had been whelmed by the paralyzing fear that had gripped him, and he stood, holding to the door-jambs, nerveless, motionless. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z Soon the defenders of the pass were whelmed with a cloud of arrows and quarrels. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z The real—surpassing imagination—whelms the ideal out of sight and hearing. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Skies," as translated by Poste: "Nor shall blank silence whelm the harassed house Of Cepheus; the high heavens know their name, For Zeus is in their line at few removes. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z A cataract of smoke poured down upon him, a hot, furnace-breath whelmed him with its fevered exhalation; and he was paddling madly beneath the stern, peering into the trailing smoke. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z “I—I—I beg your pardon,” gibbered Kent, whelmed instantly in a morass of embarrassment. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z In the multitudinous outrage and horror of the Rebellion, the one atrocity is utterly whelmed and extinguished. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z Whither either natural brilliancy or natural attraction drew clairvoyant eyes most intently, thither were the accusing girls swayed to lead the whelming force. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z What is this half-dead thing that is trying to force its way onto dry land from the whelming waters of temptation and misery? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z The hills sunk low on the horizon; his paradise was whelmed in the blue of heaven. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Their last cartridge spent, whelmed by shells, they threw themselves upon the muskets bristling around them. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z And this woman came down the sides, entered a boat, and was whelmed in the waves, from which you and Norman Lovel, my betrothed, rescued her. Silent Struggles 2011-05-05T02:00:16.850Z Could I but only be Blest with some soul that knows, Pities and feels the woes Which whelm my heart with Love! Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z In both it was a beacon, holding out hope to the friends of freedom, near and afar, struggling against its foes, in danger of being whelmed, as mariners by the maddened ocean. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z We saw the unhappy Flesselles, President of the Committee of Notables, livid, whelmed with blows and insults, his clothing torn to ribbons, dragged into the square and massacred: after the noble, the bourgeois! The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z It was the very wantonness of woe that swept over my heart, whelming it with terrible desolation! The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z In one deep grief of ruin will I whelm them all. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z "This union of one of the descendants of Joel with a daughter of Neroweg was, in my estimation, to repair the iniquities that for centuries my family whelmed yours with." The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch 2011-01-18T03:00:14.120Z Then, for the time, all minor things were whelmed in him; his mother, Isabel, the whole wide world; and one only thing remained to him;—this all-including query—Lucy or God? Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z And all at once there came over me a whelming of passionate emotion for this woman so singled out. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z I have watched a few football matches in 3D without being overwhelmed, nor in fairness particularly underwhelmed – just whelmed, I suppose. Sky's 3D golf coverage leaves sales pitch out in the rain 2010-10-03T23:07:00Z And when contrition came, Chilling that heart of flame, Did'st thou, O saddest of Earth's grieving daughters, From the Lucadian steep, Dash, with a desperate leap, And hide thyself within the whelming waters? Heathen Mythology She did not know, whelmed in gulfs of sin and grief and despair, she did not know how divine a dawn brooded over the waste. The Unknown Sea The escort of armed men on horseback, together with the mob, followed her on the run and whelmed her with fresh jeers and hisses. The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter From every direction at once the mist seemed to swirl upwards till the cave mouth was whelmed in a chaos of grey tormented spume, like the gloom of a thundercloud. The Firebrand A large steamer now came whelming on its triumphant way through the flocks of ships and boats lying in the harbor, toward the shore of the “Skeppsbero.” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Big with the burthen of her tribes she teemeth, circled by whelming waves that rage and rave; all noble races of such valiant breast, that each may justly boast itself the best. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII The waves of a mighty sorrow Have whelmed the pearl of my life; And there cometh to me no morrow Shall solace this desolate strife. Faith and Unfaith For two days the populace have been whelming with hisses, contempt and dirt the Frankish royalty, your own, the royalty of your own family in my person! The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter The cities whelm us in spite of ourselves. The Firebrand My whole self was whelmed and suffocated in a wave of sweet delight. The Day of His Youth Marat cries out: "Paine is a Quaker," and the benevolence of this good man is whelmed over by the fierce and bloody sentiment of revenge. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence All mankind perished in the whelming waters, with the exception of two, a man and his wife, who were out fishing in a great canoe. Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 I see, I see thee rushing to his arms, And sinking on his bosom, all thy charms To him resigning in an eager kiss, All I implor'd, the whelming tide of bliss! The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Filled with the conscious essence that shall grow, Through many-changed existence, up to Man, The sighing airs of scented Ceylon blow, And desert whirlwinds whelm the caravan. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 We see the forecastle-head, black and upstanding, for longer periods, and only broken spray flies over, where, but a little ago, were green whelming seas. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war It is fortunate that you have been but little distressed with that torrent of impertinence and folly, with which the newspaper politicians have over whelmed many parts of our country. Essays on the Constitution of the United States She submits with a shudder—she weeps—" "That a Frank should be ready to subjugate us and whelm us with misery we can understand: he is a conqueror who abuses his power. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres For a time, after whelming beneath its flood Russia, Poland, and Hungary, it was rolled back, but the terror remained. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality And there will always be the favourite and perhaps two other wives awake; four more lying supine under mats and whelmed in slumber. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) It needed but a bite of freshening wind to rouse the sea; at the lash of a sudden gale the 'greybeards' would be at us again—whelming and sweeping. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Then put this cruel purpose from thee far, Nor let the blood of Essex whelm thy soul. The Earl of Essex Is it for us, her children, to join hands with the barbarians in whelming her with sorrows and trials? The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres France, whelmed in defeat, seemed to have abandoned us, the English were gaining ground, and our Canadian brothers were calling for assistance. Acadian Reminiscences : The True Story of Evangeline This book will doubtless increase the rage of my enemies; but no torrent of invective shall successfully whelm it, no sophistry impair its force, no activity destroy its influence, no misrepresentation defeat its usefulness. Thoughts on African Colonization It struck us sheer on the broadside, and shattered its bulk aboard in a whelming torrent, brimming the decks with a weight that left no life in the labouring barque. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea The Scots were riding forward to whelm him when Brian's men drove down with a wild yell and smote the length of their flank. Nuala O'Malley I have buried the hoard under a cypress, immediately beyond the bayou, on the left-hand margin of the path; beautiful, bright things, they now lie whelmed in slime; you shall find them there, if needful. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) The "wakeful Palinurus" of old song Drowsed at the last, and floods his corpse did whelm; But thou hast ever been alert as strong, Pilot who never slumbered at the helm. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 29, 1890 Under Philip's feet at last Writhed all the Protestant Netherlands, dim coasts Right over against us, whence his panoplies Might suddenly whelm our isle. Collected Poems Volume One Broad on the beam of her, the sea tore at us and brimmed the decks—a white-lashing fury of a sea, that swept fore and aft, then frothed in a whelming torrent to leeward. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea Than the floods thy word is stronger— Stronger than the ’whelming wave: All my hope I calmly venture On thy promise, Lord, to save. Favourite Welsh Hymns Translated into English My anchor art Thou, when my skies Are clouded o'er, and tempests rise, My bark 'whelm in the billows. Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly And over all, whelming all other sound by the sheer might of its penetrating power, throbbed the rapid-fire hammering of millions of frogs. The Pathless Trail This night, perhaps, Shall whelm thee down, no more to blast creation. The Grecian Daughter Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean; luckless starr'd, Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 The torrent bears them under, whelmed and hid Slayer and slain, in heaps of bloody foam. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition Better be whelmed beneath the waves, and shun Ev'n in destruction's depths her Vandal foes, Than live a thrall to Trade, a scourge to eyes and nose. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 To all appearance, sleep had whelmed it for the night. The Pathless Trail Uncertain sex and certain grace, that seem To melt forever in a fountain's kiss, Waters that whelm the body as they gleam And merge, and it is one with Salmacis. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems Toll for the loved and fair, The whelmed beneath the tide— The broken harps around whose strings The dull sea-monsters glide! The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems Deep, deep, each autumn flower they hide; Each tuft of green they whelm from sight; And they who journeyed by my side, 342Are lost in the surrounding night. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition In flowed Ever resistless fact: No more than the passive clay Disputes the potter's act, Could the whelmed mind disobey Knowledge the cataract. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning At once blackness whelmed all except the little fire. The Pathless Trail A glorious lustre broke through the mist that whelmed her eyes, and a faint color sprung to her pallid cheek. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 Chicago is laid in ashes, Charleston topples in earthquake, Johnstown is whelmed in flood, and instantly a continent springs to their relief. Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery But his departure seemed to remove from them all restraints, and Spaniards and Peruvians alike were whelmed in a common ruin. Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi American Pioneers and Patriots But inwardly, the horror of herself and her part in the matter, which she had felt as she lay upstairs in the darkness, thinking of the starving man, whelmed up and choked her. The Wild Geese Instead of a trivet, four skewers stuck into the meat transversely will answer the purpose, or a soup plate whelmed the wrong side upwards. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families She called upon them to lift up the sea on their invisible wings, to raise its waves as mountains, and whelm the ships upon its bosom. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI Cas'd in Achilles' casque, the weight would 'whelm, “And for his languid arms, the Pelian spear “Too weighty would be found. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Thither comes no fierce provocation to quicken into Promethean scorn; life lies whelmed in blackness unlit by flashes of defiance or the cold splendour of disdain. Apologia Diffidentis Agenor himself was almost equally oppressed with the calamity which had over whelmed them, and he charged his sons never to come home again until they could bring Europa with them. Romulus Makers of History Loud uproar hence, and rage of arms arose, And the fell rancour of encountering foes; Hence dwarfs and cranes one general havoc whelms, And Death’s grim visage scares the pygmy realms. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems Beneath its silken vestments beat A lion heart of jungle heat; Its couchant soul delights in battle To fell the rock and to whelm the fleet. Song-waves And, lastly, there are—what, if they were not whelmed in such an ocean of other things, would attract more notice—the not unfrequent individual phrases and situations which have interest in themselves. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Her crests and peaks, her vales and plains, lie white and whelmed with snow. The Masque of the Elements I've seen the face of nature change, And where the wild waves beat, The eye delightedly might range O'er many a goodly seat; But hill, and dale, and forest fair, Are whelmed beneath the tide. Enthusiasm and Other Poems Jove rolled redoubling thunders from on high, Mountains and bolts encountered in the sky; Till one stupendous ruin whelmed the crew, Their vast limbs weltering wide in brimstone blue. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems He knew a longing to give, a passion to protect her, a whelming desire to have shy secrets with this slim girl. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life But the man from Troy, Ulysses, begins with the last, and is whelmed back into the first, and finally rests in the second before going to Ithaca. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary But even in that terrific moment she knew that Joel had never swept or whelmed her so.... All the Brothers Were Valiant Alas! all fatally opposed, The heart of erring man is closed Against that warning, and he deems The prophet's counsel idle dreams, And laughs to hear the preacher rave Of bursting cloud and whelming wave! Enthusiasm and Other Poems It sets forth in three words the consternation that fell upon Killaloe when the Shannon rose, and the ruthless ruin that whelmed the town when the waters retired. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 January 11, 1890 The two unhappy ladies, who had parted, three weeks before, on the coast of France with such high and excellent expectations, now met, both plunged in the deepest and most over whelming sorrow. Margaret of Anjou Makers of History I do not envy you, ye joyless stars, Though fair ye be, and glorious to the sight— The seaman’s hope amidst the ’whelming storm, When help from God or man there cometh none. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Reft of his love, the royal chief, Weighed down beneath his whelming grief, Desponding made his brother share His grievous burden of despair. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse O Tigellinus, in the mid of night, The spirit of my whelmed mother stole Hither upon me, dumb out of the deep. Nero I saw the whelming vintage hotly pierce Old Tartary the fierce! Endymion A Poetic Romance Men—some of them ministers—upon whose integrity I would cheerfully have staked everything I possessed, suddenly whelmed themselves in shame, and staggered out into the dark. Mushrooms on the Moor Half buried in the whelming tide, the whale-boat dashed through the waves towards the high cliffs of the rocky island. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock Thy peers, with keen far-reaching eyes, Spend not their hours in ceaseless sighs; In dire distress, in whelming ill Their manly looks are hopeful still. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard And whelm him o’er! Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 The memory of that dread hour when he expected every instant to be whelmed in the raging sea rushed upon him vividly. Saved by the Lifeboat Trust that the Saviour was to thee The ark upon the 'whelming wave, The life-boat, 'mid the yawning sea Of sin to save. Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands One only is wanting, whom our eyes saw whelmed amid the waves; all else is answerable to thy mother's words.' The Aeneid of Virgil Submissive, gentle, old is she, And keeps her lips from blame of thee, For her, kind lord, of me bereft A sea of whelming woe is left. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse We said that we knew not; it were like he would perish of famine or thirst, or be whelmed in the deep. A Child's Book of Saints The plunging torrent of sound whelmed the mind and stilled the tongue. The Long Roll Being dashed on the rocks, or run into by steamers, or whelmed in the waves, were ideas that troubled him not, or, if they did, they were connected only with the land of dreams. The Lifeboat Next moment the whale went down in a convulsive struggle, and the boat, with its daring occupants, was whelmed in a whirlpool of blood and foam. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole “He calls me,” in her wrath she cried, “And all my flood shall sweep And whirl him in its whelming tide To hell's profoundest deep.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The rider in that cariole is so whelmed in furs as to be absolutely invisible. The Big Otter The Chamberlain still leaned wearily against the door jamb, mentally whelmed by dejection, bodily weak as water. Doom Castle In another moment Bax was whelmed in spray and knee-deep in rushing water. The Lifeboat She thought of him when the rains fell, and prayed that he might not fall ill of fever or be whelmed by a stream. The Eagle's Heart I sink, O tamer of thy foes, Deep in the sea of whelming woes. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Once more that cry breaks from her— "To me—not of me!" but soon the natural anger against his insolence possesses her; she whelms him with a torrent of recrimination. Browning's Heroines “The waves of a mighty sorrow Have whelmed the pearl of my life; And there cometh for me no morrow, To solace this desolate strife!” She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. Fear not, though the waters whelm you; fear not, though ye see no land! Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife The tempest folds O'er the smooth forehead of the summer noon Its undiscover'd purpose, to emerge Resistless from its armory, and whelm In floods of ruin, ere the day decline. Man of Uz, and Other Poems Alas, the floods of sorrow roll With whelming force upon my soul: So gathers the descending rain In the deep hollow of the plain.” The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse "Thy will be done." 1My Father, grant thy presence nigh To bear aloft my sinking soul, When sorrow o'er my pathway here In widely whelming waves doth roll. Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination I stretched out my arms to the wild waste of waters, in whose billows my life-boat was whelmed, and I called, but there was none to answer. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author The rain, It sighs In the forest; 5The rain, it beats and whelms, like the surf; It smites, it smites now the land. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula That thus ye mock me with contemptuous words And futile arguments, and dig a pit In which to whelm the man you call a friend? Man of Uz, and Other Poems Now will the days of Sítá glide In tranquil joy by Ráma's side: And I—ah me, around me raves A sea of woe with whelming waves. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Then a fresh blow on his head whelmed anger and anxiety in sheer pain, and sent him rolling like a log into a kindly patch of undergrowth, which had, so far, blocked his downward view. The Great Amulet These souls of ours will still live in immortal youth, when that whelming tide ceases to roll, when the firmament shrivels like a burning scroll. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author "O, sir!" began Frank, but stopped there, over whelmed by the captain's kindness. The Drummer Boy With unsurpassed calmness, she met this whelming tide of sorrow, girding herself to her maternal duties, in tho armor of a disciple of Jesus Christ. Man of Uz, and Other Poems The ocean's bed was bare and dry, The moon had fallen from the sky, And all the world lay still and dead, With whelming darkness overspread. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Through the whelming sky; The third will appear Through the mountain veins, Like a flinty banquet. The Mabinogion Vol. 3 Lillian, at her home in Glaston, replied by wire in that tumult of emotion which each new lure was potent to excite, despite the quicksands of baseless hope that had whelmed its many precursors. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee The young man's arm fell, and he stared, open-mouthed and aghast, the passion with which he had seized the stranger whelmed in astonishment. The Long Night The utter weight Of whelming desolation doth not fall Till the last rites are paid. Man of Uz, and Other Poems Ah! the Videhan bride will hear A double woe, a double fear, Two whelming sorrows at one breath, Her lord's disgrace, his father's death. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse One of them was lost in the bay, being whelmed by a green sea. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. Her depression quite dropped away, the awful lonely feeling, all the more whelming because nobody could understand it, departed from her. The Emigrant Trail But if there is a wise man anywhere he will make terms with me, and will set himself to guide the underlying forces that may otherwise whelm everything. Caves of Terror The Arnolds and their treason are whelmed and sunk, as the Davises and their treason will be. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Then rolls the tide Of deep Forgetfulness, whelming the pride 100 Of man, his shattered and forsaken bowers, His noiseless cities, and his prostrate towers. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan Take the young man who thinks he has exhausted the possibilities of the world, who has reached the stage, who prides himself on not being surprised, not being over whelmed, not admiring anything. Our Unitarian Gospel They were so whelmed by it that they did not even speak to one another. The Emigrant Trail Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, ’Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o’er! The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Have sea and sky been wielded to destroy, Nor Syrtes yet, nor Scylla's fierce embrace, Nor vast Charybdis whelmed the sons of Troy, Who, safe in Tiber, flout me to the face? The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Perhaps on some wild shore he may be cast, Where on their prey barbarians howling rush, Oh, fiercer they, than is the whelming blast! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan This fearful truth increased my pain, “The sinner must be born again,” And whelmed my troubled mind. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes Such is the fate of simple bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd: Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er! Robert Burns How To Know Him She bent down her head on his, clasping him to her heart, as thus to still the tempest which had whelmed it. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History Thrice round the billow whirled her, as she lay, Then whelmed below. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Now ravingly she cried: The whelming main— The wintry wave rolls over his cold head; I never shall behold his form again; Hence flattering fancies—he is dead, is dead! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan I tried to rise, but whelming shadows pushed me down; and through the dark shifted phantom faces. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade There was only one, with the blood of mothers in his veins, whelmed by a consciousness that reached back far as the consciousness of the race. The Freebooters of the Wilderness The gigantic form of Edward Bruce, the whelming sweep of his enormous battle-axe, had cleared a partial space around the king, but still the foes hemmed in, reinforced even as they fell. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History What sadder sight elsewhere Had Troy, now whelmed in utter wreck, to show? The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor Sanding: The continuance of the metaphor in "higher waves" are "whelming." The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. Why whelm they that light under a bushel which ought to stand on a candlestick? The Apology of the Church of England Always before, the thought of her had come in an involuntary consciousness whelmed of happiness; but to-night, was it . . . fear? The Freebooters of the Wilderness Cheerfully the king looked, and hopefully he spoke, but it had no power to calm the whelming tide of sorrow in which his wife clung to his embrace. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History So, whelmed with darts, the Trojan chief defies The cloud of war, till all its storms abate, And chides and threatens Lausus. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor For Umballa had, at the departure of the majordomo, conceived a plan for rehabilitation so wide in its ramifications, so powerful and whelming, that nothing could stay it; once it was set in motion. The Adventures of Kathlyn No voice bids them away; they melt before the fervor of the time; hasten lest they be 'whelmed by the great wave of life now rolling towards them. The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists The Pioneers of Manitoba Once it came into my heart, and whelmed me like a flood, That these too are men and women, human flesh and blood; Men with hearts and men with souls, though trodden down like mud. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems His moment had come, he thought swiftly, as one thinks when facing a sudden, whelming event. Skyrider Only ten pounds for an article, whereas a successful "bridge" brought him ten times that amount, and he revolted against the column of platitudes that the hours whelmed in oblivion. Mike Fletcher A Novel The men of Allaha might put up a good defense, but in the end they would be whelmed; and the gods of Hind would be cast out to make way for the prophet of Allah. The Adventures of Kathlyn "Let me eat first," said the beaten one, when Frisbie would have whelmed him with curious questions; and with the passing of the cutlets and the coffee he told the tale of the hindrances. Empire Builders They make my might their porter, they make my house their path, Till I loose my neck from their rudder and whelm them all in my wrath. The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Once it had come not infrequently, then blackness and hardness had whelmed it and it came no more. Foes Ah, would that I had perished long ago, and been whelmed by the dread blue rocks, beneath the fierce swell of the Euxine! Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People The rain chased him for thirty miles and whelmed him in a wild swirl at the thirty-first. The Clarion Surely he will tear down the slum and whelm the robbers in their iniquity and visit upon us all punishment for the crime which all alike have shared! The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel They were not struck by the fallen ruin, nor whelmed in the roaring flood,—or, if they were, they escaped as I escaped. Jack Sheppard A Romance For an hour he had been whelmed in an old sense, bitter and stately, of the woe, the broken knowledge, the ailing and the pain of the world. Foes By their ambition and their wars they whelmed the cottages in misery, and by a righteous retribution misery also inundated the palace. The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power At such times benevolence will almost surely be submerged by the whelming tide of selfishness, unless buoyed up by well-established system. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character And, O God!” she continued, in a sudden outburst of grief, as the sense of general loss, of the great common tragedy broke on her and whelmed for the moment her private misery. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Light blinded me; clamour deafened me; foam and the pure wave and cold darkness whelmed over me. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance To acquire the reputation of a great warrior, he was willing to whelm provinces in blood. The Empire of Russia Can it be that the grave shall whelm all this unuttered love in endless silence? What Peace Means Slowly the hopelessness and bitterness of it all came back in a great whelming flood. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel For the desire to see her before he died, to look into her eyes, to touch her hand once, only once, assailed his mind and all but whelmed his will. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Ye who defeated, 'whelmed, Betray the sacred cause, let go the trust; Sleep, weary, while the vessel drifts unhelmed; Here see in triumph rise the hero from the dust! Washington's Birthday Now, nerved to woe, no more I’ll know How hope deferr’d makes mortal sick; The gathering storm may whelm my form, But I will suffer “like a brick!” Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 4, 1841 The people were estranged from the Eternal Lord; the Wielder, therefore, gave them their requital through the whelming of the waters. The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries In Cormac's time the autumn was not vexed with rain, nor the spring with icy winds, nor the summer with parching heat, nor the winter with whelming snows. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland And she, too, had other thoughts at times, dreams of her young lover, spasms of regret, a wild revolt of heart, a cry out of the darkness which had suddenly whelmed her. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France She was whelmed in deep waters, and all horizons were one. Lewis Rand Let fall on me her fate, and also crush me,— One ruin whelm both her and me! Faust In such a pitfall some budding Washington or Lincoln may have been whelmed without causing so much as a ripple on the surface of history. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Like a star his envied fortune mounted beaming far and wide: Now he sinks in seas of anguish, whelmed beneath a raging tide. The Seven Plays in English Verse What a gracious speech, what a daring pledge to a world whelmed in tyranny and wrong! Hope of the Gospel Joy's bursting shout in whelming grief was drowned, And Victory's self unwilling audience found; On every brow the cloud of sadness hung,— The sounds of triumph died on every tongue! The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock For, while yet inconstant Fortune Poured her gifts and all was bright, Death's dark hour had all but whelmed me In the gloom of endless night. The Consolation of Philosophy All the thunder of heaven could not have whelmed me like those words. Helmet of Navarre He raised little involuntary cries, as he felt himself flooded with light, assailed by waves of warm air, while a whirling, whelming torrent of life flowed within him. Abbe Mouret's Transgression I saw the whelming vintage hotly pierce Old Tartary the fierce! Widdershins If a person should chew a few of those leaves his grief would be immediately whelmed with hilarity. New Tabernacle Sermons Thou dost bind The elements in balanced harmony, So that the hot and cold, the moist and dry, Contend not; nor the pure fire leaping up Escape, or weight of waters whelm the earth. The Consolation of Philosophy MEDIA.—Ay, my lord; at times, his every finger is a dagger: every thought a falling tower that whelms! Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Should they fall behind, the squadrons that follow would whelm them; dismounted, and thrown forward, as certainly would they be run over by the steed they ride. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Forward! to meet the welcome of the waves That mount to ’whelm the freedom which enslaves. The Unknown Eros "No more than the passive clay Disputes the potter's act, Could the whelmed mind disobey Knowledge, the cataract." Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Exactly so; and, if the swallow unerringly traverses the line crossed by its ancestors, even though the old land has long been whelmed in steep-down gulfs of the sea, does not that show us something? The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour "One thing is certain," Evan said,--"no man set it in that place meaningly, for there he must have known that it would be whelmed soon or late." A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex From square to square with tiger leaps panted the lustful fire, The air to leeward shuddered with the gasps of its desire; And church and palace, which even now stood whelmed but to the knee. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell Bismarckian vigour, stern and stark As Brontes self, was not his dower; Not his to steer a storm-tost bark Through waves that whelm, and clouds that lower. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891 Her effluent thought needed no word of mine, It whelmed my soul as in a sea of tears. Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. What boots it undeceive them, and proclaim Myself myself, and whelm this cheat with shame? The Poems of William Watson Surely it should have fallen on this day that sees the end, even as runs the ancient prophecy--'When the pool shall whelm the stone, Druid rite and chant are done.' A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex Like the famous spring that is sometimes dry, Then flows with a river's whelming might, The current of thought now runs so high It covers the earthy bed from sight. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Instinctively she understood; rose automatically and went to the door; then a great shock of returning recollection whelmed her soul. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People He knoweth How much I have foregone; and must He stoop To whelm the world, and heave the floors o' the deep, Of purpose to pursue me from my place? Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. For shame, for glory's sake, Wake, Allemanians, wake, And the tyrants now that whelm Half the world, shall quail and flee, When your realm shall be the realm Of the free—of the free! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832 And then he recited the histories of nations and men that had made the fatal experiment, and the doom that had whelmed them in utter ruin. California Sketches, Second Series 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? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard And whelm him o'er! Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The year passeth—it and all God shall take and shall let fall Soon, into the whelming sea Of His wide eternity: O, for Jesus' sake, Wake! Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. It, too, was whelmed in deep, temporary Nirvana. The Flying Legion 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 Time like a cloud Has risen from the East And whelmed the sky over Even to the wide-arched West, Darkening the blue, Embrowning the early gold, Until no more the eternal Sun Looks simply through. Poems New and Old Ah, sad reverse! too soon the fated hour Saw the dire tempest 'whelm th' expanding flow'r? Poetic Sketches And, again, great districts, occupying a half of a State, are so detrimental to sound health that half their population are whelmed with fevers—bilious, intermittent, and typhoid—from year's end to year's end. Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. Leaning hands, uplifted necks, painted eyes, scarlet mouths, a piece of thigh, arched insteps, and all is blurred; vanity, animalism, indecency, absurdity, and all to be whelmed into oblivion in a moment. A Mere Accident A pensive vein of contemporary reflection enriches the book with passages such as this:— 'All the faults of the Italian people are whelmed in forgiveness as soon as their music sounds under the Italian sky. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Time may whelm over All but this candle's light: Shadow but shadow is; Dark though it lies 'Tis blazon'd with man's long-dreamed dreams, Pierced by his eyes. Poems New and Old Poor fragments of a Nation wrecked— Its story whelmed in Time's neglect— We drift unheeded on the wave, If God refuse the lost to save. Poems And yet it was a pride to see how man—strong in his godlike will—could bid defiance to those whelming surges, and bravo their wrath unharmed. Views a-foot His desire whelmed him like a wave; it filled his soul like a perfume, and against his will it rose to his lips in words. A Mere Accident But physical discomfort and even sickness was whelmed by the old and overmastering enthusiasm, which combined with his hatred of modernity and consumed Gissing as by fire. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories 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. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 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! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 The last whelming wave approached and buried him for ever in the foaming sea. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 Ah, sad reverse! too soon the fated hour Saw the dire tempest 'whelm th' expanding flower! Poems (1828) For, ere the early settlers came and stocked These wilds with sheep and kine, the grasses grew So that they took the passing pilgrim in And whelmed him, like a running sea, from sight. The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Fear not! a holy hand is on the helm That guides the bark thro' all the tempest's wrath; Quail not! the wildest waves can never whelm The ship of faith upon its homeward path. Poems: Patriotic, Religious "Of forgiveness?" replied the intrepid tyrant: "may I perish this instant—may the Almighty whelm me in the waves—if I consent to spare a single head of my enemies!" History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Commerce and self-interest, they said, had got the better of violence, and the troubles of the past were whelmed in the riches that flowed in at their open gates. The Princess and Curdie So vanished, whelmed from sight, That mighty rampart. The Fall of Troy Who would fear for self Should ocean rise and whelm the mountain tops, And sun and sky descend upon the earth In universal chaos? Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars I cannot go in to sermon: memories ache too hard; and so I hide out under the blue heavens, beside the small kirk whelmed in leaves. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial What though the seas and wind Far on the deep should whelm Colours and sails and helm? New Poems She stopped, whelmed with a breath-taking shyness, her eyes, after one quick but condensed encounter with those of Mr. Corliss, falling beneath exquisite lashes. The Flirt The good man oft is whelmed In suffering: wealth undeserved is heaped On the vile person. The Fall of Troy And now the hills Are seen no more; and rivers whelmed in one; Beasts with their homes sweep downwards; and the tide Repels the foaming torrent. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars The ice of self- command which had latterly gathered over her was broken, and the currents burst forth again, and over whelmed her. Far from the Madding Crowd Pick a quarrel," said he, "with Thordis about the milk-kettle, and do thou hold on to it until you whelm it over between you. The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald Will it break and whelm me in brackish water and morass? The Indian Lily and Other Stories Thus stood I, watching deliverance fade on my sight, until the ship was no more than a speck upon the moon-bright waters and all other thoughts 'whelmed and lost in raging despair. Martin Conisby's Vengeance Here, when raging in his might Fierce Adria whelms in foam Calabria's coast, When clouds tempestuous veil Ceraunus' height, The sailor finds a haven. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars Obliterated by the mental chaos it had caused, whelmed in the succeeding rush of fear, it now rose to recognition—a portentous fact. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California "By heaven, you did, and it is you who murdered my sister!" hissed young Vane, trembling with the maddest emotions that ever whelmed a human breast. Five Thousand Dollars Reward Believe me, father, I love not him I follow more than thee: would that the stormy deep might whelm us both. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal His "quiet Lucy Snowe," his "inoffensive shadow," I gave him back; not with scorn, but with extreme weariness: theirs was the coldness and the pressure of lead; let him whelm me with no such weight. Villette Had the star Of baleful Saturn, frigid in the height, Kindled his lurid fires, the sky had poured Its torrents forth as in Deucalion's time, And whelmed the world in waters. Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars Something struck him and he fell to his knees, struggled against a smothering mass, then sank, whelmed in the crumbling collapse. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California So wrought in him that mighty power, mysterious in its origin as marvellous in its result, which had been at work in him all the time he lay whelmed under feverish phantasms. Salted with Fire This woman, lifted out of the whelming sand of the fever and set upon her feet, hastens to her ministrations. Miracles of Our Lord Themselves over whelmed with emotion, they could hardly speak. The Mysterious Island So she grew more a spirit and less a maid; her eyes waxed larger, and the pupils whelmed the grey in jet. The Forest Lovers They come from a point so near to heaven, and fall so far, that mountain-sides are scarred and whole communities whelmed by the calamity. Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays She was at once whelmed in the sunlight, so that she could see nothing, while Walter could almost have counted her eyelashes. Home Again The panorama below us emerged dimly and darkly from a torrent of haze, whose waving convex lines, moving with a majestic calm, wore the aspect of a deluge whelming the visible world. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Eagle of France! whose vivid wing Did in a hundred places fling A bloody feather, till one night The arrow whelmed thee 'neath the wave! Poems Nay, thy friends are whelmed beneath the tide! Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays Loud uproar hence and rage of arms arose, And the fell rancour of encountering foes; Hence dwarfs and cranes one general havoc whelms, And Death's grim visage scares the pigmy realms. The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes Till War, impatient of the lingering strife That tires and slackens with the waste of life, Opes with engulphing gape the astonish'd wave, And whelms the combat whole, in one vast grave. The Columbiad It was delightful to Helen; for there is no human heart so engrossed by sorrow, so over whelmed by disappointment, so closed against hope of happiness, that will not open to the touch of gratitude. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 For he who dazzles, makes men Samson-blind, Will see the pillars of his palace kiss E'en at the whelming ruin! Poems I would that I too, I, Among the men who went to die, Were whelmed in earth by Fate's command! Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays Then in great fear answered the High Prophet, saying: "What if the gods be angry and whelm Sidith?" The Gods of Pegana Whene'er he deviates in the least degree, When, free himself, he would be more than free, The baseless column, rear'd to bear his bust, Falls as he mounts, and whelms him in the dust. The Columbiad Now stern as Vengeance shines the awful form, Armed with the bolt and glowing through the storm; Sets the great deeps of human passion free, And whelms the bulwarks that would breast the sea. The Pilgrims of the Rhine A moment's miscalculation, and skiff and voyager alike are whelming in the green chaos below, and come up mangled into nothing, far away down yonder upon the white turbulent foam. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke But when Paharn ceased to speak, in the King's ears the roar of Brimdono exulting over ancient triumphs and the whelming of ships seemed still to ring. Time and the Gods And now his despair was 'whelmed in sudden anger, and anger, little by little, changed to grief. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn To speed their course, the sons of bigot rage In persecution whelm the inquiring age; Myriads of martyr'd heroes mount the pyre, And blind devotion lights the sacred fire. The Columbiad The little box in its poor simplicity brought William back to Esther, whelming her for a moment in so acute a sense of her loss that she had to leave the kitchen. Esther Waters This one ought to please Mr. H. G. Wells: When whelmed are altar, priest, and creed; When all the faiths have passed; Perhaps, from darkening incense freed, God may emerge at last. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century Yet these are the men who are taking up the thread where it was dropped, perforce, by those veritable Greek sages, whelmed under turbid floods of Pythagorean irrationalism. Old Calabria O that those waves, That with their gentle lullaby mock my wild woe, Would rise in all their might and 'whelm me too! Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems. And hast thou now, to stay the whelming flood, No son to offer to the furious God? The Columbiad So with all life the shadow lingers—incurious, mute, yet in the end victorious, whelming all. Gone to Earth 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! Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems The most wonderful token of that flood which whelmed Catania two hundred years ago, is to be seen at the Grand Benedictine Convent of San Nicola, in the upper part of the city. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain 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. Saved at Sea A Lighthouse Story 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. The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories 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. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders Unequal is the fight, Beneath the whelming element. The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan This world's thick vapours whelm Your eyes unworthy of that glorious show, Blind to His splendour, bent upon His shame. Sonnets The tide of trouble had whelmed him over. Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine The other or eastern end of the isle was whelmed in the blackest shade. Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works I seemed whelmed in a sea of doubt and wonder and sorrowful remembrance. The House on the Borderland The Emperor's lance splintered; he fought with a pole-axe; still even he became sensible of a whelming pressure. The Prince of India — Volume 02 Almost whelmed in the snow, and when even the mercury freezes in the bulb of the thermometer, these anxious and loving housewives feed the lamp and keep the fire burning on the hearth. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" She lives to whelm us all in ruin; Come, they surround the park already; come. Mary Stuart Nay, we hear of a sad loss of life, and many poor people were drowned, and many lost their all; flocks, and herds, and corn and hay being whelmed in the deluge. The Coming of the Friars When all quiet are wind and wave, Seldom we see this pilot brave;— When storm-surges our ship might whelm, He takes the helm! Poems and Songs She noticed with a large whelming of pity how very small her mother seemed to have grown She was always small, but now—much smaller, fallen in, very fragile. This Freedom It saved me from being whelmed in the waves of ruin. Self-Raised Or, From the Depths In the meantime, the first whelming joy-wave having retired, and life and thought resumed their operations, they had begun to talk. Warlock o' Glenwarlock Soon the night Will come to whelm us, then the morning chime. A Lover's Diary, Complete A long torture and a great over- whelming was his design. The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 The god of ocean, marching stern before, With his huge trident wounds the trembling shore, Vast stones and piles from their foundation heaves, And whelms the smoky ruin in the waves. The Iliad He is no respecter of persons; he raises the poor from the dust; and by his arm the tyrant and his host are plunged into the whelming waves! The Scottish Chiefs The Grove, the lodging for the cripples and invalids who thronged the place to be cured, the vast halls about the temple, the temple itself, all were doubly whelmed in the darkness and the mist. The Unwilling Vestal So, men may strike quick stabs at Caesar's worth,— They only make his life an endless force, 'Scaped from its penthouse, flashing through the earth, And 'whelming those who railed about his Gorse. A Lover's Diary, Complete II. “Else ne’er to stoop, till high on Lisbon’s towers They close their wings, the symbol of our yoke, And their own sea hath whelmed yon red-cross powers!” Some Poems Ilion and Greece no more should Jove engage, The skies would yield an ampler scene of rage; Guilty and guiltless find an equal fate And one vast ruin whelm the Olympian state. The Iliad He had left the castle without his bonnet, and hurrying on regardless of the whelming storm, his hair became saturated with wet, and now streamed in water over his shoulders. The Scottish Chiefs But, when the day came, Harold's resignation broke down, he was whelmed in grief for days and weeks. Celibates "In one word, then, my lord—why do I find you in this place, and whelmed with charges which must blacken a name rendered famous by ages of virtue?" The Fortunes of Nigel Once New York whelmed them, the scheming villain and poor Nell would be lost forever to the man-tracker of the West. Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express Why sunk I not beneath the whelming tide, And midst the roarings of the waters died? The Iliad Finding all chance of escape impossible, and seeing their slaughtered fellows drop dead at their feet, they bellowed with fright, and in the confusion that whelmed them lost all power of resistance. The Great Salt Lake Trail Naturally enough, when wisdom must ever contend against the whelming force of folly. Masters of the Guild The second affair came close to whelming thrones, and I wrote of that in another book with an understanding due, as I have said, to opportunity, and with a measure of respect that pleased her. Guns of the Gods It is like plunging into a whelming sea of dangers, and you will be drowned if you are not a good swimmer. Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 Nay, at times, it must even seem to whelm him in reproach. Pagan Papers They were to return to their houses at once, and hide, lest the devils who would shortly overwhelm the white men should make mistakes and include them, too, in the whelming. Told in the East Oh, then together we might race adown our passions' steep; together dare the torrent that rages at its foot, and there perchance be whelmed or torn asunder. Ayesha, the Return of She And as they floated and flew, the delight of their attractiveness to each other drew them closer together till the sense of separateness seemed lost and whelmed in a magnetic force of mutual comprehension. Innocent : her fancy and his fact There was to be sudden, swift whelming when the time came, not intermittent outrage. Rung Ho! Spot where he and his host were whelmed in the “hill of waters,” 199 Arab legends respecting that event, 199, n. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 They are lamentable objects; and some, when they are fully seen, are dramatically ludicrous, for the whelming mud from which they still take flight has half unclothed them. Under Fire: the story of a squad All the faults of the Italian people are whelmed in forgiveness as soon as their music sounds under the Italian sky. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy So quickly had the world suffered re-creation, so magical the whelming of old days in a new order, so complete the change in herself. A Life's Morning Whom the gods would whelm they first deprive of reason; mark ye this! Rung Ho! A lost man—sunk in the commonplace—hopelessly whelmed in vulgar matrimony. Will Warburton Sometimes he had stood there and wished that the dread tide could whelm him. Thyrza Of Sybaris no stone remains above ground; five hundred years before Christ it was destroyed by the people of Croton, who turned the course of the river Crathis so as to whelm the city's ruins. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy Here was the bit of rock by means of which he could save himself from the sea of competition that had so nearly whelmed him! The Nether World One little miscalculation and it would take but an instant to whelm us in disaster. Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador For while I gaze my bosom glows, My blood in tides impetuous flows; Hope, fear, and joy alternate roll, And floods of transports 'whelm my soul! The Adventures of Roderick Random All suddenly it disappeared, whelmed as it seemed in darkness and the roaring flood, and the watching priest made the sign of the cross in air murmuring— "God have mercy on their souls!" The Secret Power Source of calmness The physician must also watch, lest he be over- whelmed by a sense of the odiousness of sin and by the 366:24 unveiling of sin in his own thoughts. Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures But he was whelmed in the ocean of thought, and he kept saying to himself, "Would Heaven I knew what be the cause of the Kings coming to this my country." The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 The tide of war is surging up, and presently will whelm us utterly. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Under the lash of his bitter, half-scornful accents, her anger mounted, whelming for a moment even her anguish in her brother's death. The Sea-Hawk And if too late I reach its side To save it from the 'whelming surge, I call my dolphins o'er the tide, To bear the crew where isles emerge. The Mysteries of Udolpho Beaumonte.—'Tis not insensible, illustrious madam; but mousing owls and bats of low degree may not aspire to bliss so whelming and ecstatic as is found in ye downy nests of birdes of Paradise. 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors Or did the rage of stormy Neptune sweep Your lives at once, and whelm beneath the deep? The Odyssey A madness overtook me and whelmed my better judgment. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Then to revive the anger that for a moment had been whelmed in astonishment came the reflection that he had been duped by Sakr-el-Bahr, duped by the man he trusted most. The Sea-Hawk Fierce o'er the wreck the whelming waters pass'd, The helpless crew sunk in the roaring main! The Mysteries of Udolpho He wanted to whelm his senses in their perfume, and closed his eyes. Five Tales While thus his thoughts an anxious council hold, The raging god a watery mountain roll'd; Like a black sheet the whelming billows spread, Burst o'er the float, and thunder'd on his head. The Odyssey His blindness stirred her anger, and her anger whelmed her hesitation. Saint Martin's Summer Then slowly of his sorrow resentment was begotten, and being begotten it grew rapidly until it filled his mind and whelmed in its turn all else. The Sea-Hawk Though the rigging shriek in his terrible grip, And the naked spars be snapped away, Lashed to the helm, we'll drive our ship In the teeth of the whelming spray! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 Strangely would they billow in the wind sometimes, like sea-waves, frozen and enchanted flat, seeking to rise and wallow in the wind with conscious depth and whelming mass. Robert Falconer His treasured stores those cormarants consume, Whose bones, defrauded of a regal tomb And common turf, lie naked on the plain, Or doom'd to welter in the whelming main. The Odyssey Thither she steered, defying wind and snow; guided by here a thorn-tree, there an old, doddered oak, which had not quite lest their identity under the whelming mask of snow. Half a Life-Time Ago "What a weariness is a woman's tongue!" he cried, and stalked out again, convinced from past experiences that did he linger he would be whelmed in a torrent of words. The Sea-Hawk She has a thousand little wifely attentions for him; poor for herself, she is rich for him; she whelms this manure with her delicate solicitude. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo And sitting there, knife in hand, desire and yearning were lost and 'whelmed in fierce and black despair. Black Bartlemy's Treasure But should the powers that o'er mankind preside Decree to plunge us in the whelming tide, Better to rush at once to shades below Than linger life away, and nourish woe.' The Odyssey Every self was fused and lost in one single molten flood, dashing madly against its barrier to whelm in rapturous victory or be broken in sore defeat. Gala-days As he swung into the saddle an idea struck him with over whelming force. Active Service For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul But the novel I'm speaking of was practically forgotten a year after its appearance; it was whelmed beneath the flood of next season's literature.' New Grub Street Meanwhile, memory, reason, every faculty of my intellectual part, is being whelmed in muddy oblivion. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft The fierceness seemed all to drop away from him, whelmed in the immensity of his astonishment. Mistress Wilding She was the poor sacrifice of events and fate—the Iphigenia to the Winds which were to bear the bark of Rome to the haven, or, it might be, to whelm it in the abyss. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes The innumerable whelmed him, and he fell: A vessel in mid-ocean under storm. Poems — Volume 3 I saw the whelming vintage hotly pierce Old Tartary the fierce! Bulchevy's Book of English Verse His arms fell, and he bent his head whelmed in sudden reverie. Salammbo Him, too, the stern impulse of Fate Resistless bears along; And the same rapid tide shall whelm The Poet and the Song. Poems and Songs of Robert Burns I shuddered to think of small boats, caught in the current above it, being drawn down, slowly at first, then with a whirl, till all was whelmed in the tumble below the arches. Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger In their whelming presence Babbitt felt small and insignificant. Babbitt There be come to my house strange warriors, whelm here none knoweth. The Nibelungenlied I was likewise whelmed with the guilt of an accomplice. Moon-Face Each rolling mountain whelmed them from view, and I would wait with sickening anxiety, fearing that they would never appear again. The Sea Wolf Protected by salvation's helm, Shielded by faith, with truth begirt, To smile when trials seek to whelm And stand mid testing fires unhurt! Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell |
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