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Example sentences for "ingulfed"

Lexicographically close words:
ingrowth; ingrowths; ings; inguinal; ingulf; ingwa; inhabit; inhabitable; inhabitant; inhabitantes
  1. He went about pondering the English land system, more than half inclined one day to sink part of his capital in a peasant-proprietor experiment, and ingulfed the next in all the moral and economical objection, to the French system.

  2. I had not a day's illness through years of tribulation; and though my spirits would now and then fail, it was but a momentary depression; light and buoyant, they soon danced on the crest of the wave that had for an instant ingulfed them.

  3. Once or twice, the travelers whom he had engaged to convey across had been ingulfed by the waters of the river.

  4. The women and children having been sent away, a small number of men only remained upon the shore, waiting impatiently for the moment when the sea would give back a part of the cargo that had been ingulfed in it.

  5. God grant that I may be mistaken; but I fear that Alsace and Lorraine are for the time ingulfed in Germany.

  6. Marine fossil shells, also, have been found at great depths, having probably been ingulfed during submarine earthquakes.

  7. As I have said, the bridge had no railing; and crowds of those who forced their way across fell into the river and were ingulfed beneath the ice.

  8. The city is smoothly ingulfed nine thousand feet below, and the regular swell of the Pacific calmly rolls over it.

  9. By this dreadful occurrence forty villages were destroyed, some ingulfed with the ground on which they stood, others buried under the loose materials which had been ejected.

  10. The ground, with the town upon it, is said to have been ingulfed during a volcanic convulsion, when the lake was formed in its place.

  11. A broad smile ingulfed the pucker of his lips, and then his face dropped into seriousness.

  12. We are told by Plato, "Atlantis disappeared beneath the sea, and then that sea became inaccessible, so that navigation on it ceased, on account of the quantity of mud which the ingulfed island left in its place.

  13. In one day and one fatal night," says Plato, "there came mighty earthquakes and inundations that ingulfed that warlike people.

  14. Atlantis disappeared beneath the sea; and then that sea became inaccessible on account of the quantity of mud which the ingulfed island left in its place.

  15. Starting up in the boat, and extending his arms toward the disappearing vessel, he unwittingly lost his balance, and was in a moment ingulfed in the stormy billows.

  16. And yet when Ulysses was ingulfed in the eddy he was not lost.

  17. Tigris is ingulfed on reaching a branch of Mount Taurus, at a place called Zoroanda, which M.

  18. At last Pittonaccio seized it, and, uttering a horrible blasphemy, ingulfed himself in the earth.

  19. Even when he was completely ingulfed in misfortunes, when Pelion seemed to have been heaped upon Ossa, and both upon him, he did not give way to despair.

  20. The river is ingulfed in caverns; and in one of these caverns we heard the water roll at once over our heads and beneath our feet.

  21. The strong winds that are ingulfed in the valley of Neiva are noted for their excessive heat.

  22. The chill lines of self-restraint in his face might, in the whirlwind of strong passions, become ingulfed in chaos.

  23. In Truth itself, that all-pervading immateriality, were not the myriads of man's little truths ingulfed and lost?

  24. He would deliberately walk into a quicksand, where hundreds of his companions were already ingulfed and in their death-struggle.

  25. There is not only the danger of losing one's way, but the still greater danger of getting ingulfed in a deep coulée full of loose snow, which may easily cause both horse and rider to perish miserably.


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