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Example sentences for "wallowing"

Lexicographically close words:
wallop; walloped; walloping; wallow; wallowed; wallows; wallpaper; wallpapers; walls; wallys
  1. Now the Jewish community is not numerous and poor, but just the reverse; and its chiefs are wallowing in riches.

  2. The last of the men-at-arms, the captain himself, was on the floor, buried beneath a wallowing crowd of goblins.

  3. But it was dawn, sure enough, and soon it revealed the pettish, wallowing Channel and the fragile outline of our boat, even tinier than I had conceived.

  4. Hundreds of feet into the air it towered, falling abruptly in a sharp wall, its ends and fringes merging with the surf and wallowing in happy freedom.

  5. The lover of real liberty, under such circumstances, should never forget that the road to despotism lies along the borders of the slough of licentiousness, even when it escapes wallowing in its depths.

  6. By his long absence, moreover, his affairs had become so disordered that for the rest of his life, instead of wallowing in silver, he had seldom a sixpence-worth of copper.

  7. We have them, dear old soul," murmured Percy ecstatically to himself; "we have them simply wallowing in the mulligatawny!

  8. E's found a 'Un smell factory, and 'e's fair wallowing in it.

  9. When I see your father beaming at me with his moist, grateful eyes, regularly wallowing in gratitude, I sometimes feel I must tell him the truth or burst.

  10. They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.

  11. Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the midst of the highway.

  12. He who feeds on venison is, according to their physical system, swifter and more sagacious than the man who lives on the flesh of the clumsy bear or helpless dunghill fowls, the slow-footed tame cattle, or the heavy wallowing swine.

  13. Over fifteen sea-miles of the great blue Atlantic rollers she ploughed her way, trailing at her tail a brace of wallowing stone-lighters.

  14. Every sheet we fingered was another lightning glance into obscure, delicious story; it was like wallowing in the raw stuff of story-books.

  15. After a period of wallowing in water and mud I regained my feet.

  16. We might be wallowing helplessly around in those heaving billows, or a gale might be tiring itself all out in the effort to swamp us.

  17. But they do not know the severity of the law; and therefore when at any time awakenings come upon their consciences, they strive to drive away the guilt of one sin, by wallowing in the filth of another.

  18. They fear not God who can look upon a land as wallowing in sin, and yet are not humbled at the sight thereof.

  19. Some fall into the mouth of the sin by delusions and doctrines of devils; and some fall into the mouth of it by returning with the dog to his own vomit again, and with the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

  20. This is called, 'A turning with the dog to his own vomit again, and with the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

  21. He found him an enemy to God, Christ, and the salvation of his own soul; He found him wallowing in all manner of wickedness; He found him taking pleasure therein; with all delight and greediness.

  22. Death leaves him for a season, and he returns to his sins, like a sow that has been washed to her wallowing in the mire, CHAP.

  23. It may be there is ungodly children, there is ungodly servants, wallowing in their ungodliness; send him therefore to my father's house.

  24. Then as he listened intently he was just about to come to the conclusion that it was fancy, when there was another, this time a regular heavy, wallowing sound.

  25. And it's horrible, you wallowing in your own dead body, and thinking of eating it in the Sacrament.

  26. Like a flock of frightened sheep they huddled together, aimlessly wallowing in each other's way, while we harpooned them with the greatest ease and impunity.

  27. One part of the church is oppressed by the Turk, and another by the pope, and many countries wasted by the cruelties of armies, and persecuted by proud, impious enemies; and is it fit then for others to be wallowing in sensuality and gluttony?


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