He certainly believed it impossible for the French army, in the welter of 1793, to defeat the invader.
How long is this carnage and welterof blood to continue?
I see what you are thinking, but I tell you what,--the materialism of the country is adding to this frightful welter of blood, to this ghastly holocaust.
The one fact that lifted itself out of the welter of incoherent fancies whirling in his mind was an almost incontrovertible one.
States, like human beings, can experience a surfeit of excitement; moreover, the next gang of office-seekers had not yet emerged from the welter of parties.
In the great San Joaquin valley of California the ranches were one welter of fertility.
But all that could be seen was one continuous welterof foam.
Let there be none of this horrible emotionalism, this undignified welter of thought and feeling.
About them brooded the welter of passion and romance that Marseilles is.
Others might cross to the hustle and welter of New York, young giant of cities, but Campbell was content to sail to Asia Minor.
The world might be a welter of uncertainty, but he was himself now.
He took her again through the hurtling welter of the cattle-market.
Then again the horror of war, the brutal butchery, the senseless hatred, the welter of blood, the blighted lives and homes, arose before him.
Now they had met on French soil, amidst carnage and the welter of blood, at the close of a day which would ever live in Bob's memory.
Aristide, who had no desire whatever to be ejected from this snug nest into the welter of the wet and friendless world, puffed at his cigar, and looked at his host with the irresistible drollery of his eyes.
Never since Alnaschar kicked over his basket of crockery was there such a hideous welter of shattered hopes.
Milt had been a Five-Time Defender in the Welter division before his fights ran out.
Frankie was Milt's second boy and Milt knew boxing as only a Champion Welter with thirty years of experience could know it.
From the higher elevation where their ship lay he could look out and across this welter of storm-lashed rock to see it level off, then vanish where another crater mouth yawned black.
It stretched out and down, that gently rolling plain, for a thousand yards or more, then ended in a welter of nightmare forms done in stone.
Sole in the violent welter of those sheets it had no underscores nor any exclamations.
A welter you had to pick your way through with epithets rushing against you at every step like units of a surging mob hounding and charging against an unfortunate pedestrian caught in the trouble.
Cantwell and Grant had no choice, therefore, except to bore into the welterof drifting flakes.
It was he who traced the feeble voice to the wreck of a room behind, and strove to lift Inocencio out of the welter in which he lay.
On the hard earth, Maximilien was scratching and kicking as if to drag himself out of the welter in which he lay.
The delightful relationship thus began lasted until August, 1914, when Welter (who never became naturalized although his sons were in the French army) had to flee to escape internment.
Monsieur Welter told me years later, when I recalled the Von Hammer incident, that he didn't lose five hundred francs a year in bad bills.
Well, I mean is he a heavy or a middle or a welter or what?
He reflected upon an abstract question oddly disconnected with the violent welter of his sensations: "Can a man be a good practical architect who isn't able to sleep because he's seen a Russian ballet?
He was the representative of an old order going down in the unforeseeable welter of twentieth-century politics.
It was a hot June day, and out of the welter of din and rumble the cool plash of falling water came to his straining ears refreshingly.
Or are your ears not practised enough to pluck it out of the welter of rugged harmony?
The percentage of mortality is high; soldiers and sailors die numerously, and the hideous details of death are worthy of La Debacle; there is a welter of gore.
They had an initial sale because they came from the hand that created Lorna; then they were lost in the welter of ephemeral literature.
Later in the day, as the sun was going down in a welter of gold and crimson, she came out again and in its splendor I chose to read the promise of a noble future for Mary Isabel.
He does not so use his imagination as to disengage the real from the welter of the actual and so achieve something that strikes one still as nature but a selected and ennobled nature.
The Church as receiver for human nature was thus enabled to rescue civilization from the wreck of pagan antiquity and the welter of the barbarian invasions.
With reference to this real centre, it is seeking to disengage what is normal and representative from the welter of the actual.
Through all the welter of the actual one penetrates to the real and so succeeds without ceasing to be individual in suggesting the universal.
It was as if he looked once at thewelter cast ashore by mighty Lake Superior in a storm, and said, "What a dirty sea!
Our faith in the invisible powers to bring a good end out of all this welter of blood and destruction has become a religion.
