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Example sentences for "weltering"

Lexicographically close words:
wels; welt; welted; welter; weltered; welth; welthe; welts; wely; wemen
  1. The sun, about to set, under the arch sinks low, Trailing its weltering pall far through the East aglow.

  2. One hundred feet below yawned the foaming, weltering abyss, from which the white smoke ascended.

  3. Dear comrades, dead this many a day, I saw you weltering in your gore, After those days, amid the pines On the Rappahannock shore!

  4. Lo, ever swelling, rolleth on the weltering tide of blood.

  5. The lightning has run masterless too long; He must to school and learn his verb and noun And teach his nimbleness to earn his wage, Spelling with guided tongue man's messages Shot through the weltering pit of the salt sea.

  6. Rebuild or ruin: either fill Of vital force the wasted rill, Or tumble all again in heap To weltering Chaos and to sleep.

  7. He felt nae pity for Lillie Flower, 45 Where she was lying dead; But he felt some for the bonny bairn, That lay weltering in her bluid.

  8. Your bairn, that stirs between my sides, Maun shortly see the light: 30 But to see it weltering in my blood, Would be a piteous sight.

  9. The crack of his rifle was instantly heard; the foremost of the savages gave one convulsive bound, uttered a death cry and fell weltering in his blood.

  10. There was almost an instantaneous discharge of rifles and thirteen Indian warriors fell weltering in their blood.

  11. Merry, merry go the bells, Swinging o'er the weltering wave!

  12. I will dream this windy day; No sunny spot is bare; Dull vapours, in uncomely play, Are weltering through the air.

  13. Dieskau; "dare to shoot a man weltering in his blood.

  14. The blood on the decks became ice, and each roll of the sea sent wounded and dead weltering {186} from rail to rail.

  15. A sergeant and a corporal lay weltering in the blood with which their scanty beds were deeply stained, and both were in the last agonies of death.

  16. Men, women, and children, had been ruthlessly sacrificed, and the thousand favoured inhabitants of a pleasant abode now lay stark and weltering among the rocks, where the strength of the fierce pagan had hurled them.

  17. He saw Henry the Third distinctly before him, and fierce faces and bloody knives, and figures weltering in their blood upon the ground.

  18. But the duty-man lay weltering in his blood at our feet.

  19. A thrust, a slashing blow, and the Drilgo was weltering in his life-blood.

  20. When the slaughter of the twenty--two was accomplished Uruj strode from the mosque over the weltering corpses of the traitors amid the plaudits of his own men, ever ready to acclaim deeds of blood and cruelty.

  21. Neither have boys of different ages much to do with each other; each house is divided by parallel lines of cleavage, so that it is not a weltering mass of boyhood, but a collection of very clearly defined groups and circles.

  22. That had a more silent life of its own; old dusky hulks lay at anchor in the channel; the tide ebbed away from mudflats and oozy inlets, the skeletons of worn-out boats stood up out of the weltering clay.

  23. And a man went weltering through the ocean, Sucked along in the flying wake Of the luminous water-snake.

  24. So, as he expected, we came after a day or two into an almost windless sea, where smooth mountainous waves, the relics of the storm, were weltering aimlessly up and down under a dark sad sky.

  25. A mighty realm is the Land of Dreams, With steeps that hang in the twilight sky, And weltering oceans and trailing streams, That gleam where the dusky valleys lie.

  26. Who would have dared then to warn the fatted Melbourne frogs weltering in grog, their colonial glory, against their contempt for King Log?

  27. Some twenty Ballaarat miners lie in the grave, weltering in their gore!

  28. Now she stood among the rushes--clouds over her head, a great sea of inky waters weltering away from her feet--gloom and blackness everywhere.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weltering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    awash; drenched; drowned; engulfed; flooded; immersed; inundated; permeated; saturated; soaked; soaking; sodden; soggy; sopping; soused; submerged; swamped; waterlogged; weeping