Tis thus who digs the mine is wont to prop The ground, and where he works the roof suspends, Lest sudden ruin whelm him from atop, While he incautiously his task intends.
Let him with white and winged flakes of snow, And rumbling earthquakes, whelm and shake the world!
She lives to whelm us all in ruin; Come, they surround the park already; come.
O that those waves, That with their gentle lullaby mock my wild woe, Would rise in all their might and 'whelm me too!
Deep, deep, each autumn flower they hide; Each tuft of green they whelmfrom sight; And they who journeyed by my side, Are lost in the surrounding night.
Thou dost make Thy penitent victim utter to the air The dark conspiracy that strikes at life, And aims to whelm the laws; ere yet the hour Is come, and the dread sign of murder given.
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.
So shall the Power in vengeance view the place, In crimson clothe his terror-beaming face, Pour swift destruction on these curst abodes, Whelm the grim tribes and all their savage gods.
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.
Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er!
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.
Now she bids Hanuman whelm the bridge, that her honour may be made great," cried the Parrot.
Or did the rage of stormy Neptune sweep Your lives at once, and whelm beneath the deep?
Whose hand controll'd the sea When it brake forth to whelm the new-fram'd world?
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?
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.
But God is there also, and if these rushing surges 'whelm us we, dying, shall find God there.
As she spoke it seemed as the sea gathered itself into one great and mighty wave, a huge wall of foaming waters that rolled onward hissing and roaring as it would 'whelm the very island beneath it.
Him, too, the stern impulse of Fate Resistless bears along; And the same rapid tide shall whelm The Poet and the Song.
Then were all the gods of Pegana very wroth; but They could not whelm the lords of the three rivers, because being home gods, though small, they were immortal.
Then in great fear answered the High Prophet, saying: "What if the gods be angry and whelm Sidith?
When waves would whelmour tossing bark, Our anchor and our stay!
For seas of trouble o'er me roll, And 'whelm with tears my sinking soul.
Far be it from the Judge of all the earth to whelm the innocent and guilty in the same destruction!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whelm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
