whelm
Example Sentences
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You almost wish that the book would occasionally simply whelm you, but of course that’s all that most books do, even good books.
From Slate • Jan. 29, 2020
In it his flair for the spectacular, the mod and the grotesque is overwhelming, in ways that admittedly may whelm some more than others.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now we wait simply for Engagement, & hear continual Word that Gen. Gage shall march from out the Town and try to whelm us all.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean; luckless starr'd, Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, ’Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o’er!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
