seething

• While the Louisiana imbroglio was still seething, the President sent a message, in February, 1875, recommending that the State government of Arkansas be declared illegal. —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
• At present around Nineveh and Babylon seething is audible: the mountain is smoking. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
• Just previous to the vote of the State on ratifying the ordinance, at Galveston, before an immense, seething, secession audience, with few personal friends to support him, in face of threatened violence, he denounced the impolicy of Secession, and painted a prophetic picture of the consequences that would result to his State from it. —  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865
• The water then rushed in, the house toppled over, and it and its contents were swept away by the flood In a short time the tree began to shake and bend, so we knew that it was being uprooted; therefore, letting go the rope, we launched forth upon the seething waste of waters and were whirled away. —  True Stories of Wonderful Deeds Pictures and Stories for Little Folk
• It seemed as though the entire tip of the mountain was gone; had become a seething, flaming volcano on a world that had known no volcanism[3] for hundreds of thousands of years 3] Transcriber's note: The original read 'vulcanism And what," said Deston finally, "do you suppose happened to the other side of the ship The boom, of course, was gone. —  Subspace Survivors

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