engulphing

Perhaps England was never nearer the brink of engulphing ruin.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

There is a kind of eloquence issuing from the depth of the soul, as from a spring, rolling along its copious floods, sweeping all before it, overwhelming by its very force, carrying, upsetting, engulphing its adversaries, and more dazzling and more thundering than the bolt which leaps from crag to crag.

Three Years in Europe Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met William Wells Brown

Rembrandt, like Tintoret, never destroyed the effective character of his chiaro-scuro by the addition of his colour, but made it a main contributor to the general character of the subject; hence that undisturbed and engulphing breadth which pervades his works.

Rembrandt and His Works Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt. John Burnet

The Columbia is, at the spot alluded to, contracted into a passage of one hundred and fifty yards, by lofty rocks on either side, through which it rushes with tremendous violence, forming whirlpools in its passage capable of engulphing the largest forest trees, which are afterwards disgorged with great force.

Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

We have seen this exemplified in the fortitude with which one sometimes endures surgical operation; in the heated courage of the soldier, rushing with the loud huzza into the very face of the engulphing battery; in the cool, calculating resolution which carries the unflinching column with steady tread into the very centre of bristling squares.

The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character Sereno D. Clark

With the engulphing of the most fashionable part of the city, there was

The Mark of the Beast Sidney Watson

The great bronze portals of the Cathedral, which were never opened save on occasions of state, swung slowly inward, pouring a wave of music and incense out upon the hushed sunlit square; then they closed again, engulphing the brilliant procession -- the Duke, the Bishop, the clergy and the court -- and leaving the populace to scatter in search of the diversions prepared for them at every street-corner.

The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899

He saw with sorrow the party distracted by jealousies, and a fearful chasm of disorder had been opened, engulphing its unity, if not its very existence.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

Whilst, indeed, it seems tossed like a shuttlecock on the engulphing waves, it is in reality being most skilfully piloted.

The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

Page: 22 The Woman's Advocate. of time, until the closing sentence was pronounced, when, as waking from a spell, it rose and bore in its engulphing tide our friends out into the air of the clear May night.

The Woman's Advocate Vol III No. I January, 1870 1870