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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of welter.

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Examples

  • Distant reeds cast stilettos of shadow as the sun weltered red and swollen behind them.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • His beady black eyes actually weltered in some fluid as he eyed my nose and its little glint of bling.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • His beady black eyes actually weltered in some fluid as he eyed my nose and its little glint of bling.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Distant reeds cast stilettos of shadow as the sun weltered red and swollen behind them.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Distant reeds cast stilettos of shadow as the sun weltered red and swollen behind them.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • His beady black eyes actually weltered in some fluid as he eyed my nose and its little glint of bling.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I do not promise to strike it; our hotel still rankles in my heart; but I promise to try for it, though I have to say that the very moment we started for the famous mosque it began to rain, and rained throughout the forenoon, while we weltered from wonder to wonder through the town.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • For spouts of wild fury dashed up into the clouds; and the shore, wherever any sight of it was left, weltered in a sadly frothsome state, like the chin of a Titan with a lather-brush at work.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • When Shelley was on board, he had his papers with him; and much of the “Triumph of Life” was written as he sailed or weltered on that sea which was soon to engulf him.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Then the queen was nigh out of her wit, and then she writhed and weltered as

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

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