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That which, under wholesome restraint, is the initiative and incentive of inquiry, of enterprise, and of noble ideas; unrestricted, leads the dreamer and the enthusiast into ingulfing quicksands of illusions and delusions.

From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward

The greater trouble which was ingulfing him he signified in a hundred ways.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

And Joe, putting down the umbrella, in order to lift the ingulfing hat from his little round, black, curly head with both hands, made a most extravagant bow to the chrysalis.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 by Various

I myself might scarcely leap, with the last spring of o'erlabored legs, from the ingulfing grave of slime.

From The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. by Pearson, Paul M. (Paul Martin)

There was an irresistible power dragging them down and ingulfing them alive.

From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Riou, Edouard