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And Moses and the children of Israel sang: I will sing of Jehovah, for he is glorious; the horses and chariots he whelms in the sea; Jehovah, the God of my father, will I praise.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

Once more that cry breaks from her— "To me—not of me!" but soon the natural anger against his insolence possesses her; she whelms him with a torrent of recrimination.

From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell

Fierce as the lion from the covert springs, When hunger gives his rage the whirlwind's wings; From ambush, lo, the valiant Fuaz pours, And whelms in sudden rout th'astonish'd Moors.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

The god of ocean, marching stern before, With his huge trident wounds the trembling shore, Vast stones and piles from their foundation heaves, And whelms the smoky ruin in the waves.

From The Iliad by Pope, Alexander

Now stern as Vengeance shines the awful form, Armed with the bolt and glowing through the storm; Sets the great deeps of human passion free, And whelms the bulwarks that would breast the sea.

From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron