The creaking of the masts; the straining and groaning of bulkheads, as the ship labored in the weltering sea, were frightful.
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Weltering
Synonyms for "weltering" (38 found)
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"Go, set the storm-winds free, / and sink their ships or scatter them astray, / and strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey."
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While weltering in the purple stream That dyed their garments' fold, Their flowing curls profusely lay, Bright chesnut blent with gold.
Source: wiktionary
They may have extended, it is said, over only a few provinces of Central Asia, in which, when all was life and light in other parts of the globe, there reigned for a time only death and darkness amid the welterings of a chaotic sea […]
Source: wiktionary