are weltering

• present progressive

  present progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.

  of welter.
  welter

  verb (used without object)

  to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea.

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are weltering

One many-voiced discordant wail shrieks through the solitude, making night hideous—but in vain: the axle-tree has given way; the vehicle has overset, and marchionesses, chamber-maids, bandboxes, and philosophers are weltering in inextricable chaos. 

From Old Roads and New Roads by William Bodham Donne

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