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One year ago, on "the tenth day of the tenth month," there was a relatively stable northern Government at Peking, and the southern Government at Canton weltered in the doldrums of impotence.

From Time Magazine Archive

For 48 hours the West weltered in the confusion of factlessness: the air waves and the news columns were splashed with words like "purge" and "shake-up."

From Time Magazine Archive

With each successive year since the fall of the Empire, China has weltered ever deeper in the morass of civil war.

From Time Magazine Archive

All these errors had helped to swell the casualty list�for survivors of the Indianapolis weltered in the sea for three days before it even occurred to anyone that the ship might be in trouble.

From Time Magazine Archive

Outside the furious mid-stream rush of the current, dark eddies revolved in angry circles and their backwash weltered along the bank.

From The Lure of the North by Bindloss, Harold