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