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These people would not rest until the west in general, and the US in particular were ingulfed in endless wars agaainst tmost if not all Arab and Muslim people and countries.

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Many a sheep had been there ingulfed, and never saluted by her lambs again; and although a lawyer by no means is a sheep (except in his clothing, and his eyes perhaps), yet his doings appear upon the skin thereof, and enhance its value more than drugs of Tyre.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

Besides that part of the mountain which thus fell in, a large extent of ground in its neighbourhood was ingulfed.

Wonders of Creation Anonymous

These blocks came to the very edge of the raft, where, finding an obstacle, they remained stationary for some time, then were suddenly ingulfed under these frail planks with a terrible shock, though the soldiers stopped the largest with their bayonets, and turned their course aside from the rafts.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

Some again doubted we were ingulfed in the Bay of St. Lawrence, the coast full of dangers, and unto us unknown.

Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland Edward Hayes

By this dreadful occurrence forty villages were destroyed, some ingulfed with the ground on which they stood, others buried under the loose materials which had been ejected.

Wonders of Creation Anonymous

Then finding no longer any refuge from inevitable captivity, except in the waters of the Elster, the brave prince had thrown himself into it without considering the impassable steepness of the opposite bank, and in a few moments he with his horse was ingulfed beneath the waves.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

Jorullo; but the catastrophe seems to have ended like the last great eruption of the volcano in Timor -- the whole of the plain having been ingulfed and replaced by the salt lake, whose depressed level so clearly indicates the nature of its origin.

Wonders of Creation Anonymous

As I have said, the bridge had no railing; and crowds of those who forced their way across fell into the river and were ingulfed beneath the ice.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

The ground, with the town upon it, is said to have been ingulfed during a volcanic convulsion, when the lake was formed in its place.

Wonders of Creation Anonymous