ingulfing

For all its plea and passion and warmth, it wells upward like a great, cold tidal wave, irresistible, inexorable, ingulfing present-day society level by level.

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That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 1989

It seemed like the blow of a rock, and he could think only of the ingulfing waters.

Lost in the Fog James De Mille

The awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging; the laboring masts seem straining from their base; the dismal sound of the pumps is heard; the ship leaps, as it were, madly, from billow to billow; the ocean breaks and settles with ingulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening, shivering weight against the staggered vessel.

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The man who built the Pyramids lifted his ungainly features from the ingulfing centuries; souls of blood -- thirsty men, duly forced into the shape of fleas, lent their hideousness to his night; and the Evil One himself did not disdain to sit for his portrait to this undismayed magician.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

And Joe, putting down the umbrella, in order to lift the ingulfing hat from his little round, black, curly head with both hands, made a most extravagant bow to the chrysalis.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

Peacefully he [20] sleeps, who erst beheld the rifted shores of Greenland "glister in the sun, like gold:" and that deserted chief [21] whose angry moan once mingled wildly with the screaming winds and the hoarse gurgle of ingulfing waves, is unremembered now.

The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

For all its plea and passion and warmth, it wells upward like a great, cold tidal wave, irresistible, inexorable, ingulfing present-day society level by level.

A New Law of Development 1905

Every man hesitates before ingulfing himself in the narrow underground darkness, and it is the total of these hesitations and lingerings that is reflected in the rear sections of the column in the form of wavering, obstruction, and sometimes abrupt shocks.

Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

I myself might scarcely leap, with the last spring of o'erlabored legs, from the ingulfing grave of slime.

The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. Various 1904