welter

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welter englannista suomeksi

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(RQ:Lewis Babbitt)
(RQ:Woolf Orlando)
(quote-journal) With the welter of claims and counter-claims and evidence that has been contradictory and based on hearsay, it is unlikely that the Truth Commission will come to any significant conclusion.
(quote-book)|author=Morten H. Christiansen; Nick Chater|publisher=|isbn=978-1-473-57841-8|chapter=3|passage=They use these words to express a welter of opinions on what they think is good or bad, right or wrong, and all too readily wail ‘It's not fair!’.
A tossing or rolling about.
To roll around; to wallow.
(RQ:Marlowe Edward 2) were it not for shame,Shame and dishonour to a soldier’s name,Upon my weapon’s point here shouldst thou fall,And welter in thy gore.
(RQ:Scott Rob Roy)
{{quote-text|en|year=1819|author=Percy Bysshe Shelley|title=Lines Written among the Euganean Hills|lines=11–18|url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/4350/poem1895.html
{{quote-book|en|year=1824|author=Walter Savage Landor|chapter=Conversation XVI. The Emperor Alexander and Capo d’Istria|title=Conversations|Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen|volume=1|location=London|publisher=Taylor and Hessey|page=314|url=https://archive.org/details/imaginaryconver08landgoog
To revel, luxuriate.
1537, (w), Sermon III, Preached to the Convocation of the Clergy, in ''The Sermons of Hugh Latimer'', London: J. Scott, 1783, Volume I, p. 38,https://archive.org/details/sermonsofrightre01lati

When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.

1579, (w), ''Shepherd’s Calendar|The Shepheardes Calender'', “Ivlye” “July”, lines 197-198, in (w) (ed.) ''Spenser’s Minor Poems'', Oxford: Clarendon Press,1910, p. 73https://archive.org/details/spensersminorpoe00spenrich

These wisards weltre in welths waues,

pampred in pleasures deepe,

They han fatte kernes, and leany knaues,

their fasting flockes to keepe.

To rise and fall, to tumble over, to roll.
{{quote-text|en|year=1645|author=John Milton|chapter=On the Morning of Christ's Nativity|title=Milton's 1645 Poems|Poems of Mr. John Milton|location=London|publisher=Humphrey Moseley|section=Stanza XII, pp. 6-7|url=https://archive.org/details/poemsofmrjohnmil00milt
{{quote-book|en|year=1793|author=William Wordsworth|chapter=An Evening Walk. Addressed to a Young Lady|title=The Poetical Works of Wordsworth|location=New York|publisher=John W. Lovell|year_published=1800|page=17|url=https://archive.org/details/poeticalworksofw00wrd
{{quote-book|en|year=1835|author=Richard Chenevix Trench|chapter=The Descent of the Rhone|title=The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems|location=London|publisher=Edward Moxon|page=78|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=iLtUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
{{quote-text|en|year=1883|author=Henry James|chapter=XX. Niagara|title=Portraits of Places|url=https://archive.org/details/portraitsplaces03jamegoog|page=369|publisher=Macmillan|location=London
(RQ:Wells Island of Doctor Moreau)
{{quote-book|en|year=1918|author=Siegfried Sassoon|chapter=Noah|title=The Old Huntsman, and Other Poems|location=New York|publisher=Dutton|page=58|url=https://archive.org/details/oldhuntsmanother00sass
Heavyweight. (q)

''a welter race''

To wither; to wilt.
1860, (w), ''Ultimate Civilization, and Other Essays'', London: Bell & Dalday, “Ultimate Civilization,” Part I, IV, p. 40,https://archive.org/details/ultimateciviliza00taylrich

But look now into the weltered hearts and blighted memories of those whom we have gathered from out of the thousands of the lost and wretched.