Overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli.
1There be come to my house strange warriors, whelm here none knoweth.
2He wanted to whelm his senses in their perfume, and closed his eyes.
3The tide of war is surging up, and presently will whelm us utterly.
4Will it break and whelm me in brackish water and morass?
5Whom the gods would whelm they first deprive of reason; mark ye this!
6Sometimes he had stood there and wished that the dread tide could whelm him.
7The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass.
8One little miscalculation and it would take but an instant to whelm us in disaster.
9Can it be that the grave shall whelm all this unuttered love in endless silence?
10To whelm the adventurer in his pride.
11Now she bids Hanuman whelm the bridge, that her honour may be made great, cried the Parrot.
12And whelm us in tumultuous floods
13And the tyrants now that whelm
14And whelm them in the Rhine!
15Open wide to whelm us all!
16Then in great fear answered the High Prophet, saying: "What if the gods be angry and whelm Sidith?"