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