But at this moment his eyes closed involuntarily, to receive more resolutely the terrible avalanche which was about to fall on his head, and to
engulf his life.
Together with our friends and allies, we will work together to shape change, lest it
engulf us.
Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversaries, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace; before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science
engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.
At last the bollworm had attacked the cotton--the poison ivy was reaching out its tendrils to entwine the summer boarder--the millionaire lumberman, thinly disguised as the Alaskan miner, was about to
engulf our Milly and upset Nature's adjustment.
The pitiless billows
engulf him!--So perish sailor and bark; And this, with her baleful singing, Is the Lorelei's gruesome work.
Abhorred and despised by even the few who are cognisant of its miserable and disgraceful existence, stifled by the very filth it so profusely scatters, rendered deaf and blind by the exhalations of its own slime, the obscene journal, happily unconscious of its degraded state, is rapidly sinking beneath that treacherous mud which, while it seems to give it a firm standing with the low and debased classes of society, is nevertheless rising above its detested head, and will speedily
engulf it for ever.'
A collision on the elevated, a panic scramble of the uninjured out upon the trestle over the street, a step on the third rail, and Harry Del Mar was
engulfed in the Nothingness which men know as death and which is nothingness in so far as such
engulfed ones never reappear nor walk the ways of life again.
He possessed a dim, vague, imperative knowingness that it was not merely not good, but supremely disastrous, leading to the mistily glimpsed sense of utter endingness for a dog, for any dog, to go into the water where slipped and slid and noiselessly paddled, sometimes on top, sometimes emerging from the depths, great scaly monsters, huge-jawed and horribly-toothed, that snapped down and
engulfed a dog in an instant just as the fowls of Mister Haggin snapped and
engulfed grains of corn.
Grose I had an imperative, an almost frantic "Go, go!" before which, in infinite distress, but mutely possessed of the little girl and clearly convinced, in spite of her blindness, that something awful had occurred and some collapse
engulfed us, she retreated, by the way we had come, as fast as she could move.
What the wasting tree is to the water that imbibes its shade, growing thus blacker by what it preys upon, may not the life of the Fay be to the death which
engulfs it?"
For a moment the two eyed each other in silence, and then the great cat turned into the jungle, which swallowed her as the ocean
engulfs a tossed pebble.
And Moscow
engulfed the army ever deeper and deeper.