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Definition of Engulfed
1. engulf [v] - See also: engulf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engulfed
Literary usage of Engulfed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"_ . ,1 r> . l 1° t Many of the inhabitants, at the first alarm, rushed i engulfed,
as well as the timbers and other wreck, disappeared completely, ..."
2. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum, Trumbull White (1906)
"Beautiful Italian City on the Mediterranean Almost engulfed in Ashes and Lava
... A sudden tidal wave of lava, utterly unexpected, engulfed 18000 people, ..."
3. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1868)
"... like their so that not only Scarlett himself, but all the three horsemen who
constituted his immediate following, were nmy engulfed in the column. ..."
4. Zarathustra, Philo, the Achaemenids and Israel: Being a Treatise Upon the by Lawrence Heyworth Mills (1906)
"... Foible engulfed in the Extraordinary Details. No one, let us hope, who has
the smallest sense of proportion in his estimates of history or of politics, ..."
5. American Progress: Or, The Great Events of the Greatest Century, Including by Richard Miller Devens (1892)
"Hundreds of Souls engulfed in a Watery Grave.—Experience» Crowded into That Awful
Hour.—The Wail of Agony and Despair from the Fated Throng. ..."
6. Appletons' Journal (1877)
"... it may sink and be engulfed." зо/Л.—At half-past three in the morning there
was a dreadful THE TEGETTHOFF IN THE ICE. they heard the old dull sound ..."
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