When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we
eat and drink with drunkards. --Latimer.
These wizards welter in wealth's waves. --Spenser.
He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and
welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of
some melodious tear. --Milton.
The priests at the altar . . . weltering in their
blood. --Landor.
2. To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
``The weltering waves.'' --Milton.
Waves that, hardly weltering, die away.
--Wordsworth.
Through this blindly weltering sea. --Trench.