Confusion; turmoil

Usage examples of welter.

For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.

Abstract expressionist paintings hung on the walls, splotches of colors communicating a welter of emotions.

And in this welter of spoiled treasure were the great conjuring books hurled amid the ruin of retorts and aludels of glass and lead and silver, sand-baths, matrasses, spatulae, athanors, and other instruments innumerable of rare design, tossed and broken on the chamber floor.

Dust billowed from among the russet grass blades bringing General Radescu a flashback of a hillside descending in a welter of Molt bodies as the penetrators lifted it from within.

The warmth was of the meagerest, and the street lamps, birds of fire in cages of glass, fluttered and danced in the prolonged gusts of the trade wind that threshed and weltered in the city streets from off the ocean.

The Sykerst mail jolted forward, nearly pitching Kyra, Spens, and their two squabbling seat mates into the welter of red coat, striped skirt, and diapers opposite them.

A welter of utterly alien senses spilt like invisible guts from the ragged hole.

Nay, it should be realized by every judicious promoter of the Faith that at such an early stage in the evolution and crystallization of the Cause such discriminating and precautionary measures are inevitable and even necessary if the nascent institutions of the Faith are to emerge triumphant and unimpaired from the present welter of confused and often conflicting interests with which they are surrounded.

Pphira had become separated from the unireme long before she struck the reef and went down in a churning welter of fifty foot waves.

And what a welter of unseemliness and disorder and stupidity and bad manners!

The screaming mage collapsed, leg nigh on cut off, and died in a welter of unstaunchable bleeding.

At such times the cure, sitting at piquet with Madame de Sevenie, after dinner, would cough distressingly and, reminded that he had a bed to reach somehow through all this welter, anathematise the elements, help himself to a pinch of snuff, and proceed with his play.

Incredibly, he was still trying to rise, scrabbling with his left hand for a fingerhold amid the welter of buttons and controls built into the top of the enormous desk.

The hinds flash across our vision like the figures in a magic lantern, and the stag lies weltering in his couch.

But it is from that welter of qualified individuals, who meet specified minimum standards, that juries are to be chosen.