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Definition of Engulfments
1. engulfment [n] - See also: engulfment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engulfments
Literary usage of Engulfments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Worker Deaths in Confined Spaces: A Summary of Surveillance Findings and edited by Thomas R. Bender (1996)
"engulfments in loose materials were the causes of death in about one-third of
... The remaining 10% of the deaths were drownings and engulfments in other ..."
2. Library of Southern Literature by Edwin Anderson Alderman, Joel Chandler Harris, Charles William Kent (1909)
"... Then swept away By swift engulfments of incalculable tides Whereon capricious
Commerce rides. Look, thou substantial spirit of content! ..."
3. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"Enduring scarce a day, Then swept away By swift engulfments of incalculable tides
MO_ Whereon capricious Commerce rides. Look, thou substantial spirit of ..."
4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"... Then swept away By swift engulfments of incalculable tides "« Whereon capricious
Commerce rides. Look, thou substantial spirit of content! ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"... which can only have been destroyed by sudden and more or less complete
engulfments of immense areas of surface. The existence of intervening islands, ..."
6. The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an by John Tyndall (1861)
"In the upper portions of the Mer de Glace these moraines are distinct from each
other; but in descending, the successive engulfments and ..."
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