Welled
[wel]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Well
Edited by Elena
Examples
- The thought of Laura welled up like a spring in the depths of my heart, and filled it with waters of bitterness, never, never known to it before. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The rhapsody welled up within me, like blood from an inward wound, and gushed out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- As history goes on the Greeks became more religious and superstitious as the faiths of the conquered welled up from below. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The revulsion was so strong and painful in Dorothea's mind that the tears welled up and flowed abundantly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Edited by Elena