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- noun Plural form of
welter .
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Examples
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JAY you know I respect you opinion-dont you honestly want to see PBF fight guys that would really push him - fans can say that MOSLEY is scared to fight him since 1999, or COtto leads with his face, but how long can PBF deny these guys whne they arte out there winning and winning big -- get PBF to fight the real threats not who he thinks he can adavnce on -- also in teh OSCAR fight PBF did nothing at all that hesaid he was going to do, just enough to win and jsut barley over a guy that was pretty well shot-peace Did i miss something here .... how many big name welters fought PW?
East Side Boxing 2009
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JAY you know I respect you opinion-dont you honestly want to see PBF fight guys that would really push him - fans can say that MOSLEY is scared to fight him since 1999, or COtto leads with his face, but how long can PBF deny these guys whne they arte out there winning and winning big -- get PBF to fight the real threats not who he thinks he can adavnce on -- also in teh OSCAR fight PBF did nothing at all that hesaid he was going to do, just enough to win and jsut barley over a guy that was pretty well shot-peace Did i miss something here .... how many big name welters fought PW?
East Side Boxing 2009
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As you so sweetly know, a wedding is more than vows, more than twenty minutes to fill with the up and down traipsing of aisles, the staring at of dresses and gowns the fingering of silk and panties, of untucked shirts and skin that welters under collars.
Archive 2006-09-03 Miss Snark 2006
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They swam in the sea off the little beach below their magnificent villa, and gorged themselves on fresh oysters, crabs, shrimp, tunnyfish; they walked the sparsely populated hills amid welters of roses cloying the air with perfume; they did little entertaining, and pretended to be out whenever people called.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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Janie listened to the foaming welters of water coming and going against the rocks.
A Girl Possessed Winspear, Violet 1980
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There, seated at desks, Joan and her four top experts were each completely surrounded by welters of reference books, pamphlets, wadded-up scratch-paper, tapes, and punched cards.
Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972
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Eighty thousand armed men invest the Hôtel de Ville, and wave on wave, wave on wave, the living and stormy tide eddies and welters and dashes around that dark old pile.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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And now were the wave-welters cleansed full well, 1620
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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But take your dolly welters [11] 'Cordin' to California law,
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He has no imagination at all -- or, what is the same thing, an imagination which welters in impotence, far below the level of the emotions which it ought to overrule.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various
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