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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Welter

Weltering, shall I say, like an Egyptian pitcher of tamed vipers, each struggling to get its head above the others.
—Thomas Carlyle

Poor Mugno! there he welters, like a toast at bottom of a tankard!
—Horace Smith