1. Compared to other dating trend names — zombieing, whelming, benching — “Cushioning” doesn’t sound so bad

2. He conjures the indecorous image of the dead Lycidas under the whelming tide visiting the bottom of the monstrous sea.

3. I saw þe Bloatsome stone, þroghute þe sides And in its bottom full of small gateways, All efen in þeir widþ, and sinwelt each, Nor greater nor þan lesser þey seemed Þan in Hall’w Yon’s fair spring of me belof’d Þose fram’d to hold þe clean fulloghtly streams, Won of þe which I brace, some few years gon, To nere a whelming

4. I saw þe Bloatsome stone, þroghute þe sides And in its bottom full of small gateways, All efen in þeir widþ, and sinwelt each, Nor greater nor þan lesser þey seemed Þan in Hall’w Yon’s fair spring of me belof’d Þose fram’d to hold þe clean fulloghtly streams, Won of þe which I brace, some few years gon, To nere a whelming