Treasure Island vocabulary

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The ship was talking, as sailors say, loudly, treading the innumerable ripples with an incessant weltering splash;

Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)

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The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick (1851)

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thanks to the awning which stirred outside the ever-open windows through which, upon an incessant stream of air, the cool shade and the greenish sunlight moved as though over a liquid surface and suggested the weltering proximity, the glitter, the mirroring instability of the sea.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 6]