gulf (n.) Old form(s): Gulfe
whirlpool
3H6 V.vi.25[King to Richard, of the Prince] thyself, the sea / Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life
CE II.ii.135[Adriana to Antipholus of Syracuse] as easy mayst thou fall / A drop of water in the breaking gulf
H5 II.iv.10[French King to Dauphin] England his approaches makes as fierce / As waters to the sucking of a gulf
H5 IV.iii.82[Montjoy to King Henry] thou art so near the gulf / Thou needs must be englutted
Ham III.iii.16[Rosencrantz to Claudius] like a gulf doth draw / What's near it with it
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