Old women wrinkled and decrepit lay weltering in blood, their brains dashed out and dabbled with their long grey hair.

I caught glimpses of gleaming sculptures, glitterings of gold and of silver, flashing of gems, shimmering of gorgeous draperies - under them a weltering of men and women.

At least the weltering of the sun let them walk in the palms' dappled shadow, but high tide had driven them up into shingle and shell banks at the top of the beach, with every step real torment for the imp and the goblin.