vainly-struggling

Updated: May 10, 2025

But the waggon remained a waggon no longer; the grey horses were horses no longer; all was transformed to foam all sank into the waters that rushed and hissed around them; while the waggoner himself, rising in the form of a gigantic wave, dragged the vainly-struggling courser under the waters, then rose again huge as a liquid tower, swept over the heads of the floating pair, and was on the point of burying them irrecoverably beneath it.

Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué - Undine