How To Use Swelled In A Sentence
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_Ophthalmia lymphatica_ is a kind of anasarca of the tunica adnata; in this the vessels over the sclerotica, or white part of the eye, rise considerably above the cornea, which they surround, are less red than in the ophthalmia superficialis, and appear to be swelled by an accumulation of lymph rather than of blood; it is probably owing to the temporary obstruction of a branch of the lymphatic system.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
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Moreover, its ranks have been increasingly swelled by deserters from social behaviourism - an evidently liberal position.
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Offshore, breakers swelled in the whitecaps and then crashed in the shallow water, strong enough to body surf for twenty yards.
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Under the pale blue sky the trees seemed visibly to burgeon: yesterday's bare branches swelled into bud and would be in leaf by tomorrow.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Mullins 'Planet swelled in gibbosity, bright and blue-green under the clouds.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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The cheering swelled through the hall.
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When she saw that the new bride was Snow White, her evil heart swelled with passion and burst.
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From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy throbbing murmur once again.
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She swelled up her head when she learned that she had won the prize.
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At the proposed arrival of the young Queen, who was well worthy of the most ardent devotion, the "leal" heart of Scotland swelled with glad anticipation.
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
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he was swelled with pride
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(The total margin swelled to 2,320 because they often didn't bat in the bottom of the ninth.)
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A note of melancholy swelled to a crescendo, then, dissipated into the breeze with a diminuendo.
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alleluia;" they clapped their hands, leaped up, fell down, clasped each other in their free arms, cried, laughed, and went to and fro, tossing upward their unfettered hands; but high above the whole there was a mighty sound which ever and anon swelled up; it was the utterings in broken negro dialect of gratitude to God.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Blood pearled around the shaft of the arrow, bright red, and swelled there like a parasite until it crept down her cheek.
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From a dull murmur it swelled into a deep roar, and then sank back into a melancholy throbbing murmur once again.
Times, Sunday Times
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The music swelled to a crescendo
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He was bruised and it swelled up.
The Sun
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Signior Lampone and Anne Lucas climbed up on to the rostrum, and the applause swelled.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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He swelled out his chest with pride.
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These megalopolises have swelled with 100 million new residents since the mid-1970s.
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Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels.
A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
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O the fair fecality wherewith she swelled, by the ingrediency of such shitten stuff!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Very little of this cash has gone into improvements to retirement payouts for workers whose ‘deferred wages’ swelled the coffers of the pension funds.
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Hugely criticized for embarking on a European "joyride" as flood waters swelled across Pakistan, the fact that Zardari was in London around the time of the sale may be evidence enough for malcontents.
Beenish Ahmed: Did Pakistan's President Zardari Buy Record Breaking £140 Million London Apartment?
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‘A friend of mine had an eyepatch because his eye swelled up after cutting some onions,’ he offers, by way of explanation.
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Their numbers swelled in the summer months with the influx of wealthy New York worthies.
AMAGANSETT
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And indeed the poor girl, whose pregnancy had swelled and stoutened every part of her, even to her face, and the vertical, squared outlines of her cheeks, did distinctly suggest those virgins, so strong and mannish as to seem matrons rather, in whom the Virtues are personified in the Arena Chapel.
Swann's Way
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The balloon swelled out with gas.
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One other had swelled leg, or phlegmasia dolens, and one or two others did not recover as well as usual.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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A record 116 suspected lawbreakers were arrested in one day, as officers who normally work behind the scenes swelled the ranks of those working on the campaign.
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Real learning begins with an apprentice working at the elbow of a master craftsman, but there were not enough scholarly elbows to go around as the numbers swelled.
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Turnip an hed bit it by de time I git back dar en I called my missus en she come en made me eat de rest of de turnip en my face enall swelled up en my eyes war closed foh days.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives
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The bird swelled out its chest to attract the attention of the female.
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Their Tea Party is an all too familiar variant on Republican's long-time, poisonous, nativist strain easily carbon dated from the "Know Nothing" party that swelled their ranks 150 years ago.
Paula Gordon: Rule AND Ruin
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The baby boom swelled the population.
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And I wot that whilst their mothers wept, easeless, their fathers 'hearts swelled within them, and held somewhat of their Pain away from them for a time.
The Night Land: Chapter 4
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The number of demonstrators swelled after the perceived brutality of the police.
Times, Sunday Times
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His breast/heart swelled with pride at his achievement.
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In the early decades of the 19th Century, the population swelled to eight million - Ireland was one of the most densely populated areas on earth.
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In the same time period, the number of web pages swelled from 500 million to 3 to 8 billion, and the number of searches quintupled from 100 to 500 million.
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This latter, partly the result of the rise of therapy and the women's movement, naturally means that fewer people feel the pressure to tell which swelled nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century confessionals.
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He was bruised and it swelled up.
The Sun
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Aunts, uncles, grandmas, grandpas, cousins and unlinked others often swelled the crowd to near 40 by noon.
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The infection swelled his hand.
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It begins with what is called the gapes; that is, the fowl, being unable to breathe through its nostrils, keeps its beak open, with a kind of convulsive yawn; the eyelids then become swelled and close, and there is an offensive discharge from the nostrils.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
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On Tuesday, I rode in a criterium, which is a short race that lasts about an hour, but the pain was too strong and the foot swelled up so at the moment it’s unthinkable that I can take part in a high level race like San Sebastián,” Chavanel said.
Barredo back for Clásica defense; Chavanel sidelined
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Governments rose and fell, new participants swelled the ranks of the political elite, and the middle class kept expanding.
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Triumphantly, the Ordnance Survey has swelled over the years into a cartographical institution that comprises 403 maps in the Explorer series of the British Isles.
Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review
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He felt that the hot breath floating across his cheek was heavy with contagion; he knew that fever raged and burned in the blue veins that swelled over those drooping arms and the unstockinged feet, but, he neither shrank nor trembled at the danger.
The Old Homestead
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The old grass and the sprouting needles of new grass greened, the buds on the guelder-rose, the buds and the sticky, spirituous birches swelled, and on the willow, all sprinkled with golden catkins, the flitting, newly-hatched bee buzzed.
Tolstoy III: Invisible Larks
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The blustrous Bounderby crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these words, that he seemed to be, and probably was, on the brink of a fit.
Hard Times
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Two volleyball-sized objects swelled under the jacket of her stylish, short-skirted black faille suit.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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Such chests were made in and near Concord, in eastern Massachusetts, and their distinguishing characteristics include fluted pilasters surmounted by bolection moldings, or ‘swelled friezes.’
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In recent months, however, as worker unrest has swelled and fewer job recruits have arrived, the clamour for jobs at the factory gates has declined.
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The rise of fast growing slum quarters in cities, foul smelling, pestilent, disease ridden places where workers lived out short lives while working long hours, swelled with the dispossessed tenant farmers.
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But as demonstrators' ranks swelled, police and antiriot forces lined the streets, ordered shops to shut down and responded at times with force, according to witnesses and opposition websites, in a repeat of the official crackdown that helped snuff out months of spirited opposition rallies a year ago.
Tehran Beats Back New Protests
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The spherical pericarp of the bertholletia, perforated at the summit, is not dehiscent; the upper and swelled part of the columella forms (according to M. Kunth) a sort of inner cover, as in the fruit of the lecythis, but it seldom opens of itself.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
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Thus, the tide of emigration, swelled from the tiny ocean-drop which marked its first inception more than three hundred years ago to its present torrentine proportions and bearing away frequently entire nationalities on its bosom, still flows from the east to the west, tracing the progress of civilisation from its Alpha to its
Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes
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Hunger welled, swelled; urgency mounted, inexorable, compelling.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Their chests swelled with pride as they saluted the general, did an about-face, and marched away exuberantly.
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The bird swelled out its chest to attract the attention of the female.
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An unsullied safety record swelled pride in Concorde's technical achievement as the years passed.
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That has swelled the number of servicemen and women in need of long-term treatment and rehabilitation.
Times, Sunday Times
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He visited finally the city of Sunnu, situated at the first cataract of the Nile, and visited the immense quarries, granite and sienite, where rocks were split off with wooden wedges on which the quarrymen poured water which swelled them, and thus obelisks one hundred and thirty feet high were detached from the face of the quarry.
The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
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Membership has swelled to over 20 000.
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Sea and air cadets, junior entrants in the best dressed St George competition, and members of the Companions of the Black Bear swelled the ranks.
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Each time the waters swelled and raged through the passage there at the bridge, their recession revealed an altered riverscape.
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The muscles writhed and swelled over his back and shoulders, leapt up in knotted strands like leathery hawsers from his shoulders down to his raw and bleeding wrists; a convulsion of superhuman power swept over his torso like the shock of an earthquake.
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An unsullied safety record swelled pride in Concorde's technical achievement as the years passed.
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The human population swelled, at least temporarily, as migrants moved south.
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His heart swelled with pride as he watched his daughter collect her prize.
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Crowds have swelled to capacity, increasing pressure for the club to move to a 55,000-ground at the waterfront, a flit which remains uncertain for financial reasons.
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At the time I was lucky enough to have a window seat, so I watched the crenelated walls speed by as the melodies swelled around me.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Passover Memories in Jerusalem
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As darkness swelled up from the east a full moon rose and illuminated great sheets of thin cloud like wadded fabric drawn across its pockmarked white face.
Bird Cloud
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After their split in 1996, the mystique surrounding them had swelled to mythological proportions.
Times, Sunday Times
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A 15-7 third term swelled their advantage to 14 goals at the last change, before the Fever outscored them 11-9 in the last period.
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With the weather also playing its part it was a great day for the many family outings that swelled the attendances at all parades.
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The tide of joy ran too strong, and too much swelled from the open sources of love and memory, to keep any bounds.
The Wide, Wide World
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Her heart swelled for some affection, but she eased herself so not to appear flamboyant.
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Pride swelled through his body as he recalled the stages of his journey, and he felt a great love for the one who had guided him.
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My heart swelled to gargantuan proportions in my chest, and my smile broadened.
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Millions in extra cash swelled the coffers of sports organisations.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the peak of his career his fame swelled to international proportions.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The noise swelled as the fans emoted their thanks.
In the Time of Bobby Cox
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The aneurysm suddenly swelled and sprung back into life, filling instantly with arterial blood.
Times, Sunday Times
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She would not go back to him this morning however, - the rushing sound being gone, and the deafness remaining being owing she thinks to the ear being swelled from the rough treatment it got.
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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In some of the vicissitudes of the city's pride, or its calamity, the dark tide of human evil had swelled over it, far higher than the Tiber ever rose against the acclivities of the seven hills.
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‘The Colonel’s in an unco kippage,’ said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan as he descended; ‘I wish he may be weel, — the very veins on his brent brow are swelled like whipcord; wad he no tak something?’
Waverley
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The warlords had swelled like ticks on the blood of the conflict.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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My observation is that directly as our choric insistence on the restoration of values has swelled, so our own personal embodiment of those values in our daily conduct has sunk.
The Values Split Screen
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The human population swelled, at least temporarily, as migrants moved south.
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I felt unexpected tears prick my eyes and a lump swelled in my throat.
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This amount was further swelled by a generous donation from Norfolk of ￡200.
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Their chests swelled with pride as they saluted the general, did an about-face, and marched away exuberantly.
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The balloon swelled out with gas.
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She dislocated both knee caps and her legs swelled so much she was evacuated to Germany until the swelling subsided.
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My heart lurched in my chest and a big lump swelled in my throat.
Arcane Circle
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The ranks of investment bankers had swelled.
Times, Sunday Times
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He cupped his cheek swelled by toothache.
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They have with them an unutterable glory of conscious power, the magnificence of a perfect, God-given nature, such a haughty spirit of rivalless dominion as might have swelled the soul of a Jewish queen, monarch of Israel, ruler of God's chosen people in the day of their unbroken pride, when she felt that none greater than herself dwelt upon the globe.
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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In a flash, a dot hovering at the edge of visibility to his left suddenly swelled into the delta-winged angles of a North Korean MiG.
Carrie
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Mrs Gilbert said her left eye swelled up and she was in pain after the injection on Tuesday, July 20.
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By the next day her lips had swelled and turned the pale, pinkish hue of the underside of her tongue.
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The human population swelled, at least temporarily, as migrants moved south.
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By the time he had arrived, Rachael's knee had swelled up like a blowfish, and a nice, purple bruise was starting to form.
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His heart swelled up when he learned that he had won the prize.
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The company's ranks swelled to 60 employees, and a satellite office was opened in New York.
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Quite close to Farmer White's is a little ruinous cottage, white-washed once, and now in a sad state of betweenity, where dangling stockings and shirts, swelled by the wind, drying in a neglected garden, give signal of a washerwoman.
Our Village
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The cry, swelled by every Latin tongue, shook the velaria over the consul's head.
Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
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But in the German Democratic Republic, the GDR, another wind had begun to blow, softly at first, until it swelled into a storm that blew the communist regime away.
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I had that year been dangerously ill of a fever in Holland; and when I was recovered of it, the febrific humor fell into my legs, and swelled them to that degree, and chiefly in the evening, that it was as painful to me as it was shocking to others.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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His heart swelled with pride as he watched his daughter collect her prize.
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As my body swelled, I thought I would die, but death did not come, so I continued to hunt and gather food.
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Her face swelled and she suffered whiplash.
The Sun
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'The Colonel's in an unco kippage,' said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan, as he descended; 'I wish he may be weel, -- the very veins on his brent brow are swelled like whipcord: wad he no tak something?'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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Fresh subscriptions of cash have swelled its coffers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scent of honey drifted up, bee hum swelled, and the smoke meant to calm the bees rose in plumes all around us.
An Interview with Sue Monk Kidd
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His heart swelled with pride as he watched his daughter collect her prize.
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His chest swelled with pride as he accepted the award.
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Recent events have swelled both their ranks and the volume with which they proclaim their beliefs.
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The worst symptom was a feeling that swelled behind my eyes - an itchy, piercing pain.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our neighbour has most generously swelled the collection with a gift of ￡25.
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Torrents of rain swelled the streams, all of which flow from the summit of the mountain.
Indiana
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Salammbo walked to the edge of the terrace; her eyes swept the horizon for an instant, and then were lowered upon the sleeping town, while the sigh that she heaved swelled her bosom, and gave an undulating movement to the whole length of the long white simar which hung without clasp or girdle about her.
Salammbo
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Moreover, its ranks have been increasingly swelled by deserters from social behaviourism - an evidently liberal position.
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'The Colonel's in an unco kippage,' said Mrs. Flockhart to Evan as he descended; 'I wish he may be weel, -- the very veins on his brent brow are swelled like whipcord; wad he no tak something?'
Waverley — Volume 2
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The cash raised has swelled the amount to almost £39,000 realised over the nine years the competition has been played.
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The building rang with a tremendous shout, and another, and another, and then it echoed deep loud groans that gathered strength as they swelled out, like angry thunder.
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Even the swelled side stretchers are flatter and less graceful and seem to be the product of an efficient, and therefore presumably busy, shop.
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His chest swelled with pride as he accepted the award.
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The ranks of female players swelled by a similar amount to 132, up from 116 earlier in the decade.
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Land earmarked for new homes could be flooded to a depth of nearly ten feet if major rainfall swelled a ‘main river’ flowing through the site, it was revealed today
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The crowd swelled as the day progressed, to the great pleasure of hawkers selling eatables and tea.
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Her powers swelled, thrashed, fighting the bands of black that imprisoned them, nowhere near as invincible as the Psirons had been.
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Start with careful examination of a baby's gums: it's quite possible that they look swelled and ablush.
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But I apprehend that we were personally fortunate in engaging a servant with a taste for cordials, who swelled our running account for porter at the public – house by such inexplicable items as ‘quartern rum shrub (Mrs. C.)’
David Copperfield
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Smoke swelled from it
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When he was finally contented with what he saw, the shrill cry of his whistle swelled throughout the football field.
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As the monkey looked at the face, blood vessels supplying nerve cells in the visual part of the monkey's brain transiently swelled in exactly the same pattern.
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As darkness swelled up from the east a full moon rose and illuminated great sheets of thin cloud like wadded fabric drawn across its pockmarked white face.
Bird Cloud
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Our sails, wound up, lay without their use, and if at any time we bore but a Hollocke, or half forecourse, to guide her before the Sea, six and sometimes eight men, were not enough to hold the whip-staffe in the steerage, and the tiller below in the Gunner room; by which may be imagined the strength of the storm, in which the Sea swelled above the
Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader
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Her name swelled from his hoarse shout against her neck as he buried his face in her shoulder.
Strategic Engagement
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An hour's soaking in cold water drew the frost out of the foot, and we swathed it in cotton saturated with carron oil, upon which it swelled so greatly that it was impossible to tell the extent of the injury or to determine whether or not the dog would ever be of use again.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
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Over the years, as the publishing world has burgeoned, and the reading public swelled, Premier Bookshop unfortunately remained the same size.
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The constant stream of praise burbling in the background of the class swelled into shouts of rapture.
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First to atone for the murder still unexpiated, she held above their heads the young of a sow whose dugs yet swelled from the fruit of the womb, and, severing its neck, sprinkled their hands with the blood; and again she made propitiation with other drink offerings, calling on Zeus the
The Argonautica
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When these are reduced, if the hands are contracted, and become trembling, convulsion and delirium seize such a person; but blisters break out on the eyebrow, erythema takes place, the one eyelid being tumefied overtops the other, a hard inflammation sets in, the eye become strongly swelled, and the delirium increases much, but makes its attacks rather at night than by day.
On Regimen In Acute Diseases
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His wasp's nest in Jew's heart, upswelled -- 'O woe,
THE PRIORESS'S TALE FROM CHAUCER
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At the peak of his career his fame swelled to international proportions.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Love and ambition again swelled his breast; and with recovered spirits, and a glow on his countenance, which reawakened hope had planted there, he accompanied De Warenne to the palace.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees have swelled Monrovia's population to well over a million, scrabbling where they can for shelter and running short of food, water and medical supplies.
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Some protesters sat in the street and resisted peacefully, but as crowds swelled there were complaints that the police were getting heavy-handed and punches were thrown.
Times, Sunday Times
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The next day the wounds turned septic and her body swelled up.
Times, Sunday Times
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His heart swelled with pride when his daughter came in.
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A friend of mine got stung by a bee and swelled up and died.
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The human population swelled, at least temporarily, as migrants moved south.
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He swelled his biceps proudly under the thin sleeve, reached for the two black stewards, and put them above his head like a pair of dumbbells.
THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN
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Master Pucklechurch growled at first, and foretold that nothing would come of "thicken a '"; that the "mangled weazel," as he called the mangel wurzel, would not grow; and that the cows would never eat "that there red clover as they calls apollyon;" but when the mangel swelled into splendid crimson root and the cows throve upon the bright fields of trifolium, he was as proud as any one, and he showed off the sleek sides of the kine, and the big mis-shapen roots of the beet with the utmost satisfaction.
The Carbonels
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When the clock struck 9.30 marking the inauguration of the fair, the crowd had swelled to over 3,000.
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His chest swelled with pride as he accepted the award.
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But it was interesting to watch on my iPhone's browser as the swine flu repots swelled from concern to panic to pandemic in about 72 hours.
Don't panic over Swine Flu "Pandemic"
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I envision them as two goatee-stroking trainspotters with swelled, distended craniums, able to assimilate incidental music from any source into a perfect pastiche.
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Advertising aimed at mobile devices swelled as advertisers looked to pipe their messages directly into the pockets of consumers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peter swelled with pride at her assessment of his manners, buoyed up by the thought of her approval and happiness.
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She was now at her full, and when at length she came up out of the sea, her disc, broad and red like a beamless sun, seemed to rest, dilated to preternatural size, upon the edge of the last wave that swelled against the horizon.
The Island Home
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The bobby swelled with understanding and eagle-eyed vigilance.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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In recent months, however, as worker unrest has swelled and fewer job recruits have arrived, the clamour for jobs at the factory gates has declined.
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In its excited, or tumescent condition (the word tumescent means swelled, and is the technical word for describing the erect condition of the penis) it becomes enlarged and rigid, its size in this state being, on an average, six or seven inches long, and from an inch-and-a-half to two inches in diameter.
Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living Some Things That All Sane People Ought to Know About Sex Nature and Sex Functioning; Its Place in the Economy of Life, Its Proper Training and Righteous Exercise
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The next day the wounds turned septic and her body swelled up.
Times, Sunday Times
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And I wot that whilst their mothers wept, easeless, their fathers’ hearts swelled within them, and held somewhat of their Pain away from them for a time.
The Night Land
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One other had swelled leg or phlegmasia dolens, and one or two others did not recover as well as usual.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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had a swelled head
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Since 1950, the global population has swelled almost threefold.
Times, Sunday Times
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My arm swelled up where I was stung by a bee.
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Her arm swelled, stopping the blood flow and turning the limb septic.
The Sun
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The antecubital vein swelled into view, bruised by all the earlier venipunctures.
Harvest
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The ranks of investment bankers had swelled.
Times, Sunday Times
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Since Costolo's arrival, Twitter has moved into larger offices in San Francisco to accommodate a payroll that has swelled from a few dozen people to about 300 employees.
Twitter COO Dick Costolo Replaces Evan Williams As CEO
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His remarks swelled a past event up in my mind.
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I tired myself with walking on Friday: the gout came on Saturday in my foot; yesterday I kept my bed till four o'clock, and my room all day-but, with wrapping myself all over with bootikins, have scarce had any pain-my foot swelled immediately, and today I am descended into the blueth and greenth: (76) and though you expect to find that I am paving the way to an excuse, I think I shall be able to be with you on
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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In the heat and humidity, paper swelled, colors ran, and inks refused to align on the page.
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The bird swelled out its chest to attract the attention of the female.
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Later this week the financial coffers of this small circulation but widely read magazine will be swelled by a plaintive advert.
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At the end of the day, we feel more secure because the federal prison population has swelled ever so slightly with the occasional inclusion of a title attorney, mortgage broker, or real estate investor.
The Cult of Plausible Deniability
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The idiot in the unbecoming South Sea island shirt spilled the straightforward chance at immortality and the England opener's confidence swelled almost visibly.
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The next day the wounds turned septic and her body swelled up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dan exclaimed; he had been hit in the jaw with a hockey stick, and his lip had swelled.
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The sails swelled out in the wind.
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However, right on the 50 yard line sits a huge and overgrown elephant, enormously strong but also swelled up, slow, and completely unsuited to being a player in this game.
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The sky was a glary white, as if the storms had leached all color from it, and as we drove a cacophony of insects swelled up in chorus to greet us.
Rainbow’s End
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Sheep-stealing swelled in spurts -. over fifty disappeared from Hurstmonceux alone in a couple of weeks in 1838.
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But in the German Democratic Republic, the GDR, another wind had begun to blow, softly at first, until it swelled into a storm that blew the communist regime away.
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The time lost in reorganizing the Allied forces brought heavy autumnal rain which swelled their waters.
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It is particularly manifest in the bones of the head, causing enlargement and bulging of the face and jaws, thereby giving rise to the terms "bighead" and "swelled head," which are applied to it.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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Dan exclaimed; he had been hit in the jaw with a hockey stick, and his lip had swelled.
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The same thing applies to the membrane which surrounds the brain: for when, by sawing the bone, and removing it from the meninx, you lay the latter bare, you must make it clean and dry as quickly as possible, lest being in a moist state for a considerable time, it become soaked therewith and swelled; for when these things occur, there is danger of its mortifying.
On Injuries Of The Head
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The pie list swelled; the richer puddings had vanished; the sausage, with his drapery wrapped about him, barely lingered in a pleasant thanatopsis with the buckwheats and the sweet but doomed maple.
The Four Million
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I had been drowned but that the shore was shelvy and shallow; a death that I abhor, for the water swells a man, and what a thing should I have been when I had been swelled!
Act III. Scene V. The Merry Wives of Windsor
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All around was darkened by the descending water; and the accumulating floods, dashing from the projecting craigs above, swelled the burn in his path to a roaring river.
The Scottish Chiefs
