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Definition of Swells
1. swell [v] - See also: swell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swells
Literary usage of Swells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"XXX Not that remorse my bosom swells, 1 And now my tongue the secret tells, But
to assure my soul that noue Shall ever wed with Marmion. ..."
2. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... for one libel swells, Where not his wit, but sauciness excels. Whilst with
foul words and names which he lets fly, He quite defiles the satire's dignity ..."
3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"... and temple crowd :— Where on the sultry wind for ever swells The thunder of
ten thousand tuneless bells, While priestly drones in hourly pageant pass, ..."
4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"But Murray sees in it a reference to the habits of the " bloods" or swells of
the eighteenth century. Bloody drunk—as drunk as a blood— was probably its ..."
5. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... when the process of putrefaction commences, the whale swells to an enormous
size, until at least a third of the carcase appears above water, ..."
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