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Definition of Swelts
1. swelt [v] - See also: swelt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swelts
Literary usage of Swelts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"... In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean sweep With every wave that
swelts; And flaming o'er the midnight deep, Along her flashing zone. ..."
2. Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God, and of His by Christoph Christian Sturm (1800)
"When this vein swelTs and extends they become lighter, can raise themselves, and
swim to the surface of the water. When it contracts, and the air is thereby ..."
3. Dialect of the West Riding of Yorkshire: A Short History of Leeds and Other by Samuel Dyer (1891)
"Is the sun to be blamed that the traveller's cloak swelts him with heat ?—Bishop
Hall. Parch'd and sweltering in the westering wind. —Milton's Lycidas. ..."
4. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"Is the sun to be blamed, that the traveller's cloak swelts him with heat? Is the
fruit of the grape guilty of that drunkenness, which follows upon a sinful ..."
5. Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity by Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass, Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass.) (1893)
"Cts Joseph swelts acc'. for making 3 warrenl Boxes 6 75 Daniel Heywood & C°'.
Acct for Grass seed Cloth and WI Goods $35,66 the town is Cr. by 91j£ lbs Lard ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"... In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean sweep With every wave that
swelts; And flaming o'er the midnight deep, Along her flashing zone. ..."
7. Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God, and of His by Christoph Christian Sturm (1800)
"When this vein swelTs and extends they become lighter, can raise themselves, and
swim to the surface of the water. When it contracts, and the air is thereby ..."
8. Dialect of the West Riding of Yorkshire: A Short History of Leeds and Other by Samuel Dyer (1891)
"Is the sun to be blamed that the traveller's cloak swelts him with heat ?—Bishop
Hall. Parch'd and sweltering in the westering wind. —Milton's Lycidas. ..."
9. Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings by Joseph Hall (1837)
"Is the sun to be blamed, that the traveller's cloak swelts him with heat? Is the
fruit of the grape guilty of that drunkenness, which follows upon a sinful ..."
10. Collections of the Worcester Society of Antiquity by Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass, Worcester Society of Antiquity (Mass.) (1893)
"Cts Joseph swelts acc'. for making 3 warrenl Boxes 6 75 Daniel Heywood & C°'.
Acct for Grass seed Cloth and WI Goods $35,66 the town is Cr. by 91j£ lbs Lard ..."
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