Coleridge says that she "swallows the draught in a fit of fright," for it would have been "too bold a thing" for a girl of fourteen to have done it otherwise.
She will pass through the horror of hell itself to reach what lies beyond; and she swallows the potion with his name upon her lips.
Swallows sleep all winter in the holler of some old rotten sycamore, and I’ll tell you how I come to find it out.
Because these swallows occupied houses about Saltillo and neighboring villages, Burleigh and Lowery (loc.
Cliff Swallows also at the Chorro del Agua and Diamante Valley.
Already in the village shop on the top of the Tyrolese pass there was a nest of swallows deep down in a passage.
The sheep which swallowsthe eggs of this taenia shows the first symptoms of it towards the seventeenth day.
Willemoes-Suhm supposes that the Distomum hepaticum has for a vehicle a small snail, the Limax agrestis, which the sheep swallows with the grass on which it feeds.
In Lucian's "Vera Historia," a monster fish swallows a ship and her crew, who live a long time in the extensive regions comprised in its internal economy.
In Madagascar three several cuts are made causing much suffering to the children, and the nearest male relative swallows the prepuce.
Afterwards, bowls of the liquor in which the meat has been boiled are handed round, and not a Kirghiz but swallows the greasy broth with delight.
Fain would I know if beasts have any reason; If falcons killing eagles do commit a treason; If fear of winter's want makes swallows fly the season.
Then a little while, and the ling grew purple at the passing of the roses; the hawks swung in the wind when the swallowshad vanished; the campions waved where the poppies had fallen; the grey thistle ursurped the reaped grain.
Over the reaches of the water the swallows skimmed, hawking silently.
The poppies reddened the scanty fields of rye; the swallows and martins haunted the island-ways; the wild rose bloomed, as with white and pink sea-shells made soft and fragrant.
White, in his famous "Natural History of Selbourne," tells how worried he was because certain swallows just would build facing southeast and southwest.
And for several years swallows were killed by thousands to make ornaments for women's hats until this shameful business was stopped by law!
He swallows bit by bit; just like a nice little boy who has been taught not to bolt his food.
But, like the rest of the swallow family, they think nothing quite so nice as a bed of feathers to raise babies in, and they know as well as the cliff-swallows and the barn-swallow that a barnyard is a great place for feathers.
And like the chicken the earthworm swallowslittle stones to help his digestion.
Once the worm is fairly out of the ground, he throws up his head with a jerk and swallows it whole.
But, speaking of the way swallows take to human society, do you know where our barn-swallows came from?
The swallows will assemble round the hives and devour them like grains of corn[275].
Nurse Mary opens her mouth, swallows the dose, and makes a wry face, shuddering.
Then Santa Claus opens his mouth, and swallowsthe dose, with a wry face and a shudder.
Such works formed the first studies of Rousseau, who, with his father, would sit up all night, till warned by the chirping of the swallows how foolishly they had spent it!
He grew so companionable with a nightingale, that when a nest of swallows began to babble, he hushed them by desiring them not to tittle-tattle of their sister, the nightingale.
The long-tailed swallows and the white-throated martins were with us for six months, but about the middle of October they were no more seen.
For seven long hours they made the welkin ring, and ran likeswallows o'er the plain.
Cliff-swallows often nest on the high banks at Tahoe City, and a few have been seen nesting under the eaves of the store on the wharf.
The nests of barn swallowsalso have been found under the eaves of the ice-house.
Swallows act in a different way: while some continue in Europe, and seclude themselves from our view as already observed, others cross the seas.
This conjecture has been verified; for Swallows have been seen on the coast of Senegal on the 9th of October, which was eight or nine days after their leaving Europe.
The hands, that when she talked seemed to him like swallows darting and flashing in the sunlight, clutched his sleeve.
An older man could have told Everett that he was assimilating just as much of the Congo as the rabbit assimilates of the boa-constrictor, that first smothers it with saliva and then swallows it.
I am perfectly sure that it is wiser to use plain short words than obscure long ones; but not in the least sure that I am doing the best that can be done for my pupils, in classing swallows with owls, or milkworts with violets.
I shall never have time to examine them, but thought it not well to end the titular list of the swallows without notice of the position of this great tribe.
The commissariat department is a serious one for birds that eat a thousand flies a day when just out of the egg; and it is possible that the weariness of swallows at sea may depend much more on fasting than flying.
Owls cannot gape like constrictors; nor have swallows whiskers or beards, or combs to keep both in order with, on their middle toes.
We were the first swallows to arrive; the flocks would not be here for about three weeks.
Here-- Whenas the swallows flocking in one place from the hoopoes Deny themselves love's gambols any more, All woes shall then have ending and great Zeus the Thunderer Shall put above what was below before.
In summer there would be the sound of the wings of the swallows or purple swifts in the chimney at night as they became displaced from their nests.
The boy has a curious way of saying wise things; such words fly out of his mouth like swallowsfrom a cave.
Our best thoughts fly homeward like swallows to old chimneys, where they last year brooded over their young, and center in the true hearts left at the fireside.
The swallows come back," he said, "but they will never come again.
I have been an unworthy godson of your father, but I am more than ever determined to carry out the principles that he taught me; they are the only things that will stand in life; as for the rest, the grave swallows all.
He comes in the shape of an old man with enormous teeth, brown of colour, with black, entangled hair, and sometimes swallows his victims.
Frederick the Wise once said to me, 'Physicians are but quacks and charlatans, and a man gives himself up to a tedious suicide who swallows their prescriptions.
This thought swallows up all other thoughts; it has destroyed my love, my rest, my sleep, my earthly happiness!
When the mouths of both are thus joined together upon one common prey, the largest polype gapes and swallows his antagonist; but, what is more wonderful, the animal thus swallowed seems to be rather a gainer by the misfortune.
When any animal of this kind passes near the polype, it suddenly catches it with its arms, and, dragging it to its mouth, swallows it by degrees, much in the same manner as a snake swallows a frog.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swallows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
