Very soon the mushroom-like heads of this fungus begin to swell and elongate; they burst through the bark and form a clump of reddish-yellow Paddock-stools.
The buds would seem to him to swell visibly; in the course of an hour or two, the bare boughs of the trees would clothe themselves with the luxuriant greenery of midsummer.
The veins on his handsome, curly forehead would swell with delight, as he caught me and whipped me .
I found my grandfather holding forth in a swell suite of offices in the business district of Washington.
Then he backed off, and give a whopping spring, which landed him on a swell of the bar'l.
The lack of a swell is the weakest point of the great majority of German organs.
With us, nearly the reverse is true, the swell being most indispensable in accompanying choirs as here constituted.
The reason of this is to be found, partly in the extremely conservative character of their organ-builders, almost a national trait, and still more in the fact that but little use would be found for a swell organ outside solo playing.
The mere lack of means for expression (by means of the swell or other mechanical appliances) is hardly a sufficient explanation of this, nor do I see anything in the character of the organ to account for it.
Here we remained stationary for some seconds, and with little prospect of being removed from this perilous situation; but we were once more extricated by the swell from this ledge also, and carried still farther along the shore.
A heavy gale came on in the evening, which caused a great swell in the lake, and in crossing the waves we had the satisfaction to find that our birchen vessel proved an excellent sea-boat.
On the 5th of August, a party of the officers endeavoured to get on one of the larger icebergs, but ineffectually, owing to the steepness and smoothness of its sides, and the swell produced by its undulating motion.
A gentle swellfreed the ship from this perilous situation, but the current hurried us along in contact with the rocky shore, and the prospect was most alarming.
The food of the musquito is blood, which it can extract by penetrating the hide of a buffalo; and if it is not disturbed, it gorges itself so as to swell its body into a transparent globe.
Before that operation my testicles would swell and become sore and hurt me, and have seemed to do so since, just as a man will sometimes complain that his amputated leg hurts him.
But I have heard a swell cocotte at the Corinthian announce to the whole room that she was going home with a girl; and no one doubted the statement.
Shall we then allow them for a moment to suppose, that weary with our protracted struggle, we also are prepared to swell their list of conquests?
He sat leaning forward, looking at his right arm, bending and stretching it, watching the muscles swell and the sinews tighten under the skin.
And the children will have the time of their lives; and Mrs. Jarrod will be delighted with our swell society--nothing sweller in all Michigan, I assure you!
I live over the grocery, you know--really swell apartments.
In harmony with these are efforts of individuals, extending through ages, and strengthening with time, till now at last they swell into a voice that must be heard.
It will touch the souls of mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, until the sympathies of all swell in one irresistible chorus of indignation against the deep damnation of lending new sanction to the enslavement of our brother man.
Those men, driven from their own trade, seek employment in others, when they swell the surplus and bring wages down.
Each new depression in the price of labour tended to swell the export of men, and the larger that export the greater became, of course, the necessity for seeking abroad a market for food.
Through it came the first low twitter of birdsong, a sound that seemed to swell and grow until it filled the world.
His eyes met her steady gaze again, and his heart seemed toswell in his chest, and choke him.
The sap had scarcely begun to swell the forest buds when Vergennes, eight miles upstream, where the first fall bars navigation, was astir with the building of other craft for the Champlain navy.
When General Gates urged reinforcements, his letter was dispatched by expresses to all parts of the State where men could be raised, and in response the recruits flocked in to swell the force which was encircling the doomed army of Burgoyne.
Levin inquired, seeing a strange structure of beams on a cape or swell to the right, in sight of the dark forms of a town on the next crest beyond.
Topping a swell of the meadow lands another stream basin was encountered.
But long ere they reached the scene the swell of the military music, the crash of falling trees apprised them that the foe had already crossed the river, and that his pioneers were advanced into the woodlands.
He demanded the surrender of Gladwyn, saying a still greater force of Indians was on the march to swell the army of besiegers.
Well, I'm a woman, and as such must speak; Silence would swell me, and my heart would break.
Not thus Amphion tuned the warbling lyre, Nor Joab the sounding clarion could inspire, Nor fierce Theodamas, whose sprightly strain Could swell the soul to rage, and fire the martial train.
Peter, swell thy store, And be what Rome's great Didius[35] was before.
