It floats there on the sunless morning like a smile in the sky; it swells and falls limp again and then again lets itself be blown high up by the wind, which comes swinging lustily over the water.
The chant swells high again: the Te Deum laudamus, as though the waves of the voices were rising upon the waves of the organ, higher and higher, up through the cathedral to the sky in one ecstasy of sacred music.
And dear to me the loud Amen, Which echoes through the blest abode, Which swells and sinks, and swells again, Dies on the walls, but lives to God.
Soft swells the music now Along that shining choir, And every seraph bends his brow And breathes above his lyre.
Her white bosom swells gently, like a newly-waked zephyr playing among virgin leaves; while her eyes, like melancholy stars, glimmer with the lustre of her soul.
The question touches a tender chord of her feelings; her bosom swells with emotions of grief; he has wounded that sensitive chord upon which the knowledge of her degradation hangs.
Sea and stream are used: Like an unseasonable stormy day Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores As if the world were all dissolved to tears, So high above his limits swells the rage Of Bolingbroke.
Yonder brook is a picture of our soul; so long as it runs quietly between its banks, the water is clear and grass and flowers border it; but when it swells and flows tumultuously, all this ornament is torn away, and it becomes turbid.
From its level brim The shore swells gently, wooded o'er with green, And buries in its verdure dim The lustre of the summer e'en.
It is easily carried, is light, and when cooked swells considerably.
When soaked and boiled it swells to its original size.
A quarter cup swellsup into an abundant meal for the average-sized canine.
The boundless panegyricks which have been lavished upon the Chinese learning, policy, and arts, shew with what power novelty attracts regard, and how naturally esteem swells into admiration.
This vapour is caught, among other means, by tying a bladder compressed upon the body in which the dissolution is performed; the vapour rising swells the bladder and fills it.
The previously-shrunken belly swells out, and, if left undisturbed, the fly quietly departs when it is full.
The head swells considerably, especially above, and the skin becomes wrinkled (Fig.
This nitrum does not decrepitate nor fly out of the fire; however, the native variety swells up from within.
If dough is left standing in a warm place a number of hours, it swells up with gas and becomes porous, and when baked, is less compact and hard than the savage bread.
The swells and the pretty women so rarely go there; they don't affect Enghien any more.
He thought of little Jacquemin, dainty and neat as if he had just stepped out of a bandbox, and his disdainful remarks upon the races of Enghien, where the swells no longer went.
And day and night and day goes by, And never a comrade comes anigh, And still the honey swells as high For supper, breakfast, dinner!
The crowd of serfs, old men, poor women, and children, begin to enter as the fairy song swells up within the gates again.
The same music swells your breast, And the wild notes are still as sweet As when above the fragrant nest And the wide billowing fields of wheat You soared and sang the livelong day, And in the light of heaven dissolved away.
Absorptive in nature to a marked degree, it swells with the water it takes up and is limp and flaccid.
The fiber swells as it absorbs, and shrinks as it gives off water.
The bladder, or bag, which contains the musk is about three inches long, two broad, swells out from the belly about an inch and a half, and stands near as much before the groin.
Did you ever see the cheap guys hanging around, and the young swells waiting to get a chance at the girls behind the counters?
He has some swells up at his house to hear his speech on national affairs, among them old Flint's daughter, who is a ripper to look at, although I never got nearer to her than across the street.
Sadie's dippy about it--says it puts her in mind of one of the swells snapshotted in last Sunday's supplement.
Among the nations, as you know, a storm raged, and the great swells from that conflict threatened to set adrift and wreck the little republic but newly launched.
In my fancy the long, low swells of land, like those of some dreary sea, were for the moment the subsiding waves of the cataclysm that had rolled here and extinguished all life.
There were howling swells in that period, but he was not of them.
Her gentle bosom ebbs and swells With the tide of life that deeply wells From a throbbing heart that loves to break In the tempest of love for love's sweet sake.
The heave of the incoming swellsthreatened to break her open in the middle as she swung broadside against the hard shingle.
The Kut Sang was humming along, and there was a soothing murmur through the ancient tub as she shouldered the gentle swells of the bay.
Rajah and I rigged them with strings and set to drawing water through the port-holes on the port side, which was not a hard job, for the swells came within a couple of feet of our hands as we held the tins outside.
The strife in Eden-bowers begun Swells upward to the latest age.
He stands; he listens; on his earSwells softly forth some virgin hymn: The white procession windeth near, With glimmering lights in sunshine dim.
Once on top of the Mur we had level going again for a space, and hurrying to the base of the crowning dome, which swells upward another thousand feet, we began its ascent without stopping.
I wish you'd stay and help me out--there's no end of swells coming down, more your style than mine.
There came no sound save the sound of heavy swells breaking lazily over distant rocks.
Meeting the swells at an angle to avoid the dash of chilling waters, they rose on the crest of a high one to drop into the trough, then swept across a half score of low crests, to be again lifted on high.
And then, with only that winking, blinking light to guide them, they would face the swellsand go gliding over them to--.
But once they came to a gap between two small islands that looked out into the open sea, great swells caught their frail craft and, tossing it back, flecked them with foam.
I was looking in at one of the windows of the servants' quarters, getting a word or two with the girl, when a couple of the swells came along.
Why the deuce can't the swells look after their blessed diamonds?
These swells know how to take care of their jewelry, especially when they're family diamonds like these.
His lordship and the rest of the swells ought to be very much obliged," remarked Dick.
There is a pile of these arrears very soon, and it swells like a rolling snowball.
I am taken home in a sad plight, and I have beef-steaks put to my eyes, and am rubbed with vinegar and brandy, and find a great white puffy place bursting out on my upper lip, whichswells immoderately.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swells" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
