We had come down to the railroad with a bunch of steers, and found the Little Colorado River, which ran between us and the railroad, swollen to a mighty torrent by the rains in the mountains.
Their eyes were red and swollen and their horses so tired they stumbled as they moved.
The Big Colorado were a powerful stream when we reached it, bein' all swollen by heavy rains up in the mountains an' we all kinder hated to tackle it.
When tortured and weak by the heat of the sand, And swollen my tongue and the water was done, I wondered no more as I passed through the land At the myriad bones bleaching white in the sun.
When Vannoy murdered his wife in Springfield, whole families put on their best clothes and drove fifty miles through bottomless mud and swollen rivers to see him hanged.
The third day out they came to the Henderson River, a stream some fifty yards wide, swift and swollen with the spring thaws, with high and steep banks.
Two weeks of weary tramping over forest roads and muddy prairie, and the dangerous fording of streams swollen by the February thaws, brought the party to John Hanks's place near Decatur.
Before that swollenfigure the three halted in mock amazement.
At seven o'clock the next morning Lovely, from his delicious bed, gazed across at the swollen head of the Gutter Pup.
Why," replied Jarrett, "the incessant rain during the last twelve days has swollen the water to such a height that the bridge of boats across the bay here is liable to give way under the terrible pressure of the water.
My own impotence made me feel rebellious, and when I saw all the mothers, with pale faces and eyes swollen with crying, holding their boys in their arms and kissing them in despair, the most frightful anguish seemed to choke me.
Right and left, everywhere, were dead bodies with swollen stomachs floating about, knocking up against the wooden piles.
Nothing, however, could overcome the bad effect produced that day by my nasal voice, my swollen face, and my heavy flakes of hair.
The light seemed doomed to fade from her beautiful eyes, her legs were swollen and could scarcely carry her.
He got up again, furious, showed me his ear and his swollen cheek, and I caught the word "periostitis" in the explanation he gave me on shutting the window again and threatening me.
The warders stripped him of his clothes, And gave him to the flies: They mocked the swollen purple throat, And the stark and staring eyes: And with laughter loud they heaped the shroud In which the convict lies.
They stripped him of his canvas clothes, And gave him to the flies; They mocked the swollen purple throat And the stark and staring eyes: And with laughter loud they heaped the shroud In which their convict lies.
And he of the swollen purple throat, And the stark and staring eyes, Waits for the holy hands that took The Thief to Paradise; And a broken and a contrite heart The Lord will not despise.
Thou'rt not content with what is fallen on me of bitter dole, Of loss of friends and swollen eyes, affliction and affray.
As it sat, behold, the water floated up a carcase, that was swollen and rose high out of the water, and lodged it against the rock.
The following morning they wrapped pieces of blanket around their cracked and swollen feet and again struggled onward until late in the afternoon, when they encamped upon a high ridge.
A large woollen stocking covered her swollen leg and frozen foot which had become numb and fallen into the fire one night at Starved Camp and been badly maimed before she awakened to feel the pain.
Their route to the snow-belt lay through sections of country which had become so soft and oozy that the horses often sank in mire, flank deep; and the streams were so swollen that progress was alarmingly slow.
A slight depression representing the neck, enables us to distinguish the head; the body is marked by a swollen centre, but there are as yet no traces of the extremities.
It is related that the Arve, a river of Switzerland, swollen by floods, sometimes drives the waters of the Rhone back into the Lake of Geneva; and the force is sometimes so great as to make the mill-wheels revolve in a contrary direction.
One morning, when Florent stopped with a smile before Claire's tanks, the girl dropped an eel which she was holding and angrily turned her back upon him, her cheeks quite swollen and reddened by temper.
By the time he reached a human dwelling his hands and feet were bruised and bleeding, swollen with poisonous stings.
He was lying upon the couch, his great form stretched out, his features hideously swollen by the same disease that had attacked the guards.
His features were swollen so that they were hardly recognizable, and hoarse, panting breaths came from his lungs.
His army was rapidly swollen to near double the number of claymores that Dundee had commanded.
When the clergy of London came, headed by Compton, to express their gratitude to him by whose instrumentality God had wrought salvation for the Church and the State, the procession was swollen by some eminent nonconformist divines.
Our tongues were dry and swollen in our mouths, there was the pressure of an iron clutch on our windpipes, fire in our throats, and the pangs of hunger that tore at us like iron pincers.
Figures like these, however swollen by rumour, denote the intensity of the struggle.
And therefore, though the narrative of this episode has swollen beyond all limit and proportion, the space is not lost, for it is invaluable to the student of Pitt's career.
At which, when he heard it, George smiled crookedly through his swollen lips and half-closed eyes, and Martel found himself out in the cold.
We could see her jibs swollen with venom, and past them the great sweep of her mainsails with the booms well out over the side to take the full of the wind.
The lips twitched, the eyes rolled white, the raised hand trembled, the wine sputtered like the broken syllables which the shattered memory would not send and the swollen tongue suddenly could not utter.
His heart was still swollen and painful with the many things he would like to have said in reply had he not been deterred by valor's better part.
Numerous cascades leap down from these cliffs; at the time I passed swollen by the rain, and well set off by the dark precipice.
I saw four on the way upwards, and the sight of the swollen carcases made me defer drinking till nearer the source.
Here and there a rugged cliff appears, its base buried in underwood, its front hung with ivy; and there are marks on the trees, and portentous signs on the drifted boulders, which reveal the swollen height of floods.
He now showed me that this brushwood had been lodged among the stones by the swollen stream, and we consequently camped higher up.
His hands had swollen through the bonds, and pained him terribly, but his complaints and groans were unheeded by the cannibals, and it was only after long entreaty that they gave him a drink of water.
The usually insignificant stream hadswollen into such a rapid torrent, and spread so far over its banks, that we could not hope to cross it.
Here stood the game, and nearest to us an old stag, which had its proud antlers thrown back, its thick swollen neck outstretched, and was roaring furiously.
However, as a rule, the inundation only lasts a few hours, because the small streams have but a short course, and are only swollen by the mountain torrents.
When we reached the river bank, we found its water very turbid, and so swollen that we could not ride through, owing to the furious current.
Not only men are exposed to this, but also the quadruped denizens of these parts, and I repeatedly saw drowned buffaloes and stags being carried away by such swollen rivers.
The mountains on both sides drew very closely together here, and at some spots hardly left space for the river to pass, which was swollenby numerous torrents, and already had a rather powerful current.
The priest's share in the interview, indeed, resembled that of one who removes the stones, clustered branches, or whatever entanglements impede the current of a swollen stream.
Or, perhaps, a stream was yet hurrying shyly along the edge of a far wider bed of pebbles and shelving rock than it seemed to need, though not too wide for the swollen rage of which this shy rivulet was capable.
The creeks and brooks were not swollen as much as those farther south, and Henry judged from the fact that here also the snowstorm had not passed.
Everywhere, save for the little prairies, it was wooded densely, and the countless streams, whether creeks or brooks, were swollen by the winter thaw.
They found the swollen flood of the Mississippi full of vast masses of ice, pouring down from the distant regions of the north.
They encountered many rivers and swollen brooks, which they were compelled either to swim or ford.
The trail invariably led to spots where the crossings of the swollen streams were not very wide.
Two or three wide rivers must also be crossed, which at this season of the year are often swollenand impassable.
But it possessed a cracked and cloudy looking-glass which dimly reflected three countenances swollen and discoloured beyond recognition.
Swollen and deformed nails indicate special disturbances in circulation, chronic heart and lung diseases.
