The demandants of the castle came and sawe him dead; he was swoln so extremely that they could not see any eie he had, and no more of his nose then the tip of it, which shewed like a wart, and his coddes were swoln as big as one's head.
Dost thou not hear how pitiful his wail, Nor mark the death, which in the torrent flood, Swoln mightier than a sea, him struggling holds?
He said no more, for in his breast Conflicting thoughts the voice suppress'd: The fire of vengeance seem'd to stream From his swoln eyeball's yellow gleam.
Better bow down before the Hun, and call A Tartar lord, than these swoln silkworms[416] masters!
I shew myself To these rebellious forces, and at once Revolt is mounded, and the high-swoln current Shrinks back into the old bed of obedience.
I forded Your thaw-swoln torrents, when the shouldering ice Fought with the foe, and stained its jagged points With gore from wounds I felt not?
Then round and round the whirlpool's marge ye dance, 60 Till from the blue swoln corse the soul toils out, And joins your mighty army.
What, if his very virtues Had pampered his swoln heart and made him proud?
It weakens, not defends; and oversea Swoln France's despot and his myrmidons This moment know it, and can scoff thereat.
The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly.
A part of the Alps where the Brenta rises, which river is much swoln as soon as the snow begins to dissolve on the mountains.
Cesena, situated at the foot of a mountain, and washed by the river Savio, that often descends with a swoln and rapid stream from the Appenine.
Less swoln with culture soon the vales extend And long horizon-bounded realms appear.
For who knows but the sight of you, presenting His swoln sins at the full, and your fair vertues, May like a fearful Vision fright his follies, And once more bend him right again?
The Kirkstone torrents had been swoln by the rains, and now filled the mountain pass with their roaring, which added greatly to the solemnity of our walk.
The bay, which had been so quiet two days before, was all in motion with small waves, while the swoln waterfall roared in our ears.
I was almost stupid from the pain I suffered; for my leg was now swoln as large as my thigh.
The French endeavoured to retrace their steps during the night, fording the river where they had crossed it in the morning; but the heavy rain had so swoln the river by midnight, that they could not continue any longer to wade it.
This young chief, who is swoln with contemplation of his own power and glory, loves one thing better than it all, and that is thy daughter.
They for themselves, for others you unfold A cargo swoln with diamonds and gold.
At that dead hour the silent asp shall creep, If aught of rest I find, upon my sleep: Or some swoln serpent twist his scales around, And wake to anguish with a burning wound.
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