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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
When she released him, James looked stunned. "Still?" She suppressed a swell of sadness. "Always.
— S.M. Reine
Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.
— Joseph Addison
Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them.
"If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am! — J.R.R. Tolkien
"If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am! — J.R.R. Tolkien
Far off, men swell, bully and threaten: bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wish in one sharp, abrupt swell, that I could stay. What a beautiful word that is. Stay with me. Stay home. Stay alive.
— Kristan Higgins
Drinking Garri doesnt mean you're poor, but allowing the garri to swell-up before drinking is Poverty
— Paa Kwesi Nduom
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.
— William Shakespeare
Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
— John Hanning Speke
When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Their hearts began to swell with the pity that one feels for a fellow being who has lost both his way and his sense of purpose.
— Caryl Phillips
The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
— F.B. Meyer
I wanted the music to be full, to surround us, to lift us like the swell, so I rented a bloody orchestra. You only live once.
— Mark Helprin
Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who's swell.
— Criss Jami
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
— Ernest Hemingway,
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
— William Cowper
It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.
— Julie Klam
Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
A sweet kiss on her head made her little heart swell; she had pancakes, her dog. She had love. All was well.
— Renata Bowers
Depressed, I gazed at the wall behind Ivy.
Swell. I was going to have to look at a stuffed mink nailed to the wall all night. — Kim Harrison
Swell. I was going to have to look at a stuffed mink nailed to the wall all night. — Kim Harrison
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
— Ernest Hemingway,
More cotton will grow on a crooked row than a straight one.
— Barbara Swell
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
— Sholom Aleichem
She could feel her pussy lips starting to swell like she had overdosed on lip plumper. Like she had fucked a gang of angry bees.
— Debra Anastasia
The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.
— Albert Camus
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.
— Joseph M. Marshall III
The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
— Glenn Miller
I don't write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn't set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.
— Ray Bradbury
The level of the room keeps changing. All of the surfaces swell and recede with oceanic rhytm. You are not quite all right. You are somewhat wrong.
— Jay McInerney
To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.
— John Denver
I don't know who named them swells. There's nothing swell about them. They should have named them awfuls.
— Hugo Vihlen
Hundreds of bodies, riddled with German bullets, were washed out to sea by the gentle swell of the waves.
— Alex Von Tunzelmann
And swell not thy cheek (for pride) at men, nor walk in insolence through the earth; for Allah loveth not any arrogant boaster.
— Anonymous
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
— John Dryden
The more you think about illusions, the more they'll swell up and take on form. And no longer be an illusion.
— Haruki Murakami
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
— Andre Previn
What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English
SWELL and LOUSY. — Vicki Baum
SWELL and LOUSY. — Vicki Baum
As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.
— Tiny Tim
I really have to befriend this asshole?" I whispered harshly to Dilmore "Yep."
"Well thanks Dilmore this is going to turn out swell. — Charon Lloyd-Roberts
"Well thanks Dilmore this is going to turn out swell. — Charon Lloyd-Roberts
You used to be such a swell kid," Bobby stated briefly.
"Oh! And I ain't no more?" Helen little-girl'd. — J.D. Salinger
"Oh! And I ain't no more?" Helen little-girl'd. — J.D. Salinger
And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.
— Charles Wesley
You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
— Joan Didion
My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.
— Ann Aguirre
Depression is a deep, black wave - so powerful, building from a swell and rising ... rising
— Tarryn Fisher
And I'd have you know, through all of it, I still had perfect nails! Because I am completely swell.
— Sarah Scheele
Do you wanna see something swell?
— Jon Lovitz
I am called to minister to people and inspire them to do more not to advertise them and have them swell up with pride.
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Let your passion and courage swell in you until you can no longer be contained by fear.
— Bryant McGill
Ambition and thirst for power have a part but greed and greed alone is the reason for a man wanting to swell his ward.
— Charles Ranlett Flint
It was not a wave but a smooth rolling swell that seemed to come up from the deeps, as if something vast down there had stirred itself.
— John Banville
As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It
— Timothy Ferriss
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
— Nia Vardalos
Kate! Get some ice on that ankle or it's going to swell to the size of Luke's head. Then neither of you will be able to get through the front door.
— Violet Cross
Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.
— Matthew Green
Too quick despairer, wherefore wilt thou go? Soon will the high Midsummer pomps come on, Soon will the musk carnations break and swell.
— Matthew Arnold
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
— Francis Bacon
Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.
— Robert A. Heinlein
A swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff
— Jennifer Egan
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
— John Calvin
Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
— Al Capone
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
— Roger Penrose
The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.
— Cary Fukunaga
When their kiss sealed their vows, April's heart swell, and she thought it couldn't hold all the love she felt at this moment.
— Maggie Brendan
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
— J.B. Priestley
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun! — Edward Young
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun! — Edward Young
Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.
— Ludwig Von Mises
I felt the fight-or-flight reflex swell up in me over and over again, but I knew that neither fight nor flight had ever worked for me before.
— John Green
Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.
— Andrea McLean
Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.
— Henrietta C. Mears