1 She looked down the road for him, the pain in her heart swelling up again.
2 No, they fought for swelling acres, softly furrowed by the plow, for pastures green with stubby cropped grass, for lazy yellow rivers and white houses that were cool amid magnolias.
3 The bubble of suspicion in her breast was swelling larger now.
4 His big body with its hard swelling muscles looked soft and slack and his waist line began to thicken.
5 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green.
6 The swelling lines of her figure had been hidden under the shapeless rags she wore in the fields.
7 Below us we could see the windings of the river, and Black Hawk, grouped among its trees, and, beyond, the rolling country, swelling gently until it met the sky.
8 It was a very obstinate sprain; the swelling would not go down, and the pain still continued.
9 The flushed countenance, angry eye and swelling figure of the scout, produced a sensation of secret awe in all that heard him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 29 10 Upon his aching and swelling head the cold cloth was like a tender woman's hand.
11 My swelling heart involuntarily pours itself out thus.
12 She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or dying away like a nightingale of the woods.
13 While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little, now and then, with gusts of emotion.
14 The eloquent voice, on which the souls of the listening audience had been borne aloft as on the swelling waves of the sea, at length came to a pause.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER 15 I apprehend, if you come to that,' said Mr. Creakle, with his veins swelling again bigger than ever, 'that you've been in a wrong position altogether, and mistook this for a charity school.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE