Swell

(noun.) a crescendo followed by a decrescendo.

(noun.) the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea.

(noun.) a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor).

(verb.) expand abnormally; 'The bellies of the starving children are swelling'.

(verb.) cause to become swollen; 'The water swells the wood'.

(verb.) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; 'The music swelled to a crescendo'.

(verb.) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; 'The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son'.

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• I begin to think I must be a swell in the Guards without knowing it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I could feel the muscles of the thin arm round my neck swell with the vehemence that possessed her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I had reached that stage of sleepiness when Peggotty seemed to swell and grow immensely large. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Let the heart swell into what discord it will, thus plays the rippling water on the prow of the ferry-boat ever the same tune. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He had seen them shot and left to swell beside the road, nobody bothering to do more than strip them of their cartridges and their valuables. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The small garrisons were drawn from the various towns and fortresses, and went to swell the main army. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It was swollen and red. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• My eyes were red and swollen, and I said, Oh, Esther, Esther, can that be you! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He could not go to Lynchburg as ordered, because the rains had been so very heavy and the streams were so very much swollen. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Once, Mrs. Maylie was called away, and after being absent for nearly an hour, returned with eyes swollen with weeping. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Mary's face was all swollen with crying, and she burst out afresh when she saw Margaret. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Clara's swollen eyes shewed that she has passed the night in weeping. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The door opened again, and Topsy, her eyes swelled with crying, appeared, holding something under her apron. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• His chest swelled, and his legs got weak, and he was short of breath. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He bent his keen eyes upon me, and my uncontrollable heart swelled in my bosom. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The hysterical passion swelled in her bosom--her quickened convulsive breathing almost beat on my face, as she held me back at the door. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He was of a chuckle-headed, high-shouldered make, with a general appearance of being, not so much a young man as a swelled boy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of distress. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It'll keep the swelling down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Miss Wade,' said the girl, with her bosom swelling high, and speaking with her hand held to her throat, 'take me away! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• That makes the swelling and that's what weakens you and makes you start to pass. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• It must be the swelling. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• He had been wanting to do that all day and now he did it, he could feel his throat swelling. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But my heart swells when I think of Torquilstone and the lists of Templestowe. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Gusts and swells perpetually trouble the mariner's course; he dare not dismiss from his mind the expectation of tempest. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• 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. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Deeds of heroism also occurred, whose very mention swells the heart and brings tears into the eyes. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• All along, and among, and above these crags dash and flash, sweep and leap, swells, wreaths, drifts of snowy spray. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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