Swallows
[swɔləuz]
Examples
- The Kalmucks to-day, like the swallows, go yearly a thousand miles from one home to another. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But I remember with the blowing of the train the lamp of the engine blew by over my head and pieces of steel flew by like swallows. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The dull crackling noise noticed in the ear when one swallows is due to the entrance and exit of air in the tube. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Like swallows. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He might as well buy next year's swallows. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The swallows circled around and I watched them and the night-hawks flying above the roofs and drank the Cinzano. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The predominant passion swallows up the inferior, and converts it into itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I want to fly away at once, as those swallows fly, and go in at that splendid gate. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Editor: Rodney