Swollen

Examples

• It was swollen and red. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• My eyes were red and swollen, and I said, Oh, Esther, Esther, can that be you! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He could not go to Lynchburg as ordered, because the rains had been so very heavy and the streams were so very much swollen. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Once, Mrs. Maylie was called away, and after being absent for nearly an hour, returned with eyes swollen with weeping. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Mary's face was all swollen with crying, and she burst out afresh when she saw Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Clara's swollen eyes shewed that she has passed the night in weeping. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• None, said she, in a heart-swollen tone. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The embrowning woods, and swollen rivers, the evening mists, and morning frosts, were welcomed with gratitude. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The hand and forearm become suffused and swollen. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Both of them were blue-lipped and insensible, with swollen, congested faces and protruding eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• His eyes were swollen and bloodshot, and he seemed to have forgotten that any one was by; he scowled at the watchers when he saw them. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Her eyes were red and swollen; and it seemed as if her tears were even then restrained with difficulty. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• It was now early spring, and the river was swollen and turbulent; great cakes of floating ice were swinging heavily to and fro in the turbid waters. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I crawled up from the floor, and saw my face in the glass, so swollen, red, and ugly that it almost frightened me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He was watching the unconsciousness come unto her swollen face, watching the eyes roll back. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was violently swollen and inflamed, and I could scarcely endure to have it touched. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The doughy mass which goes into the oven, comes out a light spongy loaf; the small indigestible rice grain comes out the swollen, fluffy, digestible grain. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Her face looked sallow and swollen in the dreary light, and her dull hair shaded imperceptibly into the tones of her skin. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The swollen lead-coloured under lip trembled with a shameful whine. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It said I was changed: my cheeks and lips were sodden white, my eyes were glassy, and my eyelids swollen and purple. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It is only the sound of the wind rising, he remarked, and the rivulet a little swollen, rushing down the hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• On the third day, the throng had swollen to thousands; all slowly converging to one point--the city of Somnauth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• By morning the eyes of half the party were so swollen that they were entirely closed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The third vision was of an unburied body, swollen, eyeless, mauled by passing birds and beasts and altogether terrible. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The torrent, swollen by the melting snow, plunges into a tremendous abyss, from which the spray rolls up like the smoke from a burning house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Moved by the gentle beauty of the scene, the prince sank upon the green turf, and bathed his swollen feet in his tears. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His face is swollen to the size of two faces, and he is to go to bed directly, poor fellow, to wait for the doctor, who is coming to lance him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Now they were crusted and the knee was swollen and discolored and the calf sunken but there was no pus. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Her hair was dishevelled, and her eyes so swollen with tears, that one could but guess at what might, perhaps, be their natural lustre. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.

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