Aswim

Paris was aswim with non-stop demonstrations until the government acquiesced to the demands of the students, and was allowed to stand. ❋ Mitchell J. Rabin (2011)

He was aswim in darkness, a thick, torpid presence that pressed up against him, obstructing sight and sound. ❋ Lou Anders (2010)

He felt a measure of detachment from the matters at hand, his eyes slightly aswim in the agreeable yield of a long liquid lunch. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

When a fish or shellfish is served in a generous quantity of its cooking liquid, however supplemented with other ingredients, the French fittingly call it a preparation à la nage, or “aswim.” ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

Instead he looked to our own Greek diet — our eggplant aswim in tomato sauce, our cucumber dressings and fish-egg spreads, our pilafi, raisins, and figs — as potential curatives, as life-giving, artery-cleansing, skin-smoothing wonder drugs. ❋ Eugenides, Jeffery (2002)

Her senses were aswim with the stimulating scent of him, male and musky. ❋ Janet Dailey (1985)

She stood over the bed, her eyes aswim with avarice. ❋ Hall, Adam, 1920- (1985)

Her voice had turned throaty as if her throttled emotions were aswim in her words. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1984)

His senses were washed aswim by this torrent of beauty poured unexpected through eyes to brain. ❋ Unknown (1925)

She looked at him with eyes that were aswim with tears. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

She swung to him with some impatience, her eyes aswim in tears. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

Her large eyes, neither blue nor black, caught the light of the moon and were aswim with tears. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

And those eyes, those large, dreaming eyes aswim with tears and hued like richest lapis-lazuli, oh! what man could look on them and not be stirred? ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

Indeed, she was worth looking at as she stood there before him, her hands clasped, her breast heaving, her sweet, pale face flushed with emotion and her lovely eyes aswim with tears. ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)