Swells

Six miles from land in 8 - to 10-foot swells is usually no place to have an argument over a 4-inch fish. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not a sheep: "‘Soviet’ Britain swells amid the recession" skip to main | skip to sidebar ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

My brain swells with all the things mentioned here. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I can get whapped so hard that my skin swells up, but no g-ddamn bruises! ❋ Lyda222 (2008)

"The tintinabulation that so voluminously swells from the ringing and the dinging of the bells." ❋ Unknown (2005)

They may also occur when the brain swells or there is fluid buildup in the skull. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Drawn tight where the mountain swells a thug chest. ❋ Unknown (1966)

And a clamor swells from the heart of the wood that tells of a soul at bay. ❋ Unknown (1909)

"Mill pond do you call the swells we have had the last few days?" ❋ Allen Raine (1885)

Only every now and then he'd let out just as he did now, as if nothing could ever set him straight again, or keep him from fighting against them, as he called the swells and the Government, and everybody almost that was straightgoing and honest. ❋ Rolf Boldrewood (1870)

It was known to all that the "swells" -- as they termed the Castle people -- had backed their champion "King Cole" for sums which, as Jasper Vermont had rightly said the preceding night, would almost equal his weight in gold; and such was their faith in him that no other horse had been entered from that same county. ❋ Charles Garvice (N/A)

He himself had never crossed the Atlantic; but he understood that she and her people were "swells" -- well-born in the ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Only every now and then he’d let out just as he did now, as if nothing could ever set him straight again, or keep him from fighting against them, as he called the swells and the Government, and everybody almost that was straightgoing and honest. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I also wonder how that surfer made out – if the swells were anything out of the ordinary for him or her. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But you must be prepared to meet all sorts of queer folks at her house, especially if you stay on a bit and have some tea -- mysterious poets that nobody ever heard of, and artists who won't exhibit, and awful swells from the German universities, and I don't know what besides -- everybody who isn't the least like anybody else. " ❋ William Black (1869)

People of colour arriving in any vessel are to be sent to a government deposit; if the master prefers to keep them on board he may, but in that case he is liable to a fine of 200l. if any of them land on the island; after a certain hour in the evening all gatherings in the street are put a stop to, and everybody is required to carry a lantern about with him; the hierarchy and "swells" -- _personas de distincion_ -- being alone exempt. ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)

No doubt people who are rich, and are connected with rich people, and have great friends — who are what the world call swells — have great advantages over their inferiors when they get into trouble. ❋ Unknown (1873)

No doubt people who are rich, and are connected with rich people, and have great friends, — who are what the world call swells, — have great advantages over their inferiors when they get into trouble. ❋ Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 (1872)