From the passage, where it sloped downward toward the source of the heat ray, the sound of shrill, whistling voices hadswelled louder.
The breeze had swelled to a steady blast when the rock crashed down.
As they went forward at a run the roar of rifles and machine-guns swelled again, and the hail of bullets began to sweep across to meet them.
The rifle fire and the bursting reports of bombs swelled suddenly to the fullest note yet attained.
The muscles swelled and thickened in faces to which the blood rushed in torrents.
He fell into a heavy sleep, during which his trouble swelled and burst within him, forced its way out, and took on form and feature.
The sea was swelled into billows mountain-high, on the top of which our ship sometimes hung as if it were about to be precipitated to the abyss below!
Sabine fell back in her chair, and again her heart swelled with indignation.
His hat pushed half off his head, his pale face swelled as if by drinking, his glazed eyes red with tears, Ehrenthal stood before him, calling in broken sentences for the baron, wailing and cursing alternately.
She bent down and kissed the air, and listened again to those blessed sounds which swelled her heart with rapture, and brought tears of joy to her eyes.
She saw how the fresh colour glowed in the handsome cheek, how his splendid neck swelled as the red deer's in November, how the dark eyes blazed upon her.
Every time she went the blood beat in her brain, the tears swelled in her throat.
She was too hurt and sore to be able to lie without pain; the dried grasses, so soft to her usually, were like thorns beneath the skin that still swelled and smarted from the stripes of the rope.
His heart swelled so with thankfulness that she had recognized him, he could hardly repress a sob.
Presently there were low liquid notes blending themselves with the harder tones of the instrument, and gradually the pure voice swelled into predominance.
The stars were rushing in their eternal courses; the tides swelled to the level of the last expectant weed; the sun was making brilliant day to busy nations on the other side of the swift earth.
That night there was a great banquet in Otho's castle; the lights shone from every casement, and music swelled loud and ceaselessly within.
Massive and huge the ruins swelled above the green rock, at the foot of which lay, in happier security from time and change, the clustered cottages of the peasant, with a single spire rising above the quiet village.
He accordingly determined to fly, and began by trying to swim across the river Metaurus, which is usually shallow enough; but the rains had swelled it to such a torrent that he was soon plunged into the depths of misery.
Sheets of lead poured into them; the rattle of empty scabbards on stirrups, the metallic ringing of bullets on helmet and cuirass, the rifle-shots, the roar of the shells exploding swelled into a very hell of sound.
She was in tears when Dorcas approached her; her saucy eyes swelled with weeping: she refused either to eat or drink; sighed as if her heart would break.
She looked up at every one as she passed; now and then breathing upon her bared hand, and applying it to her swelled eyes, to abate the redness, and dry the tears.
A female attacked with bilious fever, swelled face, and violent tooth-ache.
One day rising from kneeling, a patient, aged 50, felt great pain in her knee, which swelled so as to prevent her going out.
A young lady was afflicted with swelled vein just over the large toes of both feet; the swelling in one foot shortly disappeared, the other became more developed, the foot and ancle inflamed.
Pre-war derelicts who were wont to clutter the numerous seats were back again in their old places, their dirty ranks swelled by members of the great new army of unemployed.
He could see the young people down on the rocks, and his heart swelled in his breast.
No, sir," heswelled out, "I have gone in for making a regular job of it.
Charles's force soon displayed the singular spectacle of Leslie and Middleton in united command, and the army, swelled by the Royalists, was increased to twenty thousand men.
The furious persecution against the Covenanters in Scotland and the Whigs in England had not only swelled these bands of refugees, but rendered them at once ardent for revenge and restoration.
A straggling olive-tree occasionally appeared, and then a group, and soon the groups swelled into a grove.
But the roar swelled and subsided and died away; the darkness gave place to gray light and then dawn; the sun arose, the wind began to blow.
It swelledand rolled away and again there was silence.
Then there was born in her something that burned and throbbed and swelled and drove out all her vacillations.
Then," she added, "when they saw that you were unable to overtake them, the chief with the swelled nose began to beat poor Otto and pull his hair savagely.
When you put up the sail and began to overtake us, the chief with the swelled nose got out a rough kind of sack and tried to thrust Otto into it.
As I paused to contemplate her figure so touchingly, yet so unconsciously mournful in its beautiful and still posture, a more joyous sensation than was wont to mingle with my tenderness for her swelled at my heart.
In the following morning the imprudent animals were all found dead, and swelled to more than double their usual size[216].
It is conveyed by this orifice through the oesophagus into the first stomach, which we call the honey-bag, and which, from being very small, is swelled when full of it to a considerable size.
Does prodigal Autumn, to our age, deny The plenty that once swelled beneath his sober eye?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swelled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bloated; distended; fat; flatulent; gassy; inflated; puffy; swollen; tumid; turgid; windy
