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Traditionally, a musical climax is reached through the emotionally loaded swell of dynamics or harmonic resolution.
The cage was lowered by winch and wire rope to a depth of 5m, just deep enough to escape the surface surge and swell.
As the wind increased, the yacht heeled over to a precarious angle and its bow was being continually submerged by the oncoming swell.
His body was completely encased in huge disfiguring boils which caused his body to swell up repulsively.
It said its fleet will swell from 86 wide-bodied aircraft at present to 103 in about three years.
They make a swell supper, especially with a glass of mango lassi, the habit-forming yogurt drink, to go along.
Is it really in London's interest to have the already-elephantine Tate swell yet further?
Out at the distant horizon ascended a monstrous tidal swell amassing into an alp.
The wind, sea and swell were of no significance force in the context of the collision save perhaps that each vessel would yaw slightly.
But after that population swell passes, leaf-peeping and its related revenue could dwindle.
You'll feel weed fall against the line and the lead get picked up by the swell.
Unfortunately some swell worked into the bay and things got very rolly through the night so Naomi slept badly.
The swell was either just abaft or on the beam and at night you couldn't see it.
Because it so readily absorbs water, a lack of water can cause the fiber to swell abnormally.
It showed several people diving off a heavily-laden small boat that was wallowing dangerously in a heavy swell.
The low waterplane area is desirable to reduce motion characteristics from waves, especially during swell seas and storms.
The first night at sea began calmly and William slept soundly but as the night wore on, the ship began to roll as she encountered a fair swell.
The muscles tighten and narrow, causing the lining to swell, redden and produce mucus, making breathing difficult.
These ingredients are readily wettable in an aqueous based food system, but do not dissolve, swell, or gel.
With inflammatory acne, the whiteheads become overloaded with bacteria and swell, producing pimples and pustules.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Trimm, the swell financeer, sportin' 'round with the darbies on him all nice an' snug an' reg'lar!
Then biker's always drinking more or less, and he's got the swell head, anyhow.
The gulls seemed uneasy, in spite of the desolateness of the broad expanse of heaving swell.
Through it came the first low twitter of birdsong, a sound that seemed to swell and grow until it filled the world.
They are then placed in fairly strong limes for two or three days to swell the fibres and saponify the grease.
A wounded hippopotamus stirs up the water so that a small canoe may capsize in the swell from his forequarters.
Let the adversaries rage and swell their fills, said Luther, and as long as they can.
The force tending to swell is proportional to the specific surface of the disperse phase, other factors being constant.
It's written sort of scrawly and foreign on swell stationery and Old Hickory don't get many of that kind, as you can guess.
Then the bows lifted to the first swell, and a dollop of spray flew over them, and rattled against the bridge-screens.
Positives do not swell or bulge as they discharge, but shed the active material.
The Manx or Erse term which denotes the swell or rolling of the sea after a storm.
Above them rise the columns, tapering gently as they ascend, but without any swell or entasis.
There's many a swell bloke 'ud give 'arf a dollar for that to put 'is baccy in.
In most beaver the shoulders swell plumply above the back line after the outline of the grizzly bear.
The swell was breaking white against its barnacled granite boulders in a long, crashing rumble.
It's a flood tide to-day and with the big ground swell she hasn't a chance.
Bishop's great face seemed to swell and its high colour to deepen.
Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.
The consekence was, he began to swell an bloat like a mad porkepine.
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