swoln

Historical Examples

• Of whom the sick world (Anarchy, both vocal and silent, having now swoln rather high) is everywhere getting weary.

  History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol, II. (of XXI.)

  Thomas Carlyle

• The visual orb was swoln, blood-shot, troubled and intolerably dull.

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 472

  Various

• Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.

  Essays

  Francis Bacon

• Here Mrs. Meridith ended her narrative, and the swoln eyes of her auditors gave a proof that they had been attentive to it.

  The Adopted Daughter

  Elizabeth Sandham

• It grieved his mother that he was not found, that her heart had not been harrowed by the look of the swoln corpse.

  Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3)

  Thomas Carlyle