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But now there was this undeniable imperfection, a scratchiness and swollenness familiar only from the distant past.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2011

Grotesque in their swollenness but looking relaxed as though comforted in their family togetherness.

From Time Magazine Archive

When I sat up and ate, Mother held my potato-size foot and measured its swollenness.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

He looked at her hands, thin even in their swollenness, raw and bleeding, hard as a laborer’s on the palms.

From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Fischer, Anton Otto

It seemed a very shady thing," said Anna-Rose, having subdued the swollenness of her pocket, "to eat his chocolates and then not want to kiss him, but we don't hold with kissing, Anna-F. and me.

From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth