How to use swoln in a sentence
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 SandhamThe visual orb was swoln, blood-shot, troubled and intolerably dull.
Lo, in mid flight swoln Amasenus ran foaming with banks abrim, so heavily had the clouds burst in rain.
The Aeneid of Virgil | VirgilIt 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 CarlyleI could not help thinking of the danger they ran, having twice to cross the river, which was doubtless swoln by the rain.
The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island | Johann David Wyss
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