Famous quotes containing the word swelling:
“Things out of perfection sail
And all their swelling canvas wear....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“The Concord had rarely been a river, or rivus, but barely fluvius, or between fluvius and lacus. This Merrimack was neither rivus nor fluvius nor lacus, but rather amnis here, a gently swelling and stately rolling flood approaching the sea. We could even sympathize with its buoyant tied, going to seek its fortune in the ocean, and anticipating the time when “being received within the plain of its freer water,” it should “beat the shore for banks.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)