swell

turvota

paisutus

kasvaa

nousta

mainingit puhekieltä To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
Shakespeare

Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.

It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge.

After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.

The organ music swelled.

to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock.

You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.

Your equal mind yet swells not into state.

swelling words; a swelling style

A cask swells in the middle.

the swell and subsidence of his periods

There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.

Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. "Antelope," said the hunters.

It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?

He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell.

"I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it." . . .

"I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a swell.

You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell—you and the gods!

Orgasms are swell, but they are not the remedy to every injustice.