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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Swell
 
  Swells as the poised ocean to the attracting moon obedient swells.
            —Mark Akenside		  1
  Swells like an angry hen ruffling her feathers.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Swelling like a tragic organ note.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Swells like mushrooms.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Swelled like the gourd.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Voice swells up like mutter’d thunder.
            —Lord Byron		  6
  Hearts swelling in presence of the Queen of Hearts; like the sea swelling when once near its moon.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  7
  Swellynge like bubbles in a boillynge welle.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  8
  His voice swelled like a sanctus rising from the choir of a cathedral.
            —Thomas De Quincey		  9
  Swell like a corporation which has been attached to a hose.
            —George Fitch		  10
  Swelled like a sail by the sea-breeze.
            —Gustave Flaubert		  11
  Swell like bubbles, shine and break.
            —John Gay		  12
  Swells like a filthy toad with secret spite.
            —William Gifford		  13
  Swelling like a torrent.
            —George Granville		  14
  Swelled, like toad that meets disaster.
            —Lemuel Hopkins		  15
  Swell like a boil.
            —Ben Jonson		  16
  Swells like the chant of serenader or the chimes of silver bells.
            —Alexander Beaufort Meek		  17
                Swelling on
Like the waves of eternity.
            —Thomas Moore		  18
  Swell up like a stock company leading man.
            —George Jean Nathan		  19
  Swelled like a psalm.
            —Sir Joseph Noel Paton		  20
  Swell, like round and orient pearls.
            —William Shakespeare		  21
  Swells like a sail before a favouring breeze.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  22
  Swell like a shirt bleaching in high wind.
            —John Tobin		  23
  Swells like the bosom of a man set free.
            —William Wordsworth		  24
 
 
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