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Tag Name "Swelled" (19)

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Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.
Alfie Kohn
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I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.
Bernardino Ramazzini
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The night swelled with magic not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.
Charlaine Harris
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Did last night really happen? One side of his lips tipped up, and my chest swelled. I'd missed that smile. Depends on what you think happend. I took my shirt off for you? His eyes deepened. Yes. Lovely moment.
J. Lynn
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Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!
Kathryn Lasky
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Welcome to the age of paper money, where governments and central banks can manufacture as much money as they want without limit. Gold was the last limit. Its banishment as a standard unleashed the inflation monster and leviathan itself, which has swelled beyond comprehension.
Llewellyn Rockwell
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Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
Lydia Lunch
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Yuki: Honda-san... you'd better stop, or he'll get a swelled head. Kyo: Doesn't Shigure already HAVE a swelled head?
Natsuki Takaya
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Men felt a chill in their hearts a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of warmth,one subterfuge was tried after anothersentences swelled, adjectives multiplied, lyrics became epics.
Virginia Woolf
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume but a good stomach excels them all.
William Penn
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Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.
Anna Akhmatova
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Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my truck, looks at me, and I swear he said, Tire go flat? I couldn't resist. Said, Nope. I was driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me. Here's your sign.
Bill Engvall
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I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.
Elizabeth Berg
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My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.
John James Audubon
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One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.
Khaled Hosseini
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On a very practical level, I've learned the importance of circulation socks for planes. I had this awful experience of getting off a flight to go to an event and my feet had swelled. Try getting into heels then! So you put on the socks for the flight, then you can wear whatever heels you want.
Lupita Nyong'o
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The receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
Michel de Montaigne
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The audience swelled to six in the end and we all huddled in a corner.
P. J. Kavanagh
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Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
William Arthur Ward