The notebook was still in there, swollen a bit with moisture but otherwise in good shape.
She got into the bed and lay there, swollen and drunk.
And there, swollen and green, half devoured by crabs, the Drowned God festered with the rest, seawater still dripping from his hair.
Meals are served at the modest-size bar, which is something of a magnet; I watched the crowd there swell on a Thursday night from 2 to 16, with waiters cheerfully buffing wine glasses and the chef perching briefly on a bar stool, chatting with a customer.
Above all, there swells in him a peculiarly modern emotion — the motorist's rectitude, spot-welding a passion for justice to the thrill of hatred, in the service of which various worn phrases tumble through his thoughts, revitalized, cleansed of cliché: just pulled out, no signal, stupid bastard, didn't even look, what's his mirror for, fucking bastard.
We slowed again, And as the tightened brakes took hold, there swelled A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain.
Yet some will question his reading of the close of "The Whitsun Weddings" ("there swelled / A sense of falling, like an arrow-shower / Sent out of sight, somewhere becoming rain") as "the promise of young lives [going] down the long slide to drudgery", for here, surely, is one of those occasions when Larkin encounters and even embraces an exception to his pessimism.
Since then, the residential population there has swelled.
And even before that happens, the absolute numbers of older people there will swell alarmingly, simply because these countries are so populous.
He spent several weeks in bed, cared for by his mother, who read Milton to him aloud; upon his recovery, she refused to send him back to school, on the ground that his success there might swell his ego, and instead hired a tutor.
There swells and jets a heart - there all passions, desires, reachings, aspirations; Do you think they're not there because they're not expressed in parlors and lecture-rooms? - Walt Whitman.
