1. The music swelled to a crescendo
1. "Just swell."
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Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars
2. "I was a swell guy. I enjoyed being me."
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Raymond Chandler, Farewell
3. "The sea, the sea’s swell, silent and breathless."
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Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
4. "Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship."
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Quote by Ernest Hemingway
5. "Like friendship, words sometimes swell, at the dreamer's will, in the loop of a syllable."
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Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
6. "Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song."
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
7. "Keep your breath to cool your porridge’; and I shall keep mine to swell my song."
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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
8. "and magnificently blue and imperturbably quiet—save for the great regular swell of"
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Henry James, The Patagonia
9. "Look at the swell. You'll not find a bigger swell anywhere. It has half the globe for its run-up. You're young. You have the whole world. Don't bother yourself with the past."
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Carsten Jensen, We
10. "Far off, men swell, bully and threaten: bring them hand to hand, and they are a feeble folk."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson