Word: swelled
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...were indisposed for rowing. The usual noon pull had been dispensed with, and in the evening Hooker, acting as coxswain, coached Sherman and Cameron in the Sophomore pair-oar. They pulled up stream as far as the toll-bridge on Morgan Street, where, about six o'clock, the swell of a tug-boat, passing at some distance from them, caused the water to wash over the bow of the boat, and gradually filled it through holes in the canvas. The oarsmen, having their backs to the bow, were unaware of their impending danger, until that part of the boat began...
...will be amazed at the marked varieties of appearance which they present. These varieties are capable of easy classification. In proof of this assertion, I shall proceed to notice in a brief manner the four principal classes which are at present to be observed at Harvard, viz.: 1. The Swell; 2. The Respectable; 3. The Intellectual; and 4. The Scrubby. Of minor distinctions and of combinations I will treat in my forthcoming book...
...mind's eye we can see the Delaware swell, making his P. P. C. after the above-mentioned interview, and blighting the hopes of rival swains with a lavish display of "call cards, tinted rep, rose, lavender, stone, canary, or Nile green...
...general style is so gorgeously "swell...
Blooming now as a Junior swell heavy...