Word: swelling
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...apples that hang and swell for the late comer...
...before, seasoned "salts" had noted two curious phenomena. In a flat calm, monster oily waves swept up to the beach, boomed hollowly like bushmen's drums. This was the "dead" swell caused by heavy weather no great distance away. The other occurrence, more inexplicable, was the leaping of porpoises,* long considered by seamen a storm augury. Seasoned "salts" had sought shelter...
...Egyptian quarrymen exhuming stone for the Pyramids; like droplets that will steal into compressed Chinese waterflowers to make them bloom in bowls on Occidental library tables-so stole droplets of the yellow Yangtze flood in between the starch layers of the Rhineland's myriad passive beans, making them swell and shoulder one another, making their mass bulge and press against the triple-riveted bulkheads, until the bulkheads slowly burst and the Rhineland, despite salvaging efforts, was a total wreck. Scientific name for the creeping of the droplets: capillary action...
...Where is a "swell place for one of those front porch campaigns...
...Senator pressed his quest farther back in history. "Oh, yes," Mrs. George replied, the antique cameo pin on her bosom rising upon a swell of honest pride, the W. C. T. U. had gone to the Governor's assistance long ago; in 1923, when the Legislature refused to vote him $250,000 to enforce Prohibition. She had gone to the Governor personally and told him that she and her colleagues would get that money for him. They had called their fund the "Governor's Enforcement Fund" and this was how it had been spent...