Word: swellingly
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...seems there were a couple of prize fighters and they got into a swell house on Fifth Avenue...
...Miss Theodate Pope tied a lifebelt around her, sprang into the sea from the sinking Lusitania. The gentle swell of the ocean rocked her into unconsciousness before the rescue ship Julia saved...
Undoubtedly these alluring advertisements are giving Shakespeare a popularity he has never enjoyed before. Eleanor Glyn, Robert Service, and all the other pygmies who mistake an anthill for Parnassus, may swell with new clation at the thought that Shakespeare is competing with them. But this unwonted fame may turn the true lover of Shakespeare to cynical thoughts and remind him of what Bismarck said when he was hissed by the populace of Berlin: "If I ever attain any degree of popularity, I shall know I have done something incredibly stupid...
...moralist is entitled to one groan of regret, admirers of scenery must be permitted several sighs of relief. They may now gaze with less glaring obstruction upon the natural beauties of the landscape. The graceful swell of the meadow will no longer be surmounted by pork-and-beans; canned-milk cows will cease to graze the unfertile slopes of New England. Perhaps, under a more rigorous law the defacers of highways may be forced to renounce entirely their motto, "He who rides must read", and in some Elysian future flamboyant advertising will no longer stun the senses of the motorist...
...swamping of the Sophomore B boat was due directly to the swell from the Patricia, which passed the 1927 boat at a high rate of speed. Coach Stevens supervised the rescue of the oarsmen in this boat...