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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
Sholom Aleichem / Author
Hunger
Poor
Pride
Rich
Swell
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Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.
Matthew Green /
Honor
Unusual
Laced
Loosely
Maid
Swell
Waist
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If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.
J. D. Salinger / Writer
Girl
Damn
Giving
Holden
Late
Looks
Nobody
Meets
She
Swell
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I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
Glenn Miller / Musician
Ideas
Musician
Wonderful
Musicians
Swell
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When people call me the Amitabh of the Bhojpuri experience, I feel my chest swell with pride.
Ravi Kishan /
Chest
Swell
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As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.
Tiny Tim / Singer
Holiday
Waiting
Me Long Voice
Inn
Swell
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My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.
Cary Fukunaga / Film Director
Beach
Mexican
Camp
Swell
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After sitting for two to three hours at a stretch, my feet just swell up. So I try to walk as much as I can.
Twinkle Khanna /
Stretch
Swell
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
J. B. Priestley / Novelist
Slang
Thinking
Two
Words
Lousy
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And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.
Nia Vardalos / Actress
Done
Meaningful
Motherhood
Life Music My Life
Life Music Done
Cue
Swell
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Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.
Andrea Mclean / Television Presenter
Brazil
Eating
Eye
Garlic
Nuts
Peppers
Tongue
Itch
Mouth
Swell
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Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
John Hanning Speke / Officer
Delight
Instance
Twins
Swell
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You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.
Joan Didion / Author
Eye
Feels
Sparrows
Sparrow
Swell
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When I was overweight, my back hurt, and my ankles would swell up. It wasn't the weight itself but the problems it brought along that bothered me.
Bhumi Pednekar /
Ankles
Bothered
Overweight
Swell
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To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.
Kate Winslet / Actress
Causes
Ducks
Enormous
Geese
Grain
Size
Fat
Swell
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I'm the greatest game-spitter of all time. I talk about the swell, the block, the 'hood. I'm a street commentator. I narrate how people live. That's E-40.
E-40 / Rapper
Block
Hood
Talk
Greatest
Time Live People
Commentator
Street
Time Street People
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Transatlantic flights are unflattering. Hairstyles flop. Makeup melts away. Faces shrivel or swell from dehydration, and contact lenses give way to spectacles.
Linda Colley / Historian
Contact
Faces
Hairstyles
Lenses
Spectacles
Flop
Swell
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Let us swell with gratitude and allow it to overwhelm us. It isn't as cliche as we make it; life truly is short. Let's spend it all lavishly wallowing in gratitude.
Grace Gealey /
Cliche
Gratitude
Allow
Short
Spend
Let Us
Overwhelm
Swell
Truly
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It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.
Brantley Gilbert / Musical Artist
Swell
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Pictures of me where my face was swelling, I had water retention - where you have filler, your face draws up a load of water. So my face began to swell like a balloon.
Tulisa /
Draws
Load
Retention
Swelling
Water
Face
Water Face Your
Balloon
Began
Face Me Your
Filler
Pictures
Swell
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Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.
Jerry Saltz / Art Critic
Braids
Painting
Wave
Abound
Laid
Overlap
Swell
Waves
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The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
Paul Muldoon / Poet
Cliches
How Much
Sink
Swell
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The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.
Anna Julia Cooper / Author
Men
Heart
Inspire
Resources
Stagnant
Subjective
Wretched
Activities
Life Men Heart
Large
Possibilities
Swell
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I still have difficult days when I lose hours to anxiety, feeling my throat swell and my mind race with paranoid thoughts. But - thanks in part to ongoing therapy - they're happening less and less.
Katie Piper / Philanthropist
Ongoing
Thanks
Therapy
Throat
Swell
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The social-media discourse is very different from what it might be on the ground. It's easy to bloviate without having to look anyone in the eye and then having those sentiments swell and amplify and go viral.
Debra Granik / Film Director
Amplify
Discourse
Sentiments
Viral
Swell
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It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water.
Kelly Slater / Surfer
Break
Depth
Scary
Shallow
Wave
Hits
Most Beautiful
Swell
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I used to play a lot of tennis and then, next thing you know, same thing with tennis. That banging on the knees, the jarring, twisting motion - I couldn't do it. All of a sudden, every time I played, my knee would swell up.
Caitlyn Jenner /
Banging
Tennis
Jarring
Motion
Next Thing
Same Thing
Sudden
Swell
Twisting
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Often, investors will discover a manager after he's had a terrific run, usually when he lands on a magazine cover somewhere. Invariably, funds swell up with new investor money just before they revert to their long-term averages.
Barry Ritholtz / Author
Long Term
Terrific
Somewhere
Cover
Discover
Funds
Invariably
Investor
Lands
Magazine
Magazine Cover
Manager
Revert
Swell
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A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician.
Al Capone / Gangster
Authority
Frankness
Crook
Enforcing
Pretends
Snake
Steals
Swell
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When Barack Obama got elected, I remember being in Harlem specifically. I remember watching that whole part of town just swell. People walked the streets, but it wasn't a riot - it wasn't mayhem. It was a unified feeling of euphoria.
Mike Colter / Actor
Barack
Euphoria
Harlem
Mayhem
Riot
Streets
Unified
Barack Obama
Elected
Specifically
Swell
Walked
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
Leon Trotsky / Revolutionary
Inspirational
Men
Automobile
Country
Distinction
Poor
Produce
Russia
Wheels
Begins
Chain
Effect
Swell
Tires
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I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it seemed like a swell enough idea, but you would think the novelty would have worn off by now and everyone would get back to playing baseball.
Jay Mohr / Actor
Baseball
Novelty
Thinking
Wonder
Worn
Years
Experiment
Hitter
Seemed
Swell
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As more and more people adopt an urban lifestyle and cities continue to swell, not only does the risk of urban epidemics increase - something we haven't seen much of for decades - but the need for larger emergency stockpiles can increase, too.
Seth Berkley / Medical Doctor
Cities
Decades
Lifestyle
Urban
Adopt
Emergency
Epidemic
More And More
Swell
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Here's the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.
Lzzy Hale / Singer
Acid
Alcohol
Breakdown
Dry
Irritated
Vocal
Stimulates
Swell
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The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln / 16Th U.s. President
Chorus
Cords
Land
Mystic
Patriot
Stretching
Touched
Living
Again
Angels
Battlefield
Broad
Grave
Memory
Union
Surely
Swell
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We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State.
Major Owens / New York State Senator
Elected Officials
Letters
New York State
Officials
Phone Calls
Positively
Basic
Calls
Clearly
Respond
Phone
Elected
Ground
Lies
Swell
Visits
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There's a rising tide of environmental awareness and activism among consumers that's going to continue to swell in the 21st century. Smart companies will get ahead of that wave and ride it to success and prosperity. Those that don't are headed for a wipeout.
William Clay Ford, Jr. /
Environmental
Activism
Prosperity
Rising
Wave
Headed
Ride
Swell
Tide
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I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.
Jewel / Singer-Songwriter
Broken
Dawn
Grassroots
Online
Benefit
Helped
Swell
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A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.
Tomas Transtromer / Poet
Sister
Dew
Divine
Far Away
Following
Horizon
Islands
Joy
Knowing
Magnifying
Night
Sorrow
Summer
Sun
Engine
Glass
Quietly
Route
Ship
Swell
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
Hannah Kent / Writer
Exposed
Horizon
Iceland
Landscape
Strange
Beyond
Beautiful Feel Always
Hidden
Strange Thing
Swell
Wherever
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Given its Internet sophistication and the attraction the group has with vast numbers of potential recruits from among disaffected populations around the globe, ISIS has the realistic potential to eventually swell its ranks of jihadists waging a 'holy war' to hundreds of thousands in both the western and eastern hemispheres.
Michael T. Flynn /
Attraction
Eastern
Holy
Numbers
Realistic
Sophistication
Western
Vast
Globe
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Ranks
Swell
Waging
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When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.
Meryl Streep / Actress
Records
Streisand
Breath
Collected
Sang
Swell
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Trump is unloved in his own house. A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic. He was told by the greedy and the outright stupid that he would make a swell president. The Liar's Paradox has spun out of control, with liars lying to a liar who believed the lie. What would that be called? Fox News, I think.
Richard Cohen /
Creation
Fox News
Greedy
House
Liars
Lying
News
Paradox
President
Ridicule
Spun
Stupid
Sympathetic
Theatrical
Trump
Unloved
Almost
Believed
Lie
Figure
Fox
Liar
Outright
Swell
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