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Definition of Outswells
1. outswell [v] - See also: outswell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outswells
Literary usage of Outswells
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... or outswells its sister flowers. Zenobia is a splendid creature, and I wish
there were more such rich and ripe women about. I wish, too, you could have ..."
2. Recollections of Seventy Years by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1909)
"... While all around outswells the sound Our happy hearts repeat. The Sun his
fires Not yet inspires to kindled ires; But all around is calm and clear, ..."
3. Ballads of Books by Brander Matthews (1886)
"... mild and winning Steal through our doubt and discord, as outswells At fiercest
noon, above a city's dinning, The chiming music of cathedral bells ..."
4. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1847)
"One note is enough—his eye moistens, his heart long so wither'd outswells, He
has found them—the suns of his labours—his musical, magical bells ! ..."
5. The Fredoniad, Or, Independence Preserved: An Epick Poem on the Late War of 1812 by Richard Emmons (1830)
"Words were useless more, For even now th' alarming cannon roar— The lumbering
echo hurries to the fort, Which soon outswells the navy in report. ..."
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