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Sentences starting with swallow

Swallow that, pudding-head! [11]

Sentences ending with swallow

Passing by such words as are poisonous, I can swallow most others, and chew such as I cannot swallow. [6]
And even this was a concession hard for her pride to swallow. [9]
Nothing's too good to swallow. [11]
When all was planned, Phips told Bucklaw who was the commander of the Swallow. [11]
If sick, the little pills of the homoeopathist would be much too large for it to swallow. [7]
The boat flies like a swallow. [10]
He is not in bed, and has no bitter draughts to swallow. [10]
The Bithynian informed Hermon that kerchiefs were waving him a farewell from the trireme, that the sails had been unfurled, and the wind was driving the swift vessel before it like a swallow. [10]
Therefore, when there came rumblings of mutiny on the Bridgwater Merchant, there was faithful, if gloomy, obedience, on the Swallow. [11]

More example sentences with the word swallow in them

A few score years ago, sick people were made to swallow burnt toads and powdered earthworms and the expressed juice of wood-lice. [6]
If a crocodile would only swallow this Sabina I would give him that hot cake in yonder dish with pleasure, for his pudding. [10]
The great gulf will swallow up one and all. [10]
Thou, O Lord, who didst let the water-flood overflow her, didst not let the deep swallow her up, nor the pit shut its mouth upon her. [6]
He has to watch the huge dikes which keep the ocean from overwhelming him, and the river-banks, which may break, and let the floods of the Rhine swallow him up. [4]
I supposed he was going to set fire to the liquid and swallow it, so I was greatly wrought up and interested. [5]
While his daughter was curling his hair a swallow flew into the room; this was a good omen and raised the steward's spirits. [10]
They said it was a dangerous stream to cross, now, because its quicksands were liable to swallow up horses, coach and passengers if an attempt was made to ford it. [5]
She did not want to drink, but he made her swallow, and then he bathed her face and head and cooled her wrists. [13]
It was, as usual, a simple meal, and yet he could only swallow a few mouthfuls, for everything had a bitter taste. [10]
If I enter upon this wide field of horticultural experiment, I shall leave peace behind; and I may expect the ground to open, and swallow me and all my fortune. [4]
When Heinz again turned to Biberli he said in a hollow tone: "If the earth should swallow up Nuremberg tonight it would not surprise me. [10]
I believe the turbulent waves Swallow the last shipper and boat; She with her singing craves All to visit her magic moat. [5]
And the Independents tried hard to swallow the wretched subterfuge, and pretend that they did not know what was the real reason of the absence of the abandoned creature whom they denominate their standard-bearer. [5]
Nor had Phips told Bucklaw of Gering's coming; so that when the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow entered Port de la Planta, Bucklaw himself, as he bore out in a small sail-boat, did not guess that he was likely to meet a desperate enemy. [11]
Thou wilt have to swallow thy golden opinions, my buckskin, when we put thee in office. [9]
They might try to resist the law through him, but, if violence was shown, he would first kill Arrowhead, and then destruction would descend like a wind out of the north, darkness would swallow them, and their bones would cover the plains. [11]
Phips himself was to remain on the Bridgwater Merchant, the Swallow lying near with a goodly number of men to meet any possible attack from the sea. [11]
He invited me to eat, and the food they brought might have tempted a full man to excess, but I could only swallow a few mouthfuls. [10]
Orion was accustomed to be treated in his own country as the heir of the greatest man in it; the color mounted to his brow and his Egyptian heart revolted at having to bend his pride and swallow his wrath before an Arab. [10]
Over there, twenty thousand people in a million elect themselves gentlemen and ladies, and the nine hundred and eighty thousand accept that decree and swallow the affront which it puts upon them. [5]
What an awkward thing it is, and more difficult for most of us to swallow than a sponge. [9]
Its movement over the paper is like the flight of a swallow, while the quill pen and the steel pen and the gold pen are all taking short, laborious journeys, and stopping to drink every few minutes. [6]
I can't swallow the everlasting meal any longer. [10]
Why does not the earth open her mouth to swallow them up like the company of Korah? [10]
All on board the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow were in hearty spirits. [11]
This and the tender, with men and divers, were to go in search of the wreck under the command of Bucklaw and the captain of the Swallow, whose name Phips did not mention. [11]
It was a tedious process at first, but at length he began to swallow naturally, and finished the cup. [11]
Even scientists swallow tales of prehistoric bones on testimony they would reject if it involved the title to a piece of real estate. [4]
They had better, swallow this lie if they want to save their abandoned reptile carcasses the cowhiding they so richly deserve. [5]
They used to swallow them, and find other ways of concealing them, but the white man found ways of beating their various games. [5]
I had to swallow suddenly, or my heart would have got out. [5]
He did not swallow it at once, neither did he reject it; but he took it as a pickerel takes the bait, and carried it off with him to his hole (in the fourth story) to deal with at his leisure. [6]
A calm salutation,--then swallow and hold hard. [6]
Roar, roar, thou storm, stream, stream, rushing rain, rage, waves, and destroy the meadows, swallow up houses and villages! [10]
From stem to stern of the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow, this wild will had its way. [11]
Why should the solid hill give way at this place, and swallow up a tree? [4]
Listen, rascal, if she keeps it you may swallow cakes to-day out on the Grand Square till you burst--and yet I have only just paid five gold pieces for you. [10]
He tried the same experiment, in the open air, with a swallow and T. fimbria; but the large size of this moth probably interfered with its capture. [1]
At last Gaspard roused himself with a long sigh, turned and picked up the pipe, but, seeing the flask of rum, lifted it, and took one long swallow before he began to fill and light his pipe. [11]
It is only possible to capture prisoners if they agree to be captured, just as it is only possible to catch a swallow if it settles on one's hand. [2]
They are as passionate and agonized in their entreaty as though old Typhon were even now about to swallow the moon, and the greatest catastrophe was hanging over the world. [10]
May the earth open and swallow me up if I stay one hour longer than is absolutely necessary in this demented place. [10]
But Iberville came on slowly, and, anxious to dispose of the Swallow first, gave her broadsides between wind and water, so that soon her decks were spotted with dying men, her bulwarks broken in, and her mainmast gone. [11]
We'll never leave off, all the time we stop here--smoke away, you dog, or you shall swallow the pipe! [12]
No, she bites off a Fin, she holds her in her Mouth--will she swallow her? [5]
Within two weeks of the time that Phips in his Bridgwater Merchant, manned by a full crew, twenty fighting men, and twelve guns, with Gering in command of the Swallow, a smaller ship, got away to the south, Iberville also sailed in the same direction. [11]
The above case of the swallow affords an illustration, though of a reversed nature, of a temporary though for the time strongly persistent instinct conquering another instinct, which is usually dominant over all others. [1]
But by reason of the storm and the fighting, and drifting out of their course, they had lost ten days; and thus it was they reached the harbour a few hours after the Bridgwater Merchant and the Swallow had left. [11]
Its wide fields of sprouting corn, its woods and pastures and orchards in blossom, were smiling that morning, as though Leviathan, the town, were not rolling onward to swallow them. [9]
With all our might and soul we prayed for him again and again; howbeit, as must ever befall, other cares came crowding in, to swallow up that one. [10]
It will not make either of us more cheerful, but whoever is ordered by the leech to drink gall and wormwood does wisely to swallow the dose at one gulp. [10]
They whom we loved have gone over the mountains, Hands beckon to us like wings of the swallow, Voices we knew from delectable fountains Cry to us, "Follow! [11]
They had not long to wait, for even before the Sybarite had had time carefully to test and swallow another mouthful of wine, the speaker, Kallias, the son of Phaenippus of Athens, was already standing by the side of Rhodopis. [10]
How can one let his fruit hang in the sun until it gets fully ripe, while there are eighty thousand such hungry mouths ready to swallow it and proclaim its praises? [6]
Another--and another--and at last the ancient masonry must give way and the grave that had already opened for her husband and her son would yawn to swallow her up with her sorrows. [10]
He had taken his at a swallow, but almost nullifying its effect was this confirmation--if indeed he had needed it--of the extent of her inexperience. [9]
If they find him when they get abroad, you don't suppose they'll swallow anything you have to say about trying to deliver him over. [9]
The Swallow, with her twenty-odd guns, did better work, and carried away the foremast of the enemy, killing several men. [11]
But it is hard to persuade reasonable people to swallow the abominations of a former period. [3]
Therefore, warned by experience, as soon as they have collected two dollars' worth of money they exchange it for one of those little gold pieces, and when robbers come upon them, swallow it. [5]
And talk about eating oysters, you can't swallow 'em as fast as a fellow I know down there, Joe Pusey, can open 'em. [9]
He himself had drunk the cup of shame to the dregs, but now he would not swallow the dregs. [11]
Again, the Swallow, commanded by Gering, was fitted out with New England seamen; and on these dependence could be put. [11]
But when you come to fertilizing, if I understand the agricultural authorities, you open a pit that will ultimately swallow you up, --farm and all. [4]
But by and by the Maori began to comprehend that he was being wronged; then there was trouble, for he was not the man to swallow a wrong and go aside and cry about it. [5]
With a favourable breeze he got away agreeably, and was clear of the harbour and cleaving northwards before sunset--the Swallow leading the treasure-ship like a pilot. [11]
It would have been a real comfort to him if the earth would have opened to swallow him with the chariot, to hide him from the sight of men. [10]
There was much bantering of Jethro by Mr. Merrill, which the ladies did not understand--talk of a mighty coalition of the big railroads which was to swallow up the little railroads. [9]
At twelve o'clock aw'm the Gover'ment's, but till then aw'm Lancy Doane, free to strike or free to let alone; to swallow dirt or throw it; to take a lie or give it. [11]
Achmet is cruel as a tiger to any one that stands in his way; Nahoum, the whale, only opens out to swallow now and then; but when Nahoum does open out, down goes Jonah, and never comes up again. [11]
Now, my friends, are any of you obtuse enough to swallow that? [7]
People not paupers are all eager to take what is theirs of right; but anything in the semblance of charity is a bitter pill to swallow until self-respect is a little broken down. [4]
He lifted her and held water to her dry lips, and felt an inexplicable sense of lightness as he saw her swallow in a slow, choking gulp. [13]
The two kept a sharp eye on each other, and, as Uncle Jerry would say, never dropped a stitch; but the simple fact was that they were necessary to each other, and there had been no opportunity when the one could handsomely swallow the other. [4]
You have had a severe struggle with yourself, and you have determined not to swallow the wrong. [7]
It is probably a natural human desire to see big corporations swallow up little ones. [4]
The idea that a Gymnotus can't swallow his worm without a coruscation of animal lightning is hard on that brilliant but sensational being. [6]
His horses cost a great deal but he knows how to win with them; his entertainments swallow up a pretty sum, but they gain him respect wherever he goes. [10]
The countryman wore a blue swallow tail coat (fashioned by the hand of Speedy Bates), a neck-cloth, a coonskin cap, and his trousers were tucked into rawhide boots. [9]
Only the man's "unconquerable soul" is on the bridge, watching the craft dip at the bow till the waters, their sport out, should hugely swallow it. [11]

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