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“Swollen labe.”

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Author:THIGHBRUSH

“I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Littles Feelings Like You Cold Throat Lumps Swollen Glands

Author:Adam Yauch

“A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest.”

Feels Heart Brave Chests Swollen Brave Heart

Book:Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels

Source: Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy: Two Bestselling Novels

“See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?”

Grows Eating Fats Geese Liver Amazement Swollen

Book:The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources

Source: The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources

“What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.”

Thinking Way Looks Eye Clothes Dresses Sells Hopefully Closets Accessories Swollen

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.”

Ifs Men World Life Hard Winning Peace Risk Stronger Dear Ease Contests Domination Shrinks Hazards Ignoble Swollen

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

“Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.”

Ifs Wells Remember Form Business Worst Fortune Selfish Ruins Reform Inevitable Triumph Materialism Swollen

Book:The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: The Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“I was given five injections. That evening I developed extremely high fever. I was trembling. My arms and my legs were swollen, huge size. Mengele and Dr. Konig and three other doctors came in the next morning. They looked at my fever chart, and Dr. Mengele said, laughingly, 'Too bad, she is so young. She has only two weeks to live ..'”

Said Two Young Three Next Given Morning Five Week Huge Arms Doctors Size Legs Evening Drs Fever Two Weeks Trembling Swollen Injection

Author:Eva Mozes Kor

“How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them.”

Men Hands Easy Loses Security Glory Sight Rose Admiration Swollen

Author:Joseph Hall

“You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.”

Tree Offers Rivers Winter Resistance Branches Yield Flood Trunks Swollen

Author:Sophocles

“It's funny, people ask me, 'What would you consider the most romantic track on your record Mr Caine?' And I say 'Swollen' by Bent, and they say 'I think he's off his rocker!'”

People Thinking Asks Records Track Ask Me Bent Most Romantic Rockers Swollen Funny People

Author:Michael Caine

“If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying babies at their shrivelled breasts and hollow-eyed children with swollen bellies and matchstick limbs - it will be galvanising the world on the need to ensure access to nutritious food for the world's most vulnerable people.”

People Ifs World Needs Children Mother Dying Baby Currents Access Vulnerable Breasts Belly Limbs Hollow Horns Famine Swollen Matchsticks Horn Of Africa

Author:Josette Sheeran

“The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.”

Source: Addresses Upon the American Road

“When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.”

“Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.”

Causes Wealth Poverty Belly Swollen

Author:Kassia

“For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.”

Way Firsts Eye Red Noses Fake Cried Aisle Eyelashes Swollen

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“I fell in love. It felt exactly like a fall, a head-over-heels tumble into a state of unbearable lightness. The earth tilted on its axis. I did not believe in romantic love at the time, thinking it a human construct, an invention of fourteenth century Italian poets. I was as unprepared for love as I had been for goodness and beauty. Suddenly, my heart seemed swollen, too large for my chest.”

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“I love rings, but I cant wear them. I mean, look at my knuckles. My fingers and joints are so swollen from years of playing. That means no wedding band, either. Luckily, I have a very understanding wife.”

Years Looks Mean Understanding Wife Band Fingers Rings Cant Joints Knuckles Swollen Wedding Band

Author:Justin Tuck

“As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.”

Men Young Training University California Young Man Hospitals Colleagues 80s San Francisco Fever Surgeons Epidemics Swollen General Hospital

Author:Richard Carmona

“What would people look like if we could see them as they are, soaked in honey, stung and swollen, reckless, pinned against time?”

People Ifs Looks Honey Reckless Swollen

Author:Ellen Bass

“In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.”

Ifs Age Able Imagine Revolution Alternatives Revolutionary Status Quo Keyboards Swollen

Author:Gary Hamel

“I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.”

World I Can War Death Black War Of The Worlds World War I Swollen

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“A sister is the cure for swollen heads and ego trips. One may a star, a Chief Executive-famous and rich and beautiful. But one's sister has the family photo album. And a long, long memory. And a tendency to wink at one on Top Occasions.”

May Long Beautiful Stars Memories Rich Ego Albums Tendencies Cures Chiefs Occasions Executives Sisterhood Swollen Chief Executives Ego Trip Family Photo

Author:Pam Brown

“Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.”

Feels Husband Members Blessed Lust Virtuous Grind Mills Swollen Brothels

Author:Cato the Younger

“I was raised to stand up for myself, if I feel I'm in the right. Maybe it would have been best if I'd just gone home with my swollen cheek.”

Ifs Feels Has Beens Home Gone Raised Cheeks Swollen

Author:Shannen Doherty

“Emmett Till and I were about the same age. A week after he was murdered... I stood on a corner with a gang of boys, looking at pictures of him in the black newspapers and magazines. In one, he was laughing and happy. In the other, his head was swollen and bashed in, his eyes bulging out of their sockets, and his mouth twisted and broken... I couldn't get Emmett Till out of my mind, until one evening I thought of a way to get back at white people for his death.”

People Way Mind Eye Age Black White Boys Laughing Week Broken Mouths Corners Newspapers Magazines Evening His Eyes Get Back Gang Twisted Of My Mind Swollen Emmett Till

Author:Muhammad Ali

“If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.”

“When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?”

Ifs Bigs Earth Faces Suffering Heaven Sea Wind Mad Rage Threatening Swollen

Book:Titus Andronicus: Third Series

Source: Titus Andronicus: Third Series

“The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.”

Writing Might Beautiful Half Novel Pieces Cutting Taught Lessons Losing Essence Journalism Prose Swollen Lesson Learned Npr

Author:Julianna Baggott

“Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.”

Light Fame Rivers Swollen

Author:Francis Bacon

“They look at me and say how come you're winning? You came back from the dead three years ago, and you're already killing it. I mean I came back from the dead. Thanks to my family and thanks to Kevin Zinger and my brother Evidence and Rocko, especially my blood family and the guys in Swollen Members. I wouldn't even be here today if it wasn't for those people.”

People Ifs Years Looks Mean Today Guy Three Winning Blood Brother Members Evidence Years Ago My Family Killing Thanks My Brother Three Years Look At Me Kevin Swollen Killing It

Author:Shane Bunting

“I still looked the same - I had a swollen jaw.”

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Ever since I was a teenager, I was always kind of, like, checking myself. You know, like, "Come on man, don't get your head all swollen. Life and time itself will give you perspective on what you're doing." So, that's actually what's always been a reminder in my own head.”

Knows Men Giving Kind My Own Perspective Teenager Reminders Swollen Life And Time

Author:Chuck D

“If you are a physician and someone comes to see you with an absolutely incapacitating headache or a swollen arm, you don't tell them, "Come back in 10 years when I've completed my study and I'll see what I can do for you."”

Ifs Years I Can Can Do Study Arms Physicians Headache Swollen

Author:Devra Davis

“Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.”

Hard Hard Work Grateful Be Grateful Swollen

Author:Julie Andrews

“There's the media-driven universe, in which the public perceives you in a superficial way. Then there's the universe that you actually inhabit, where you have to get up even if you didn't sleep so well, and you feel like crap and your face is swollen.”

Ifs Way Feels Wells Faces Universe Sleep Media Driven Get Up Perceive Your Face Crap Superficial Swollen

Author:Bette Midler

“Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.”

Cities Existence Millions Alive Tree Mankind Creation Horror Ideals Mere Accumulation Abolish Parasites Swollen

Book:St Mawr and Other Stories

Source: St Mawr and Other Stories

“Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.”

Empty Weak Legs Tongue Belly Glitter Swollen Sharp Tongue

Author:Mao Zedong

“My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a foul carcass On a gravel strewn bed, Its legs raised in the air, like a lustful woman, Burning and dripping with poisons, Displayed in a shameless, nonchalant way Its belly, swollen with gases.”

Way Turns Path Saws Air Objects Sweet Bed Summer Fairs Raised Legs Burning Poison Recalls Belly Foul Shameless Dripping Swollen Lustful Gravel Nonchalant

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about chocolate, when you haven't eaten chocolate in a year. A kiss about palm trees speeding by, trailing pink clouds when you drive down the Strip sizzling with champagne. A kiss about spotlights fanning the sky and the swollen sea spilling like tears all over your legs.”

Years Tree Sea Sky Havens Tears Kissing Clouds Legs Heat Apples Chocolate Pie Palms Melting Champagne Spotlight Vanilla Speeding Swollen Spilling Palm Trees Apple Pie Sizzling

Book:Weetzie Bat

Source: Weetzie Bat

“His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow.”

Hands Eye Left Dark Tears Sorrow Blue Paint Cheeks Swollen Dark Blue Left Eye

Book:Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith

“Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.”

Children Quality Towns Excited East Broads Superiority Distortion Ohio Inquisition Swollen

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.”

Self Heaven Wings Cunning Conceit Melting Swollen Faustus

Book:The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

Source: The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

“She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.”

Years Firsts Children Stills Ends Hard Singing Red Fruit Thirty Grandchildren Thirty Years Momentary Flowering Coarse Swollen

Book:Animal Farm and 1984

Source: Animal Farm and 1984

“How do I look?" Amanda asked. Jack shook his head ruefully as he glanced at her. No one could mistake the remaining flush on her cheeks, or the soft sparkle of her eyes, or her lusciously swollen mouth, for anything other than the results of physical passion. "Like you've been ravished," he said flatly. She astonished him by smiling. "Hurry, please. I want to go inside my house and consult a looking glass. I've always wanted to know what a ravished woman looks like.”

Knows Want Looks Said Eye Wanted Passion House Results Mistake Like You Please Mouths Glasses Cheeks Her Eyes Sparkle Amanda Swollen

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.”

Looks Made Reason Mistake Sun Angry Awful Afternoon Apology Wet Knots Emma Elijah Stitches Swollen

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.”

Thinking Made Done Body Pressure Cheating Betray Ache Doing Nothing Swollen

Author:Maureen Johnson

“I have never said this to anyone before.” Leo’s voice was like ragged velvet. “But the idea of you with child is the most insanely arousing thing I’ve ever imagined. Your belly all swollen, your breasts heavy, the funny little way you would walk … I would worship you. I would take care of your every need. And everyone would know that I’d made you that way, that you belonged to me.”

Knows Way Needs Children Littles Made Said Ideas Care Voice Walks Worship Heavy Take Care Breasts Belly Velvet Ragged Swollen Worship You

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.”

Men Feels Felt Consequence Absurd Interfere Swollen

Author:Alice Munro

“what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.”

Faces Spiritual Hate Stupid Planets Species Horrible Hopeless Dominant Famine Hideous Rubbish Moron Sadistic Swollen

Author:William S. Burroughs