Her feet felt swollen and fiery.
Half an hour later, her eyes swollen and her chest sore from sobbing, she turned her face up to the warm water in the shower.
He touched his swollen lip.
The large man gasped for air, his eye swollen already.
Hannah demanded, looking up at Toby through tear-swollen eyes.
Mrs. Marsh's face was white, and her eyes red and swollen, with dark circles under them.
Despite their pale swollen faces and tattered uniforms, the hussars formed line for roll call, kept things in order, groomed their horses, polished their arms, brought in straw from the thatched roofs in place of fodder, and sat down to dine round the caldrons from which they rose up hungry, joking about their nasty food and their hunger.
Yully touched her swollen eye and cheek self-consciously.
But if he saw her swollen eyes he'd be asking all kinds of questions.
Her eyes were bloodshot and her face swollen from crying.
If the gall-bladder was swollen, it pointed to an extension or enlargement of some kind.
Her eyes were swollen and red.
She must look a sight with red swollen eyes.
The crocuses were in full bloom and the daffodils along the fence were swollen, ready to give birth to their bright yellow blossoms.
Then she pushed away from Dean and looked straight at him with red and swollen eyes.
Her eyes were swollen and red, and there were dark circles under them.
His stature was of a good size; his sword stuck close to his side; his countenance swollen and reddish; his voice sharp and untunable and his eloquence full of fervour.
Why weren't his lips swollen and cracking?
Her eyes must be swollen and red.
In this worm the ventral blood-vessel is so swollen as to occupy nearly the whole of the available coelom.
" the swollen-footed") 1 in Greek legend, son of Laius, king of Thebes, and Jocasta (Iocaste).
Caused by Taphrina bullata, which forms swollen areas on 1, Leaf showing diseased areas.
By 1796 the issues had reached the enormous figure of 45,500,000,000 francs, and even this gigantic total was swollen still more by the numerous counterfeits introduced into France from the neighbouring countries.
Exaggerated importance must not be attributed to the swollen deficit.
The weather during the whole of October had been unusually wet, the swollen Danube overflowed the low ground and the roads had become quagmires.
In June the waters of the Mekong, swollen by the rains and the melting of the Tibetan snows, rise to a height of 40 to 45 ft.
Ophicephalum and the genus Tristicochaeta, have swollen heads.
The third genus Rhabdogaster has no such distinct head, though the body may be swollen anteriorly.
(After Lankester and Boerne from Parker and Haswell's Textbook of Zoology, Macmillan & Co.) these open into irregular swollen vessels which are the veins or venous sinuses.
His joints, I notice, are swollen and overgrown, and he lacks flesh and is old in years.
His face had the same swollen pallor as the faces of the other hospital patients, but it was not this that struck Rostov.
His whole head was wrapped in rags and one cheek was swollen to the size of a baby's head.
The soldier with the swollen cheek looked angrily at the cavalry singers.
Men were supporting him in their arms and offering him a glass of water, but his trembling, swollen lips could not grasp its rim.
Natasha's thin pale face, with its swollen lips, was more than plain--it was dreadful.
Most of them were disfigured by frost-bitten noses and cheeks, and nearly all had red, swollen and festering eyes.
She touched her swollen lips and winced.
Her eyes were swollen and red, the silver glowing in the dim light of the room.
Curly brown hair was pulled into a ponytail, and she wore jeans and a long-sleeved T-shirt that was tight over her swollen belly.
A slow waltz began playing and she closed her eyes, imagining the bright sunlight and flowers bursting from swollen buds.
Lori nodded and struggled off the porch swing, her swollen stomach a reminder that babies were still an option for some people.
Lori was pale and her eyes were swollen and red.
She dabbed at her swollen eyes again and Denton shook his head.
Her forearm was still swollen, Jonny's fingers clearly outlined in black-purple bruises on her skin.
Even swollen, her arm was small and feminine compared to his.
The true source of the Adige is in some small lakes on the summit of the Reschen Scheideck Pass (4902 ft.), and it is swollen by several other streams, near Glurns, where the roads over the Ofen and the Stelvio Passes fall in.
It is a rapid and muddy stream, dangerous to cross when swollen by the melting of the snows in Armenia, but fordable in its ordinary state.
From the proximity of the mountains to the sea none of the rivers in this part of Italy has a long course, and they are generally mere mountain torrents, rapid and swollen in winter and spring, and almost dry in summer.
It will be seen that the revenue is swollen by a large number o taxes which can only be justified by necessity; the reduction and still more, the readjustment of taxation (which now largely falls or articles of primary necessity) is urgently needed.
The mass of the arch-enteron or invaginated endodermal sac has taken on a bilobed form, and its cells are swollen (gs and tge).
The end of the cell is slightly swollen, fitting on to the similar swollen end of the next leptoid of the row exactly after the fashion of a trumpet-hypha.
In many cases externai protophloem, usually consisting of narrow sieve-tubes often with swollen walls, can be distinguished from metaphloem.
A lion's share of the Mowbray estates, swollen by the great alliances of the house, heir of Breouse and Segrave, and, through Segrave, of Thomas of Brotherton, son of Edward I., fell to Howard, who, by a patent of June 28, 1483, was created duke of Norfolk and earl marshal of England with a remainder to the heirs male of his body.
B, Antenna of male; c, antenna swollen tail-ends black with the contained food-material, are often dug up in numbers in well-manured fields.
We must conceive a time when the sun was swollen to such an extent that it filled up the entire space girdled by the orbit of Mercury.
Mould and bacterial growths, and causing the appearance, on the surface of their " mushroom garden," of numerous small white bodies formed by swollen ends of the fungus hyphae.
In Europe a number of " long-snouted " beetles, such as the raspberry weevils (Otiorhynchus picipes), the apple blossom weevil (Anthonomus pomorum), attack fruit; others, as the " corn weevils " (Calandra oryzae and C. granaria), attack stored rice and corn; while others produce swollen patches on roots (Ceutorhynchus sulcicollis), &c. All these Curculionidae are very timid creatures, falling to the ground at the least shock.
The career of Napoleon, which had lured France far away from the principles of 1789, now brought her back to that starting-point; just as, in the physical sphere, his campaigns from1796-1814had at first enormously swollen her bulk and then subjected her to a shrinkage still more portentous.
He now remembered the connection that existed between himself and this man who was dimly gazing at him through tears that filled his swollen eyes.
He rode hurriedly from the battlefield and returned to the Shevardino knoll, where he sat on his campstool, his sallow face swollen and heavy, his eyes dim, his nose red, and his voice hoarse, involuntarily listening, with downcast eyes, to the sounds of firing.
Her feet were swollen and shredded, as she expected.
The latter are often swollen at the ends, so that the cross-wall separating two successive cells has a larger surface than if the cells were of uniform width along their entire length.
Associated with the leptoids are similar cells without swollen ends and with thicker cross-walls.
Metamorphosis.It has already been pointed out that each kind of member of the body may present a variety of forms. For example, a stem may be a tree-trunk, or a twining stem, or a tendril, or a thorn, or a creeping rhizome, or a tuber; a leaf may be a green foliage-leaf, or a scale protecting a bud, or a tendril, or a pitcher, or a floral leaf, either sepal, petal, stamen or carpel (sporophyll); a root may be a fibrous root, or a swollen tap-root like that of the beet or the turnip. All these various forms are organs discharging some special function, and are examples of what Wolff called modification, and Goethe metamorphosis.
18, 21 b); the body shortened, with the abdomen swollen, but protected with tubercles and spines, and with longish legs adapted for an active life, as in the predaceous larvae of ladybirds; the body soft-skinned, swollen and caterpillar-like, with legs well developed, but leading a sluggish underground life, as in the grub of a chafer; the body soft-skinned and whitish, and the legs greatly reduced in size, as in the wood-feeding grub of a longhorn beetle.
Such larvae, and also many with soft cuticle and swollen abdomen - those of the notorious "Colorado beetle," for example - feed openly FIG.
The larvae have a somewhat swollen abdomen, which is protected by bristle-bearing tubercles.
64) explains it as a contest of the physical powers of nature, and the mythical expression of the terrible effects of swollen waters.
A single internode of each shoot is swollen to form a pseudobulb.
Several bandaged soldiers, with pale swollen faces, were sitting or walking about in the sunshine in the yard.
An ear of another type is found in the swollen second segment of the feeler in many male gnats and midges, the cuticle between this segment and the third forming an annular drum which is connected with numerous nerveendings, while the fine bristles on the more distal segments vibrate in response to the note produced by the humming of the female.
