Citations:swell


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about, when they sung a Glee or Catch, I can assure you: especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over it.