SWELTER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Swelter

"Swelter" Quotes from Famous Books

... under the cold stone, Days and night has, thirty-one, Swelter'd venom sleeping got; Boil thou ...

— Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies • Samuel Johnson

... death, just a year previous to the premiere of "The Iron Virgin." Of its immense success widow and librettist were in no doubt. Had they not witnessed it an hour earlier! Such furore did not often occur at the Comique. All recollection of Patel's mediocre work was wiped away in the swelter and glow of this passionate music, more modern than Wagner, more brutal than Richard Strauss. "Who would have believed that the old dried-up mummy had such a volcano in his brain?"—this the bereaved woman had overheard as she descended the marble stairway of the theatre, and Chardon hurried ...

— Melomaniacs • James Huneker

... Blue is the quaker-maid, The alder-clump where the brook comes through Breeds cresses in its shade. To be out of the moiling street With its swelter and its sin! Who has given to me this sweet, And given my brother dust to eat? And when ...

— Gloucester Moors and Other Poems • William Vaughn Moody

... excessive heat Make our bodies swelter, To an osier hedge we get, For a friendly shelter; Where, in a dike, Perch or pike, Roach or dace, We do chase, Bleak or gudgeon, Without grudging; We are ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various

... 'tis true, from the Spaniards; but not being their Product, they are forc'd to fetch it for us from the remotest Corner of the New World in the West-Indies. Whilst so many Sailors are broiling in the Sun, and swelter'd with Heat in the East and West of us, another Set of them are freezing in the North, ...

— A Letter to Dion • Bernard Mandeville

Words linked to "Swelter" : sweat, suffer, perspire, sudate