'And what if she should have slipped in clambering among them,' I reflected, 'and been killed, or broken some of her bones?' My suspense was truly painful; and, at first, it gave me delightful relief to observe, in hurrying by the farmhouse, Charlie, the fiercest of the pointers, lying under a window, with
swelled head and bleeding ear.
We might have also joined in the dance, but for some reason or other it didn't occur to us; and I heard once a high, clear woman's voice stigmatizing us for a "species of
swelled heads" (espece d'enfles).
Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a
swelled head, Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always 'me first,' Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end." It takes supernatural help to love like this.
The company, which provides electrical infrastructure, technical design, installation and support for the commercial industry, is recruiting four new staff members, increasing its workforce to 22 - a move which means it will have
swelled head count by 54% this year, having already taken on six new skilled staff.
My great-grandfather (father side) wrote pedagogical stuff and his father, a
swelled head blacksmith, used to write down in a book the things that seemed important to him.
Several worries keep him from getting a
swelled head. First is Angie Stegner, a judge's daughter who was his babysitter.
He's a slobby, pampered, overfed prep school geek with a
swelled head that isn't entirely the result of his permanently congested sinuses.
swelled head - an exaggerated opinion of your own importance