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Swanlike   Listen
adjective
Swanlike  adj.  Resembling a swan.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Swanlike" Quotes from Famous Books



... glass. Oline took the glass off and, putting it back, pressed it down hard and maliciously; next day, all the cuttings were dead. It was not so easy for Isak to bear with such things; he looked displeased, and showed it, and, as there was nothing swanlike and gentle about Isak, it may well be that he showed it plainly. Oline cared little for looks; soft-spoken as ever, she only said: ...
— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun

... the stove halted, and Elmer set down his lamp. The boom receded. With the same swanlike ease she had used in effecting an entrance, the Minnie Williams floated ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various



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