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Swan

noun

1.

Stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult.

verb

1.

To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true. Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swear, verify.

2.

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, tramp, vagabond, wander. "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"

3.

Sweep majestically.

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"Swan" Quotes from Famous Books

... ensued that you might have thought a 30 goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course—and in truth it was something very like it, in that house. Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible ...

— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell

... is then I KNOW he don't like it. Marcellus never made any fuss whatever happened, and he wouldn't make any at his own funeral no more than at anybody else's. That wasn't his way. Say nothin' and keep her on the course, that was Marcellus. I swan I can hardly make it seem ...

— Mary-'Gusta • Joseph C. Lincoln

... Ohio Republican convention—the repudiation of Judge Swan, and the "plank" for a repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law—I very much regretted. These two things are of a piece; and they are viewed by many good men, sincerely opposed to slavery, as a struggle against, and in disregard of, the Constitution ...

— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln

... were piled around him neck-high. They say as an old woman brought her few fagots to the funeral pile, Hus cried out: "O sancta simplicitas!"—O holy simplicity. Another story goes Hus said: "Today you are burning a goose (hus in Bohemian); in a hundred years will come a swan you will not burn." This ...

— John Hus - A brief story of the life of a martyr • William Dallmann

... a mill pond, so that the paddles of our noble steamer, the Nikolai, were not at all impeded in their working by any rolling or pitching of the vessel. Immediately on my arrival I sought out Mr. Swan, one of the most amiable and interesting characters I have ever met with, and delivered to him your letter, the contents of which were very agreeable to him; for from applying himself too un-interruptedly ...

— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow

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