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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

... Nettie. Glad to see yeh-glad to see yeh! Mrs. Mcllvaine, come right in! Take a seat. Make yerself to home, do! And Mrs. Peavey! Wal, I never! This must be a surprise party. Well, I swan! How many more o' ...

— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... HANSA, swan. The HANSA is represented in scriptural lore as the vehicle of Brahma, Supreme Spirit; as the symbol of discrimination, the white HANSA swan is thought of as able to separate the true SOMA nectar from a mixture of milk and water. HAM-SA (pronounced ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... bottle with me. Lady Lyndon was a haughty woman, and I hate pride; and I promise you that in both instances I overcame this vice in her. On the third day of our journey I had her to light my pipematch with her own hands, and made her deliver it to me with tears in her eyes; and at the 'Swan Inn' at Exeter I had so completely subdued her, that she asked me humbly whether I would not wish the landlady as well as the host to step up to dinner with us. To this I should have had no objection, ...

— Barry Lyndon • William Makepeace Thackeray

... mutton from fold; Brawn from the oak-wood, and hare from the wold; Wild-goose from fen, and tame from the lea; And plumed dish from the heronry— With choicest apples 'twas featly rimmed, And stood next the flagons with malmsey brimmed,— Near the knightly swan, begirt with quinces, Which the gossips said was a dish for princes,— Though his place was never to stand before The garnished head of the ...

— The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme • Thomas Cooper

... some caper sauce and some other things for luncheon, and how he called for a bottle of wine, and how he went to the theatre in the evening! In short, he did himself thoroughly well. Next, he saw in the street a young English lady, as graceful as a swan, and set off after her on his wooden leg. 'But no,' he thought to himself. 'To the devil with that sort of thing just now! I will wait until I have drawn my pension. For the present I have spent enough.' (And I may tell you that by now he had got through fully half his money.) Two ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

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