swallower
- a word derived from swallow.
Example Sentences
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He also wanted to change the movie's title, from The Sword Swallower.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Copenhagen, when German Sword Swallower Paul Heinrich Ross developed indigestion, he refused to let a doctor put a rubber tube into his stomach because "I just can't bring myself to swallow it."
From Time Magazine Archive
The working title had been The Sword Swallower.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr Snittle Timberry now appeared, arm-in-arm with the African Swallower, and, being introduced to Nicholas, raised his hat half a foot, and said he was proud to know him.
From Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles
The Bearded Lady and the Snake Charmer and the Sword Swallower are poems—poems in the later manner of Thomas Hardy.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
