The black tide swelled into an inky amoeboid blob.

The tide was swelling in around them.

The tide of royalist sentiment in Zazesspur was swelling, and who knew what heights an ambitious man might reach with such a consort at his side?

As the tide of refugees has swelled the miserable crowd to 30,000, conditions have deteriorated alarmingly.

Demographers and Central America specialists say the tide of Salvadorans coming to this country has swelled in the last five or six years.

The tide swelled in over the rain-pitted sand and smoothed everything with a layer of silver.

Searing tides of rage swelled and swept like a force of nature through the emancipated drones.

But the immigrant tide is swelling.

A masculine tide of outrage and dismay swelled.

The tide for democracy is swelling in Latin America, and the democratic leaders feel no compunction against supporting it on the ground of hallowed "nonintervention."