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Sentences starting with swept

Swept was I on that breath her hand had drawn, Through the dull air, into a mountain-space, Where shafts of the bright sun-god interlace, Making the promise of a golden dawn. [11]

Short sentences using swept

His lips swept her hair. [11]
It swept the dukedom. [5]

Sentences containing swept two or more times

Her indolent nature in repose wanted the dust of existence swept into a corner out of sight; yet when she was roused, and there were no corners into which the dust could be swept, she could be as bold as any better woman. [11]

More example sentences with the word swept in them

I appeal to you, Mr. Ritchie,"--he was still talking in French--"I appeal to you, who are a man of affairs,"--and he swept me a bow,--"if a captain would risk taking a fugitive to France for eight hundred livres? [9]
The storm was yet as heavy as it had been yestereve; howbeit, though Bayard sank into the snow so deep that I swept it with the hem of my kirtle, yet the ride to the forest-lodge meseemed was as short as though I had flown. [10]
Such a catastrophe would be death, in all probability, for we would be swept to sea in the "Sink" or overturned and drowned. [5]
But speak in words of living power, --They fall like drops of scalding rain That plashed before the burning shower Swept o'er the cities of the plain! [6]
It is honeycombed with dugouts in which the Germans who clung to it found their graves, while the victorious British army swept around it toward Bapaume. [9]
But now the wind of rumour has swept away his beautiful confidence also. [10]
The storm of wind and rain that had swept down the ravine was not wilder than her passions when I left her with Justine in the dark night. [11]
But even those who have felt the silence and the stir that prefaces the clamorous applause of the thousands could not know the thrill that swept her under his tribute. [9]
The hysterical passion which had possessed him suddenly passed, and a dark, sullen determination swept into his eyes and over his face. [11]
And the boom, which had been acting uneasily, finally decided to gybe, and swept majestically over, carrying two of the Four in front of it, and all but dropped them into the water. [9]
In the morning, when the nurse opened the blinds, that sunlight swept radiantly into the room, lavish with its caresses; always spending, always giving, the symbol of a loving care that had been poured out on her, unasked and unsought. [9]
And again, as when swept along East Street with the mob, that sense of identity with these people and their wrongs, of submergence with them in their cause possessed her. [9]
A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design. [9]
And one day, when a north wind had scattered the smoke and swept the sky, Howard followed her up the paths to the ridge's crest, where she stood like a Victory, her garments blowing, gazing off over the mighty billows to the westward. [9]
All superficial accumulations were swept away, and the bedrock was exposed. [5]
And the birds!--they were everywhere; they swept back and forth across the river constantly, and their jubilant music was never stilled. [5]
All sense of weariness had been swept away by the invigorating refreshment of the great and hopeful discovery which he had made. [5]
For some time we continued winding along the brinks of precipices, overhung with cragged and fantastic rocks; and after a succession of such rude and sterile scenes we swept down to Carolina, and found ourselves in another climate. [4]
He found his way to an elevated train, and as it swept along stared unseeing at the people who pushed and jostled him. [9]
This vision swept Washington's mind clear of its chaos of glittering rubbish in an instant. [5]
Our pine forest was well scorched, the dead trees all burned up, and our broad acres of manzanita swept away. [5]
In their eyes was the livid lightning that searched in spasms of anger for its prey, while there swept over the brown, aching veld the flood which filled the spruits, which made the rivers seas, and ploughed fresh channels through the soil. [11]
His leather case was swung over his shoulder, and with his glasses he swept the lake in search of the Scimitar and other vessels of a like unamiable character. [9]
The moment she was out of the house, Aleck eagerly tore the wrapper from the paper, and her eyes and Sally's swept the columns for the death-notices. [5]
Besides, the blustering war of tongues had reached a merry close, and loud laughter blended with the shouts of fear and warning; for the surging throng had swept with unexpected speed towards the fountain and plunged Philostratus into the basin. [10]
Down swept that vast horse-shoe wave--it approached the sand-belt--my breath stood still; nearer, nearer--the strip of green turf beyond the yellow belt grew narrow--narrower still--became a mere ribbon in front of the horses--then disappeared under their hoofs. [5]
He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected. [5]
It had swept up to Vadrome Mountain, and had marched furiously through the forest, carrying down hundreds of trees, drowning the roars of wild animals and the crying and fluttering of birds. [11]
Then she looked up at the two men as they stood side by side, and perhaps swept them both in an instant's comparison. [9]
My goal is undoubtedly the right one, but so soon as I seem to be nearing it, my weakness snatches it from me, as the wind swept back the fruit-laden boughs which Tantalus, parched with thirst, tried to grasp. [10]
They were so troubled about my enchanted clothes that they were mightily relieved, at last, when old Merlin swept the difficulty away for them with a common-sense hint. [5]
This swept the town like wildfire, and mightily reinforced the enthusiasm of the Angelo faction, who said, "If any doubted that it was moral courage that took him from the field, what have they to say now! [5]
But the tide, too, was running hard from the south, fighting the wind; and, at the moment when all seemed terribly uncertain, swept them past the opening and into the swift-running channel, where the indraught sucked them through to the more open water beyond. [11]
What is the token, Ever unbroken, Swept down the spaces of querulous years,-- Weeping or singing-- That the Beginning Of all things is with us, and sees us, and hears? [11]
She came striding to meet her new friends, attired in a rustling canary-green silk robe whose train swept the ground, but it was raised so high in front that the brown hunting-boots encasing her well-formed feet were distinctly visible. [10]
His very reluctance to discuss with her the problem she had raised warned him that he had been swept into deep waters. [9]
Cows are still to be seen in the pastures, but the grain seems to have been actually swept away; there wasn't a peck in the market. [10]
The legion was to assemble again at sunset at the Gate of the Sun, at the eastern end of the road, after having swept it from end to end. [10]
We made good time; and a couple of hours before sunset we stood upon the high confines of the Valley of Holiness, and our eyes swept it from end to end and noted its features. [5]
But the fourth time, he groped a little further, and his hand lightly swept against something soft and warm. [5]
How many kindly ties, how many services willingly rendered and affectionately accepted were swept away by these words--but Paulus obeyed at once. [10]
She swept swiftly through the streets and bazaars on her mission to Nahoum. [11]
The horrors of three days have swept over me--they have blasted my youth and left me an old man before my time. [5]
He had no thought of resisting it, for the waters of it swept over his soul like the Atlantic over a lost continent. [9]
It seemed as though the desert wind had buried all their courage and confidence in the dust it swept before it. [10]
And, besides all this, if a leaf flutters off the table without being touched by any visible hand, you do not doubt that a draught of air, which you can neither hear nor see, has swept through the room. [10]
The news of this had swept through the city and started this new crowd that we were with. [5]
What do you think I am--a thing of the dirty street-corner, something to be swept up and cast into the furnace of treason? [11]
It swept along, thick and solid, five hundred thousand angels abreast, and every angel carrying a torch and singing--the whirring thunder of the wings made a body's head ache. [5]
In forty-seven years they have swept an imposingly large number of unfair laws from the statute books of America. [5]
The pity of these for him--for Rudyard Byng, because the flower in his garden, his Jasmine-flower, was swept by the blast of calumny! [11]
To the north there was a great opening, the lost arc of the circle, through which the mystery of the Pole swept in and out, or brooded there where no man may question it. [11]
Yet now and then the perfume of the Egyptian garden, through which she had fled to escape from tragedy, swept over her senses, clouded her eyes in the daytime, made them burn at night. [11]
And from outside: the whole parish--a few excepted-- sympathised with the Rebellion, and once the current of hatred of the English set in, he would be swept down by it. [11]
It wailed through the swaying branches of the trees, and swept our decks in fitful gusts. [5]
The next moment the sounding-yawl swept aft to the wheel and was struck and splintered to atoms. [5]
Never mind about the smaller waves, let us come to the largest one of all, the wave that swept us small fry quite off our feet and almost drowned us with joy. [5]
The whole of the shipping might be swept out of the Clyde. [9]
Obliquely down swept the sabre, and drove through the cheek and chin of one foe; another sweep, and the bayonet of the other was struck aside; and another, which was turned aside as Gabord's horse came down, bayoneted by the fallen grenadier. [11]
The noise of the rushing mules had now become a distant roar, like a whirlwind which has swept by. [9]
One of them, the right, swept out, then toward his gun--and Venters shot him through the heart. [13]
Gray slopes, tinging the purple, barren and wild, with the wind waving the sage, swept away to the dim horizon. [13]
Epidemics swept away the people like flies, and the burials were conducted secretly and by night, for public funerals were not allowed, lest the revelation of the magnitude of the plague's work unman the people and plunge them into despair. [5]
The experiences of the past few days had swept through the peace of her young soul like a tempest, overthrowing firmly built structures and fanning glimmering sparks to flames. [10]
He shuddered as the passionate notes swept over his senses. [11]
Like angry surf the pale gleams of gray, amid the purple of that scudding front, swept beyond the eastern rampart of the valley. [13]
Her fervor swept the others along. [10]
Mr. Hopper swept the neighborhood with a glance. [9]
A deal of the month of May had been wasted; and yet by the 6th of June Joan had swept together a new army and was ready to march. [5]
But only for the moment; in a trice he had caught the time again and swept Miss Trevor rapidly down the room and out of sight. [9]
Then he read the letter and a flush swept over his face, making its red almost purple. [11]
It swept across the isthmus in gusts, which followed one another more and more swiftly, driving before them dense clouds of yellow sand. [10]
The government of the island, therefore, never allows a stick of it to be exported without being accompanied by a piston with which its cavity may at any time be thoroughly swept out. [6]
It swept across the island, levelled forests of cocoa palms, battered villages to pieces, caught that little fleet in the harbour, and played with it in a horrible madness. [11]
The swinging grape-vines, the grassy nooks and vistas glimpsed as we swept by, the flowering creepers waving their red blossoms from the tops of dead trunks, and all the spendthrift richness of the forest foliage, were wasted and thrown away there. [5]
George Jones had the glory of perpetrating the first joke on him; he gave him a cigar with a firecracker in it and winked to the crowd to come; the thing exploded presently and swept away the bulk of Nicodemus's eyebrows and eyelashes. [5]
She picked up the field-glass from the window-sill behind her, and swept the deck of the steamer. [11]
Also she owned the farm where she lived; and she was pleasant pasturage--that was the phrase he used in his own mind, even as his eye swept from Mere Langlois to hers in swift, hungry inquiry. [11]
From this position the enemy could be driven from their main position on the summit, because they could be swept now by artillery fire from a point as high as their own. [11]
This feeling, on the drive homeward, was swept away by sheer elation at the prospect of the trip before her. [9]
But no matter--within the compass of a month thou shalt be free; and more, the laws that have dishonoured thee, and shamed the English name, shall be swept from the statute books. [5]
They were holding the boat so close to the shore that the willows swept the guards almost from stem to stern. [5]
The sails flapped, the boat seemed to hover for a moment, and then a wave swept her towards the rocks. [11]
I am having the avenue swept, your honor. [2]
Or was it that the singular change which had come over her had involved her passionate fancy for him and swept it away with her other habits of thought and feeling? [6]
Presently she discovered that the notes were those of a bird on a tree immediately outside of her window--a tree of wonderful perfection, the lower branches of which swept the ground. [9]
The swift glance that swept the room was sent to discover a weapon, and before it completed the circuit Hermon had already grasped the bronze anchor with the long rod twined with leaves and the teeth turned downward. [10]
It is true that some of these supermen were occasionally swept away by disease, which in ancient days would have been regarded as a retributive scourge, but was in fact nothing but the logical working of the laws of hygiene, the result of overwork. [9]
You see----" At that point we were swept apart by the crowd, somebody detained me with a moment's talk, and we did not get together again. [5]
But it implies that our own household must be swept and cleaned. [9]
I knew then that it was her soul I loved most; I had been swept all unwittingly to its very altar. [9]
The bare summit that day was swept by a fierce, cold wind, and lost in an occasional chilling cloud. [4]
All of which tends to show that Levi Dodd had swept his mind, and that it was ready now for the reception of an opinion. [9]
But now no tender wave of feeling swept over him as he recalled those words. [9]
And she was swept, as it were, by a scarlet flame that deprived her for the moment of speech. [9]
His gray glance swept up the slope to the west. [13]
Again a flush swept up Charley's face and seemed to blur his sight. [11]
The wind has swept them into the sea, whose waters cast them forth again upon the land, but the sacred earth spurns them and flings them into the air. [10]
The tempest which swept them forward, and the water through which they waded, only seemed to increase their enjoyment, for sheer delight rang in their exulting shouts and yells. [10]
But Mr. Jackson swept the room with his eyes and then glared at the landlord so that he gave back. [9]

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