Sweeps
[swi:ps]
Examples
- Ask the black that sweeps opposite Fleet Market, sir. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Jo sweeps his crossing all day long, unconscious of the link, if any link there be. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- About the chimney-sweeps? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He makes a feint of offering a protest, but she sweeps it away with her disdainful hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As a dark river sweeps by under a lightning flash, she saw her chance of happiness surge past under a flash of temptation. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It is but a new broom at present, and sweeps clean enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The reader will note that the first paragraph sweeps away all plunder and blood feuds among the followers of Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is set in an environment of woods and sweeps of lawn, flanked by unusually large conservatories, and always bright in summer with glowing flower beds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It then, with an old broom it carries, softly sweeps the step and makes the archway clean. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She scarcely makes a stop, and sweeps upstairs alone. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Robert