Swept

Examples

• Every vestige of the gentler thoughts which had filled her mind hardly a minute since seemed to be swept from it now. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But the boat swept on. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Everything was in its place and order as he had always kept it, the little fire was newly trimmed, and the hearth was freshly swept. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And as she swung her head, her fine mane of hair just swept his face, and all his nerves were on fire, as with a subtle friction of electricity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If a gust of wind swept the waste, I looked up, fearing it was the rush of a bull; if a plover whistled, I imagined it a man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Gerty's compassionate instincts, responding to the swift call of habit, swept aside all her reluctances. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Her glance swept the horse-shoe curve of boxes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She swept up the hearth, asked at what time she should prepare tea, and quitted the room with the same wooden face with which she had entered it. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• In great circles the air craft of the marauders swept lower and lower toward the defending forces of the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Sir, that class of practitioners would be swept from the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• With one mighty downward surge I swept him clear of the deck. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• When the house has been swept and garnished, they dress up the exiled vices, and, crowning them with garlands, bring them back under new names. Plato. The Republic.
• She inclined her head, and swept round so that her eyes rested in the misty vale beneath them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• On the walks, swept that morning, yellow leaves had fluttered down again. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Let the idea of them be swept away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The brushes then swept the cotton clear of the gin. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground, from which the wood swept away in a semicircle. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The schools of the Roman world had been altogether swept away in the general social breakdown. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Far as the shore was, the sound of the surf swept over the intervening moorland, and beat drearily in my ears when I entered the churchyard. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Caution, thought, restraint, prudence, are all swept away by the torrent. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Thereupon (1218) the great host of horsemen that Jengis Khan had consolidated and disciplined swept over the Pamirs and down into Turkestan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• All her eagerness for acquirement lay within that full current of sympathetic motive in which her ideas and impulses were habitually swept along. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• With a sort of angry rush-close, close past our faces--swept swiftly the very NUN herself! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Falling upon a brigade of Hancock's corps thrown to the advance, they swept it away almost instantly. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Becky laughed, gay and saucy looking, and swept the prettiest little curtsey ever seen. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He swept up the soft festoons of plaits and fastened in the tall comb (to such uses do men come! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He swept off his business right and left that day. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• A wave of indignation swept over Lily. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I only wish that she, and all belonging to her, were swept back to the place they came from. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• As Lily turned, and settled to completer rest, a strand of her hair swept Gerty's cheek with its fragrance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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