Long oar

Usage examples of sweep.

Memphis from New Orleans, even the narrow strip on either side swept by their cannon was safe at any point only while they were abreast it.

Then calling on the name of Allah, he gave a last keen cunning sweep with the blade, and following that, the earth awfully quaked and groaned, as if speaking in the abysmal tongue the Mastery of the Event to all men.

At the top of the slow rise, the parcel became flat and I could see gently undulating acreage sweeping out in all directions.

The tidal regularity of cerebral chemical flows, the cyclonic violence latent in the adrenergic current of the autonomic nervous system, the delicate mysteries of the sweep of oxygen atoms from pneumonic membrane into the bloodstream.

Her eyes swept the scene before her, adsorbed greedily its every detail, then rested on the orchard to the right.

She wanted to see Aerians sweeping the heights above, and Leontines prowling around the pillars that were placed beneath those heights, as if they held up not only ceiling but sky.

She shrieked to the ravens that croaked from afar, And she sighed to the gusts of the wild sweeping wind.

Numerous monks and peasants working afield goggled as I flashed past them, and Brother Vitalis was sweeping the dorter when I lunged in there.

A blast of heat swept up the stairs, so fierce that for a moment I thought it must have set my hair afire as I staggered backward into the kitchen.

Below the boughs the road swept along the crest of the crag and thence curved inward, and one surveying the scene from the windows of a bungalow at no great distance could look straight beyond the point of the precipice and into the heart of the sunset, still aflare about the west.

Tilim, afrown at the hall we stood in which swept away left, right and ahead.

His eyes were hard as flint rock when they swept her from head to toe, and Agate was sure they held no small amount of suspicion.

EUROPE, French armies had been sweeping across Italy and Austria, in a campaign of French aggrandizement led by young General Napoleon Bonaparte, who appeared invincible.

Although it is not clear how much the highborn agitators contributed to this development, the police undertook a sweep of the Marxists, and in 1895 Lenin and Martov were arrested.

The bulls swept off as Akela bayed, and Gray Brother stopped in front of the cows.