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vb. (alternative spelling of cut a wide swath English)
Usage examples of "cut a wide swathe".
The pause cost him and his friends all that they had gained together, for more than half the bailey was then in Beringars hands, and the remnant of the garrison driven back into a tight knot of fighting round the hall, and while Yves back was turned upon his enemies, and he hung hesitating whether to rush back to stretch a hand to his friend, Alain le Gaucher, hard-pressed at the foot of the steps to his own hall, cut a wide swathe before him to clear his ground, and leaped backwards up the wide timber stairway.
The pause cost him and his friends all that they had gained together, for more than half the bailey was then in Beringar's hands, and the remnant of the garrison driven back into a tight knot of fighting round the hall, and while Yves' back was turned upon his enemies, and he hung hesitating whether to rush back to stretch a hand to his friend, Alain le Gaucher, hard-pressed at the foot of the steps to his own hall, cut a wide swathe before him to clear his ground, and leaped backwards up the wide timber stairway.