Meaning of asweep | Babel Free

Definitions

Sweeping, making a sweeping motion.

not-comparable

Examples

“the line that goes wavingly asweep round the base⟳ of the holy mountain, separating it from the common earth.”

“Where fierce hot winds have⟳ set⟳ the pine and myall boughs asweep”

“When winds are asweep through the Pecos Valley, they whimper and moan in the barbed-wire fence like⟳ troubled ghosts.”

“I thought of Mr. O’Neill, who was tall, pale and melancholy, with long white hair asweep, very like⟳ the picture of composers of my music book-covers.”

“[…] low and gently rolling hills, some forested, some asweep with velvety swaths of rippling, growing grain.”

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