Swept Sentence Examples
His multi-colored eyes swept over her.
His blue gaze swept over her.
He stood and swept her into his arms.
His eyes swept over her.
Her jet black hair was swept up gracefully into a plaited crown.
He swept her around.
One hand on her waist, the other holding hers lightly, he gracefully swept her around.
Bordeaux stepped forward, and before she had time to protest, he swept her up and deposited her on the back of the bay.
Satisfied, the nurse swept up the linens she'd changed and left.
His gaze swept around the room methodically, coming to rest on her.
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His silver gaze swept over her.
He withdrew, and the cold wind swept over her.
Her eyes swept over his muscular form, from his shapely shoulders and wide back to the thick thighs outlined by the sweats.
Fear swept through her, and he offered a tight smile.
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The Angevins were less successful towards the south, where the first signs were appearing of that storm which ultimately swept away the Hungarian monarchy.
In less than twenty years after the death of its founder, it collapsed before a combined attack of all Poland's enemies, and simultaneously a terrible pagan reaction swept away the poor remnants of Christianity and civilization.
This is not me fighting against the tide of history but being swept along with it.
The Lun-Ho valley Where it cut through the line was closed by entanglements and fougasses, and swept by batteries on each side.
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He failed as a political reformer because the merchants and the moneyed classes, whom the Gracchi had tried to conciliate, feared that they would themselves be swept away by a revolution of which the mob and its leaders would be the ultimate controllers.
At Marston Moor Lucas swept Fairfax's Yorkshire horse before him, but later in the day he was taken prisoner.
The main features of the tariff history of the United States since the Civil War have been that the internal taxes have been almost entirely swept away, the import duties on purely revenue articles similarly abolished, while those import duties that operated to protect domestic industries have been maintained, and indeed in many cases increased.
Their kingdom was destroyed by an invasion of the Kara-Kitais, another Turkish tribe pressing westwards from the Chinese frontier, who in their turn were swept away in 1219 by Jenghiz Khan.
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He was at his best at such a moment, and the rallied Federals under his command swept all before them.
These works swept aside the dry traditional fossil lore which had been accumulating in France and Germany.
He was not, however, destined to compass the downfall of the Sullan regime; the crisis of the Slave War placed the Senate at the mercy of Pompey and Crassus, who in 70 B.C. swept away the safeguards of senatorial ascendancy, restored the initiative in legislation to the tribunes, and replaced the Equestrian order, i.e.
The prestige thus won by the British in the south in 1779 was immensely increased in the following year, when they victoriously swept up through South and North Carolina.
One smote the threshold with an axe, another with a pestle, the third swept it with a broom - three symbols of culture (for trees were hewn down with the axe, grain pounded with the pestle, and the fruits of the field swept up with the broom) which Silvanus could not endure.
The Tigris may have swept the western wall, though now a wide belt of sand has accumulated between the ruins and its present channel which is perpetually shifting.
The neighbours said that the fairies caused the phenomenon, as the man had swept his chimney with a bough of holly, and the holly is "a gentle tree," dear to the fairies.
Nearly the whole of the abbey buildings, including the magnificent church, were swept away at the close of the 18th century.
Modern influences, one of the most marked of which is the widespread erection of vast blocks of residential flats, have swept away much that was reminiscent of the historical connexions of the "old court suburb."
Headed by Joseph Howe, the advocates of repeal swept the province at the Dominion election.
Old buildings in the heart of the Altstadt have been swept away, and their place occupied by modern business houses and new streets.
During an invasion the Avars swept off the five sons of this warrior into Illyria, but one, his namesake, returned to Italy and restored the ruined fortunes of his house.
Of earlier bridges one, which crossed at High Street, was swept away by the flood of 1621, and another, constructed by General Wade in 1723-1733, was apparently the predecessor of Smeaton's bridge.
There was also the castle of the O'Reillys, but this and all other antiquities of the town were swept away during the violent and continuous feuds to which the country was subjected.
The Victoria Bridge is a fine steel structure, which replaced the bridge swept away by floods in February 1893.
The power of the Caisse de la Dette, which had virtually controlled the execution of the international agreements concerning the finances, was swept away, together with almost all the other financial fetters binding Egypt.
The 1st Division attacked a few minutes later, and the cavalry swept round the left of the line of entrenchments, cutting down any fugitives who attempted resistance and reaching the enemys camp in rear.
The sirdar sent him rifles and ammunition across the desert from Korti; but before they arrived, Mahmuds army, sent by the khalifa, swept down on Metemma on the 1st of July and massacred Abdalla wad Said and his garrison.
But it would not have terminated advantageously for them at all, had not the powerful and highly efficient Danish fleet effectually prevented the Swedish government from succouring its distressed German provinces, and finally swept the Swedish fleets out of the northern waters.
After the withdrawal of the Romans the country became for centuries the prey of the various peoples who swept across it in their restless migrations.
Bruce now swept the country, but Carlisle he could not take.
But he also fostered a navy, under Sir Andrew Wood, who swept the seas of the English pirates.
These serve to modify the temperatures of the plateau, which is swept by cold winds at all seasons of the year.
The Russian infantry halted for the guns to prepare the way, and the heavy projectiles both swept the crest of the British knoll and destroyed the camp in rear.
Then, when He entered the Temple, He swept away with a fiery zeal the merchants and merchandise which had turned God's House into " a robbers' den."
The maharaj rana of Dholpur belongs to the clan of Bamraolia Jats, who are believed to have formed a portion of the IndoScythian wave of invasion which swept over northern India about A.D.
These were swept away when the Reform Bill became law.
They sweep in a broad band of roughly parallel ranges to the south-west, preserving their general direction till they abut on the Great Registan desert to the west of Kandahar, where they terminate in a series of detached and broken anticlinals whose sides are swept by a sea of encroaching sand.
This plateau is swept by the south-west monsoon, but not until it has surmounted the western barrier of the Ghats; and hence the rainfall is, as a rule, light at Poona and places similarly situated under the lee of the range, and but moderate over the more easterly parts of the plateau.
They are swept north by the wind till they strike upon the outer ranges of the Himalayas.
The Tughlak dynasty lasted for about seventy years, until it was swept away by the invasion of Timur, the fourth Mahommedan conqueror of India, in 1398.
In 1739 Nadir Shah of Persia, the sixth and last of the great Mahommedan conquerors of India, swept like a whirlwind over Hindustan, and sacked the imperial city of Delhi.
Between that date and the arrival of Warren Hastings in 1772 nothing of importance occurred in Bengal beyond the terrible famine of 1770, which is officially reported to have swept away one-third of the inhabitants.
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Old laws, customs and immunities were ruthlessly swept away, the people were ground down with taxes, and the highest positions and finest estates conferred on French and Provençal nobles.
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Successive Arab dynasties looted it, and many monuments of antiquity suffered (to be finally swept away by "municipal improvements" under the French regime).
The Christianity of Petra, as of north Arabia, was swept away by the Mahommedan conquest in A.D.
Those under small jurisdictions in the boroughs and under the petty corporate bodies continued open to the strongest reprobation, and thus remained until they were swept away by the measure which brought about the reform of the municipal corporations in 1835.
He retook Kairawan, swept the coast as far as Carthage, which he sacked, expelling the Greek garrisons from all the fortified places; he then turned his arms against the Berbers, who, commanded by the Kahina (Diviner), as the Arabs called their queen, beat him so completely that he was compelled to retreat to Barca.
Next day the attack was continued from north and west, and the Italians were swept off the whole line between the Val d'Assa and the Val Galmarara.
All protests against gross misgovernment during many years having proved useless, Oudh was annexed in 1856 and constituted a separate chief commissionership. Then followed the Mutiny, when all signs of British rule were for a time swept away throughout the greater part of the two provinces.
Even then, however, the amount of operative heat is very small in comparison with that which passes through the steam-engine, per cubic foot swept through by the piston, for the change of state which water undergoes in its transformation into steam involves the taking in of much more heat than can be communicated to air in changing its temperature within such a range as is practicable.
Seven other towns and villages in the valley were also swept away, and the total loss of lives was 2000 or more.
The whole system was swept away by the French in 1798, and though partially revived in 1815, came to an end in 1831, since which time Bern has been in the van of political progress.
This severance, it is true, may be geologically recent, and some geologists see, in the five rapids of the San Juan, remnants of a connecting ridge which the river has swept away.
From 616 to 626 Persian armies swept unimpeded over the land, and Chosroes (Khosrau) II.
Hence equal areas are swept over by the radius vector in equal times.
Even the clergy were swept away by the current, and meant to be patriots like every one else.
In the autumn the revolutionary fever, which had swept through all Europe earlier in the year, spread to Rome.
Napoleon swept away the checks and balances, and made the will of a single man the one and only sanction of government.
After some time spent in making his army efficient, Corbulo invaded Armenia and swept victoriously through the country.
In philosophy, properly so called, the humanistic scorn for medieval dullness and obscurity swept away theological metaphysics as valueless.
The Rescissory Act of 1661 swept away the legislation of the preceding twenty years, and so disposed of the Presbyterian polity of the church.
Prayers were offered everywhere for his recovery, and the country was swept by a delirium of loyal enthusiasm, which conferred on him the title of Louis le bien aline'.
Mary had wearied of her guiding statesmen, Moray and the more pliant Maitland; the Italian secretary David Rizzio, through whom she had corresponded with the pope, now more and more usurped their place; and a weak fancy for her handsome cousin, Henry Darnley, brought about a sudden marriage in 1565 and swept the opposing Protestant lords into exile.
In most parts of Sweden these deposits were swept away when the ice advanced, but in Slane they often form still, as in northern Germany, very thick beds.
Coquimbo was swept by a tidal wave in 1849, and Concepcion and Talcahuano were similarly destroyed in 1835.
The pressure of despotism was manifest, not so much in that the king and his officials consistently interfered in individual cases, but that they did so on isolated and arbitrary occasions, and then swept aside the privileges of the subject, who was impotent to resist.
The old town was swept away by a flood in 1823, and the present town stands 4 m.
While the wooden buildings were little damaged by the shocks, the comparative non-inflammability of redwood proved no safeguard and fire swept the affected area irresistibly.
Between December 1849 and June 1851 seven " great " fires, destroying in the aggregate property valued at twenty or twenty-five millions of dollars, swept the business district.
The northern race has ever kept pressing down on the broadskulled, brown-complexioned men of the Alps, and intermixing with them, and at times has swept right over the great mountain chain into the tempting regions of the south, producing such races as the Celto-Ligyes, Celtiberians, Celtillyrians, CeltoThracians and Celto-Scythians.
In its turn the Alpine race has pressed down upon their darker and less warlike kindred of the south, either driven down before the tall sons of the north or swelling the hosts of the latter as they swept down south.
The next great wave of Celts recorded was that which swept down on north Italy shortly before 400 B.C. These invaders broke up in a few years the Etruscan power, and even occupied Rome herself after the disaster on the Allia (390 B.C.).
A disastrous flood, caused by heavy rains and the sudden overflow of the Santa Catarina river on the 28th of August 1909, swept away about one-fourth of the city, drowning1200-1400persons, and destroying about $12,000,000 (Mex.) worth of property.
Everything of value had been swept away, except the merchandise of the Company within the fort, which had been reserved for the nawab.
Besides the sedentary Cirripedia, numbers of the smaller forms, especially among the Entomostraca, subsist on floating particles of organic matter swept within reach of the jaws by the movements of the other limbs.
All the complicated speculations about a redactor which follow are swept away by the simple assumption that the text is sound.
Kasongo, a more recent though still larger centre, with perhaps 60,000 inhabitants, has also been swept away, and is now represented by a station of the Free State 9 m.
The dynasty of Chow finally perished two centuries and a quarter after the death of the sage at the hands of the first historic emperor of the nation, - the first of the dynasty of Ts'in, who swept away the foundations of the feudal system.
On the 10th of April 1845 a considerable portion of the city was swept by fire, and in July 1877, during the great railway strike of that year, a large amount of property was destroyed by a mob.
In 1796 Napoleon swept away to Paris, along with the other art treasures of Italy, the whole of the Leonardo MSS.
The French conquest swept away the old condition of things never to reappear; but allegiance to the Orange dynasty survived, and in 1813 became the rallying point of a united Dutch people.
None could be procured; the public passion swept everything before it; the patent was cancelled; Wood was compensated by a pension; Swift was raised to a height of popularity which he retained for the rest of his life; and the only real sufferers were the Irish people, who lost a convenience so badly needed that they might well have afforded to connive at Wood's illicit profits.
On the Parliamentary right, Goring had swept away the Yorkshire horse, and although most of his troopers had followed in disorderly pursuit, Sir Charles Lucas with some squadrons was attacking the exposed right of Leven's infantry.
In 1702, 1718 and 1767, it suffered severely from fires; in 1719 was plundered by the Persians; and in 1830 the cholera swept away a large number of its people.
Its efficiency as an instrument of producing revenue was, however, so great as to lead to its revival in 1842, when Sir Robert Peel inaugurated his great free-trade reform and swept away duties on exports, duties on imported raw material, and other imposts hampering the trade of the country.
Up to this point the prince had ruled wisely; he had founded the universities of Bucharest and Jassy; his reforms had swept away the last vestiges of feudalism and created a class of peasant freeholders.
The Radical Republicans held control until 1870, when they were defeated by a combination of Liberal Republicans and Democrats, 2 and the testoath and the rest of the intolerant legislation of the war period were swept away.
The northern plains of the republic are swept by the north-east trades, and here, too, the mountain barriers exercise a strongly modifying influence.
The era of railway construction soon swept both Fowler and his employers into its service, and one of his first employments was to oppose the route of the Midland railway, chosen by the Stephensons, which left Sheffield on a branch line, and was therefore strongly resented by the inhabitants.
A force of io,000 fighting men, led by Macomo, a brother of the chief who was killed, swept across the frontier, pillaged and burned the homesteads and murdered all who dared to resist.
Unfortunately, she, in common with the rest of South Africa, was subsequently swept into the seething vortex of contemporary politics and controversy.
But the untimely death of Mansfield nipped in the bud the only rational scheme of settlement which seems at any time to have animated this wild community; and Morgan, now elected commander, swept the whole Caribbean, and from his headquarters in Jamaica led triumphant expeditions to Cuba and the mainland.
The roof rested on six pillars; the door was raised above the ground and approached by a stair (probably on account of the floods which often swept the valley); and worshippers left their shoes under the stair before entering.
The soil is very fertile, but since the dam over the Karun at Ahvaz was swept away and the numerous canals which diverted the waters of the river for irrigation became useless, a great part of the province is uncultivated, and most of the crops and produce depend for water on rainfall and wells.
The Normal School itself was swept away, and Cousin shared at the hands of a narrow and illiberal government the fate of Guizot, who was ejected from the chair of history.
A less capable and unscrupulous king than Rufus might have been swept away, for the rising burst out simultaneously in nearly every corner of the realm.
The Scots swept everything before them, ravaging the north at their will, and capturing Berwick.
In the manor rolls it is not Uncommon to find whole families swept away, so that no heir can be detected to their holdings.
For a moment the quarrel of York and Somerset was suspended, and the last English army that crossed the seas during theHundredYearsWar landed in Guienne, joined the insurgents, and for a time swept all before it.
For the successive attainders of the Lancastrians and the Nevilles had swept away many of the older noble families, and Edwards house of peers consisted for the main part of new men, his own partisans promoted for good service, who had not the grip on the land that their predecessors had possessed.
The only substitute for traditional authority is the clearly expressed expression of the national will, and it is impossible to doubt that if the national will had been expressed it would have swept away Cromwell and all his system.
The whole of the intellectual basis of his foreign policy was swept away when it became evident that the continental war would bring with it an accession of French territor.
He swept away all the duties on British exports; he repealed the duties on glass, on cotton wool, and still further reduced the duties on foreign and colonial sugar.
In the course of the discussion on the bill in the House of Commons, the securities on which its authors had relied to enable them to stem the tide of democracy were, chiefly through Gladstones exertions, swept away.
The events of the Abyssinian war, however, were forgotten in the great political revolution which had swept the Conservatives from officeand placed Gladstone in power.
In its three last sessions it was destined to sink into gradual disrepute; and it was ultimately swept away by a wave of popular reaction, as remarkable as that which had borne it into power.
The new minister had been swept into power on a wave of popular favor, but he inherited from his predecessors difficulties Glad- in almost eyery quarter of the world; and his own stones language had perhaps tended to increase them.
He swept away in doing so many of the advantages which the owner of real estate and the life tenant of settled property had previously enjoyed, and drove home a principle which Goschen had tentatively introduced a few years before by increasing the rate of the duty with the amount of the estate.
He had always divined by the instinct of hatred that the French moderates must gradually be swept away by the Jacobins, and now it was all coming true.
That he remained satisfied with them himself is doubtful, unless for their foresight, their tremendous effect as instruments of punishment, and as they swept him to so much distinction.
Some tractable members of the Five Hundred were afterwards swept up and served to give these measures the confirmation of their House.
In the same way in the year 1362 Oeraefajdkull, the loftiest mountain in Iceland (6424 ft.), swept forty farms, together with their inhabitants and live stock, bodily into the ocean.
A royal court took the place of the Althing courts; the local business of the local things was carried out by the (hreppstjori) bailiff, a subordinate of the sheriff; and the g050r5, things, quarter-courts, trial by jury, &c., were swept away by these innovations.
On the north-east coast many of the villages are tastefully kept, their whole area being clean swept, nicely sanded, and planted with ornamental shrubs, and have in their centre little square palaver places laid with flat stones, each with an erect stone pillar as a back-rest.
He is indeed the Victorian Theocritus; and, as English country life is slowly swept away before the advance of the railway and the telegraph, he will be more and more read for his warm-hearted and fragrant record of rustic love and piety.
Other Greek statesmen, and notably Tricoupis, had worked for a Balkan League but failed, partly, no doubt, owing to adverse circumstances, but partly also because of Greek unpreparedness for war and of the inflexibility of the Greek claims. Venizelos was, it is true, favoured by circumstances - the Balkan races just then had been drawn together in self-defence against the newly fledged tyranny of the Young Turks in Macedonia and Thrace, while the military revolt of 1909 had swept the Greek political stage clear of nearly all the corrupt parties, that hitherto had blocked the wheels of the nation's progress.
In consequence of this abstention of the Venizelist electors, no Venizelist was elected, and the new Chamber consisted almost exclusively of the old politicians, whom the military revolt of 1909 had swept out of politics.
A terrible epidemic of measles in that year swept away 40,000, or about one-third of the Fijians.
A few months later, Olynthus and the thirty-two towns of the confederacy were swept from the earth.
His imitators in Cork were swept away.
Two legal decisions swept away the customs of tanistry and of Irish gavelkind, and the English land system was violently [From Anglo-Norman Invasion] substituted.
There were several exceptions and qualifying clauses, but most of them have been swept away by later acts.
The question as to which theory came first, whether Alcheringaism is a scientific effort that swept away All-Fatherism, or whether All-Fatherism is a religious reaction in despair of science and of the evolutionary doctrine, is settled by each inquirer in accordance with his personal bias.
Then at the beginning of the 5th century, during a furious irruption of Germans fleeing before Huns, the limes was carried away (406407); and for more than a hundred years the torrent of fugitives swept through the Empire, which retreated behind the Alps, there to breathe its last.
In the first of these campaigns lie swept away the remnants of the old Roman-Germanic empire, and out of its shattered fragments created in southern Germany the vassal states of Bavaria, Baden, Wurttemberg, Hesse1805.
The father wa.s manifestly a man of great energy who cowed his unruly nobles by murder, forced the Orospedans to recognize his superiority, swept away the Suevic kingdom which had lingered in the north-west, and checked the raids of the Basques.
As the conquerors swept away the Roman fiscal system, which the Visigoths had retained, and replaced it by a poll tax (which was not levied on old men, women, children, cripples or the very poor) and a land tax, the gain to the downtrodden serfs of the fisc was immense.
In 750 plague, following on drought and famine, swept away thousands of conquered and conquerors alike.
Alphonso swept all through that region, already more than half depopulated, slaying the lingering remnants of the Berbers, and carrying back the surviving Christians to the north.
In 1082 he swept dan Spain.
While a vast armament was being slowly collected for the invasion of England, Drake swept the West Indies, and in 1587 burnt a number of Spanish ships in their own harbour of Cadiz.
The local privileges of these once independent kingdoms, which had with rare exceptions been respected by the Austrian kings, were swept away.
Godoys agents, the ministers, were swept aside by the popular revolt, .and their place was taken by local juntas, or committees, and then by a central junta formed from among them, which ruled despotically in the name of the captive king.
The Alphonsist armies, led by Marshals Campos and Jovellar, swept the Carlist bands from the right hank of the Ebro to the Pyrenees, and took their last strongholds in the eastern provinces, Cantavieja and Seo de Urgel.
A wave of Clericalism and ultra-Catholic influences swept over the land, affecting the middle classes, the universities and learned societies, and making itself very perceptible also among the governing classes and both dynastic parties, Liberals and Conservatives.
The Mandist movement now swept northward and on the 20th of May Berber was captured by the dervishes and Khartum isolated.
As the planet revolves around the centre, each radius vector describes a surface of which the area swept over in a unit of time measures the areal velocity of the planet.
After the Arab and Seljuk invasions, there was a large emigration of Aryan and Semitic Armenians to Constantinople and Cilicia; and all that remained of the aristocracy was swept away by the Mongols and Tatars.
Seventy yards of band and bridge were swept away in 1885.
It was at the close of the Wealden period that a second evolutionary wave swept over the vegetation of the world.
A religious revival swept the colony in 1741.
Its primitive houses of timber and plaster were mostly swept away after 1860, when brick or stone came into general use, and good streets were cut among the network of narrow, insanitary lanes.
These fine-grained materials are at first mixed with broken and more or less weathered rock fragments and coarser mineral particles in the soil and subsoil, but by the action of wind and rain they are swept away and deposited in distant situations.
And with that he swept her into his arms and claimed her lips.
The Oracle resisted at first then gave, and Bianca swept it away.
Han was as big as the man before her, and if he feared him … Damian's gaze swept over her.
A doctor emerged soon after, hesitating as his gaze swept over the room full of massive, bristling men, until Linda came forward.
Before Pierre could comply with Dustin's order, Darian shoved him aside and swept her off her feet.
He swept the baby angel into his arms with one quick motion and trotted back into the castle.
Katie.s gaze swept over her, and she was grateful to see her sister unharmed.
A chill swept through him as he realized how significant—and isolated—the command center was.
He found himself on the Caribbean Sanctuary, in the small chamber with the Oracle book. Sea breeze swept through the small windows of the room, and he took a step towards the lectern on which the open book rested. The pages displayed had a few words written on them rather than the constantly shifting writing that normally scrawled itself across the pages. He felt himself compelled towards the book even as his fight-or-flight instinct reared up.
As fast as Kris ran, he couldn't catch her. He grew more baffled when she seemed to pull ahead of him without any sign of the exhaustion she'd showed when they stopped. Desperation could motivate, and so could fear for her sister. He pushed himself harder to catch her. Thunder boomed overhead. Forms he assumed were demons swooped above the canopy, casting shadows. He caught glimpses of fur and wings through leaves and ran until his chest was heaving. Hannah remained ahead of him, though he realized he was beginning to gain on her. He had to reach her before the demons did and swept her away, as they had Kiki.
She'd lost weight in the two weeks she'd been assigned to Jonny, and his gaze swept over her lean body.
He snatched her again by her belt, then grabbed both flailing wrists and swept her feet from beneath her, falling with her.
With no contempt for danger, the whole situation was changed, the men were encouraged and the line swept forward.
In 1917 the Russian revolution swept away the old order.
For on the night of the 25th October 1960 two tanker barges were swept into it whilst bound for Sharpness in thick fog.
Chimneys using bituminous coal should be swept at least once a year.
This is because the wartime blitz and postwar redevelopment have swept away many of the buildings to which they were attached.
In distance is an old tree bough swept down in last years floods.
Or stroll along golden sands swept by bracing sea breezes.
Panic had swept from city to city, and a vague dread of some sudden collapse preyed upon the minds of millions.
Further south, the golf courses are swept by the Atlantic breezes.
To do this, a space, of about 150 yards swept by a heavy crossfire, had to be crossed.
Stewart plays a retired police detective who becomes swept up in a complex crime and falls for the wrong woman.
The area is swept by strong tidal currents making this site a slack water dive.
More than a thousand bodies were counted; large numbers were swept downstream, or lay bloated on the rocks.
Even the humble artisans ' dwellings had been swept away and replaced by blocks of council flats.
The animals ' expressions seem almost ecstatic, swept away by the moment until it is too late and the deed is done.
Kate winced, somewhat embarrassed to realize how thoroughly she could be swept off her feet by a dazzling façade.
Hundreds of thousands have died from hunger or the cholera and typhoid epidemics which have swept the country.
The Spanish flu epidemic which swept Europe in 1918 was a mass killer.
She was thrown against the wall and a massive fireball swept through the building.
More than 35,000 people have been left homeless as their mud houses were swept away by floodwater.
On his debut at Chepstow last autumn he swept past Clearing inside the final furlong to win going away.
The first flurries of white granules swept in on the wind, hiding the valley below.
The free layer is now being swept in a hard axis, and shows reduced hysteresis, and a more linear response.
I wrote a lot of very lurid, melodramatic stories about people being trapped by the tide and swept away by whirlpools.
There are people who are eaten up by religious mania, swept along by some malign force which they call faith.
Recognition Swept, low-wing monoplane with two engines mounted on rear fuselage (1 ).
A huge motorcade swept in and we thought this must be someone important.
Has swept across another insect oddball too tired to.
The hood went cleanly and the air blast swept in, sucking his maps and other loose oddments out of the cockpit.
The twin outboard roared and the little craft swept around the Dolphin ' s stern and headed out to sea.
Despite being a rank outsider, he was swept into office.
Once on the balcony we stood as the water swept past carrying cars and debris and rising all the time.
The rough sides of the canyon swept past her, her bare feet pattered on the ground.
Like the terrain around the Upas tree No Man's Land was scourged, swept incessantly by fire and lethal poisons.
The August 2004 caution was swept aside by the increasingly pressing need for an honest editorial.
The more extreme Protestants swept out the evidence of the Roman church.
The new government included radicals and socialists and its program was influenced by the radicalism which had swept the monarchy from power.
We were drenched by rainstorms, burnt by the strong equatorial sunshine and Lenik nearly got swept down one of the rivers.
The weather took a hand, and the schedule had to be chopped and changed as severe rainstorms swept across the airfield.
Periche is a ' one horse ' town, little more than a few shacks on a wind swept plain between 5000 meter mountains.
The ' Standard Sports ' also included a large silencer that had 16 times the volume of the swept volume of the engine.
A few minutes more, and the little vessel was caught in a violent squall, and swept back into the cyclone.
But the tranquility of this island paradise was shattered on December 26, 2004, when the giant tsunami swept across the Indian Ocean.
He swept all before him in a performance of breathtaking virtuosity.
Shortly on, in 1918, an especially virulent strain of influenza swept the globe leaving further millions dead in its wake.
Some have begun to map such processes as they swept through mass mediated populations of the age of asymmetric warfare.
A possible extension of the method to the case of a flap on a swept wing is also included.
In 1886, soon after its establishment, a fire swept the whole town out of existence, but the inferior wooden buildings at first erected have been largely replaced by stone and brick structures, giving a handsome appearance to the principal streets.
South of this anticyclone, from about the latitude of the Cape, we find the region where, on account of the uninterrupted sea surface right round the globe, the planetary circulation is developed to the greatest extent known; the pressure gradient is steep, and the region is swept continuously by strong westerly winds - the " roaring forties."
An inundation of the Tiber swept away a large part of Rome, destroying fields, drowning cattle, and causing a famine (162); then came earthquakes, fires and plagues of insects; the soldiers in Britain tried to induce their general Statius Priscus to proclaim himself emperor; finally, the Parthians under Vologaeses III.
From time to time streams of migration swept into Palestine and Syria.
The writings of Galen contain less of simple objective observations than those of several other ancient physicians, all being swept into the current of dogmatic exposition.
On the other hand a very severe blizzard, lasting two days, swept the whole region towards the end of Nov.
His efforts to induce his master to accord lenient terms to Austria in November 1805 were futile; and he looked on helplessly while that Power was crushed, the Holy Roman Empire swept away, and the Confederation of the Rhine set up in central Europe.
The snows are therefore very light, and are quickly swept from the prairies by the high winds, so that cattle may graze in the open plains throughout the year.
The Renaissance and Protestantism had their effect in producing that Enlightenment which swept over western Europe in the 18th century.
All these cumbersome restrictions were swept away by the khedivial decree of the 28th of November 1904, a decree which received the assent of the powers and was the result gains of the Anglo-French agreement of April 1904 (see finaicial History).
No other hand could have ventured to render the hair and beard of a sitter, as it was the habit of this inveterate linearist to do, not by indication of masses, but by means of an infinity of single lines swept, with a miraculous certainty and fineness of touch, in the richest amd most intricate of decorative curves.
Other destructive agencies were epidemics, such especially as measles and small-pox, which swept away 30,000 Fijians in 1875; the introduction of strong drinks, including, besides vile spirits, a most pernicious concoction brewed in Tahiti from oranges; Maori Religion and Mythology, p. 26.
Old laws, customs and immunities were ruthlessly swept away, the people were ground down with taxes, and the highest positions and finest estates conferred on French and Provençal nobles.
The modern movement in favour of industrial employment combined with humane and intelligent considerations has swept away the more or less barbaric method of enforcing labour by automatic machinery such as the treadmill, crank and shot drill (see Treadmill).
His sojourn in Europe fell exactly in the time when, in England, the reaction against the sentimental atheism of Shelley, the pagan sensitivity of Keats, and the sublime, Satanic outcastness of Byron was at its height; when, in the Catholic countries, the negative exaggerations of the French Revolution were inducing a counter current of positive faith, which threw men into the arms of a half-sentimental, half-aesthetic medievalism; and when, in Germany, the aristocratic paganism of Goethe was being swept aside by that tide of dutiful, romantic patriotism which flooded the country, as soon as it began to feel that it still existed after being run over by Napoleon's war-chariot.
At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept.
Searchlights made effective patterns as they stabbed the reddened sky with their beams, which swept back and forth in wide arcs.
A sudden revulsion of feeling swept over his mind.
As Mr. Carr handed her into the rowboat with ceremony she swept him a courtesy.
The Cardigan men had tried a rush, in skirmishing order, at the pit, simply to be swept out of existence.
For the past decade at least, the market has swept the board.
I was worried that we might get swept over the weirs !
Rather than deal with the problem, it was swept aside with a view to deal with it later.
They do not just get swept along by the current (see The Tale of Three Project Managers).
Ministers have swept aside concepts of clinical priority in favor of their own insatiable PR agenda.
Fair play on land reform swept away in a torrent of prejudice.
There 's profit in selling childcare, and so the very big disadvantages about it are swept under the carpet.
His recent attempt to direct his wife in a romantic comedy ' Swept Away ' has apparently ended in disaster.
If we do n't get used to swimming against the tide as Christians nowadays, the church will simply be swept away.
Through such proliferation, as Marx observed, ' ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions are swept away '.
I swept the damp color in the crease that connects my upper and lower lid.
I also swept a little under my eyelash on the lower outside.
Finally, I swept up a little of the white sand tone and brushed it on to the area under my brow bone.
If you click on that item you'll be swept off to a page that is constantly updated with current online offers and free shipping coupons.
You are quickly swept away into an alternate reality when you view Essick's work.
Light, airy powder won't last long on steep, double-black diamond runs that get swept by high winds.
For those who had childhood fantasies of a Cinderella wedding gown or being swept off their feet by prince charming, then a Bridal Collection dress is ideal for you.
There are so many options for bridesmaid dresses that it is easy to get swept up in the planning and choose a dress that is more expensive than you or your bridesmaids can afford.
Additionally, our contributors have swept the Internet, magazines, and news outlets in search of the hottest gossip.
After such questionable appearances in movies such as Body of Evidence, Swept Away, and Evita, I wouldn't think she would have any movie fans left.
She's had more than her fair share of negative media coverage since she swept the pop charts with a slew of hit singles.
As this new musical wave swept across the nation, it influenced hair and clothing styles.
Starting in the 1850s, what is often referred to as the "scandal of tights" swept through America.
When in doubt of the cleanliness of your chimney, get it swept.
Those chimney sweeping logs that are supposed to remove the buildup in your chimney don't really work and can never take the place of having a chimney professionally swept.
It's very easy to get swept up in beautiful displays and photographs of finished projects, but this can quickly lead to a budget getting exhausted before the project is completed.
In the wild the seahorse uses its tail to hold onto seaweed to stop itself from getting swept away by currents.
Blizzard's epic RPG has swept the planet with superb online multi-player gaming and a rich and deep universe.
A great game that receives little press or little hype goes hidden in the barrage of other blockbuster titles and gets swept away into gaming heaven.
An outbreak of foot and mouth disease swept through Great Britain and into other parts of Europe and South America in 2001.
Desperate HousewivesstarEva'slook is polished and glamorous, whether she wears her dark hair loose around her face or swept up in one of character Gabrielle's '60s-styleupdos.
Consider a short hair style that is wash and go or a long, straight look that can be swept back into different ponytail hairstyles.
Medium length to long hair can be swept up in a variety of hair updos suitable for any occasion.
Long bangs that may be worn obscuring the eye (left or right is up to the individual's preference) or swept to the side.
If you want bangs, you'll need to decide if you want a blunt cut, side swept bangs, or just a long fringe.
Hair cannot be chemically damaged or bleached, and it cannot be swept off a salon floor (the alignment will be destroyed).
The hair may be pulled back but left long in the back, or the hair could be gathered into a side swept style.
Emo girl haircuts usually start with very dark hair, either cut around the shoulders or in a spiky and uneven style with long, side swept bangs.
The side swept bang is the perfect recommendation if you want a bang without commitment.
Slightly asymmetrical, the side swept bang can be pushed to either side of the forehead or straight down the middle.
The side swept bang adds the bonus of creating visual illusions and balancing facial features.
If you are creating a side swept bang or the nose is tilted, start at the peak of the eyebrow.
Ask your stylist to create a long side swept bang (hair may need to grow out first).
Side swept bangs are another hot emo look.
If you're a romantic gal hoping to be swept off your feet by prince charming this prom season, you most likely bought a pastel or white gown with lots of ruffles or lace.
To mimic this sophisticated flair, sweep hair into nape grazing low buns or side swept twists.
Side swept ponytails are yet another updo style or pony option.
Offering instant glamour, a side swept ponytail has an old Hollywood edge that looks amazing with a simple pair of hoop earrings.
Balance full dresses with dainty jewelry, and enhance body hugging gowns with fresh flowers or side swept buns.
Whether it is a light layer of fringe, a side swept bang, or a mod, blunt, straight across bang, adding a bang to a bob changes the look entirely.
Side swept bangs are a perfect way to soften the appearance of a large, or square, forehead.
The mullet swept the country by storm as celebrities and pop icons wore the mullet trend with pride.
Twists can be a very urban hairstyle when paired with headscarves and bold jewelry, or they can be swept up with rhinestone clips for a feminine wedding style.
All styles of bangs, from low blunt bangs that brush the eyebrows to side swept bangs that curve across the forehead to a thin, long fringe that covers one eye are popular and can be worn beautifully with different short hair cuts.
For a variation on this classic prom look, consider a side swept ponytail.
A super short bang adds a very modern vibe to a bob, while a longer side swept bang softens any angles.
Whether you're growing out your style or are simply hoping for a new look, knowing how to style side swept bangs may be of interest to you.
Side swept bangs have gained in popularity for good reason.
Not quite a bang, a side swept version of the traditional bang offers more versatility while maintaining the same interest and face framing detailing as a regular blunt bang.
Side swept bangs are nearly universally flattering, many women (and even a few men) rock this look rather than commit to the real deal.
While a side swept bang is one of the easier bang looks to create, styling still has its challenges.
If you've opted for a light perm for example, your side swept bang should blend into the rest of your style.
Simply twisting the bang into a spiral formation and brushing it off the forehead will help to create a blended side swept look.
With a large barrel round brush, blowdry side swept bang to either the left or the right side of the forehead.
For a blunt side swept bang, a flat iron works wonders.
How to style side swept bangs really depends on the look you're after.
Side swept bangs are a wonderful option for nearly every hair type and length and are the perfect starting point for those new to bangs, as well as a likely transitional point for anyone who is growing a bang out.
Remember, once you've learned how to style your side swept bang, stay on top of regular bang trims.
Whether tied into a side ponytail, worn loose and natural, or gently swept into a soft updo, Miley always look quite beautiful.
The 22 year old often wears his hair longer on the top, a bit shorter on the bottom, and swept to the side; a look that's made even more attractive by his hair's rich brown hue.
Loose tendrils were normally swept high on top of the head and adorned with gold balls.
Bangs can be long and side swept, or layered and blended well into the rest of the haircut to create a peekaboo effect.
A side swept bang can be carved into this style to provide more styling options that suit a round face.
Choose styles that end slightly above the jaw to attract the eye upward away from the chin line, and consider side swept bangs to add a slimming silhouette.
For variety, some teens are cutting bangs into their long hair, wearing them in a blunt line above the eyebrows or swept across the forehead to softly frame the face.
It can feature bangs, or can be worn slicked back or swept over one eye.
His style swept across his forehead and was defined with a touch of molding paste to separate while adding texture to his fine locks.
Her hair is swept on top of her head, and her arms are lightly crossed over her torso.
Atlee was swept away and later confirmed dead, but Petra managed to survive the ordeal by clinging to a palm tree for over eight hours.
The "New Look" was a response to the conservative nature that swept women's fashion during World War II.
One sexual fantasy that seems rather exclusive to women is the romantic sexual fantasy where she is seduced and swept off her feet by a dashing man whether he is her partner or some stranger.
Beginning with a slew of catchy T-shirts, the pair moved on to design the ubiquitous Juicy velour tracksuits that swept through the fashion world leaving practically no celebrities unconverted.
To be romanced, to be loved by a Gemini is to be swept off your feet.
These people feel that the film received a wave of bad press and many just were swept up into the wave.
It was late at night, and as the car headlights swept the abandoned facility, the passengers saw what appeared to be two gleaming red eyes in the darkness,so theyleft the vehicle to investigate.
Throughout World War II, Red Wing shoes were swept up by the military and United States soldiers were outfitted with these sturdy boots.
You want to be swept off your feet, not stuck in your chair with your feet up.
Instead of relying on your bag to play off your shoes, go ahead and update your look with subtle metallic eye shadow or perhaps a shimmering highlighter swept across your cheekbones.
The rape, initially a spoil point for Laura's near perfect romance with her teenage husband Scotty, was eventually swept under the rug as the unique chemistry between the actors and the characters came to the forefront.
Soap opera viewers want to be transported and swept away by the storylines.
But eventually she will be swept back up into the world of vampires and taken on a journey she never even dreamed possible."
Find out why a tenacious little company swept past some of the bigger brands to become a front-runner in the race to capture the favor of watch lovers.
By keeping your wood floors swept and using a wood floor cleaner as recommended your floors will add beauty and value to your home for decades.
The dolls quickly became a phenomenon that swept across the United States and abroad.
Indie music means everything not swept up in that major label pool.
The popular television program has swept the nation, thanks in part to its catchy, playful pop songs.
The Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack is almost as popular as the movie that swept the Academy Awards.
High School Musical is a phenomenon that has swept across the nation, and the world, and has many pre-teens and teens falling in love with musicals like their parents before them.
Dorothy meets Ozma in the third book in the series, Ozma of Oz, as she is swept off an ocean liner and back into the magical realms.
But underlying most of that criticism seemed to be the hidden desire of every girl to get swept up in the arms of Edward Cullen themselves, and no other girl would ever really be right for that part.
LiveJournal Secrets was only one version of a much larger phenomenon that has swept the Internet since 2004 when PostSecret was founded.
As Russian troops poured into Abkhazia and later an invasion and partial occupation of Georgia, a massive cyber attack swept through Georgia, threatening to isolate the small country and its tremendous battle for freedom and sovereignty.
Taking her hand in his, he swept her gracefully into dance.
This one clung to him as if he were the only thing preventing her from being swept overboard.
Her gaze swept over them, stopping to rest on Damian.
Han's gaze swept over her before he retreated outside her door.
Sofia forced her own smile, noticing how Claire's gaze swept over her as if she were an uninvited insect in her bedroom.
Uneasiness swept over him.
His gaze swept over her in cold admiration as he spoke.
A hand swept the dark memories from her mind, and she sagged against Darian, feeling the same sense of peace overtake his mind.
Uncertain how to explain things, she turned and swept her pink-dyed hair from her back to show him the mating mark.
The consuming need to drink from him swept through her mind, dulling the rest of the world.
His dark eyes swept over her, lingering at her neck, where her wound had healed with Darkyn's power.
The ocean breeze made her dress move as if it was alive, and her pink hair swept across her features.
He grabbed her around the waist and swept her into his arms, holding the basket behind her.
A breeze swept over the tops of the trees to make them sway but didn't reach the still air of the forest floor.
Her gaze swept hungrily over his body as he strode across the room, away from her.
He swept up the pills and crushed them in his hand, then released the powder into the sink.
Hannah was beautiful in the model sense, with a slender form and large eyes that grew wider when they swept over him.
He met her gaze, and her body bloomed with warmth in response to the possessive gaze that swept over her from head to foot before his eyes settled on the demon.
Katie's gaze swept over her, and she was grateful to see her sister unharmed.
One counter was still standing next to the refrigerator tucked in a corner, and he swept the broken glass from the top to create a little work space.
Romas caught up to her and swept her into his arms for a quick kiss.
A'Ran's intense gaze swept over her before turning to the observers.
A'Ran's gaze swept over her, making her skin tingle with awareness.
Being so swept away, he couldn't be certain if he had been gentle enough.
She swept a hand through the air.
She snatched it and swept past him, popping it open as she neared a wall covered in a titanium glass screen.
Whoever kept her from falling swept her off her feet and placed her again on the hospital bed.
Mrs. Watson quietly swept their dirty plates away.
Her critical gaze swept over him with a frown.
A cool breeze swept over the river, and Lana shivered until they neared one of the spits, the one with the least amount of people there.
His blue gaze swept over her, lingering on the blood-soaked clothing she wore.
Gabriel's gaze swept around the room again, and he looked out at the blue sky. He'd never again visit this room or see the mortal world. This much he knew the moment he chose to help Rhyn and Katie over his promise to Death.
The ocean's cold breeze swept over him, and his thoughts turned from his dead mate to his best friend, Gabriel, who had tried to kill him then disappeared.
Rhyn stopped and knelt, placing his hands to the ground. Kris crossed his arms. A blast of energized air swept over him. Rhyn sat back.
Dean smiled in spite of himself as Fred swept the kitchen table clear of cups and cat, dropping a bulky folder and spilling its paper contents.
And so, with the radio on, she swept the floor and remembered the first time Alex had held her in his arms as they danced in the barn.
His gaze swept the country and came to rest on her.
His gaze swept the scene again and then he shook his head.
His magic swept through the orchard.
Darian's gaze swept over his mate's form.
Cold wind swept through the room.
His gaze swept over her body, lingering on her breasts, and she wished she'd stopped by the locker room to pull on a shirt instead of racing to get away from Darian.
She adjusted her clothing and weapons then swept the backpack up and trotted to the locker room.
She and Dusty had been platonic lovers, sharing a bed and their frustrations, until Bianca swept him away.
All signs of the palace were swept away, replaced by neat lines of apple trees that ran all the way to the beach beyond.
She might as well have been swept into the sea like the palace.
Her hand dropped, and she eyed a credenza that swept close to her head.
She stood where she was as Darian swept past her to the kitchen.
Jenn's gaze swept over Darian.
Her fingers swept over the cuff, and anger swirled through her again.
She rolled onto her back and swept his feet from beneath him, pouncing.
The warm-cool sensations swept past her.
The magic swept through her outward.
He was frozen in disbelief that bordered on horror then suddenly swept her up into his arms.
The heavy scent of fragrant sea swept over him, the chill of the ocean kept out of the city by its thick walls.
Taran's attention swept to the walls behind him, and he felt a pang of yearning and regret.
A cold chill of fear swept through her.
Moonlight glinted off the swords at his hip, and a cold ocean breeze swept up the Western Cliffs, rolled over them, and rustled the branches of the nearby forest.
Darkness swept through the chamber as Memon finished off the demon.
Alex swept her gracefully around the room again while the band played "The Last Waltz."
She stepped back quickly, but before she realized what he was going to do, he swept her into his arms.
His eerie red eyes swept over her again before he slid away, out of the kitchen.
He swept something over her eyelids.
She gasped at the intensity that turned her lower belly into a furnace and swept through her, making her achingly aware of his scent, the heat and smoothness of his skin, the size of his body and the hot mouth pressed against her neck.
Xander stood and swept her up into his arms.
He was swept away by the magic of Charles, who guided them to where the Others were.
A gust of cold, night air swept past her, and she hurried out.
And a warm emotion swept through him that he never before experienced.
But Clive was followed by two inefficient successors; and in 1770 occurred the most terrible Indian famine on record, which is credibly estimated to have swept away one-third of the population.
On the arrival of the news that Hyder had descended from the highlands of Mysore, cut to pieces the only British army in the field, and swept the Carnatic up to the gates of Madras, he at once adopted a policy of extraordinary boldness.
The force of the universe is swept up and gathered in God, who communicates motion to the parts of extension, and sustains that motion from moment to moment; and in the same way the force of mind has really been concentrated in God.
Such a reduced and impoverished star is a planet; and the several planets of our solar system are the several vortices which from time to time have been swept up by the central sun-vortex.
Alexander was not the only claimant to the vacant throne, but, recognized by the army, he soon swept all rivals from his path.
All its charters were annulled, its privileges and those of its gilds swept away, and a heavy fine imposed.
Towards the end of the 11th century, when the tide of Norman invasion swept upwards along the Wye valley, the district became a lordship marcher annexed to that of Brecknock, but was again severed from it on the death of William de Breos, when his daughter Matilda brought it to her husband, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore.
Where they consent to any practical custom from practical necessity they also consent because it is artistically right for them, and if it had not been artistically right they would have soon swept it away.
Epidemics of cholera, which occurred during the years of scarcity and famine, also swept away large numbers.
Kant swept away, so far as his influence extended, such " dogmatic metaphysics " and the old-fashioned theism which it constituted or included; but Kant himself introduced, in his own more sceptical yet also more moral type of theistic doctrine, a new trichotomy - God, Freedom, Immortality, the three " postulates " of the practical reason."
The old system was swept away by Peter the Great, who settled ecclesiastical jurisdiction substantially on its present basis.
Migne, following the example of the editors of bibliothecae patrum who preceded him, swept into his great collection all the Christian writings which fell within his period; but he is careful to state upon his title-page that his patrologies include the ecclesiastical writers as well as the fathers and doctors of the Church.
Reckless of consequences, he swept away the venerated ceremonial formalities which his ancestors had scrupulously observed, openly scoffed at ancient usage, habitually dressed in foreign costume, and generally chose foreign heretics as his boon companions.
Many believed, or affected to believe, in the pretender, and in a short time he gathered around him a large force of Cossacks, peasants, Tatars and Tchuvash, swept over the basin of the lower Volga, executed mercilessly the landed proprietors, seized and pillaged the town of Kazan, and kept the whole country in a state of alarm for more than a year.
The non-Russian frontier provinces (okrainas) had even before been under-represented (one member for every 350,000 inhabitants, as against one for every 250,000 in the central provinces); the members returned by Poland, the Caucasus and Siberia were now reduced from 89 to 39, those from the Central Asian steppes (23) were swept away altogether; the total number of deputies was reduced from 524 to 442.
But now that these external bases of the old religion were to be swept away, a reconstruction of religious ideas became necessary.
The external bases of Israel's religion had been swept away, and in exchange for these Jeremiah had led his countrymen to the more permanent internal grounds of a spiritual renewal.
In 40 B.C. Antony was absent in Egypt or Italy; and the Parthians swept down upon Syria with Antigonus in their train.
The country was also visited by a succession of famines and floods, and in 1348 the Black Death swept over Europe like a terrible scourge.
The many historical associations of Southwark, contemporary memorials of which are almost wholly swept away, centre upon the district bordering the river, and formerly known as Bankside.
Berenice's brother, Ptolemy III., who had just succeeded to the Egyptian throne, at once invaded the Seleucid realm and marched victoriously to the Tigris or beyond, receiving the submission of the eastern provinces, whilst his fleets swept the coasts of Asia Minor.
We cannot suppose that there occurred, at or about the commencement of the 19th century, a breach of historical continuity of such a character that institutions, customs, laws and social conventions were suddenly swept away, the bonds of society loosened, and the state and people of England dissolved into an aggregate of competing individuals.
Then one or two tactical blunders were committed; and the tsar, taking courage, enveloped the little band in a vast semicircle bristling with the most modern guns, which fired five times to the Swedes' once, and swept away the guards before they could draw their swords.
The whole of this plain has been formed by the debris swept down from the Alps by the rivers Po, Ticino, Oglio, Adda, Mincio, Adige, Brenta, Piave, Livenza, Tagliamento and Isonzo.
But it is nearly certain that long before Attila and his Huns swept down upon the Venetian plain the little islands of the lagoon already had a population of poor but hardy fisherfolk living in quasi-independence, thanks to their poverty and their inaccessible site.
Popular feeling at Venice ran so high that the state was rashly swept into war with the empire.
The city lies on Massachusetts bay, on what was once a pear-shaped peninsula attached to the mainland by a narrow, marshy neck, often swept by the spray and water.
Montgomery Field, until in 1903 the famous Boston Museum was swept away, as other interesting old places of entertainment (the old Federal Street theatre, the Tremont theatre, &c.) had been, in the course of further building changes.
On the 9th-1 oth of November 1872 a terrible fire swept the business part of the city, destroying hundreds of buildings of brick and granite, and inflicting a loss of some $75,000,000.
The Persians swept victoriously over Asia Minor and North Syria; not however without resistance on the part of Odenathus, who inflicted considerable losses on the bands returning home from the pillage of Antioch.
Thus it was on a kingdom of crusaders who had lost the crusading spirit that a new Crusade swept down; and Saladin's army in 1187 had the spirit and the fire of the Latin crusaders of 1099.
It became involved in a maelstrom of conflicting political motives, by which it was swept to Constantinople.
Many of the houses are roofless and untenanted; for, after five centuries of prosperity under Venetian or Hungarian rule, an outbreak of plague in 1456 swept away the majority of the townsfolk, and ruined the survivors.
The Federalists swept all before them, and the members of the opposition either retired from Philadelphia or went over to the government.
A terrible fire swept the central part of the city on the 12th of April 1908.
The oxidation, which is effected by chromic acid and sulphuric acid, is conducted in a flask provided with a funnel and escape tube, and the carbon dioxide formed is swept by a current of dry air, previously freed from carbon dioxide, through a drying tube to a set of potash bulbs and a tube containing soda-lime; if halogens are present, a small wash bottle containing potassium iodide, and a U tube containing glass wool moistened with silver nitrate on one side and strong sulphuric acid on the other, must be inserted between the flask and the drying tube.
This ancient civilization is supposed to have been swept away by Mahommedan conquerors; before that event the people, in the opinion of several travellers, professed a degraded form of Christianity, which they had acquired from their Abyssinian neighbours.
Of these the most remarkable was Piri Reis, nephew of Kamil Reis, the famous corsair who, under Bayezid II., had swept the Aegean and Mediterranean.
On the i r th of October, when they began their march, the road along the Danube was swept into the river, carrying with it several guns and teams, and hours were consumed in passing the shortest distances.
About noon the 2nd of February Napoleon attacked them, but the weather was terrible, and the ground so heavy that his favourite artillery, the mainstay of his whole system of warfare, was useless and in the drifts of snow which at intervals swept across the field, the columns lost their direction and many were severely handled by the Cossacks.
French centre near Amotz, where, after hard fighting, it swept away the 18,000 of the second line there opposed to it, cutting Soult's army in two.
The conflict about St Pierre (Lostenia) was one of the most bloody of the war; but for hours Hill maintained his ground, and finally repulsed the French before Wellington, delayed by his pontoon bridge over the Nive having been swept away, arrived to his aid.
When Beresford, who had now rejoined Wellington, had passed over, the bridge was swept away, which left him isolated on the right bank.
The water which bears the oxygen for respiration and the minute organisms upon which the Brachiopod feeds is swept into the mantle cavity by the action of the cilia which cover the arms, and the eggs and excreta pass out into the same cavity.
Christianity swept the whole discussion on to a higher plane.
Very soon, however, these relics of casuistry were swept away by the rising tide of common-sense.
Nevertheless it retained a separate administration for more than two centuries, until the general reforms of the grand-duke Pietro Leopoldo, the French domination, and finally the restoration swept away all differences between the Sienese and Florentine systems of government.
Louis Napoleon was taken into favour as England's faithful ally, and in a whirlwind of popular excitement the nation was swept into the Crimean War.
He at once became very popular with the students, but his political opinions made it impossible for the Saxon government to appoint him to a professorship. He was at that time a strong Liberal; he hoped to see Germany united into a single state with a parliamentary government, and that all the smaller states would be swept away.
Supposing a number of some species of arthropod or fish to be swept into a cavern or to be carried from less to greater depths in the sea, those individuals with perfect eyes would follow the glimmer of light and eventually escape to the outer air or the shallower depths, leaving behind those with imperfect eyes to breed in the dark place.
The inhabitants were unable to withstand the attacks of the disciplined Zulu warriors - or Matabele, as they were henceforth called - by whom large areas of central and western Transvaal were swept bare.
This swept the country up to the Swaziland border.
This swept the south-eastern Transvaal as French had done, and with no better effect, for Botha escaped.
First the country east of the line Bloemfontein-Vereeniging was swept four times over, then the method was employed in the Transvaal, east and west, and finally against the Cape rebels.
James remained in a fool's paradise till the last, and only awakened to his danger when William landed at Torbay (November 5, 1688) and swept all before him.
Such a charge as prelude to the advance of a great infantry bayonet attack must have swept the exhausted Prussians down the hill like sheep, but the opportunity passed, and the gunners finding their position untenable, limbered up, not without severe losses, and retired to a second position in rear.
But a pestilence broke out in the autumn of 212, which swept them clean away, and thinned the Roman ranks.
The act of 1899 swept away all these distinctions, and constituted the new borough councils in every case the overseers for every parish within their respective boroughs, except that the town clerk of each borough performs the duties of overseers with respect to the registration of electors.'
At the beginning of the 13th century the remarkable evangelical revival, instituted almost simultaneously by St Dominic and St Francis, swept over Europe.
Chaka next attacked the tribes on his southern border, and by 1820 had made himself master of Natal, which he swept almost clear of inhabitants.
Motion symmetrical about an Axis.-When the motion of a liquid is the same for any plane passing through Ox, and lies in the plane, a function ' can be found analogous to that employed in plane motion, such that the flux across the surface generated by the revolution of any curve AP from A to P is the same, and represented by 2s-4 -11'o); and, as before, if d is the increase in due to a displacement of P to P', then k the component of velocity normal to the surface swept out by PP' is such that 274=2.7ryk.PP'; and taking PP' parallel to Oy and Ox, u= -d/ydy, v=dl,t'/ydx, (I) and 1P is called after the inventor, " Stokes's stream or current function," as it is constant along a stream line (Trans.
Yet within recent years great alterations have been effected; in the newer quarters are several handsome streets and public buildings; in the centre many insanitary dwellings have been swept away, and their place occupied by imposing blocks of shops and business premises, and a magnificent new town-hall, erected in a dominant position.
If the whole of the soil in the British Islands were swept into the sea and the rocks beneath it laid bare the surface of the country would ultimately become covered again with soil produced from the rocks by the weathering processes just described.
First he swept down on the Bani Hanifa in Yemama, who with their rival prophet Mosailama (Mosailima) and 40,000 men were in arms. The battle of Yemama (633) was fierce and decisive.
Mongolian invasions and Mahommedan tyranny have, of course, long since swept away all traces of many of these.
The sea front was swept away, and the level of the land hereabouts was lowered.
The clouds of steam condensed to copious torrents, which, mingling with the fine ashes, proiced muddy streams that swept far and wide over the plains, aching even to the foot of the Apennines.
For a moment, when the tide of Western civilization swept over Japan, the NO seemed likely to b permanently submerged.
In time, however, and especially during the 12th century, high tides and north-west storms swept away the western banks of the Vlie and submerged great tracts of land.
Arrived at the summit, Bredow sounded "line to the front," but at that moment a storm of French bullets swept down on them, and the men, no longer to be restrained, dashed forward, before the line could be completed, almost due east against long lines of infantry and artillery which they now saw for the first time about 1200 yards in front of them.
This distance was covered at the fullest extended speed of the horses, and reaching the infantry they swept over them "like hounds over a fence" - in the words of an eyewitness.
Almost as the commands were given, the French suddenly opened an overwhelming long-range fire and their bullets swept like hail through the crowded mass of the German troops.
He was in the act of issuing his orders when a psychological wave swept through the fighting-line, and the men rose and rushed the village at the point of the bayonet.
This was stopped almost entirely by the Prussian artillery fire; but the news of its coming spread through the stragglers in the ravine south of the great road, and a wave of panic again swept through the mass, many thousands bolting right upon the front of their own batteries, thus masking their fire at the most critical moment, and something like a crisis in the battle arose.
This brought the strength of his command up to eight corps, numbering some 220,000 men; an enormous mass to feed in a district swept bare of supplies by the operations of the preceding week, and with only one railway line, terminating at Courcelles, to depend upon.
At the same time the ancient graveyards round the city were swept smooth and levelled; obstructions were demolished, outworks constructed, and the defences generally renovated.
If there were strong currents at the bottom of the ocean the uniform accumulation of the deposit of minute shells of globigerina and radiolarian ooze would be impossible, the rises and ridges would necessarily be swept clear of them, and the fact that this is not the case shows that from whatever cause the waters of the depths are set in motion, that motion must be of the most deliberate and gentlest kind.
In exceptional cases, when a strong deep current does flow over a rise, as in the case of the Wyville Thomson Ridge, the bottom is swept clear of fine sediment.
It was in no small degree due to his stanch and unwavering leadership that the Church was saved from the peril of being overwhelmed by the rising tide of the pagan revival which swept over Asia during the first half of the 2nd century, and it was his unfaltering allegiance to the Apostolic faith that secured the defeat of the many forms of heresy which threatened to destroy the Church from within.
The first parliament of the reign swept away almost all the species of treasons created during the previous two centuries, the heresy acts, including the Six 1547- Articles, all limitations on printing the Scriptures in 1553.
The right wing, of the French cavalry was swept off the field by Johann von Weert's charge, but the German troopers, intoxicated with success, dispersed to plunder.
Against the squares the horsemen were powerless, and failing to break a single square, they were finally swept off the plateau by fresh allied horsemen.
Some were readmitted into the Catholic Church, and one, Durandus de Osca (1210), attempted to found an order of Pauperes Catholici, which was the forerunner of the order of St Dominic. Many were swept away in the crusade against the Albigenses.
This wave of enthusiasm spread from Northampton, Mass., till it swept New England.
The provincial councils had been swept away in 1876, and their functions divided between the central authority and small powerless local bodies.
The Reformation, the religious wars and the Revolution have swept away nearly all the canons regular, but some of their houses in Austria still exist in their medieval splendour.
The Liberal party was almost swept away, and Sir John, on his return to power, put his policy into effect with a thoroughness that commanded the admiration even of his opponents, who, after long resistance, adopted it on their accession to office in 1896.
Rinderpest and other epidemic diseases swept over the country in 1895-1896, and during the war of1899-1902the province was practically denuded of live stock.
But the treaty was swept away with the outbreak of the wars with France, and accordingly the old system was still in force in 1815.