The Reformers tried to make a clean sweepof the "social evil.
To sweep away the vast hierarchy of angels and canonized persons that made Catholicism quasi-polytheistic, and to preach pure monotheism was in the spirit of the time and is a phenomenon for which many parallels can be found.
The seniors from Wellesley press their kisses high up on the face, almost under the sweep of the eyelash, and the Lake Forest and Harvard Annex maidens kiss at a point equally distant from the nose and ear.
At one house where I called, the lady wanted her garden cleared of fallen leaves, and offered me twenty-five cents and my breakfast to sweep the said leaves into a corner and set fire to them, which could be done in half an hour.
This man would build the fire up when a disfavoured lodger was in the middle of cooking a meal, and thensweep the dusty floor when he was at his meals.
The nearest approach to work of any kind was that two men were commissioned each day to fetch food from the galley and to sweep the forecastle--the latter duty not to be strictly enforced.
The referee, bending over him, began to count the seconds, emphasizing the passage of each second with a downward sweep of his right arm.
He struggled to his feet, swaying back and forth as he tried to sweep the audience with his hatred.
I assured her that I had been a sweep from infancy—that I had swept a chimney when I was only five years old—that I had no parents—that my master beat me cruelly—and that I had had nothing to eat since the morning before.
The chimney-sweep business has well-nigh blown over, if not quite; and it's high time to begin a new dodge.
You might as well ask the Lords to abolish hereditary aristocracy, or the King to dethrone himself, as expect the Houses of Parliament to sweep away the Chancery Court.
The life that I led when I gave up the chimney-sweep business, did not certainly tend to improve my health.
I never allow no butter-fingered girls in this room, except to sweep or scrub, under my own eye.
Her eyes lingered affectionately on that picture as the wagonette drove away by the broad gravel sweep towards the avenue; and those two figures in the sunlight haunted her memory in the days to come.
The three girls, and the chubby Eva, had alighted from the car, which was being conveyed to the stables at a hand-gallop, and this conversation was continued on the broad gravel sweep in front of the Abbey.
Rylance had an eye that could sweep over horizons other than are revealed to the average gaze, and he told himself that so lovely a woman as Ida Palliser must inevitably become the fashion in that particular society which Dr.
She may marry again, and want to make a cleansweep of old associations.
It is tall, spreads very wide, and its branchessweep to within ten feet of the ground.
We dismounted, handed our mounts to their syces, and prepared to make afoot a clean sweep of the wide, shallow ravine.
Did the victims rise up in a body and capture that hose nozzle and turn the stream to sweep the decks?
We saw wonderful sunrises and sunsets, and always spread out before us was the sweep of our plains and the unbroken ramparts that hemmed us in.
In face of every difficulty the Allies had crept forward, first across the Sinai Desert, then, after long delays, through the Turkish defences of the south, and then in a bold sweep to the gates of the Holy City.
To their great sweep from Amiens to Mons was due especially the triumph which Foch had won, and on that grey November morning their worn ranks could await the final hour with thankfulness and pride.
During those four years the British Fleet never ceased to carry great armies over sea; to sweep every ocean clean, and guard the territories along their shores; to shut up the hostile Empire within an impassable barrier.
They then redoubled their efforts to sweep away the snow obstructing the door.
Some with spy-glasses in their hands, a-watching us sweep by them like a house afire.
At Kingston the towing-path changes to the Surrey shore, and the river takes a bold sweeptowards Teddington.
The clean sweep of old Queen's and of the mass of buildings that made way for the Radcliffe, must have tempted many a common room.
But in reaching Silvertown we have almost missed the finesweep of Woolwich Reach, which is just as long as the Albert Dock, and is one of the most beautiful stretches of the Thames.
You instinctively expect to see the spinnakers taken in, and to see the swift cutters lie hard over to the mainsail and foresail they sweep round the buoy.
The low sweep of their bulwark makes it astonishing that they can ever go to sea without being swept, even when the enormous boards are hung in position to keep out the rush of water and to stiffen the vessel.
Like magic the vanguard of the sea gains the limit, and soon the wide sweep from Southend to Canvey becomes a shallow dimpled lake.
The water formed a little cascade in these menacing straits, and the strength and rapidity of the current would sweep away small boats, and leave their occupants little chance of their lives.
We watched anxiously to see where it would rise, conscious of the perils of such a neighbourhood, and that even a playful movement, a random sweep of the tail, while pursuing its gigantic pastime, would be sufficient to destroy us.
Meanwhile, the current continued to sweep us steadily onward toward the shore, the outlines of which became every moment more distinct.
Hooker then disposed his troops to sweep Missionary Ridge toward the north.
He had sent Geary's division and Whitaker's brigade of Cruft's division to Wauhatchie to cross Lookout creek and then to sweep down the right bank, to clear it of the enemy and cover the crossing of the remaining forces.
As the increasing roar of musketry indicated the sweep of the battle to the east, the anxiety for its revelation on the open ground became intense.
Those assaulting Missionary Ridge had Chickamauga to avenge and Lookout Mountain to surpass, and the firm and resolute sweep of the charging column for more than a mile expressed in advance the resistless character of the attack.
The path led straight up a rugged sweep of loose chunks of pumice-stone, and for about every two steps forward we took, we slid back one.
It is handsomely and neatly fitted up, but no man could handle it well in the turbulent currents that sweep down the Bosporus from the Black Sea, and few men could row it satisfactorily even in still water.
In the lapping of the waves upon the beach, he hears the dip of ghostly oars; in the secret noises of the night he hears spirit voices; in the soft sweep of the breeze, the rush of invisible wings.
The upper gallery which encircles the inner sweep of the dome is two hundred and forty feet above the floor of the church--very few steeples in America could reach up to it.
On the shallowest pretenses he would inveigle us into shirt stores, boot stores, tailor shops, glove shops--anywhere under the broad sweep of the heavens that there seemed a chance of our buying anything.
To-night we are camping near the same valley, and have a very wide sweep of it in view.
It is twenty or thirty feet long, and is narrow and deep, like a canoe; its sharp bow and stern sweepupward from the water like the horns of a crescent with the abruptness of the curve slightly modified.
Bosambo approached him, lifted his brush, peered down, then with a sweep of his arm he drew the N'gombi chief to him.
The leader leapt at him, but the watchman parried the blow skilfully and brought the blade of his spear down as a man of olden times might sweep his battle-axe.
Then, to my surprise, the lean and scrawny figure of the cooper emerged from the darkness, and stepping high over the snow, entered the barn, Abner sending the door to behind him with a mighty sweep of the arm.
Looking up at him, I realized for the first time how beautiful a creature was this common black thief of ours--how splendid his strength and the sheen of his coat, how proudly graceful the sweep and curves of his great slow wings.
All at once she made a bound past us and ran to the doors, furiously digging her fingers in the crevice between them, then, with a superb sweep of the shoulders, sending them both rattling back on their wheels with a bang.
They seem sometimes to sweepup from the very dungeons themselves, and--" "Well?
Then did the solitary man at the rope for the first time awaken to his own situation; with a backward sweep of the arm he struck so fiercely the foremost of those to rush at him that the fellow fell, hitting hard the stone floor.
It was patent that he had made a clean and secret sweepof everything before he disappeared.
On a given day all the farmers in a locality would assemble and sweepacross the country in converging lines, driving the rabbits by scores of thousands into a prepared enclosure, where they were clubbed to death by men and boys.
It will come with a rush that must sweep away every obstacle before it.
It rushed on to sweep them away, crying out that all this shrinking from free discussion had been at bottom 'a mere treason to faith.
But she turned and walked beside him pointing out the crags at the head, the great sweep of High Fell, and the pass over to Ullswater with as much sang-froid as she was mistress of.
On the contrary, as she saw Catherine sweep a mass of miscellaneous débris off a chair in search of a seat, the small bright eyes would twinkle with something that was certainly nearer amusement than shame.
But just at that moment a loud wave of conversation and of laughter seemed to sweep down upon them from the other end of the table, and their little private eddy was effaced.
He tried to begin on this or that, and gave up everything with a groan, wandering out again to the gate on the wood-path to sweep the distances of road or field with hungry, straining eyes.
From the cathedral parapet, there was a view of the distant forts, and a horizontal sweep of the unharvested, buff-brown moorlands.
