Of course it was a bit startling to see a fellow go head over heels into a torrent along with a moke and be swept away; but I don't believe old Melk was half so much frightened as I was.
I find a whole race of prima donnas swept away; Pasta gone and Malibran dead, and their successor, Grisi, does not charm and enchant me as they did, especially when I hear her compared to the former noble singer and actress.
If an inundation should come within the next two or three years millions of florins' worth of property might beswept away in a single night.
And it was all Catholicism, in fact all Christianity, that would be swept away, for, apart from certain moral maxims, the Gospel no longer supplied a possible code for society.
It was said that Prada had recently had grave cause for anxiety; and indeed there was no longer any solidity to be found; everything might be swept away by the financial crisis which day by day was becoming more and more serious.
A hawker who was wheeling some cheeses about on a small truck saw his goods carried off as if swept away by the wind.
If all the rest are gone, swept away, wiped out clean like figures on a slate, then why we should have happened to survive whatever it was that struck the earth, is still a riddle far beyond our comprehension.
For it must be only a matter of time, and no very long time at that, when exhaustion and starvation would weaken him and when he must inevitably be swept away.
Certainly, the brightest names in the galaxy of American statesmen are not to be swept away by the filthy torrent of his invectives.
This second assumption, therefore, that polygamy and divorce are known to be sins by moral principles and not by prohibitory precepts, is swept away by the words of Christ, and the teaching of the Holy Ghost.
Greece is free; the rule both of the Frank and of the Turk is gone; but that is no reason why the memorials of either Frank or Turk should be swept away.
Let not a wall be touched, let not a stone be swept away, which still lives to tell how many times and by how many hands Was Corinth lost and won.
The erections on Bath Island and in the Rapids were to be swept away.
In the spring of the next year this bridge was swept away by the large cakes of ice coming down the river.
There is every reason to presume that originally there were stations along the coast of the North Sea as well as that of the Baltic, but by the gradual undermining of the cliffs they have all been swept away.
And she felt vanquished, overcome with awe, swept away as it were herself; thrust aside by the victorious flow of everlasting Fruitfulness.
But what an overwhelming blow it was both for the mother and for the father, all whose dreams and calculations it swept away!
I will not despair, for my heart tells me you will be true to me even through many long years of separation--if such fate has decreed us--and that in answer to your prayers the barrier between us will one day be swept away.
If the owner of the property let on hire repels such an adjudication of his rights, he is plainly warned that they shall be swept away altogether, and the insolvent debtor be made the owner of what he borrowed.
Not only has the cattle been swept away, together with millions of the agricultural population, but those who survive are without capital and without physical strength.
If we take God for ours, then whatever tempests may howl, and whatever fragile though fragrant joys may be swept away, we shall find in Him all that the world 'fails to give to its votaries.
We, we can see Jesus, with no incapacity except such as may be swept away by His grace and our will.
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