Deep narrow canyons and high wind-swept slopes of Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and Santa Catalina islands, California; on Guadalupe Island off the coast of Lower California.
Texas, limestone cliffs and the rocky bottoms of canyons periodically sweptby floods, and in deep narrow ravines, along the lower Pecos River and in the neighborhood of its mouth, Valverde County; and in northeastern Mexico.
In other places, still, there were vast masses of ice covering many acres, and buried beneath a great depth of morainic material which had been swept down upon it while joined to the main glacier.
Like a mighty whirlwind it swept by them, careening perilously on the sloping edge of the road.
The matrimonial stampede swept caution and consequences into a general heap, and delivered a community of the backwardness that threatened to become a menace to posterity.
Anderson swept past; his chin up, his legs working like piston-rods.
He lurked behind the corners of buildings; he peered sharply from the off-side of telephone poles as the big limousineswept haughtily by.
It swept away ancient streets and houses, picturesque courts and corners--a fine new thoroughfare built over the ruins of historic walls and pavements.
Precious architectural and historical relics wereswept away to make room for brand-new buildings.
The house where Balzac died once stood close there too, up against an ancient chapel--all long swept away.
Of the old streets once along the course of the modern Rue du Pont-Neuf all traces have been swept away.
In its passage here as elsewhere Boulevard Raspail has swept away venerable buildings.
It has sweptaway a whole district of ancient streets.
Others have been swept away to make room for up-to-date thoroughfares, shops and dwellings.
The modern Rue du Quatre-Septembre has swept away many an interesting old thoroughfare.
Of the houses in the vicinity of the church many are ancient, others are on the site of abbey buildings swept away.
Boileau's Paris home was here in a street long swept away.
New streets were built, old erections swept away: Avenue de Clichy, in part the Grande Rue of the district, was first planted with trees in 1705.
The church was opened, dried, and sweptclean a few days before Christmas Eve, and on the morning all the women and children of the village were busy decorating it with festoons of leaves and wild flowers.
The current, however, did not reach the middle of the main stream, but swept along nearer to the southern shore.
About eleven o'clock I was awakened by a horrible uproar, as a hurricane of wind suddenly swept over from the opposite shore.
A furious current swept along the coast, eating into the crumbling earthy banks, and strewing the river with debris of the forest.
One disease after another succeeded, until in 1855 cholera swept through the country and caused fearful havoc.
Creon, we feel, gets no more than he deserves; instead of being sorry for him, we are only angry that he was not swept away into the dustheap of oblivion sooner.
Lucius Paulus AEmilius, we are told, after the battle of Pydna, swept Greece, and coming to Olympia, saw the Pheidian Zeus.
The next age he calls the Silver, for it was inferior to the first; and Zeus speedily swept it away, seeing that the men of this generation waxed insolent, and paid no honor to the gods.
He thought of her without emotion when he thought of her at all, for only women may know the agony of love enduring after the foundation upon which it was built has been swept away.
Crimson and golden leaves rained from the maples, and the purple winds of Autumn swept them into drifts at the roadside.
A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design.
An expression of sheer terror might have been observed on the old negro's crinkled face, but his voice was drowned, and weswept out of the alley.
Back into the dim centuries that music led me, into candle-lit Gothic chapels of monasteries on wind-swept heights above the firs, and cathedrals in mediaeval cities.
And like an overwhelming wave of emotion that swept all before it, the impressiveness of wealth took possession of me.
I cried, seizing her hands convulsively, and swept by a gust of passion at her confession.
And, instead of qualms, I felt nothing but relief, joy that I had been swept along by the flood of feeling.
And now it's just life that's got hold of us, my dear, andswept us away together.
I knew then that it was her soul I loved most; I had been swept all unwittingly to its very altar.
I hesitated just a second, swept by the heat wave that follows sudden shyness, embarrassment, a sense of folly it is too late to avert.
Death pollution lasts for sixteen days, and on the morning of the sixteenth day the hut of the dead person is well swept and cleansed by sprinkling water mixed with cowdung.
They swept the house from top to bottom and furnished it magnificently, after which three black slaves and the like number of white and four slave-girls abode with him, to serve him, and the rest returned to their master's house.
James had swept a space clear on the table, and was arranging some stationery.
The smaller bushes were uprooted and swept along, but the trees and saplings held their own.
Bennington took the broom from her and swept until the cessation of the flood made it no longer necessary.
The gulch had been swept bare by the flood, not only of every representative of the vegetable world, but also of the very earth in which it had grown.
A torrent of water, which fell in the night time, overwhelmed and destroyed many persons, and much baggage; a great part even of the royal equipage was swept away.
Adelaide swept from the room like a queen who had issued commands none dared to gainsay, carrying off Hester with her.
These three nights I have started up wide awake as the gale swept by at midnight, besieging the house so furiously that everything in-doors shook and trembled.
At last, as a blast of the night wind, keener than ordinary, swept over him, he seemed for the first time to feel the chill.
The door was opened that the serving-men might rush to the rescue, but the wind swept like a tornado through the hall, tiles were rattling from the house-top, bricks tumbling from the chimneys.
The curtains were half-drawn, the floor was swept And strewn with rushes; rosemary and may Lay thick upon the bed on which I lay, Where through the lattice ivy-shadows crept.
Within a second or two after the pause of the horse's feet, a cannon-ball swept through the spot where he and his horse would have been but for the interruption.
Then she looked up at the two men as they stood side by side, and perhaps swept them both in an instant's comparison.
He gazed at that hand and a flush swept up over his cheek which instantly became ghastly again.
A breath of wind--the first he had felt that night--had swept in through some crevice in the curving wall, flapping the canvas enveloping the great car.
The priests turned the tide against the white men; and, after two days, the answer to the summons came in a warlike sortie from the city which well nighswept the Spanish defenders from the dykes.
Henry swept priest and friar from his kingdom with the same blow; but the trimming Charles banished the intellectual Jesuit whilst he saved and screened the lazy monk.
They swept the lake continually and cut off supplies designed for the capital.
Accordingly, in an evil moment for his cause, he commenced a retreat, after having remained several days in sight of the beautiful city of Mexico, upon which he might easily have swept down from the mountain like an eagle to his prey.
Whilst the events we have related were occurring in the interior, Commodore Perry had swept down the coast and captured Tobasco, which, however, owing to its unhealthiness, was not long retained by the Americans.
We didn't propose to stand on the defensive, and after a vast volley that swept a lot of them away we fixed bayonets and rushed to meet them.
Thunders of applause swept through the hall as the speaker finished.
Warned by these ominous signs, the natives rush to secure their property from being swept away by the fury of the blast.
The last motive for sparing him would be swept away, and--so the boy thought--the duty of reporting him would now become a satisfaction.
The lords and gentlemen made their reverences, bows and knees; they swept round in their coloured assembly, and the Queen stood very tall and straight, watching their departure with saddened eyes.
There was such a violent hatred in her tone that the King could bring no word out, and she swept on-- 'Could even a man be such a dull villain?
But these were mostly the cleaners of dishes and the women that swept rooms and spread new rushes.
But almost immediately another line swarmed up out of the smoke and swept forward, and this time, although the same flank and frontal fire caught and smote it, the line straggled and swayed forward and plunged into and over the German trench.
The Germans contested it stoutly, and the bombers had to keep below the level of the ground and strictly to the trench, because above-ground was being swept by a hurricane of rifle and machine-gun fire from both sides.
They swept not only the open ground and trenches where the raiders were attacking, but far up and down the line.
But there were no more shells for the moment, and the rattle of machine-gun fire diminished and the bullets piped thinner and more distant as the gun muzzle swept round.
Next moment the plane swept overhead with a rush, and was gone back towards the lines before Rabbie could well look up.
And at that a riot of thoughts swept the Corporal’s mind.
He and about forty others, with two officers, had tried to hold the battered remnant of trench they were occupying, and did actually continue to hold it after the rush of the German front had swept far past them.
His old friend's illness swept away the last vestige of his resentment.
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