"Sweeping" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Meridian, aiming to reach the latter place by February 10th. General Banks will feign on Pascagoula and General Logan on Rome. I want you with your cavalry to move from Colliersville on Pontotoc and Okolona; thence sweeping down near the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, disable that road as much as possible, consume or destroy the resources of the enemy along that road, break up the connection with Columbus, Mississippi, and finally ...
— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan
... Stretched in a long line, they rode in on a big wave. Billy and Pete leaped forward. Assisted by the men, the girls tottered up the sand, gathered into a little group, talking among themselves. Their wet draperies clung to them in long, sweeping lines; but they dried with amazing quickness. The sun grew hotter and hotter. Their transient flash of animation died ...
— Angel Island • Inez Haynes Gillmore
... gathered that he was going down to the police station. As soon as he had left she sprang up and went out into the garden. The long and seemingly endless night was at least over, and surely with daylight they might hope for news of Margaret. The morning had broken cold and chilly, but the mist was sweeping away in great rolling clouds before a light easterly breeze that had sprung up ...
— The Rebellion of Margaret • Geraldine Mockler
... the direction which seemed right, he tapped the ribs of the mustang with his heels, and he broke at once into a sweeping gallop, which, if rightly directed, was sure to carry him to his destination in ...
— The Great Cattle Trail • Edward S. Ellis
... mercy! Here's de teacher! Chil'en run and fetch a chair; 'Fo' you come back dress yourselves, An' git the keards and com' yer hair." Sweeping over, children scattered, Dogs and cats sent to the rear, Uncle Tom, his pipe resuming, Once more settled in ...
— The American Missionary -- Vol. 48, No. 10, October, 1894 • Various
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