"Sweep up" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through watchful waiting in Mexico; when we get into war with England over some frivolous deed, or with Japan or China or New Jersey or some distant country. Then I will march up to the cannon's mouth; I will sweep up among the glistening bayonets; I will leap into the arena and tear down the flag and bear it away in triumph. I will come home with stars on my shoulder, and hold every office in the gift of the nation, and I will be great." No, you won't. You think you ...
— Acres of Diamonds • Russell H. Conwell
... sidings an' help 'em entrain, An' we sweep up their mess through the bloomin' campaign, ...
— Barrack-Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling
... Strong arrived to speak to Roger and Astro, he found them in the tunnel, working as a team of a shoveler and a sweeper. Roger would sweep up a little pile of dirt and Astro would shovel ...
— Sabotage in Space • Carey Rockwell
... some years the elder of Jonas. The ceiling was that greasy wi' smoke, that the whitewashin' as it dried 'as pealed off, and came down just about. You look up—the ceilin' is ten times worse than afore. It looks as if it were measly. I wouldn't sweep up the flakes as fell off just to let Jonas see what comes of his foolishness. I told him it would be so, but he wouldn't believe me, and now let him see for ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... enemy would be unable to sweep up the minefield, owing to its distance (over 200 ...
— The Crisis of the Naval War • John Rushworth Jellicoe
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