Word: swept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that great mysterious individuality which those old families of New England hold within themselves. His powers of language and of the use of the most familiar and unfamiliar words were unequalled. His hold on a jury was that of absolute magnetism. All this school of oratory was swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker, but a member of the United States Senate. How that was I can not tell, but it always imparted...
Next morning Thomas in turn attacked. Again the Union charge was invincible. Though ordered to pause at the first line, the troops swept on to the very top of Missionary Ridge, in a resistless wave. Hooker took the enemy in the flank, and on the distant left, Sherman completed the victory...
...Browning. In spite of his later popularity and the widespread study of his works by clubs and classes, Browning would, beyond these readers, naturally be regarded as rather "caviare" to the many. It is therefore remarkable that the whole of a large first edition of this book should be swept off immediately upon publication, and the publishers compelled to go to press at once with a second edition to supply the demand...
Kilpatrick got two yards to the good on the first brush, but Hollister had him caught in half a dozen strides, and for 50 yards or so the two swept toward the tape together. Gradually Hollister forged ahead, gaining inch by inch, and won in splendid form, a yard and a half ahead of his competitor...
...these lines of psychical and aesthetic distinction more or less clearly in view; to grasp as well as I could and to illustrate such laws of criticism as seemed to me perennial in their application, and to leave aside as rubbish that dead leafage of deciduous facts which is swept rustling to and fro in the avenues of thought by the shifting breath of opinion...