Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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General Daniel Pratt appeared yesterday with a new and "classic" poem, in which the "dashing, crashing waves" sweep over the "omniscient heads of the mountains...
...cleverly does this writer dispel with a sweep of the pen all the arguments of the ministry against dancing. "If the Rev. Mr. Harris," he says, "who so grossly insulted all devotees of dancing at his church in this city last Sunday night, would lower himself enough to look down upon one such scene as this, he would at least be compelled to confess that the human form is capable of more poetry than can be found at the average gossipy tea drinks." And then with a grand burst of philosophical sentiment he exclaims, "And does a creating Divinity forbid...
...Boston city election yesterday resulted a clean sweep for the Democracy, mayor, the entire aldermanic board and school committee, and a majority of the common council being of that faith. The majority for mayor is 2187; for license, over...
With jutting wall and roof's long sweep...
...with a bold and steady rhythmic sweep...