Word: swept
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Rhine sweeps by, as it swept of yore...
...they swept her out to Ocean...
...Swept upon the Western shores...
...importance. Who has not been driven from his books by the advent of the daily hag, more ugly than the witches in Macbeth, showing in her own person an utter contempt for cleanliness, and secretly wondering at the foolishness of a man who cares to have his carpet swept and his table dusted? Yet how can the unfortunate goody be expected to know how to take proper care of a room? Possibly in her early years she was in service with some respectable housekeeper, but all visions of that time have grown dim through the long vista of years during...
...crumbling dust is likewise swept away...