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1. Her day had been eventful and she ended it with a swathe of new possibilities
2. Roidon woke to see the stars; as clear as pinpoints, in blues, yellows and oranges amidst the swathe of the milky way
3. German bullets dogged our footsteps there and we could hear the swish of them as they cut a swathe through the grass behind us
4. Above, they had a projected view of space outside: brilliant scattering of stars, the swathe of the Milky Way
5. swathe of black, she ported, reappearing to block his path
6. A swathe of pink chiffon draped over the offending flesh was rather fetching, she thought – not stopping to wonder what it would fetch
7. left forearm against her forehead wiping away a hefty swathe of
8. handing ‘a handing’ of a gargantuan swathe of land and nations
9. craned her head and stood up, her hair haloed by the swathe of light above the
10. This was what cross-country skiing was all about! Away from the busy downhill slope, enjoying the tranquillity of the mountains, cutting a swathe through fresh snow
11. If my power of pen can cut a sword’s swathe through the misperceptions and deceptions of their trompe l’oeil world, at least I’ll have some decent company for a change
12. swathe of hair back from her face before directing a
13. As it passed Manfred’s staff, it seemed to take on new energy and become a hot tornado that cut a swathe through the snow blocking their way
14. The riders cut a swathe through their ranks, hacking off limbs or heads of the foot soldiers
15. She madly wanted her little brother of four to let her swathe him and stifle him in her love; she went to church reverently, with bowed head, and quivered in anguish from the vulgarity of the other choir-girls and from the common-sounding voice of the curate; she fought with her brothers, whom she considered brutal louts; and she held not her father in too high esteem because he did not carry any mystical ideals cherished in his heart, but only wanted to have as easy a time as he could, and his meals when he was ready for them
16. During the following night they were awakened by a terrific crashing and splintering noise coming from their minute jungle; when some of the bolder spirits went to investigate in the morning they found that the trees had been smashed in a broad swathe that started on the hubmost shore of the atoll and made a line of total destruction pointing precisely Edgewise, littered with broken lianas, crushed bushes and a few bewildered and angry oysters
17. On the roadway which they were approaching whilst still speaking beyond the swingchains a horse, dragging a sweeper, paced on the paven ground, brushing a long swathe of mire up so that with the noise Bloom was not perfectly certain whether he had caught aright the allusion to sixtyfive guineas and John Bull
18. He clambered into his bunk and rolled himself well up in the blankets, and slumber gathered him forthwith, as a swathe of barley is folded into the arms of the reaping machine
19. One of them, known as the Hallam Nebraska tornado, left a swathe of destruction up to 4 km (2
20. And inside the shiny automobile sat Joseph with his pink, healthy face and his Panama hat, and a little camera cradled on his lap as he drove; a swathe of black silk pinned around the left upper arm of his tan coat
21. Head for any natural fire break—such as where there is a swathe through the trees, where the flames should be stopped
22. To swathe her shoulders in the furs,
1. Some miles to the south of London, nestling in the gently rolling, green swathed hills of the Surrey Downs, there stands an old country manor house, which boasts the thickest of stone walls, a small but nonetheless impressive little tower and ornate white painted wooden gables
2. rolling, green swathed hills of the Surrey Downs, there stands an
3. with heads swathed in bandages, wrists in slings and
4. The idea frightened her, yet mindlessly, she took the route of least resistance and submitted to a lesson, wrapping gauze about the nurse’s hands when from a doorway emerged the doctor with Herminia swathed from the neck up in bandages, save for her eyes and mouth
5. My ears, swathed in the helmet as it were, caught the high-pitched notes of some garbled reply
6. dormant and swathed in ash, only a short distance from the palace remains
7. The hair that swathed his animal body almost flying in the wind as he landed on Adrinius with his two front paws on his chest
8. position, his upper body was swathed in bandages, leaving only his arms and shoulders
9. In the canyons between the skyscrapers the traffic crawled slowly along, swathed in the haze of exhaust fumes and the odours from the overheated pavements
10. A bevy of tight perms, tweed costumes, well-aligned stockings, sensible shoes, silk blouses and modest strings of pearls, shared hostess duties with a few couturier clad bosoms swathed in yards of silk, stiletto-heels, smart hats, handbags, and demurely clasped gloves
11. He was swathed in a blue and white bath
12. An older monk, swathed with yellow robes so loose and flowing that his hands were not visible, silently and serenely entered the hall, escorted by yet another monk, taller and of middle-years, with the classic shaven head of the Chan monks and nuns
13. He had swathed himself in a thick pullover, a tweed jacket, and what Smiles calls his
14. He shouted over the din and a figure appeared, swathed in bedclothes and carrying his staff of office
15. He was shocked to think his white and golden one, his little image of living ivory and living gold, must needs on a day like this be swathed about in such fumes, must sit in them and breathe them, and that his communings with her were going to be conducted through a heavy curtain of what seemed to be different varieties of cabbage and all of them malignant
16. Would he, only remembering she was grand ducal, regard it as an insult and want to fight Tussie? The vision of poor Tussie, weak, fevered, embedded in pillows, swathed in flannel, receiving bloodthirsty messages of defiance from Fritzing upset her into more tears
17. She tried to raise her head to examine her injuries but could do so only sufficiently to see that the lower part of her leg was swathed in bandages and that the end of the mattress was soaked in blood
18. Eve was in a private room, lying in bed, flat on her back, swathed in bandages, tubes connected to her body like obscene appendages
19. The store stretched before me, dark and swathed in shadows
20. it?” The cabin was still swathed in dark shadows
21. The mourners, too, enveloped and swathed in their skirts and gowns, were unable to bestir themselves, and so with entire safety to himself Don Quixote belaboured them all and drove them off against their will, for they all thought it was no man but a devil from hell come to carry away the dead body they had in the litter
22. swathed in linen cloth, lying there many centuries,
23. Annie swathed the bottle in an old flannel pit-singlet, and kissed her mother good-night
24. When they had all gone, Paul fetched the swathed loaf, unwrapped it, and surveyed it sadly
25. The desiccated loaf remained swathed up in the scullery
26. Swathed in blood–soaked linen, his head was resting on a folded pillow
27. D'Arcy came from the pantry, fully swathed and buttoned, and in a repentant tone told them the history of his cold
28. There were several large jobs to be tendered for at the same time, so Rushton sent the specifications round to Hunter's house for him to figure out the prices, and nearly all the time that Misery was at home he was sitting up in bed, swathed in bandages, trying to calculate the probable cost of these jobs
29. Caris opened the bag and took out a small object swathed in wool
30. Swathed in pink industrial plastic, the dead await their champion—Linden of the Lake
31. He grimaced at the thought, although the expression was fortuitously hidden by the thick, triple-knitted Angora lizard wool muffler which swathed his face to the eyes
32. Standing in the window we saw that his left hand was swathed in a bandage and that his face was very grim and pale
33. Captain Mitchell, helpless as a swathed infant, looked anxiously at the sixty-guinea gold half-chronometer, presented to him years ago by a Committee of Underwriters for saving a ship from total loss by fire
34. Much good this did her, for that worthy matron, her sleeves rolled up, her stout figure swathed in a large apron, gave her one write your mother today and tell her how much we need you, and I’m sure she’ll sharp look and said: “Don’t let me hear any more such foolishness, Scarlett Hamilton
35. The comparative emptiness around the train took her mind back to that morning in 1862 when she had come to Atlanta as a young widow, swathed in crepe and wild with boredom
36. A clear day and the beautiful autumnal sun common to the banks of the Loire was beginning to melt the hoar-frost which the night had laid on these picturesque objects, on the walls, and on the plants which swathed the court-yard
37. He was riding a pony, and a scarf was swathed round his neck and over his chin to keep out the fog
38. There was mist on the River, and white fog swathed the shore; the far bank could not be seen
39. reeking head was swathed in cloud
40. Her head was swathed in Webril, a stretchy woven bandage
41. Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist
42. "I must shut up here," said Brat, lying there in his old sister's arms, fresh as peppermint candy from the gin, round-eyed, wild-haired, swathed in dirty linens and wools, small fists gently ges-ticulant
43. This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high life
44. ‘I must shut up here,’ said Brat, lying there in his old sister’s arms, fresh as peppermint candy from the gin, round-eyed, wild-haired, swathed in dirty linens and wools, small fists gently gesticulant
45. Rochester’s visits here are rare, they are always sudden and unexpected; and as I observed that it put him out to find everything swathed up, and to have a bustle of arrangement on his arrival, I thought it best to keep the rooms in readiness
46. As soon as they were through with me I hastened to the chariot of Dejah Thoris, where I found my poor Sola with her chest swathed in bandages, but apparently little the worse for her encounter with Sarkoja, whose dagger it seemed had struck the edge of one of Sola's metal breast ornaments and, thus deflected, had inflicted but a slight flesh wound
47. She held Emily tightly in one arm, and Emily was swathed in a piece of black material
48. Másha fed and swathed the child, and sang songs to it, when it went to sleep
49. Their enjoyment consists in this,—that the women and young girls, having bared their necks and arms, and applied bustles behind, place themselves in a situation in which no uncorrupted woman or maiden would care to display herself to a man, on any consideration in the world; and in this half-naked condition, with their uncovered bosoms exposed to view, with arms bare to the shoulder, with a bustle behind and tightly swathed hips, under the most brilliant light, women and maidens, whose chief virtue has always been modesty, exhibit themselves in the midst of strange men, who are also clad in improperly tight-fitting garments; and to the sound of maddening music, they embrace and whirl
50. His head was almost entirely swathed in bandages, openings being left for his eyes, nose, and mouth
1. He could see swathes of missing roof tiles, and the ridge itself
2. where poppies raise their heads in swathes
3. green seas, where poppies raise their heads in swathes
4. Whereas we have but a few islands they have vast swathes of fertile soil
5. His body was being sucked away in great swathes of grey
6. The trees were the same vast swathes had been cut through woods and forests as though a scythe had been used to cut its way into them
7. Before all, the material of time ripped apart with fiery swathes and out stepped a tall, thin almost rake like man
8. Once more the coldest season had begun to cup Brockenhurst Valley in its chilly embrace, turning the sun's cycle into white swathes of crisp frost and the moon's cycle into reflected points of light that almost out-sparkled the stars
9. ” The swathes of gauze encasing Herminia’s head so camouflaged her that at first glance, Beth thought she had slipped out, but the movement of nuzzling into her pillow for another forty winks gave her away
10. large swathes of coastal area, which would make it easier for the next waves to move
11. long snouted brute moved in closer for a sniff, huge swathes of
12. As he continued to gaze, Simon could see that great slashes and swathes of white floated in the blue
13. She almost cried out, nearly broke the link, as great swathes of red, green, and silver poured through her mind
14. Closed windows left the house airless and stale, while sunlight slanting through recklessly askew venetian blinds, illuminated swathes of dust-spangled webs around the bookcase and under lounge-room chairs
15. Matthew made the point to the same colleague that if they hadn’t done so, large swathes of English cities would still lie in rubble
16. Huge charred tree stumps covered with swathes of ash over a sandy, desert floor surrounded the unseeing President
17. He saw his mood mapped into physicality as the gates opened slowly, the mist rolling through them in great swathes; through that threshold lay depravity and baseness, the two things which a man will seek as anodyne for a broken heart
18. Soon large swathes of land were covered with beautiful,
19. Nothing except that sketch book, which had become bundled up in one of the piles of fabric, swathes which Mother had draped herself in when being painted in the Grecian style
20. This time, the enemy failed to jump clear and great swathes were cut down
21. A bitumen path ran through the clump but it was still rather dark and dense and shielded from the sunlight and their attention was firmly fixed on what appeared to have been wrapped in swathes of black plastic
22. to see that swathes of her hair had turned as white as snow
23. In Texas, for instance, where whole towns were buried in sand and development rates had rocketed, I found swathes of land where I could escape my proclivities
24. Different national delegations arrived armed with historical maps and charts to show why they had an ancient right to huge swathes of territory
25. In 1918 Lenin and Trotsky agreed to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with the Germans, which signed over to them huge swathes of Ukraine, Poland, and the Caucasus
26. They looked and saw the vapors rise and drift in long swathes of cool smoke
27. I watched whole rows of sharp scythes gleam all together in the sunlight at every swing of the mower and then vanish again like little fiery snakes going into hiding; I watched the cut grass flying on one side in dense rich swathes and being laid in long straight lines
1. around without the tight folds of a swathing cloth
2. that were kilometres thick, swathing whole continents! And
3. D'Arcy stood swathing his neck carefully and frowning
4. They had thrown their doll on the ground, and Eponine, who was the elder, was swathing the little cat, in spite of its mewing and its contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps