19 collocations for swoops

Lifelesshow lifeless!see, oh see, before me It lies coldstiff!O God!and with that blood I feel, as swoops the dizzy darkness o'er me, Mine own life mingledebbing in the flood Hark, at the door they knockmore loud within me More awful stillits sound the dread heart gave!

It struck chill upon her face as they swooped downwards.

He had intended to lead a raid in person, swooping down the French flank to their rear; but the three staff traitors, Daulch, Hattin and Aubck, sent forward the previous evening to place the division and hold it ready, had simply tipped the French off to the whole plan and at the critical moment of Feisul's arrival on the scene had ordered the sauve-qui-peut.

He had also lost at one fell swoop the large fortune which Lady Donaldson had been about to assign to him.

They came down to breakfast somewhat late, and, as soon as they arrived, the Biggleses swooped up the last fragments that remained on their plates, and made a stately march out of the dining-room, Then Miss Hoogencamp arose and departed, leaving a whole fish-ball on her plate.

Yes, but she's No woman yet: she should have been this night, But that a Beggar stole away her Bridegroom, Whom we were going to make hue and cry after; I tell you true Sir, she should ha' been married to day; And was the Bride and all; but in came Clause, The old lame Beggar, and whips up Mr Goswin Under his arm; away with him as a Kite, Or an old Fox would swoop away a Gosling. Hem.

They were swooping down a long grade with a sharp turn at the bottom, as they knew from the fact that the red eye had just winked out, somewhere on ahead, there sounded a grinding crash, the noise of a stout fabric rent and crushed with the clash and clatter of shivered glass.

The vertical curves and angles of the most precipitous torrents he traces with the same rigid fidelity, swooping down the inclines of cascades, dropping sheer over dizzy falls amid the spray, and ascending with the same fearlessness and ease, seldom seeking to lessen the steepness of the acclivity by beginning to ascend before reaching the base of the fall.

All the while, through the beating of the wool, the two sticks beaten against each other play a distinct air, and each mattress-maker has his own, handed down from his forefathers, ending with a whole chromatic scale as the shorter stick swoops up the length of the longer to sweep away the lingering wool.

This same dark race returning now from Norway, swooped hawk-like upon the rich shrines of the Irish island sanctuaries, only to come into hostile contact once more with sons of that golden-haired race which scattered the dark Fomorians at Mag Tuiread of the North.

The saints know it isn't for my happiness to put her out of my old arms; but I can't last forever,my old back grows weaker every year; and Antonio has strong arms to defend her from all these roystering fellows who fear neither God nor man, and swoop up young maids as kites do chickens.

' Away swooped the motors, like swallows, over roads any width you please, and up on to what looked like the High Veldt itself.

Up swooped the nacelle.

When the canoe has been run into the uppermost rapids, and a school of fish is seen below or alongside, he dexterously puts down his net, and having swooped up a number of the fish, instantly reverses it in water, whips it up, and discharges its contents into the canoe.

We swooped down curving roads between white walls hung with masses of dark laurel.

Then, without warning, from the empurpled sky, Swift with grim dreadful purpose, swooped a shell (Perishing Percy was the name he bore Amongst, the irreverent soldiery), ah me!

She remembered the car flying up the ascents, swooping down long slopes and skimming like a bird across the levels, that morning when she had driven it.

I watched the nearer one till it faded from sight, soaring and swooping by turns,its long, scissors-shaped tail all the while fully spread,but never coming down, as its habit is said to be, to skim over the surface of the water.

A modern poet, whose compositions are fraught with beauty and genius, sings: "Then swooped the winds, that hurl the giant oak From Snowdon's altitude.

19 collocations for  swoops