Wilkins scrambled down the ladder-like high steps of their carriage into the black downpour, their skirts sweeping off great pools of sooty wet because their hands were full of suit-cases, if it had not been for the vigilance of Domenico, the gardener at San Salvatore, they would have found nothing for them to drive in.
" The orchard, with its great sweeping boughs that bent to the ground with fruit, proved so delightful that the little girls spent most of the afternoon in it, sitting in a grassy corner where the frost had spared the green and the mellow autumn sunshine lingered warmly, eating apples and talking as hard as they could.
Bellmore, sweeping her silks close to one side of her, "not to beat your mother.
While he lay thus, meditating upon his blessings, little brown cottontails would shyly frolic through the yard; a covey of white-topknotted blue quail would run past, in single file, twenty yards away; a paisano bird, out hunting for tarantulas, would hop upon the fence and salute him with sweeping flourishes of its long tail.
The retribution that followed every vengeful success was so sweeping and majestic that the boys always retired from the field badly worsted.
His exaltation had but one alloy—the memory of his humiliation in this angel's garden—and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now.
He had been in fewer adventures than any of them, because the big things constantly happened just when he had stepped round the corner; all would be quiet, he would take the opportunity of going off to gather a few sticks for firewood, and then when he returned the others would be sweeping up the blood.
But they soon got used to it; and they used to think it great fun to watch Jip, the dog, sweeping his tail over the floor with a rag tied onto it for a broom.
However,the vast majority--to the tune of 90%--would prefer to travel domestically,with destinations like Yunnan,Hainan island and Shanghai sweeping the top three preferences.
However, the vast majority -- to the tune of 90% -- would prefer to travel domestically, with destinations like Yunnan, Hainan island and Shanghai sweeping the top three preferences.
: Liang was a disciple of the great scholar Kang Youwei, who reinterpreted the Confucian Classics in an attempt to utilize tradition as a justification for the sweeping innovations he prescribed for Chinese culture.
There has been a crackdown on thieves in recent years after a television show used a hidden camera to record three men sweeping coins from the fountain with a broom.
The dust is traditionally associated with "old" so cleaning their houses and sweeping the dust mean to bid farewell to the "old" and usher in the "new".
unit announced a sweeping set of data privacy measures that include permanently shutting down all consumer functionality of Google+.
A decades-long ban on women driving was lifted last month, as part of sweeping reforms pushed by Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, deputy premier and minister of defense, aimed at transforming the economy and opening up more opportunities for women.
For this face shape, highlight your cheekbones by sweeping blush upwards from the apples.
But after the team swept Colombia off the pitch, Japanese fans also did their share of sweeping: meticulously cleaning up their rows and seats in the stadium.
A bizarre new trend for building Jenga-like towers out of your meal is sweeping Instagram, with bloggers posting impossibly high constructions out of fries, cookies, brownies and churros.
Others—Baade mostly—were left to do the mathematical sweeping up.
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