" "I—I—don't know," faltered startled Emily, whose wits had been scattered by the sudden swoop of his spiked glance.
And to think of that beautiful bush itself being cut down—the Today Road and the Yesterday Road and the Tomorrow Road being swept out of existence—the stately Monarch of the Forest discrowned—the little playhouse where she and Ilse had such glorious hours destroyed—the whole lovely, ferny, intimate place torn out of her life at one fell swoop.
It was delightful to be rid of Seesaw's hateful presence; but otherwise the loss of several playmates at one fell swoop made rather a gap in Riverboro's "younger set," and Rebecca was obliged to make friends with the Robinson baby, he being the only long-clothes child in the village that winter.
If he did Hooty would see him, and silently as a shadow would swoop down and catch him.
He saw Whitey suddenly sail out on silent wings from that stump and swoop with great claws reaching for some one.
But Frank adored his Xenophon, and would not see his old friend, Caesar, neglected without an effort to defend him; so he confiscated the gum-pot, and effectually stopped the stamp business by whisking away at one fell swoop all that lay on Jill's table.
The rain was dashing against the window-panes as if an angry spirit were within it, and behind it was the great swoop of the wind; it was one of those moments in which both the busy and the idle pause with a certain awe.
Matthew was covered with confusion at finding her there at all; and those bangles completely wrecked his wits at one fell swoop.
The swoop of bats in the darkness over her was as the wings of unearthly creatures.
Lynde's garden and set the flowers dancing—and then I'll go with one great swoop over the clover field—and then I'll blow over the Lake of Shining Waters and ripple it all up into little sparkling waves.
Don't you think it would be nice to wake up at sunrise and swoop down over the water and away out over that lovely blue all day; and then at night to fly back to one's nest?
Bats would begin to swoop darkly against the pale, western gold.
Swoop!
While that hasn't happened, there are two attendants permanently on duty, who allow tourists to sit there but swoop the second they begin to eat or drink.
2 Designate a laundry day and do it all in one swoop.
Many times each day the mother would swoop down from the sky and land in the nest and feed the baby eagle delicious morsels of food.
Many times each day the mother would swoop down from the sky and land in the nest and feed the baby eagle delicious morsels of food.
Rather than sniffing out a meager existence, this keen eyed hunter with a panoramic view of the river and lake beneath, was simply waiting for the appropriate time to swoop and capture his prey.
Visitors in Manhattan might like to take to the skies and swoop over a dazzling Central Park by helicopter, while ramblers in Abisko National Park in Sweden will also be rewarded with eye-catching foliage.
In one fell swoop, the Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) abandoned any thought of rekindling a past infatuation with the Russian Prince Kuragin, and Isobel Crawley (Penelope Wilton) closed the door on her engagement to Lord Merton.
