The Wind Woman swooped or purred in the tossing boughs above them—Emily had never been so near to seeing her; the sharp air was full of the pleasant tang of the burning spruce cones Cousin Jimmy shovelled under the pot; Emily's furry kitten, Mike II, frisked and scampered about like a small, charming demon of the night; the fire glowed with beautiful redness and allure through the gloom; there were nice whispery sounds everywhere; the "great big dark" lay spread around them full of mysteries tha
When Whitey the Snowy Owl swooped at him and so nearly caught him, he was not afraid as he dodged this way and that way.
We were getting tired of its ill-humour and talked of leaving it, when it suddenly grew sweet-tempered again, swooped around a curve—and presto, we were in fairyland.
" Captain Jim swooped down on Owen Ford and shook his hand over again.
At that moment if along didn't fly the kind fish hawk; and he swooped down and caught that ball up in his strong bill, and sailed away up in the air with it, and Buddy ran on and on as fast as he could go, around the bases, and toward home plate, and he got there in time to win the game.
But at dusk the lights of Lady Jane suddenly swooped over the crest of the wooded hill beyond the lane.
Ten minutes later a car swooped down on them from "up back.
They swooped down on the dust-piles with pails and shovels and in a few seconds Olive's pile was a veritable pyramid.
She swooped down to the nest with his last meal.
She swooped down to the nest with his last meal.
NAIROBI, Kenya — When a Chinese clothing company swooped in and offered to sponsor Kenya's famed runners, Nike panicked, Kenyan officials say.
Many of the criminals were arrested this week when French and Romanian police swooped on the ringleaders, who stole cash and property worth more than £1million a year.
He swooped upon them earnestly and drank the whole river.
In the late 19th century, perhaps because property values in the red-light area were low, entrepreneurs swooped in to build large cast-iron stores and warehouses for the garment trade.
"" As the stars' private jets swooped in, the internet was going mad for 'the Dad bod'; the slightly flabby male physique was trending and there were plenty of examples on screen.
While the college e-sports craze started as a grass-roots effort, game makers have quickly swooped in, propelling the sharp rise in interest.
That's just what we need," and huge shadows swooped down on the ship It was the Island of Vultures, inhabited entirely by those greedy birds They flew off with every ounce of carrion, promising in return to help the men whenever they called, "Vultures, fine vultures, help us!
As we continue to dip and sway, I remember a time when I was almost three, and my father came home from work, swooped me into his arms and began to dance me around the table.
As he stood there holding it in the open palm of his hand, a bird suddenly swooped down, picked the stone up in its beak and flew away with it.
Not long after, when the Fox was ranging for food, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones, swooped down and seized upon one of the little cubs, and feasted herself and brood.
