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Updated: June 14, 2025
But the different items check up with some degree of consistency. "And I'm safe in believing I'm within at least a hundred years of the date one way or the other. Not a bad factor of safety, that, with my limited means of working." The girl's eyes widened. From her hand fell the empty gold cup; it rolled away across the clean-swept floor. "What?" cried she. "You've got it, within a hundred years!
They were married on a hot April morning, a morning whose every second seemed to Nancy flooded with strange perfumes, and lighted with unearthly light. The sky was cloudless; the park bowered in fresh green; the streets, under new shadows, clean-swept and warm.
She sees again the great clean-swept seed-cotton room of a cotton-gin house belonging to a cousin of the ex-governor, lighted with many candles stuck into a perfect wealth of black bottles ranged along the beams of the walls.
Words gathered, as on wings, from the clean-swept heavenly spaces they went by her like the passing of an immense processional: "Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in...." It came on, that heavenly invasion, and all her earthly barriers went down before it.
Before him was a long, clean-swept path ending apparently in a mass of shrubbery; to the left was a field of sweet corn reaching to the hedge; to the right a strong and sturdy growth of pole lima beans; and just within the entrance, beneath the sweeping plumes of a weeping-willow tree, was a shabby but inviting green bench. Abe's glance wandered from the bench to his wife's face.
Within this fence, which inclosed several acres of standing grain and the miniature of a garden, there were all the signs of prosperity a new wagon under its proper shade, a storehouse strongly built where chickens lingered about for grain, a clean-swept ramada casting a deep shadow across the open doorway; but outside the inclosure the ground was stamped as level as a threshing floor.
"Without a crew or provisions yachts don't sail with a clean-swept hold, or gentlemen without a spare shirt we have nothing but two gallons of water and two pairs of pistols." "I have it," said Jack "we are two young gentlemen in our own boat who went out to Gozo with pistols to shoot sea-mews, were caught in a gale, and blown down to Sicily that will excite interest."
A coast steamer had just come to anchor in the harbor with the report that just outside about ten miles to the west'ard was a vessel, dismasted and clean-swept, and dragging toward the rocks. They could not help her themselves too rough a hurricane outside to launch a boat was out of the question. They didn't mind taking a chance, they said, but to attempt her rescue would be suicide.
There were the rain-washed gullies, the half-roofed entrances to the vast underground fortresses, clean-swept, perfect roads, as efficient as the arteries of Verdun, flapping dead leaves like the omnipresent, worn-out scare-crows of camouflage, and over in one corner, to complete the simile, were a dozen shell-holes, the homes of voracious ant-lions, which, for passing insects, were unexploded mines, set at hair trigger.
The boat was clean-swept now of everything but the muskets and a mess of shingle for ballast at the bottom. The anchor had gone over the stern and trailed on the slope. Even Blob had disappeared. Kit pushed at the boom to thrust it over. "Blob! Blob! where are you?" "Here Oi be!" panted a voice forward. Kit turned to see Blob, his shoulders rounded, and arms taut, heaving at the main-mast.
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