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- verb archaic Third-person singular present simple form of
sweep
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Examples
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The broom, with which the bonze sweepeth the hill, is sunk in snow.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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The broom, with which the bonze sweepeth the hill, is sunk in snow.
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleaneJohn Lyly: Euphues (Arbers reprint), p. 89.
Quotations 1919
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Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleaneJohn Lyly: Euphues (Arbers reprint), p. 89.
Quotations 1919
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Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleaneJohn Lyly: Euphues (Arbers reprint), p. 89.
Quotations 1919
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Whereout pure springs of unapproachable fire are vomited from the inmost depth: in the daytime the lava streams pour forth a lurid rush of smoke, but in the darkness a red rolling flame sweepeth rocks with uproar to the wide, deep sea.
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror Trumbull White 1904
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Exterminate the robber, be thou the advocate of those who are in misery, and be not towards the petitioner like the water-flood that sweepeth him away.
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The wind sweepeth towards the south and veereth round to the north, whirling about everlastingly; and back to his circuits returneth the wind.
The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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"Thy broom sweepeth clean, Jack," responded Lord Strange.
Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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[16-4] Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleane -- LYLY:
Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature John Bartlett 1862
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