Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweeing
Literary usage of Sweeing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John Clare: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare, Alan Porter (1920)
"... the only aged willow that in all the field remains, And nature hides her face
while they're sweeing in their chains And in a silent murmuring complains. ..."
2. The Life of Mansie Wauch: Tailor in Dalkeith by David Macbeth Moir (1868)
"... as the cat, after washing her face, went mewing about, with her tail sweeing
behind her like a ramrod; and a corbie, from the Duke's woods, tumbled down ..."
3. John Cheap the Chapman's Library: The Scottish Chap Literature of Last by John Cheap, Dougal Graham (1877)
"... as the cat, after washing her face, gaed mewing about, with her tail sweeing
behind her like a ramrod; and a corbie, from the Duke's woods, tumbled down ..."
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