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Sweepings

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sweep·ing  (swpng)
adj.
1. Having wide-ranging influence or effect: sweeping changes.
2. Moving in or as if in a wide curve: a sweeping gesture; a sweeping glance.
3. Indiscriminate; wholesale: sweeping generalizations.
4. Overwhelming; complete: a sweeping victory.
n.
1. The action of one that sweeps.
2. sweepings Things swept up; refuse.
sweeping·ly adv.
Sweepings a collection of persons or things, 1641; rubbish. See also riff-raff.
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Suddenly, he saw, among the sweepings in a corner, something round and white that looked very much like a hen's egg.
The Adventures Of Pinocchio by Collodi, Carlo View in context
There we were, in that memorable spring of a certain year in the late seventies, dodging to and fro, baffled on every tack, and with our stores running down to sweepings of bread-lockers and scrapings of sugar-casks.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
There seemed a deep sense of life and joy about all; and although no airs blew from out the heavens, yet every thing had motion through the gentle sweepings to and fro of innumerable butterflies, that might have been mistaken for tulips with wings.
The Island of The Fay by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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