1 Next day's march brings them within our reach, and, falcon-ways, we swoop on them at once.
2 I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air, knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop.
3 For a moment there would come a lull in the storm, but then it would swoop down again with such onslaughts that it seemed impossible to stand against it.
4 His hair was jet black, and his black mustache was small and closely clipped, almost foreign looking compared with the dashing, swooping mustaches of the cavalrymen near by.
5 I wouldn't put anything beyond the swarm of buzzards that's swooping down on Georgia now from north, east, south and west.
6 Three ducks were swooping down in a swift line.
7 For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made, that he seemed horizontally swooping upon them.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 8 The women, all singing, began to come close to Levin, and he felt as though a storm were swooping down upon him with a thunder of merriment.
9 The streaming rain had already flung its white veil over all the distant forest and half the fields close by, and was rapidly swooping down upon the copse.
10 I dreamed that a great eagle came swooping down from a mountain, and dug his curved beak into the neck of each of them till he had killed them all.
11 Once more something whistled, but this time quite close, swooping downwards like a little bird; a flame flashed in the middle of the street, something exploded, and the street was shrouded in smoke.
12 The thoughts circled and swooped above her, dived down and drove tearing claws and sharp beaks into her mind.
13 But the words swooped from her hands like wild birds.
14 It was white and strained and the black brows above slanting green eyes swooped up startlingly against the white skin like frightened bird's wings.
15 While her mind groped, the lights of a motor car swooped round a bend in the road, and they stood farther apart.