Significats de swept nearly en anglès

The tide rose over them before they could effect their passage, and swept nearly every one away.

He went through his closet and hauled out his big duster, which swept nearly to his ankles.

The first was an enormous Sikh with a black beard which swept nearly down to his cumberbund.

The first was an enormous Sikh, with a black beard which swept nearly down to his cummerbund.

A Marlbourgh man has miraculously survived being swept nearly two hundred metres down a river in his car.

But the suffering people were angry, and, like a whirlwind, the Whigs swept nearly every county in the State.

In crossing the bridge which was swept nearly clean of snow I noticed a small, but somehow ominous-looking drift at the southern end.

The wave of Russians had swept nearly to the German trenches, situated between two sections of field artillery, and there had been repulsed.

Le Pen, who swept nearly one in five votes during the presidential election, dismissed Melenchon's bid as part of his obsession with harrying her.

Not known for their sporting pedigree, Azerbaijan finished second in the medal table behind only a dominant Russia team, who swept nearly all before them.

Investors withdrew $3 billion from U.S.-based stock funds, adding to a streak that has swept nearly $35 billion from the funds, according to ICI data.

* Since this chapter was put into type, the Havasupai village has been swept nearly out of existence by a flood.