Meanings of sudden swoop in English

At this moment the first sudden swoop of the tempest arrived.

Oftentimes their sudden swoop will startle you as they rush by.

With a sudden swoop she caught up the lazy Cinders.

Miss Letitia's glasses were knocked off in the sudden swoop and fell into her lap.

That is, fire is the sudden swoop towards the sun, of matter which is suddenly sun-polarized.

Just because sudden swoop from the stranger.

And then at King's word all eighty made a sudden swoop on the drowsy sentry and took him unawares.

Did it seem that she was aiming near, a sudden swoop would bring her to rest on a far-away spot.

The next day, after a feint or two in a different direction, they made a sudden swoop upon Alost, in Flanders.

She flashed a single glance at him in which pride and uncertainty were strangely mingled, then made a sudden swoop towards the fire.

The falcon made a sudden swoop, and with the velocity of a meteor it shot downwards upon an oblique course towards the unlucky heron.

Just then, with a sudden swoop, a great golden eagle dashed down upon the preoccupied cheetah, and buried his talons in the leopard's head.

The hawk does not pounce upon the chicken with a more sudden swoop than Judith sprang forward to seize this mine of hitherto concealed knowledge.

Quickly, with a sudden swoop, he seizes a single fish from an unsuspecting shoal, and announces his success by the peculiar sound of his rattle.

"Yes, we ought to get right over the hut, and then make a sudden swoop down," admitted Ned, "but if we can't see it-