Frequently, as their hosts sweep onwards, they are seen falling like flakes in a snow-storm from a dark cloud.

Still, vast numbers escape, when they appear in enormous columns, darkening the air, and as they sweep onwards, destroy every green thing in their course.

They chatted for a few moments and then Madame Boleski swept onwards.

Some perished, some were swept onwards, among them Nehushta and Rachel.

In the night the position was abandoned by the Boers, and the advance swept onwards.

For a week the two sodden, sleepless, mud-splashed little armies swept onwards over the Karoo.

As the khaki-clad line swept onwards they left the ground behind them thick with dead bodies.

So they swept onwards nearer and nearer Hell.

And the river sweeps onwards ever.

The enemy's chariots, reft of their charioteers, swept onwards, some through the enemy themselves, others past the Hellenes.

The same, but diversified, it grew, and swept onwards towards the absorbing ocean, whose dim shores we now reached.

And the sound of Rogers's voice seemed to bring singing from every side, as the gay procession swept onwards.

The storm did not last long in its violence, but swept onwards, leaving a broad track of desolation behind it.

Alike unhurt and unhelped by such incidents as the revolt of the knights, the main current of religious revolution swept onwards.

With a snort he tore away from the other horse and swept onwards, with Maude once again swaying in her saddle.

He leant over the vessel's side, and watched it pictured on the ocean, and quivering as the transient billow swept onwards.