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Meanings of sweep the streets in English

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Usage of sweep the streets in English
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Or shall I sweep the streets-I ,whohave led a troop before now?
Told in the East
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Let him buy a broom and sweep the streets-lethim--
Maurice Guest
3
This is a company famous for hiring armies of people to sweep the streets!
The last lecture
4
Syrians beg and Syrians in green uniforms sweep the streets.
The Irish Times
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Rather than do this he would sweep the streets.
The Fortunes of Oliver Horn
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How well I shall sweep the streets!
Debts of Honor
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Let his mangled carcass sweep the streets!
The Works of Frederick Schiller
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A portion of those, with the guns, were posted outside the building, so as to sweep the streets.
By Right of Conquest; Or, With Cortez in Mexico
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I'd rather sweep the streets.
Trumps
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Some of the sailors were treated as slaves, and compelled to sweep the streets and to work on the fortifications.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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He planted his artillery to sweep the streets with grape and cannister ,andordered the draft to be immediately enforced.
The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
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Sometimes they were set to sweep the streets, sometimes they were beaten till they well nigh expired under the lash.
The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
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Or sweep the streets?
Mary Minds Her Business
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If I try something to fit my width, it will be so long on me it will sweep the streets.
The Irish Times
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Some, called servants, had to clean the wells, to sweep the streets, to repair the houses, and to trim the gardens.
A History of the Moravian Church
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A count, in the gray smock of the felon, was to sweep the streets, which, perchance, his aristocratic foot had never trodden before.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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