Meanings of onward sweep in английском

The fire had left desolation on all sides in its onward sweep.

The onward sweep of the mass of vehicles had been instantaneously checked.

Each incident, big and little, dovetailing and hastening the onward sweep of catastrophe.

The onward sweep of progress in this age has opened up the way for non-conformists.

The tide now was running down, and this greatly aided the boat in her onward sweep.

Back of the onward sweep of the generations he himself sensed the mystic Aphrodite and her magic.

He seemed to be watching the onward sweep of the search-light as the warship went to the north.

Even more eloquently than the Socialist vote, this literature tells of the onward sweep of Socialism in this country.

These consequences of the onward sweep of new-world ideas we shall trace more in detail in the chapters which follow.

Yet it does not conceal a fundamental inclination to sympathize with every rank that suffers in this onward sweep of power.

The support given to Wilkinson's plots, to Clark's expedition, was merely the outward and visible sign of the onward sweep of a resistless race.

Onward swept the explorers past the mouth of the Illinois.

"Coming, Mother," said Hagbard, giving himself up to the irresistible onward sweep of sensation to the brink of orgasm and over.