Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Sweep
Sweep like a simoon.
—Anonymous
Sweeps … along, like the broad volume of the insurgent Nile.
—Matthew Arnold
Sweep around … like angered eagles cheated of their prey.
—Philip James Bailey
Swept … like sullying cloud from pure blue sky.
—Charlotte Brontë
Sweep like wolves on a lambkin.
—T. D. Brown
Swept in like tides of Fundy.
—Francis. F. Browne
Sweep like a sea, barred out from land.
—Robert Browning
Swept like surge, i’ the simile
Of Homer.
—Robert Browning
Sweep, like currents journeying through the windless deep.
—William Cullen Bryant
Swept … like leaves before the autumn gale.
—William Cullen Bryant
Swept … like ocean-tides uprising at the call of tyrant winds.
—William Cullen Bryant
Sweeping along like the Huns.
—Stephen Crane
They swept him out of the street, as a fire-hose flushes the gutter.
—Richard Harding Davis
Like chain-shot, sweeps all things in its way.
—John Dryden
Sweeps like spectral shade.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Swept like a tempestuous sea.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sweeping like rivers that seek the main.
—Thomas Hood
Sweeping the country like locust-swarm.
—Ouida
Sweep like a wing’d will.
—Emily Pfeiffer
Sweep like bitter Nor’land gales.
—T. Buchanan Read
Sweep as the tempest o’er the deep.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Swept the lists like an Egypt’s plague of locusts.
—Owen Seaman
Sweep it away like a leaf before a hurricane.
—George Bernard Shaw
Swept
Like waves before the tempest.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Swept
As storm across his soul that kept
Wild watch, and watched not well.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Swept like a torrent.
—Alfred Tennyson
Swept like a conquering army through my blood.
—Louis Untermeyer
Swept
As by a plague.
—William Wordsworth