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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Sweep
 
  Sweep like a simoon.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Sweeps … along, like the broad volume of the insurgent Nile.
            —Matthew Arnold		  2
  Sweep around … like angered eagles cheated of their prey.
            —Philip James Bailey		  3
  Swept … like sullying cloud from pure blue sky.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  4
  Sweep like wolves on a lambkin.
            —T. D. Brown		  5
  Swept in like tides of Fundy.
            —Francis. F. Browne		  6
  Sweep like a sea, barred out from land.
            —Robert Browning		  7
Swept like surge, i’ the simile
Of Homer.
            —Robert Browning		  8
  Sweep, like currents journeying through the windless deep.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  9
  Swept … like leaves before the autumn gale.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  10
  Swept … like ocean-tides uprising at the call of tyrant winds.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  11
  Sweeping along like the Huns.
            —Stephen Crane		  12
  They swept him out of the street, as a fire-hose flushes the gutter.
            —Richard Harding Davis		  13
  Like chain-shot, sweeps all things in its way.
            —John Dryden		  14
  Sweeps like spectral shade.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  15
  Swept like a tempestuous sea.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  16
  Sweeping like rivers that seek the main.
            —Thomas Hood		  17
  Sweeping the country like locust-swarm.
            —Ouida		  18
  Sweep like a wing’d will.
            —Emily Pfeiffer		  19
  Sweep like bitter Nor’land gales.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  20
  Sweep as the tempest o’er the deep.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  21
  Swept the lists like an Egypt’s plague of locusts.
            —Owen Seaman		  22
  Sweep it away like a leaf before a hurricane.
            —George Bernard Shaw		  23
                Swept
Like waves before the tempest.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  24
                Swept
As storm across his soul that kept
Wild watch, and watched not well.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  25
  Swept like a torrent.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  26
  Swept like a conquering army through my blood.
            —Louis Untermeyer		  27
                Swept
As by a plague.
            —William Wordsworth		  28
 
 
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