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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Swoop
 
  Swooped down upon the kitchen, even as a vulture swoopeth upon carrion.
            —Boccaccio		  1
  Swooped into the fray like a sea-eagle into a school of mackerel in a shallow.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  2
 
 
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