asweep

adv

1. (not-comparable)Sweeping, making a sweeping motion.

   “the line that goes wavingly asweep round the base of the holy mountain, separating it from the common earth.”

   “Where fierce hot winds have set the pine and myall boughs asweep”

   “When winds are asweep through the Pecos Valley, they whimper and moan in the barbed-wire fence like troubled ghosts.”

   “I thought of Mr. O’Neill, who was tall, pale and melancholy, with long white hair asweep, very like the picture of composers of my music book-covers.”

   “[…] low and gently rolling hills, some forested, some asweep with velvety swaths of rippling, growing grain.”