asweep

a- +‎ sweep

asweep (not comparable)

1. Sweeping, making a sweeping motion.
   • 1842, John Wilson, The Recreations of Christopher North, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Chapter 3, p. 175,

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

   • 1890, Banjo Paterson, “The Man from Snowy River” in The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, London: Macmillan, 1896, p. 49,

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

   • 1926, Walter Noble Burns, The Saga of Billy the Kid, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, Chapter 20, p. 294,

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

   • 1962, Austin Clarke, Twice Round the Black Church, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, Chapter 4, p. 36,

     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.

   • 1993, Dewey Lambdin, The Gun Ketch, New York: Donald J. Fine, Book 1, Chapter 1, p. 11,

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

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