aswing
English
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Adverb
aswing (not comparable)
- In a state of swinging.
- 1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden” in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, p. 177,[1]
- And sweeping trails of amaranthine blooms
- Crossing the lucent air, aswing or still,
- 1906, Lord Dunsany, Time and the Gods, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 10, p. 170,[2]
- […] over the western seas, where all the remembered years lie floating idly aswing with the ebb and flow,
- 1921, Mary Grant Bruce, Back to Billabong, Chapter 8,[3]
- The procession of people came and went unceasingly, the glass doors always aswing.
- 1945, Maurice Walsh, Nine Strings to Your Bow, Toronto: Smithers & Bonellie, Chapter 12,[4]
- […] she sat on her bed and considered things for a long time, her hands tapping the coverlet and one foot aswing.
- 1994, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, New York: Vintage, Part 1, p. 8,[5]
- Undergraduates, their gowns aswing, were kicking a man into the mud.
- 1838, Thomas Burbidge, “Armoria’s Garden” in Poems, Longer and Shorter, London: William Pickering, p. 177,[1]