The bird, at that moment, flew off with a whirr of wings, still singing as it vanished with an undulating swoop over the roof towards the orchard.
And again she drew back a moment, staring at him as if judging height and distance before taking a breathless swoop down into a lower branch.
Their coming created quite a sensation at the post, and the old factor quite naturally rejoiced at the prospect of presently recovering all the stock so recently carried off by the bold swoop of the outlaw gang.
He had said that he would not swoop a second time, but she could not imagine him doing anything else.
Presently he would swoop like an eagle upon his prey, and she would be utterly at his mercy.
It isn't the way of an eagle to swoop twice--particularly an eagle with only one wing.
And if you do contrive to keep to the track, the light-heeled gentlemen of the road may swoop down upon you like birds of prey, and rob you of the little worldly wealth that you possess.
All of them had heard so much about these dreaded storms that swoop down upon the pilgrims in small boats when navigating Florida waters that they were always on the watch for their coming.
We've been told that in nearly every case these Northers swoop down after the clouds roll up there, the wind changing to nor'west, and the cold increasing.
After a while the birds grew bolder and bolder; at each swoop they came nearer; until at length several of them actually snatched pieces of the bustard's flesh out of the very hands of those that were eating it!
At one fell swoop it cleared the city, and swept away for ever the dangerous congregation of wooden buildings and narrow streets which were always affording material for the flame.
The most ludicrous conflagration that perhaps ever occurred was that at Mr. Phillips's workshops, when the whole of his stock of instruments for extinguishing flame were at one fell swoop destroyed.
By this, whole valuable days were lost--days when at any hour the invaders might make a sudden swoop on London.
Illustration: Winter without and warmth within] II Swoop your spitefullest Up the flue, Wild Winds--do!
But to swoop down upon your enemy with a flaming sword and put him to rout like your holy namesake would suit you exactly.
The saint ought to swoop from above like an angel, and seize and destroy Satan like a mighty blast, but he'd better not try flying in that long gown; and as for his wings, they are quite too small to support him.
So great is he, He retires but to swoop and strike again.
There they were, a mere handful, surrounded by hundreds of hostile Indians in war dress, ready toswoop down upon them at any time, without the least chance of assistance from outside sources.
Apparently they think the Sky-Bird is some gigantic member of the feathered kingdom about to swoop down and devour them for their sins," added Paul, who was equally amused.
Again the swan came to the surface, but before either of the eagles could swoop upon him he had for the third time disappeared.
High above in the air soared the great eagle watching his opportunity to swoop down on the pacas or agoutis, his natural prey.
At one fell swoopcertain excursions into Java forests and to the Chinese Wall, not to mention other desirable and lovely places, had been swept into the discard of broken dreams.
Every now and then the great flame would swoop down a fiery tongue as if bent upon lapping him up.
The palpitating quarry lay expecting hourly the swoop of its trained and pitiless enemy, for the rebellious soldiers were now in a thorough state of discipline.
The next day, after a feint or two in a different direction, they made a sudden swoop upon Alost, in Flanders.
In Utopia I think they will fly with stronger pinions, it will not be in the superficialities of life merely that movement will be wide and free, they will mount higher and swoop more steeply than he in his cage can believe.
That Utopian research will, I say, go like an eagle's swoop in comparison with the blind-man's fumbling of our terrestrial way.
Again and again, when the kite succeeded in getting uppermost, he would make a rapid downward swoop upon the heron; but as he neared the latter, he was forced swiftly to turn aside, to avoid being pierced through by the long bill.
If his numerous creditors, Jew and Gentile, had the least suspicion that he was about to marry a penniless angel instead of Lady Eleanor Dallas, the heiress, they would swoop down upon him.
It was evident that his creditors had all combined to swoop down upon him at once, and the avalanche would crush him unless he got some help.
