"My home was swept away in the middle of the night.
Over her breakfast coffee, she watched the last of Georgia's hills recede and the red earth appear, and with it tin-roofed houses set in the middle of swept yards, and in the yards the inevitable verbena grew, surrounded by whitewashed tires.
To my right, wintry and wind-swept in the middle of the East River, appeared the southern tip of Roosevelt Island.
As a result, in August there were a number of incidents in which masked gunmen swept into camps in the middle of the night and abducted village leaders.
The surprising vigour of the Lutheran traditionalists, called Old Lutherans, was related to the religious awakening that swept through Germany in the middle of the century.
Backed by helicopters, tanks and artillery, they swept through villages in the middle of the night, warning residents to stay inside all day.
Ellen Baxter, the founder and executive director of Broadway Housing Communities, an unassuming woman whose braided ponytail swept the middle of her back, chimed in that "art and nature show the other side of poverty".
Walker scored his 11th goal of the season on 28 minutes when he swept the ball in from the middle of the box after brilliant work on the left wing by Sow.
The raging waters swept through dense terrain in the middle of the night while many campers slept.
He had been enjoying the luxury of an indoor bed until December 2008, when the police swept through the shelter in the middle of the night looking for men with outstanding warrants.
Inhalation anthrax is caused when spores of the anthrax bacteria, Bacillus anthracis, are breathed into the lungs and swept into lymph nodes in the middle of the chest, the mediastinum.
