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In Roman mythology, Deverra (apparently from Latin deverro "to sweep away") was one of the three gods that protected midwives and women in labor, the...

Sweep Away All Cow Demons and Snake Spirits (Chinese: 横扫一切牛鬼蛇神, Pinyin: Héngsǎo yīqiè níuguǐ shéshén), alternatively translated as Obliterate All Ox Demons...

families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also a tradition for every family to thoroughly clean their house, in order to sweep away any ill...

woodcreepers, allow them to brace themselves firmly against tree trunks. The tails of grazing animals, such as horses, are used both to sweep away insects and positioned...

Pollutions he pretends to sweep away: His last Days are spent in Slavery to Women, and generally the least deserving; till worn to the Stumps, like his...

Police. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police aims to sweep away organised crime from the country within a few years. It runs under Nepal...

on the broom or, most recognizably, inside a mortar, using the broom to sweep away her tracks. Russian ethnographer Andrey Toporkov [ru] explains Baba...

the group being Kurt Vile who played Twelve-string guitar on "I Ran Away". Sweep It Into Space earned a great deal of praise with an overall 80/100 score...

been an avalanche of sufficient strength to sweep away the second party, these bodies would have been swept away as well; this would have caused more serious...

Spirited Away (Japanese: 千と千尋の神隠し, Hepburn: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, lit. 'Sen and Chihiro's Spiriting Away') is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy...

symbol was a black dog's head (to sniff out treason) and a broom (to sweep away all traitors). In 2028, the Tsardom of the days of Ivan the Terrible has...

accepted. The modern synthesis a generation later claimed to sweep away all the alternatives to Darwinian evolution, though some have been revived as molecular...

hence it is essential to have mastered these before practicing Unsu. The movement, Unsu, or hands in the cloud, is used to sweep away the hands of the opponent...

carried a broom, an oft-used campaign device in the reform era, promising to sweep away patronage and corruption. His theme song had the hook, "Please pass...

scarcely inferior to the mighty river, and threatens to sweep away the intermediate country". By 1830, the old channel had been reduced to its present insignificance...

glass to sweep away You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen. They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break;...

sweep is a person who inspects then clears soot and creosote from chimneys. The chimney uses the pressure difference caused by a hot column of gas to...

avertere, "to turn away," a more probable origin lies in averro "to sweep away," hence averrunco, "to ward off," perhaps with a reference to magical sweeping...

special broom to sweep away any insects that may cross their path. Some Jain monks wear a cloth over the mouth to prevent accidental harm to airborne germs...

The Wall Street Journal. 3 March 2015. "China's ecommerce sites try to sweep away 'brushing'". Financial Times. Retrieved 6 May 2018. Shepard, Wade. "Americans...