Men came and fell, and others leaped and fell, skulls shattered, the life-stuff spurting, before Otah's shaft went spinning away in shattered ruin; he leaped to seize another, employed it in great sweeping swaths against those who still came.
"The Beginning"
Henry Hasse
The mowing-lands alone are rich; and if the New England year is in the glory of the latest June, the breath of the clover blows honey-sweet into the car windows, and the fragrance of the new-cut hay rises hot from the heavy swaths that seem to smoke in the sun.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
In half an hour there were still left them, taking two swaths apiece, the two long sides and the two short ends.
"The Doctor A Tale Of The Rockies"
Ralph Connor