Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. sweyen, Icel. sveigja, akin to E. swing,; cf. D. zwaaijen, to wield, swing. See Swing, and cf. Swag (v. i.)
In literature:
Then they began walking with swaying steps toward the miniature railing of the white slab.
"Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Raymond King Cummings
Were it less toil To sway his nations than consume his life?
"The Works of Lord Byron" by Lord Byron
As long as saintly Eleanor held undisputed sway?
"Under the Rose" by Frederic Stewart Isham
The Master said, What is it to sway a kingdom by courteous yielding?
"The Sayings Of Confucius" by Confucius
Knowledge alone limits their sway, and at least changes the range and form of their dominion.
"Folkways" by William Graham Sumner
The Mother's sway over her Children.
"The Young Maiden" by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
He was no longer swayed by Presidential aspirations.
"The Negro and the Nation" by George S. Merriam
He had sat for a long time like this, before he realized the strangeness of his attitude and getting on to his feet, found himself swaying.
"The Book of All-Power" by Edgar Wallace
Dazed, sick, weak, he swayed there, aware only of himself and his own sensations.
"The Defiant Agents" by Andre Alice Norton
SWAY, TO, OR SWAY AWAY.
"The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth
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In poetry:
We have been together
Four Aprils now
Watching for the green
On the swaying willow bough;
"Gray Eyes" by Sara Teasdale
Swiftly I thrust away
This thought of the Woods of Truagh,
My poplar, my fir are you,
My larch a-sway–
"On An Island" by Anna Johnston MacManus
The lone place grew more lonely,
And all along our way
The mysteries of the night-time
Held undisputed sway.
"Lake Como" by Abram Joseph Ryan
I watched it swaying and bending,
As if a fairy's hand
Had lightly touched it in passing
To her home in fairyland.
"The Painter And The Fairy" by Alexander Anderson
But he, the Man we mourn to-day,
No tyrant was: so mild a sway
In one such weight who bore
Was never known before!
"Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode" by Richard Henry Stoddard
O sway, and swing, and sway,
And swing, and sway, and swing!
Ah me, what bliss like unto this,
Can days and daylight bring?
"The First Extra" by Amy Levy
In news:
To make it happen, residents had to sway the leaders of city government.
Americans Not Swayed By Iraq Plan.
Americans were not swayed very much by President Bush's speech Wednesday night outlining his new strategy for the war in Iraq, according to a CBS News poll.
Bush Not Swayed By Iraq Panel.
Two Babies Swaying to the Music Too Cute.
Candidates' 'fracking' silence not swaying eastern Ohio voters.
Facebook Ads Not Swaying Most Users, Poll Finds.
Romney's electability swaying Florida voters.
Brown not swaying from Notre Dame.
Kagan, Thomas Targeted in Hopes of Swaying Supreme Court's Health Care Ruling.
Brian Fogt helps Langley set the club in the proper position without swaying .
The last time I went to the Empire State Building, it looked as if the building was swaying .
The swaying of the black vote.
Democrats showcase San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro and hope to sway Latino vote.
If you stop by the Squeaky Bean for lunch, don't be swayed by the tuna conserva (one of the menu's most popular—and delicious—items).
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In science:
Bohr’s idea that the nucleus is a complex, strongly interacting system was adopted by the community and held sway until the discovery of the nuclear shell model in 1949.
Random Matrices and Chaos in Nuclear Physics
The main new feature of our complex (45) is that it works also for multicomponent boundary, which is due to introducing new quantities — boundary component sways.
A simple topological quantum field theory for manifolds with triangulated boundary
Matrix f4 . A typical vector in the fourth nonzero space in (5), C2N ′ 0+3m , is a column consisting of differentials dαi and dβi for each inner vertex i, and also subcolumns κ ! for each boundary component κ; we call these subcolumns conjugate sways.
A simple topological quantum field theory for manifolds with triangulated boundary
The second column vector in the mentioned direct sum is of height m, and each of its entries is just a copy of the same group PSL(2, C) which we put in correspondence to each boundary component and call its sway.
A simple topological quantum field theory for manifolds with triangulated boundary
By definition, each of these m components of F1 takes any element of PSL(2, C) into itself (thus resulting in m identical sways of boundary components).
A simple topological quantum field theory for manifolds with triangulated boundary
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