Sweepeth

The broom, with which the bonze sweepeth the hill, is sunk in snow. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleane—John Lyly: Euphues (Arber’s reprint), p. 89. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Whereout pure springs of unapproachable fire are vomited from the inmost depth: in the daytime the lava streams pour forth a lurid rush of smoke, but in the darkness a red rolling flame sweepeth rocks with uproar to the wide, deep sea. ❋ Trumbull White (1904)

Exterminate the robber, be thou the advocate of those who are in misery, and be not towards the petitioner like the water-flood that sweepeth him away. ❋ Unknown (1895)

The wind sweepeth towards the south and veereth round to the north, whirling about everlastingly; and back to his circuits returneth the wind. ❋ Emile Joseph Dillon (1894)

"Thy broom sweepeth clean, Jack," responded Lord Strange. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)

[16-4] Ah, well I wot that a new broome sweepeth cleane -- LYLY: ❋ John Bartlett (1862)

Sometimes an unexpected storm, or some other sudden calamity, sweepeth away, in an instant, all that which with so much industry and care we have been gathering many years. ❋ 1630-1694 (1820)

We learn what could not have been new even in 1579, that 'in misery it is a great comfort to have a companion;' that 'a new broom sweepeth clean; 'that' delays breed dangers; 'that' nothing is so perilous as procrastination; 'that 'a burnt child dreadeth the fire;' that it is well not to make comparisons 'lest comparisons should seem odious;' that 'it is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen;' that 'many things fall between the cup and the lip;' and that 'marriages are made in heaven, though consummated on earth.' ❋ Leon H. Vincent (N/A)

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff. " ❋ Howard Pyle (1882)

But now by a sorry death am I doomed to die, pent in this mighty river, like a swineherd boy whom a torrent sweepeth down as he essayeth to cross it in a storm. " ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1882)