What did you do with the Sweepings?
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
The seed-bed should be prepared by thorough digging and mixing about an inch in depth of old manure; wood ashes and decayed Sweepings having a quantity of goat or sheep dung in it is well suited for the seed-bed at this season.
"The Cauliflower"
A. A. Crozier
In our regular army there were the Sweepings of many slums, as well as the best blood of our peasantry and our good old families.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs