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in full swing

moving quickly forward. In Moscow, a building boom is in full swing.

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One of the chief difficulties was that the process of cultivating the land was in full swing, that it was impossible to stop everything and begin it all again from the beginning, and the machine had to be mended while in motion. Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context About twelve o'clock, when the market was in full swing, there appeared at the front door a tall, middle-aged peasant, with a hooked nose and a cap on the back of his head; it was Robelin, the farmer of Geffosses. A Simple Soul by Flaubert, Gustave View in context She got perfectly well and came home just when the Fiske revival was in full swing. Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context More results

References in classic literature

One of the chief difficulties was that the process of cultivating the land was in full swing, that it was impossible to stop everything and begin it all again from the beginning, and the machine had to be mended while in motion.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

About twelve o'clock, when the market was in full swing, there appeared at the front door a tall, middle-aged peasant, with a hooked nose and a cap on the back of his head; it was Robelin, the farmer of Geffosses.

A Simple Soul by Flaubert, Gustave View in context

She got perfectly well and came home just when the Fiske revival was in full swing.

Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

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