As she cycled up to the ornate porch she always thought of chivalrous knights attending maidens dressed in high, pointed hats and long sweeping gowns.

Georgina, coolly regal in a sweeping white gown, was the first to greet them.

--I wish I had feathers, a fine sweeping gown, And a delicate face, and could strut about Town!

Behind came the aldermen and councilmen, grave and reverend elders, clad in their sweeping gowns of black silk, trimmed and tippeted with costly furs.

She was propped so that the sweeping gown pulled tight over her back, accentuating her graceful lines.

Mrs. Kerik wore a sweeping black gown with spaghetti straps.

Lady Bonneville wore a sweeping, low-cut gown, patterned in a striking arrangement of Scottish plaids.

"You'd be surprised," Trish murmured absently as she surveyed a long, sweeping evening gown in brilliant green silk.

The girl was attired in a sweeping gown - a luxurious garment that she had found in the closet of the guest room.

While the predictable dances aren't anything to get excited about, the sweeping gowns, embellished with just the right amount of sequins and soaring slits, are glorious and do matter.