There was a young woman sitting directly in front of him, and when he came to leave, a sudden lurch threw him against her.

Instantly the ship gave a tremendous lurch, which was the signal for a general breaking loose.

But an unexpected lurch of the chair, coming at that moment, landed him in a squirming heap on the floor.

She lifted, struck again, and went on with an awkward lurch.

The weather had taken a sudden backward lurch into winter again, so we had a fire.

It gave a violent lurch, but fortunately its breadth of beam kept it from overturning, and the water, being not more than a few inches deep, only wet the boots of the mariners.

But certain it is, that during the long peace of the first Cæsars, and after the annonaria prorisio, (that great pledge of popularity to a Roman prince,) had been increased by the corn tribute from the Nile, the Roman population took an immense lurch ahead.

could I give a mighty lurch, bound over the deck-rail, and be free?

Down you go, and fall foul of ham, beef, pommes de terre frites, jonny-cakes, and café sans lait; and generally, in despite of bad cooking and occasional lee-lurches, contrive to eat an enormous meal.

Let the ministers and churches Leave behind sectarian lurches; Jump on board the car of Freedom, Ere it be too late to need them.

I was standing in the gangway, watching her, when a slight lurch of the steamer caused her to loose her hold of the garment, which, fastened at the neck, was blown back from her shoulders, leaving her body screened but by a single robe of-light, gauzy silk.

She crawled forward, stopped, and moved again with a staggering lurch.

I was so full of it I kept repeating it softly to myself all the way up; but when we got to that Fourteenth Street curve the car gave a fearful lurch and fairly shook the words "villanous viper" out of me; and as I was standing when we began the turn, and was left confronting a testy old gentleman upon whose feet I had trodden twice, at the finish, I nearly got into trouble.

I was standing by him when he got up with a surprising lurch and put a hand on my shoulder.

Only now and again he caught a faint lurch which told his practiced senses that some of the rudely improvised splices were working loose.

At each shock the chin of Arizona Charley was flung down against his chest and at the same time his head snapped sideways with the uneven lurch of the horse.

"Happierand safer," she said gravely, the canoe giving a dangerous lurch as she leaned forward in her seat to catch my answer.

Barbara's pair were ominously still for a time, when all at once the larger gave a sort of unwilling lurch, without popping, and rolled off a little way, right in toward the blaze.

The coach gives a horrible lurch.