75 adjectives to describe seconds

For a moment he was stunned, and in that brief second I released his grip from my throat and hurled him backwards beyond the door.

Basic light-second phenomena on earth at present.

He caught his breath for a few tense seconds.

"Seems to me you've gotten the big head ever since you happened to drop on that rocky plateau on top of the mountain just three little seconds ahead of me, Frank Bird!"

Hildreth played an able second, and by the time the obnoxious ordinance had been safely tabled, Kent had a semi-political following which was all his own.

A pair of apaches whirl for one hundred and twenty consecutive seconds to a great bang of cymbals and seventy-five dollars a week.

It subsided instantly on a gesture of disapproval from the judge, and a silence fell upon the court, in which the clock, with cynical indifference, continued to record in its brusque monotone the passage of the fleeting seconds.

For a critical second their glances crossed and then the habit of obedience conquered.

She stood there for several seconds, absolutely rigid, her eyes growing larger and rounder, her lips a little parted.

This time his attempt was cool, steady, masterful-with death one hundred seconds away.

There was something, to Mrs. Marston, so utterly unexpected, and even so shocking, in this tableau, that she stood for some seconds pale and breathless, and gazing with a vacant stare of fear and horror from her husband to the French girl, and from her to her husband again.

This stalking had occupied a matter of split seconds.

Yet holdten minutes more, and I am bless'd; Fly quick, ye seconds; quick, ye moments, fly: Soon shall I put my hunger to the test, And all the host of miseries defy.

Jeanne was for a few seconds literally dumb with anger and astonishment.

The exact second by the chronometer when the figure of the moon touches that of the sun, is always noted.

For many awful seconds she watched and listened, not breathing.

" Captain Bligh waited in respectful silence, heedless of the fateful seconds ticking from the mantelpiece.

But, his eyes keeping steadily upon her, she, as if defiantly, returned his look for a fluttering second, trying to make her eyes survey him slowly from head to foot with her late cool carelessness; but she had to let them fall again, and he saw the colour come under the clear skin.

She wondered if she herself were not going to faint, in a giddy second, while the red spot on the sand shaped itself in revolving grotesquery.

He bit for the wound, but uttered no sound, and was just disappearing in the brush when I fired a hasty second; Blake and I followed into the thick alders after the dog, which was savagely attacking the bear.

Hour after hour they had shot beneath the varying surface of the floe, but not for one hopeful second had they caught the dark shadow of open water.

Her name is Amelie, and she is a character, a nice one, but not half as much of a character as her husbandher second.

For an immeasurable second, the awakener knows not who he is, nor why, nor where.

Am anfang war die tat; fact is a first; to which all our conceptual handling comes as an inadequate second, never its full equivalent.

May I hope for that?" She did not answer him, but for one intimate second her eyes looked straight into his.

75 adjectives to describe  seconds