They not only overshot me, but glanced as harmlessly off Mrs. Jimmie's arrow-proof armour of complete unconsciousness as if they had hurtled aimlessly over her handsome head.

The shed roof was below, and he struck it, fortunately feet first, but the sharp slant of the boards sent him hurtling forward over the edge into a miscellaneous pile of boxes beneath, his body finally resting on the hard ground.

But now and then when a horse's foot slipped and a wild cascade of loose soil and rocks went hurtling downward, she grew rigid with apprehension.

On the instant of the accompanying blow-out the grey car shied like a frightened horse and swerved off the road, hurtling headlong into a clump of trees.

Something hurtled hotly through my hairthe iron bolt of an arbalest, as I knew by the song of the steel bow in a man's hand at the end of the passage.

A score of 6-inch guns spoke out at once with a ringing clamour which absolutely drowned all other sounds, and their great 100-pound shells came hurtling inland with a series of long-drawn shrieks.

By mid-afternoon Stella noticed an acceleration of numbers in the logs that came hurtling lakeward.

The infernal hurricane that never rests Hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine; Whirling them round; and smiting, it molests them.

he gasped and hurtled onwards towards the saddle-room.

Nelson, at the wheel, waved his hand to them as he hurtled past, and laughed joyously in French Pete's face, who was angered by the dangerous trick.

He was not in the huddle that cowered in the reeds to escape the balls, still hurtling viciously over the open.