He fell in a heap, from which his arms shot forth wildly as he reached the bottom, and his cry was half anguish yet half desire.

Dr. Moncrieff's lantern, which was a large one, without any means of shutting up,an old-fashioned lantern with a pierced and ornamental top,shone steadily, the rays shooting out of it upward into the gloom.

I thought, and at the time I suppose Hill thought, that Fred had shot him either accidentally or in order to escape capture.

Of course, he had no time to take aim while there was a man on the other side of the room covering him, but in any case those fancy firearms cannot be depended upon to shoot straight.

"Yes, Mrs. Sprague, your son shot Wesley deliberately; shot him as deliberately as if I should draw a pistol and take your life now and here.

King's hand shot out swiftly, gripping his wrist.

A huge tongue of flame shot high in the air.

This poor lad had been shot badly through the shoulder, and only by the skill of Moffat, the surgeon from Cape Town, had he retained what was left of his shattered arm.

with thy sky-pointing peaks, Oft from whose feet the avalanche, unheard, Shoots downward, glittering through the pure serene Into the depth of clouds that veil thy breast Thou too again, stupendous Mountain!

Pat shot a single glance upwards, and made laconic reply.

He had been fatally shot.

The speed of the train increased with a sickening sway; old wharves shot past, with the green water sucking at their piers; the city shifted by and out of sight.

The village, which is half a mile in length, is built upon a singular crag, which shoots up abruptly from the centre of the valley, rising at one extremity to a height of more than a hundred feet.

" Two arms shot skyward.

It has been placed by Mr. Gould amongst the birds of Europe; not from the number of half-reclaimed individuals which are annually shot in Britain, but from the circumstance of its occasionally visiting the southern parts of the continent from its native country, Africa.

Simultaneously a small object shot out from the child's mouth, struck Dr. Price in the neighborhood of his waistband, and then rattled lightly against the floor.

"Or get shot mysteriously from a window while attempting it," he said.

Or, by rapidly bending down their powerful tails, Lobsters are able to shoot backwards through the water at a great pace.

The poems of Cowper, Burns, Wordsworth, and Coleridge show this quickened feeling for a starved bird, a wounded hare, a hart cruelly slain, or an albatross wantonly shot.

Now, all of a sudden, I became aware that this town had been literally shot to bits.

As the day advanced, moreover, the sun, which had shone in the eyes of the confederates, gradually shot its rays into those of the Moslems.

The house probably is surrounded and if we start out the door we shall most likely be shot down.

And in the same play he gives us a poetical and lively representation of the Queen of Scots, and the fate she met with, Thou rememb'rest Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a sea-maid on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.

As we looked up, a deep bellow stirred the air, which had fallen quite still, long forks of lightning shot horizontally from the direction of the island's interior, and flashes of dull red were reflected from the canopy of cloud.

He, however, was a man of action, and he promptly shot the officer in command.