The car swerved sharply.

Its flight was shorter and dropped almost under the nose of Elspeth's horse, which swerved violently, and would have unseated a less skilled horsewoman.

Their sense of right and wrong is not founded on the Decalogue, as may be well imagined, yet, from such principles as they profess they rarely swerve.

Dan had swerved aside as lightly as a wind-blown feather and his fist rapped against Silent's ribs with a force that made the giant grunt.

From virtue's rules I do too meanly swerve, I, by my courage, will your love deserve.

The fragments of a mile-castle are standing just at the point where the Wall swerves northward; indeed, we have been passing the sites of these castella, with fragments more or less in evidence all along the route, but those which we shall now encounter are much more distinctly to be seen than their fellows on the eastern part of the journey, many of which have disappeared altogether.

The rat winced and swerved most reassuringly at his blowin the glare of his lamp he could see the fur furrow under the lashand he slashed again and again, heedless and unaware of the second pursuer that gained upon his off side.

Ever afterwards, during this one hour of the twenty-four, it swerved regularly into the same channel.

Was itWhirr, s-st! Down like a shot dropped Tam's head, and like an arrow he leaped forward, swerving sideways to escape the danger he had scented,the danger of a lariat flung by a practised hand.

The roll Of Conn's fierce blows that baffled Goll On sword and shield resounding rang, While that old warrior stooped and sprang Sideways, and swerved, or backward leapt, As swiftly as the bronze blade swept Above him and around ...

Then they tied the Woman in with ropes, for there was constant fear that she might be hurled out when the sled swerved unavoidably.

And now King had a little room and an instant of his own as two other men swerved widely about the falling figure.

Just as I left the verandah a large black bird swooped down in front of me past the pillars; it dropped from overhead, swerved abruptly to one side as it caught sight of me, and flapped heavily towards the shrubberies on the left of the terraces, where it disappeared into the gloom.

I call that pitch which I believe to be wrong, and if I swerve but a hair's-breadth wittingly towards what I believe to be evil, then I shall be touching pitch

The girl and the boy helped each other, hindered each other, playing here and there near the Question, but swerving always deliciously just in time.

Sometimes we encounter personalities which seem to move through the discords of this life as though guided by laws of harmony; they know neither outward check nor inward swerving, and are endowed with that peaceful passion for toil which does the world's work and is one of the marks of genius.