My ill fortune, then, thrust me forth from my house, vain and careless that I was; and, accompanied by several ladies, I moved with slow step to the sacred temple, in which the solemn function required by the day was already celebrating.

Juanita hastily thrust the cord into her pocket and drew the ring less quickly on to that finger for which it had been destined.

" With this Stubby bowed low and retreated toward the door, which suddenly opened to admit old Dan'l the fiddler, who was thrust in so violently that his body collided with that of Stubby and nearly knocked him over.

He thrust Bedevere through the breast, so fiercely that the steel stood out beyond his back.

In others, turretted rocks thrust their gleaming crags upward.

The man sank from his knees upon his back, and Kazan thrust his fangs deeper into his enemy's throat; he felt the warm blood.

He at once ordered the Temple police to seize the bold and outspoken prophet, who was forthwith punished for his plain speaking by the bastinado, and then hurried bleeding to the stocks, into which his head and feet and hands were rudely thrust, to spend the night amid the jeers of the crowd and the cold dews of the season.

He thrust an arm inside of Dave's and carried him along, Dalzell and Page following.

Misticoosis, who had spent all the hours in arraying herself in her finery and adornment, boldly thrust herself to the front, and crowded out the modest Omemee, who was flushed by the busy work of cooking the dinner, and was wisely dressed in a costume which harmonized with her face and with the work in which she had been engaged so industriously.

The physician believing that nothing could more effectually cure this error of imagination, than to shew that the thing could actually be done, caused the patient to be thrust forcibly through it: who, struck with horror, and falling suddenly into agonies, complained of being crushed to pieces, and expired soon after.

They had all three just risen from their praying-carpets, and were peering out, with fierce, high-nosed faces thrust forwards, at the stretch of country revealed by the spreading dawn.

She sat with head drooped forward, her masculine little chin thrust out eagerly, her candid eyes transparently appraising him.

The cousins looked at each other in a dazed, inquiring fashion; and Agnes, starting forward, impatiently thrust the paper into Dora's hand and cried sharply, "Read that; read that!" Dora in a bewildered way read aloud this sentence, which in big black letters stared her in the face, "Smithson, alias Smith.

They pressed upon them from every side, thrusting shrewdly with the spear, and striking lustily with the sword.

" Smith carelessly thrust the revolver into his hip pocket.

As the storm went crashing on, I kept thrusting myself downward, in hopes to plunge lower than the storm circle.

Ah, dolt!" The man in the doorway had moved, cautiously thrusting one hand out of the shadow far enough for the street lights to shine upon the dial of his wrist-watch.

" Jack thrust out his hand impulsively.

Wilson then caught hold of the chair with his left hand, raised it up, and with his right hand deliberately thrust the knife, up to the hilt, into Anthony's heart, and as deliberately drew it out, and wiping off the blood with his thumb and finger, retired near to the Speaker's chair.

He found Abdullah fully dressed and reading a paper, which he hurriedly thrust into his burnoose when he was interrupted.

Within a space of moments, the plane, unless turned and thrust backward, would be crushed beneath hundreds of tons of ice.

Knights and barons and clerks, accustomed to the plenty and comfort of palace and castle, found themselves at the mercy of every freak of the king's marshals, who on the least excuse would roughly thrust them out into the night from the miserable hut in which they sought shelter and cut loose their horses' halters, and whose hearts were hardly softened by heavy bribes.

It bespoke rather a dumb, disciplined acceptance by those who have had fatalism literally thrust on them as a doctrine to be practiced.

Suddenly, one approaching the flaming pile throws himself on his back, with his head to the fire, and swiftly thrusts his wand into the flames.

Simultaneously a white streak shot from beneath the porch and something like a red-hot poker thrust itself savagely into an extremely tender part of his anatomy.