His charioteer was struck down by a javelin at his side; and at last Darius' nerve failed him, and, descending from his chariot, he mounted on a fleet horse and galloped from the plain, regardless of the state of the battle in other parts of the field, where matters were going on much more favorably for his cause, and where his presence might have done much toward gaining a victory.

Boabdil was on the point of falling into the hands of the Christians, when, wheeling round, with his followers, they threw the reins on the necks of their fleet steeds and took refuge by dint of hoof within the walls of the city.

It had always been held that the Grand Fleet required a total force of one hundred destroyers and ten flotilla leaders for the double purpose of screening the ships from submarine attack when at sea and of countering the enemy's destroyers and attacking his heavy ships with torpedo fire in a fleet action.

It is not my brother of the fleet foot, and the steady hand.

The jack rabbit is considered a very fleet animal, yet these Indians are accustomed to catch jack rabbits by outrunning them.

With a fluttering of her pulses she told herself that this was most likely the fleet boat which had taken the new owner out to Akimiski, and was now bringing him back.

[nn]Scarce can our fields, such crowds at Tyburn die, With hemp the gallows and the fleet supply.

And instead of short-finned dolphins they shall take to them fleet mares, and reins instead of oars shall they ply, and speed the whirlwind-footed car.

"Why, the fishing-fleet owners, Barton and Skinner and that lot," rejoined Astor M'Kree abstractedly, being again buried in his letter.

Slowly the fleet bore in, the Royal George, having the heaviest guns, coming ahead of the others.

At school he was a fleet runner and cultivated a habit of long walks.

Individual actors, with respect to the master claim of humanity, are, for the most part, not unlike that fleet hound which, enticed by a tempting prospect of meat, outran a locomotive engine all the way from Lowell to Boston, and won a handsome wager for his owner, while intent only on a dinner for himself.

Again under the calm skyagain the fleet limbs of the horse almost keeping time to his own inward impatience.

The danger both of wounds and death in these contests was three times as great in the single ships as in fleets, and about five times as great in battles with the Americans as in fleet-battles with other nations.

Faster and faster I ran, setting my teeth and clenching my fists, determined to overtake my own fleet shadow.

Two ocean fleet ed., 1941.

The forgotten fleet mystery, by Geoffrey Coffin, pseud.

A Carthaginian fleet sails, in aid of the Tarentines, by which act the treaty is violated.

Had they known we were there, we might have been taken in a trap from which only fleet fugitives would have escaped.

"Aided by a powerful arm and a fleet gondola, thy chance will be as good as another's, Gino," said Don Camillo, closing the door of his cabinet on his servant; "at present thou mayest give some proof of zeal in my service, in another manner.

And again the small, fleet hand was dashed across the twinkling, tearful eyes of this April day of a middle-aged man of the worldthis modern Mercutiomerry and mournful at once, as if there were two sides to his every mood, like the famous shield of story.

Sivajee, his fleet harries the Concan coast; his agreement with the English; occupies and fortifies Kennery; plans an attack on Bombay; concludes peace with the English.

It is eleven o'clockdark nightand the breeze is freshening, when the first of the fleet heaves in sight... 6.

On the very last day of October, 1918, Turkey surrendered to the British, opening the Dardanelles and through those waters giving the allied fleets access to the German-dominated Black Sea and the coast of southern Russia, and putting at the mercy of the allies the only active units of the German navy.

' Yon lovely roadstead of Dominicathere it was that Rodney first caught up the French on the 9th of April, three days before, and would have beaten them there and then, had not a great part of his fleet lain becalmed under these very highlands, past which we are steaming through water smooth as glass.