362 collocations for hurl

You must then hurl a stone at his head, as I said, and stop his running, so that my mare may gain the lead."

But the end for which we gain our understanding must be to hurl these words upon the enemy, not as disconnected units, but as battalions, as brigades, as corps, as armies.

And against Idas Zeus hurled a thunderbolt of consuming fire.

From behind this wall the soldiers would hurl spears, javelins, &c., at the attacking enemy, and keep them in check.

Alexander now hurled his greatest weapon, and stunned reaction in a moment.

And, in fact, might I humbly advise, it does appear impolitic to hurl anathemas unless your Holiness knows that some one will be hit.

She watched the animal crouch and gather its strength and hurl its lean body upward.

The sound of barbarous trumpets rang, the startled horses reared, And snort and neigh and tramp of hoofs on every side was heard, Then troop meets troop, and valiant hearts the mimic fight pursue; They hurl their javelins o'er the sand and pierce the bucklers through.

Carducci, with an Italian's volubility, commenced to hurl imprecations upon the heads of the unknown sons of dogs who dared to tamper with his master's safe, and while we were engaged in putting the scattered papers in order the door-bell rang, and the clerk went to attend to the caller.

For the moment the Bird boys even thought the enraged man would hurl defiance back at them, and declare that he preferred taking his chances with the wreck rather than give up the spoils.

Ivan dies in a fit of wrath, hurling curses on his family and courtdies in a fit of wrath into which he has been purposely taunted by a man who knows that the outburst is certain to kill the weakened monarch.

As the Queen Mary, Indefatigable and the two torpedo boats fell back, still the center of German fire and still hurling shell, seeking their proper places in the battle line, the other British vessels came on.

God grant that in the deadly joust The enemies that thou hast roused, May hurl at thee the unparried dart And pierce thee, liar, to the heart.

So came he at last to the sally-port and hurling the blazing torch behind him, closed the heavy door.

Then there came a rush of feet behind, and a sudden blaze, and the bo'sun crying out encouragement, and, directly, he and the big seaman thrust themselves in front of me, hurling from them great masses of burning weed, which they had borne, each of them, up a long reed.

And he incurred no injury through having dared to stand for the office: but another who had been caught serving as a praetor, was hurled down the rocks of the Capitol, having been first freed, that there might be some legal justification for his punishment.

Mother Shipton saw it, and from a remote pinnacle of her rocky fastness hurled in that direction a final malediction.

With a mighty effort, he hurled the three men from him and leaped to his feet.

Sometimes a body of them, fleetly mounted, would gallop up to the skirts of the camp, and try who should hurl his lance farthest within the barriers, having his name inscribed upon it, or a label affixed to it containing some taunting defiance.

The artillery were used both for hurling missiles in battle, and for the attack on fortresses.

Here are a couple of lawyers hurling epithets and "cases" at each other at £100 a day.

" This time a shower of bullets greeted him as he stepped out, but he hurled his bomb and stepped back in safety.

Two men were lighting and passing up bombs to the sergeant, who, standing clear out in the opening, grabbed and hurled the balls with an extraordinary prancing and dancing and arm-swinging series of contortions, while the crowded trench laughed and applauded.

"Move on, you sons of !" cried a soldier, again refreshed, hurling the insult common among the lower classes of Filipinos.

He dodged to the right and the left, and hurled one boy flat.

362 collocations for  hurl