130 collocations for leveling

The reptile twisted itself about Moffat's leg, and was about to bite him when he managed to level his gun at it and kill it.

roared the sentry, levelling his rifle full at me.

GODARD levelled his glass and examined it.

The men were leveling off the ground and were making preparations to put up large wall tents for the Grand Duke Alexis and his suite, and for General Sheridan, his staff and other officers, and invited guests of the party.

Mr. Lawton was leaning across the table, levelling a pistol at my father's head.

The sentinels levelled their pieces, but the king was out of reach.

" Jack levelled his revolver and fired rapidly at the enemy.

The dints which Thor made on the mountain-skull of Skrymir were types and forerunners of the later feats of the Teutonic race, performed on the rough, shaggy, wilderness face of this Western hemisphere, channelling it with watery highways, tunnelling and levelling its mountains, and strewing its surface with cities.

The other leveled his musket fairly in Jack's face; but before he could pull the trigger a report at his ear deafened Jack, and the second man staggered against the tree.

It was early in the season, but there were some timber cutters at work in the woods near-by, and a greasy man-cook stood in the doorway of the long log cabin where the gang put up throughout the winter, while conducting their operations of leveling the forest, or, at least, robbing it of all the spruce for the pulp mill over at Bedington.

"That ain't all," he cried gayly; then leveled a threatening finger, like a pistol, at her neighbor.

On a review of all the circumstances, and looking to the well-known character and designs of the Sitana fanatics, I came to the conclusion that the interests both of prudence and humanity would be best consulted by levelling a speedy and decisive blow at this embryo conspiracy.

" It was, indeed, a Dutch taste which leveled all these stately buildings to the ground, to erect the great square mass which replaced them.

What leveled spear of a knight, in the pages of romance, could equal the invisible thrust of this wind?

"The Albanians in general (I do not mean the cultivators of the earth in the provinces, who have also that appellation, but the mountaineers) have a fine cast of countenance; and the most beautiful women I have ever beheld, in stature and in features, we saw levelling the road broken down by the torrents between Delvinaki and Libokavo.

He levels his weapon, three reports ring out at once, and the miserable Wesley falls with a dreadful gurgling gasp on the floor.

With a growl of rage, Victor bent forward and levelled an arm through the opening.

I have opened innumerable deep and very extensive forests, I have levelled their inequalities.

Churchill, Lloyd, Colman, the author of the Probationary Odes, and, if I remember right, Paul Whitehead and Wolcot, all levelled their shafts at him in turn.

That laugh levelled the last barrier of doubt and fear and nerved Sofia finally to test the forlorn hope she had been nursing ever since Victor had let her see a little way into his mind as to her fate.

The british fire was heavy and well directed: they are supposed to have fired 1030 shots, weighing from 12 to 32 pounds, every 20 minutes, which, by the middle of the day, nearly levelled the works with the mud.

All this time, the captain regarded him with a sympathetic pleasure, and when the bowl was free, he imitated the example, levelling his own eye at a cloud, that seemed floating at an angle of forty-five degrees above him, expressly for that purpose.

Opposite the entrance, an archer in bronze hung on tiptoe, and levelled a steel bow, whose piercing flèche seemed sparkling with impatience to spring from his finger and flesh itself in the heart of the intruder.

Even better: they level the playing field between writers and trolls.

I will have such a search made as shall level that house to the earth, and root up every tree rather than I will fail in finding the grave of my murdered friend.

130 collocations for  leveling