28 collocations for puncturing

But even then, I'd have got back, if we hadn't punctured a tire when we were five miles from anywhere.

Why, to puncture the skin of blockheads and blasphemers like you, and suck the last drop of blood from their veins.

They punctured my pride somewhat by stating that that was often the regular stint for German soldiers.

The 'bus grew fuller, and only Jay's bell punctured the silence that followed.

"He says we steal children, to puncture their eyes for magic medicine!"

he was by when the Tulip Mania was hatched, (mixed figure,) and it was he who punctured the great South Sea Bubble, and sent it on a burst.

Generally thirty or forty natives collected between six and seven in the evening, roosting on the piled boards or sitting on the dusty ground in little groups, their cigarettes puncturing the blue darkness that clung close to the earth under the young moon.

Perhaps, too, she had felt an unacknowledged fear of certain of her mother's phrases that could delicately puncture delight.

The whine and patter of bullets filled the air, punctured the kiswah, slogged against the Ka'aba.

Very soon the eggs are in the midst of a ball-like and fleshy chamberthe most suitable provision for them, and one which the parent-insect had provided by means of puncturing the leaf.

He still imagined, that, by puncturing his legs, relief might be obtained.

He noted that his mother bent over him and said, "My poor boy;" at which sign little Harold punctured the levees of his grief again, and said he "never was goin' to face any of the boys in this town again"he

Among the many legends concerning their demi-god Maui, a certain story tells how he showed them the way to tattoo by puncturing the muzzle of a dog, whence dogs went with black muzzles as men see them now.

Judith watched him carefully, and when his back was turned, drew a small lancet, and affecting to arrange her dress, slightly punctured Amabel's neck.

After what seemed more than an hour, though in fact it was but the ten minutes agreed on with Bohannan, off behind them toward the coast a sudden staccato popping of revolvers began to puncture the night.

" "I should say they did," admitted Jack, as he examined the various marks showing where the Hun bullets had punctured different parts of the wings, or struck the fuselage, narrowly missing both the motor and the partly protected petrol supply tank.

The shaft of weaponlight punctured the crew's living quarters, and air began to escape from the pirates' spacecraft.

"Ailsa, it isn't likely that anything is going to knock my head off or puncture vital sections of me.

'The horse-nails are prepared in the ordinary way as for driving, with the exception that each is pointed on the reverse side, to prevent puncturing the sensitive structures.

Sometimes Jay punctured her first ticket at a time when you and I are asleep, and when the coster-barrows, waving with ferns and fuchsias, move up the Strand like Birnam Wood moving to Dunsinane.

The sword had no sooner cut the sack across and punctured the tin, than a fat villain in a loin cloth, squatting on the earthen floor, kneaded flour and oil into a grimy batch of dough.

Immediately a drop of blood appeared; to complete his misfortune, he had punctured a vein.

His voice would be courteous, his manner of saying it would fairly puncture the air.

With amazing pluck and presence of mind he had recovered himself in time to puncture my back wheel, a feat of marksmanship which, as the Daily Mail observed, was "highly creditable under the circumstances.

It should bolster up the man who lacks self-confidence; it should puncture false ambitions, and it should use men as they are found in the organization.

28 collocations for  puncturing