4833 examples of dash in sentences

raya, f., stroke, dash, line, streak; boundary, frontier. rayarse, to break (of dawn); to dawn.

Later, as we shall see, they adopted Dash.] LETTER 269 CHARLES LAMB TO MRS.

He looked ten years older than he had looked the other night at the ball, when his dash and swagger, and handsome Spanish head had been the admiration of the room.

" "Dash the bank!"

A dash of spray spattered over her, and she looked up frightened, glancing fearfully overside; then once more her eyes came back to him, and this time she got up, still small and crouching, and made her way slowly and painfully down the length of the boat, until at last Gideon moved aside for her, and she sank in the bottom beside him, hiding her eyes in her gingham sleeve.

I hid behind some bushes in the side of the road, and when they come up, and the light-haired little gal was just opposite to me, I jumped out of the bushes and made a dash at her.

I have seen the fierce dash of the sparrow hawk into a crowd of unsuspecting sparrows, I know the triumph of the falcon as it rises for the final, fatal swoop on the flying duck, and I have watched the kestrel, high in air, scanning the field for some rash mouse or lizard that has wandered too far from shelter.

If nothing better offered, I was determined to make a dash at Thirkle if he freed my hands to work at the boat.

They wanted a dog combining all the dash and gameness of the terrier with the heart and courage and fighting instinct of the Bulldog.

There is a heedless, reckless pluck about the Irish Terrier which is characteristic, and, coupled with the headlong dash, blind to all consequences, with which he rushes at his adversary, has earned for the breed the proud epithet of "The Dare-Devils."

First and foremost the terrier needed to be small, short of leg, long and lithe in body, with ample face fringe to protect his eyes from injury, and possessed of unlimited pluck and dash.

The projected dash would be the most ambitious so far attempted, and it was exciting considerable interest.

Material resources were limited on both sides of the house, but there would always be enough for his frugal wantsenough to buy books (not "editions"), and pay now and then for a holiday dash to the great centres of art and ideas.

In such cases he often recommended a dash to Paris or London, just to tone up the nervous system.

"Oh, if you're sure" Ralph was already calculating the time it would take to dash up to Clare Van Degen's on his way to catch the train for the Fairfords'.

Thus had they speedily won, these overmastering Frenchmen, First the spirits of men by the fire and dash of their bearing, Then the hearts of the women with irresistible graces.

New-York women are less exacting; a few of them, indeed, like a dash of the adventurous in their lover; but most of them are business-women, fighting their way out of vulgarity into style, and romance is an interruption.

And in days when the Munki Mannakens were foes of the pale-face, one might dash down rapids by night in the hurry of escape.

he rises again, and the blacks dash at him as if he hadn't a tooth in his head.

Here and there were a few patches of grass, the only thing we could depend upon to assist us in climbing, which must be done with extreme caution, for the least slip or false step would dash one to atoms on the rocks below.

" The sharp words acted like a dash of cold water in the young man's face.

While she has caught something of the dash of Henner, and something of the color of Roybet, and gained a firm mastery of the best French technique, these are infused with the ardor of a Southern temperament.

Into this stir two tablespoonfuls of flour and a cup of milk; a small onion minced and a dash of pepper.

Try a grain, and if done dash in a glass of cold water.

DASH, COUNTESS, the nom de plume of the Viscountess de Saint-Mars, a French novelist, born at Poitiers; in straits for a living, took desperately to writing; treated of aristocratic life and its hollow artificialities and immoralities (1804-1872).

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