David's clear eye measures the length; With hand thrust back, he cramps one knee, Poises a moment thoughtfully, And hurls with a long vengeful swing.

The skies are jewelled all around, The ploughshare snaps in the iron ground, The Finn with face like paper And eyes like a lighted taper Hurls his rough rune At the wintry moon And stamps to mark the tune.

The crowd swarms on, Bellows, hurls stones....

He hurls himself into the house and up the stairs.

The wise consider those who fix their affections on this life, as utterly devoid of reason and reflection: "Pleasure, and pomp, and wealth may be obtained And every want luxuriously supplied: But suddenly, without a moment's warning, Death comes, and hurls the monarch from his throne, His crown and sceptre scattering in the dust.

It is true he is in war merciless and cruel; he hurls anathemas on his enemies.

On this renewed persecution the prophet does not as usual give way to lamentation, but hurls his maledictions.

Undaunted, against the advice of his friends, unsupported by the Pope, he now hurls his anathemas from his retreat in France.

He is always at war with the Yotuns or evil giants, and in battle with them he uses his great hammer, Mjolner, which he hurls at the heads of his enemies.

Finally Surt hurls his fire over the world, gods and men die, and the shriveling earth sinks into the abyss.

To this intent her passport straight was drawn, And in a whirlwind forth of hell she came: O'er hills she hurls, and scours along the plains; The trees flew up by th'roots, the earth did quake for fear; The houses tumble down; she plays the devil and all: At length, not finding any one so fit To effect her devilish charge as I, She comes to me, as to her only child, And me her instrument on earth she made:

He rises, hurls down the enemies of progress and freedom, releases Prometheus, and spreads liberty and happiness through all the world.

A fierce gust, which all but hurls the spectators to the ground; the fiery stream sweeps away to the left, in a grand curve of sparks, and drops into the sea.

A knight rushes in, to make a twelfth, cloven through the helm; but with the blow Hereward's blade snaps short, and he hurls it away as his foes rush in.

At the risk of her life, at the risk of being burned alive did anyone ever consider what that means?the noble Norse-woman, like an Alruna maid of old, hurls out her divine hereditary hatred of sin and filth and lies.

The gunner aims by level and compass with faultless precision, and hurls his awful engines of destruction to destroy ten miles away a house which is to him only a dot on a map.

This hurls us headlong.

And were I to fall as many fathoms deep in love as this Gwyllem ventures, or, rather, as he hurls himself with a splurge, I would performI wonder, now, what miracle?"

Balarama, however, seizes it by its hind legs, twists it round and hurls it into a high tree.

In a flash Krishna slays Kansa's demons and then, leaping on the dais where Kansa is sitting, he seizes him by the hair and hurls him to the ground.

Disdain, despite, is engendered in the admiral, who hurls this defeat upon the heads of those who have prevented the king from declaring himself; he raises a new levy of three thousand foot, and, not regarding who he is and where he is, he declares, in the presumption of his audacity, that he can no longer hold his partisans, and that it must be one of two wars, Spanish or civil.

And then the natural man, finding an empty form, hurls into it the matter of cheap pathos, rancid sentiment, vulgar humour, bare lust, ravenous vanityeverything which, in Schiller's phrase, the form should extirpate, but which no mere form can extirpate.

This the Gaucho hurls through the air at the neck or legs of his quarry.

As a broad bream, to please some curious taste, While yet alive, in boiling water cast, Vex'd with unwonted heat he flings about The scorching brass, and hurls the liquor out; So with the barbed jav'lin stung, he raves, And scourges with his tail the suffering waves.

The terror-striking shout of Pan rings clear, While Moses hurls his stern denunciations.