A streak of coherency, a strand of mad logic, now ran through his hurtling words; the money was there, Beaumaroy was to take itto-day, to-day!to take it to Morocco, to raise the tribes, to set Africa aflame.

But as they had to guard against breaking twigs or hurtling branches, which would have betrayed them, their advance was slow.

He was not in the huddle that cowered in the reeds to escape the balls, still hurtling viciously over the open.

We had wandered off the main thoroughfare, where the trams, hurtling past the Irani's tea shop, drown from time to time the chatter of Khoda Behram's clientele; and skirting a group of Mahomedans who nightly sit in solemn conclave, some on the 'otlas,' others on charpoys or chairs placed well in the fairway of traffic, we reached at length a sombre and narrow 'gali,' seemingly untenanted save by the shadows.

With one swing of my arm I sent the cleaver hurtling through the air.

We were but a hurtling speck between the gray above and the gray below.

But now and then when a horse's foot slipped and a wild cascade of loose soil and rocks went hurtling downward, she grew rigid with apprehension.

On the instant of the accompanying blow-out the grey car shied like a frightened horse and swerved off the road, hurtling headlong into a clump of trees.

It seemed to him impossible that the horse could avoid a false step or a slip, and such a false step he knew would send steed and rider hurtling down to something that could be very little short of instant death.

He did not succeed in releasing himself; he only increased the hurtling waves of pain in his head.

Not with the edge smote Sacnoth, for, had he done so, the severed end of the tail had still come hurtling on, as some pine tree that the avalanche has hurled point foremost from the cliff right through the broad breast of some mountaineer.

An escape of gas which could not be stopped sent the balloon hurtling to the earth.

Twice, by the hardest kind of line bucking, it was placed within the ten-yard line, and twice, by the grimmest, most desperate resistance, it was lost on downs and sent hurtling back to near mid-field.

With a swift sweep he sent both mask and glove hurtling under the bed, and so violently that he heard the mask rebound from the wall. Shortly after the Draconian reforms, a war broke out between Athens and Megara

And the trench was full of flying slugs and chunks of dirt, striking against our faces and hurtling all about us.

Unseen by the watchers, the heavens were filled with hurtling rocks; solid masses of granite ten feet square were thrown a hundred feet away; rocks weighing a ton were hurled still farther, as if they were no more than stones flung by the hands of a giant; chunks that would have crashed from the roof to the basement of a skyscraper dropped a third of a mile away.

The soldier and the Huguenot rushed swiftly up the first flight of stairs, and were about to ascend the second one, from the head of which the uproar seemed to proceed, when a great eight-day clock came hurtling down, springing four steps at a time, and ending with a leap across the landing and a crash against the wall, which left it a shattered heap of metal wheels and wooden splinters.

The air was darkened by hurtling parodies, the arrangement of which is still a standing crux to the bibliographers.

Since the old heroic times when the Homers and the Gunnlaugs sang of battle with the sleet of lances hurtling around them, a great calm has settled down upon Parnassus.

Shells came hurtling out of the veil of the mist and burst in places which seemed hidden behind cotton-wool.

She had come into the Rose Room of the Palace Hotel quivering in the leash of a restrained enjoyment; it had taken the quick lash of opportunity to send her spirits hurtling forward in wild and headlong abandon.

He, with a mild and serious eye Along the azure of the years, Sees the sweet pomp sweep hurtling by; But he sees not death's blood and tears, Sees not the plunging of the spears.

He spun around the horse, then went hurtling to the ground some twenty feet away.

And the insecure fourth Bohunk in the tonneau went hurtling forward into the front seat straight on his way through the windshield.

He towed them to dry land, untied and put away his rope and then discovered that he had not the heart to drive on at his usual hurtling pace and leave them to follow.