In fact, the jagged mass of ruin was literally suspended in midair.

The fighting in midair was desultory but deadly.

The fighting in midair was desultory but deadly.

He gave this a last suggestive kick and then dangled there in midair, spinning around like a teetotum.

The consequence was that it would plunge downward almost as though making a sheer drop; the noose tightening about the leg or legs of the unhappy wight who had sprung the trap, he would be jerked off his feet and hauled up, head downward, to dangle there in midair, as helpless as a babe.

As I was wondering in which direction to escape from all this confusion, two warm hands grasped me firmly, and in the same moment I was tossed high in midair.

For a second he whirled in midair.

" "But you made sure it was Percy's biplane?" asked Frank, interested somewhat, for somehow the other rival flier was always doing such bold stunts that he could not help feeling as though it might pay to keep track of what he was doing, lest their interests clash unexpectedly, in midair perhaps.

Again and again Thor buried his long fangs in the other's flesh; but in fang-fighting the black was even quicker than he, and his right shoulder was being literally torn to pieces when their jaws met in midair.

The snake caught the dragonfly in midair without coiling.

Back and forth rolled the mighty torrents of sound, meeting in midair, breaking and crashing back in fainter reverberations.

And there it stands to this day, high up in the silence of midair, where the voices of the city below are rendered small and thin by the distance,four hundred and seventy-four feet above the heads of the populace, who, in their littleness, crawl about and traffic at its base.

Explosion followed explosion, some of them coming in hollow, reverberating booms, others sounding as if in midair.

Their knives clashed in midair.

The knife rose; for the fraction of a second it trembled in midair.

It must be hard to frolic in midair with a heavy heart.

Once I saw the eagle make the mighty plunge from far above, the frightened osprey dropping the fish to escape the shock, and the eagle catching it in midair as it fell.

The webs could hardly be seen; and the effect was of scores of big, formidable-looking spiders poised in midair, equidistant from one another, between each pair of trees.

He felt as if he were swinging in midair hitched to a scudding aeroplane by a rope about his middle.

Then the secretary saw that they were discs of metalimmense gongs swinging in midair, suspended in some way from the ceiling, and each one as Skale touched it emitted its beautiful note till all combined together at length into a single chord.

He experienced the flash of unconsciousness; becoming aware of it, in midair, as his relaxed body was sinking to the ground and as he caught himself together, he stiffened his muscles with a spasmodic wrench, and escaped the fall.