16670 examples of raced in sentences

Then the mustang raced wildly forwards a few paces, then as wildly back, and then stood still and trembled violently.

" "Oh, aye, I remember; when she cut a face on the ice the day she raced with Captain Yorke she told me her brother had taught her.

Near the house are the rocks known as Minto Crags, mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," where many and many a time Lady Fanny raced about on hunting days, watching the redcoats with childish eagernessintensely interested in the joyousness and beauty of the sight, but in her heart always secretly thankful if the fox escaped.

And she skipped and sported along near the railroad track, where the express-train raced in vain with her; for she could make her sixty miles an hour or more without gasping for breath.

They raced around the pen, playing a game much like our game of tag, and if they could have had someone to tie a hand-kerchief over their eyes, they might have played blind-man's buff.

However, they raced about, and jumped over each other's backs, and climbed upon the fat sides of their father and mother while the big pigs lay asleep in the shade.

But don't hurt him!" Don raced up beside Squinty, and took him gently by the ear.

At the last moment he swerved and raced close beside the fence; some projecting edge caught the trousers of Woodbury and ripped away the stout cloth from hip to heel.

The last minute Anthony spent at the open French window with a backward eye on the clock; then he raced down the steps as though in his turn he answered a call out of the night.

After him, running as he had never before raced, went Anthony; his hand, as he sprinted, already tensed for the coming battle; two hundred yards at the most and he would reach the lumbering figure which had plunged into the night of the trees; but a call reached him as sharp as the crack of the guns a moment before: "Anthony!"

He shouted back some answer that was inaudible, then raced on at a great pace.

He pottered about, doingdoingoh, anything, for an hour or more; then suddenly he leaped on his pony and raced madly down the trail on the track of the stranger.

" Jimmie raced through the back numbers.

From deck to deck, down lane after lane of the great floating village, I raced blindly, peering into half-opened doors, pushing through groups of men, pursuing some one in the distance who appeared to be the man I sought, only to find he was unknown to me.

Cancut must steer her alone over the foam, while we, springing ashore, raced through the thick of the forest, tore through the briers, and plunged through the punk of trees older than history, now rotting where they fell, slain by Time the Giganticide.

Then they frightened and chased them, till they raced like mad things all over the great lawns which surrounded the house.

As he raced away gaining a yard at every leap, he swerved like a jackrabbit from side to side.

Then she turned and fairly raced for the corral.

The horseman to his left shot over a hill and disappeared into the hollow beyondhe would be a scant hundred yards away when Alcatraz raced by, if indeed he could keep beyond reach of the wolf as long as this.

He wondered at that sight for only an instant; then, as the meaning drove home to him, he wheeled and raced down the valley.

He recognized the flying peril as he raced in a wide loping semicircle.

With a shout of hope he raced to this point of vantage and flung himself from the saddle.

He began to swerve from side to side as he raced.

" The stranger gave her sandwiches and claret as cold as the rivers that raced the train; and Grizel told her, quite frankly, why she was going to Bad-Platten.

The three ponies trotted to the water-hole, sniffed at the water, and, whirling, raced across the mesa, pitching and kicking in the joy of liberation.

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