The sun was dying; of that there could be little doubt; and still the earth whirled onward, through space and all the aeons.

It has occurred to me, that they may have broken loose from the sun's attraction, and whirled away into space.

" "Pray" My uncle, whose back had been towards me, whirled round, his face red to bursting, and brought his closed fist down upon the counter with a heavy thump.

It was still as on the day of the battle, save that instead of the thousands of beating hearts, the flaunting flags, and roaring guns, there were countless ridges torn in the sod, as if a plow had run through at random, limbs and trees torn down and whirled across each other, broken wheels, musket stocks and barrels, twisted and sticking, gaunt and eloquent, in the tough, grassy fiber of the earth.

he cried; and beholding his look, Gurth of a sudden loosed the swooning maid and, drawing sword, leapt and smote at Beltane's golden head; but Beltane caught the blow in his mailed hand, and snapped the blade in sunder, and, seizing Gurth about the loins, whirled him high in air; then, while all men blenched and held their breath waiting the thud of his broken body in the dust, Beltane stayed and set him down upon his feet.

Lefty Joe dug his left elbow into the floor of the car and whirled back upon his shoulders, bunching his knees high over his stomach.

For an instant they whirled; then they went down, and Lefty was on top.

As it was, the fall whirled him over and over, and by the time he had picked himself up the lighted caboose of the train was rocking past him.

So that, as she whirled toward Donnegan, he winced, feeling that she had found him out among the shadows.

As for Donnegan, the leap that carried him to one side whirled him about also; he faced the big man, who was now crouched in the very act of following the knife cast with the lunge of his powerful body.

It was now that Lewis saw Donnegan sitting the saddle directly behind him, and he whirled with a moan of fury.

She whirled and flung herself on her bed, face down, and began to sob violently, suppressing the sounds.

The dark figures leaped, there was a faint shout, a line whirled out from Terrier's bridge and the hulk drove astern.

The post-chaise whirled the traveller through the most delightful home scenery his eyes had ever lighted on.

Hodge, the farmer's boy, took off his hat, and Polly, the milk-maid, bobbed a curtsey, as the chaise whirled over the pleasant village-green, and the white-headed children lifted their chubby faces and cheered.

The supposed predicament so delighted them, that they put on a mock terror and whirled about in an assumed stampede, then caught their clasped hands between their knees in excess of mirth, and laughed till the tears ran; for whether the street-makers mired in the marsh, or contrived to cut through old "Jean-ah's" property, either event would be joyful.

" She whirled and attacked him with her eyes.

he cried; and dancing up, caught Heywood's hands and whirled him about.

At the first cross-roads a field wagon containing a farmer, his wife and half-a-dozen children whirled into Andy Wildwood's view.

Seizing both the fellow's arms, he whirled him around face to face, let go of him, and with two quick movements of one hand tore the false moustache and the false goatee from his face.

Then she, orchids, shining car and all were whirled on.

The red lips began to frame a "No," then closed tightly together, while the slim little figure whirled about and made an attempt to leap over the piazza railing,an attempt that would have been successful if one foot had not caught in a stout vine.

The iron-men cheered and groaned, according to their humour, as they whirled past their antagonist.

Whizzing up from below with a rigid arm, which put the Master's eleven stone into its force, it struck him under the jaw; he whirled half round, and fell a helpless and half-paralysed mass.

For a moment he whirled with the weight of his struggling, cursing enemy, and then his right hand shot up over the shoulder of Cartwright and clutched his chin.