Again and again, when Mr. Welsby's pupils were at football practice, and Mr. Blake happened not to be present, the enemy's sharp-shooter crept into ambush behind the hedge and discharged stones from their catapults at the legs of the players, while the latter replied by inquiring when they meant to "come over and take another licking."

A cross-town car blocked them, and the brakes screeched in agony, while Doctor Suydam was well-nigh catapulted into the street; then they were under way again, with the car leaping from speed to speed.

But her ramparts, though breached in places, were yet manned by her sons, and their assailants recoiled pierced by the shafts or stunned by the catapults of the defence.

While stooping over to fill his fan with unwinnowed grain, the buck, taking advantage of his position, came like a catapult against him, and sent him like a ball from a Paixhan gun, head foremost into the chaff.

But he loved the Holiday name too with a fine, high pride and it was a bitter dose to swallow to have his younger brother "catapulted in disgrace," as Ted himself put it, out of the college which he himself so loved and honored.

Too terrified even to shriek, Jane felt herself being catapulted out of her seat and flung high in air.

Don't you know you can't catapult through a man's tummy with a young pine tree and not injure his physical geography?"

Willie Toothaker, the office boy of Tutt & Tutt, had perfected a catapult along the lines of those used in the Siege of Carthageform derived from the appendix of Allen and Greenough's Latin Grammarwhich boded ill for the truck drivers of lower Gotham.

De Grizolles had installed a regular Roman catapult for shooting kidney-beans at the usher's head.

His teeth closed on the shoulder of the lyncher and the man catapulted from his saddle to the ground.