You shall expend your superfluous strength and spirits on the plain yonder; for I think I detect some game scudding across the green meadow before us.' Rodolph paused to adjust his gun; and the sagacious dog ceased his wild demonstrations, end paused also until the task was completed.

A long chain of lightning and a heavy ball of fire seemed to shoot from the sky, lighting up the whole sea, revealing, and at the same time striking, in its descent, a full-rigged brig, which, like themselves, was scudding before the gale under bare poles, a few cables' length off their port beam.

It scudded along the hill-side, driven by the wind, with a fury which broke the boughs, snapped the strong rushes, and flooded everything.

706. meet with difficulties; labor under difficulties; get into difficulties; plunge into difficulties; struggle with difficulties; contend with difficulties; grapple with difficulties; labor under a disadvantage; be in difficulty &c adj.. fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles.

This white scuda flying scud of frozen waterwas singularly like the scud that is blown from the crest of the waves by a cyclone in the China Seas.

Coming in sight of the Morea, the poet said to Trelawny, "I feel as if the eleven long years of bitterness I have passed through, since I was here, were taken from my shoulders, and I was scudding through the Greek Archipelago with old Bathurst in his frigate.

But three and twenty scud about the fields, That glads my hart to ze their iollitie.

And still the fishers out-bound, or scudding from the squall, With grave and reverent faces the ancient tale recall, When they see the white waves breaking on the "Rock of Avery's Fall!" THE DENSLOW PALACE.

Sometimes I saw them from my bedroom window, 'way out in the fields, whirling and scudding in mad games.

She walked and ran as though pursued, scudding over the road with a swiftness that would have amazed another, but which seemed the essence of slowness to her.

Kalitan dropped everything and ran without a word, scudding like the arrow from which he took his name.

You'll say I'm doting; do but think I scudded round the Horn in one The Tenedos, a glorious Good old craft as ever run Sunk (how all unmeet!)

A huge, dark cloud scudded out of the west and let down a shower of fine rain.

The "Pilgrim" scudded to the northeast with a speed which could not be less than two hundred miles in twenty-four hours, and still the land did not appear!that land, America, which is thrown like an immense barrier between the Atlantic and the Pacific, over an extent of more than a hundred and twenty degrees!

Ay, but the stoutest of you all that's here Would run from death and nimbly scud for fear.

Few pedestrians were abroad in the rain, and those who were, sheltered themselves slant-wise with their umbrellas against the wind, and scudded with the storm.

Dick Sand then asked himself, not without apprehension, if he would be again forced to scud without sails.