Further off, the sun, a splash of white flame, burned vividly against the dark.

I heard them splash in the river at the bottom; and then silence.

All at once the line was thrown loose, and the boat went straight ahead bows on, to one of the small islands up towards the head of the lake, and when she struck, I went through the air eend over eend, clear across the island, more than fifteen rods, ca-splash into the lake on the other side.

On his head was jammed a linen boating hat that had once been white; gaping away from his hairy chest was a faded dingy checked cotton shirt that had once been brown and white; his blue trousers were spotted and splashed with dusty stains; he was chewing tobacco.

Thus marched they, through heat and dust, through cool, green shadow, splashing through noisy brook and shallow ford, until, as the sun reached the zenith, they came to the brow of a hill and saw afar the walls and roofs of the prosperous town of Winisfarne.

In their high rubber boots they splashed about Rampart in the mild, thawing weather, "tryin' to scare up a job," as one of them stopped to explain to every likely person: "Yes, sah, lookin' for any sort of honourable employment till the ice goes out.

His loosely packed ball broke in a splash on the back of the Boy's parki, and Kaviak was loudly cheered.

I looked up, quickly, and as I did so I saw the lights sink into a dull, ruddy tint; so that the room glowed with a strange, heavy, crimson twilight that gave the shadows behind the chairs and tables a double depth of blackness; and wherever the light struck, it was as though luminous blood had been splashed over the room.

Water splashed against the ledge that protected the engine-room; the stack of coal worked and he heard big lumps fall.

The dizzying green light splashed at the other-worldly gray light, and a funnel cloud emerged.

And so they rode to Daphne full pelt, greatly to the anger of the too well dressed Antiochenes, who cursed them for the mud they splashed from wayside pools and for the dung and dust they kicked up into plucked and penciled faces.

Where the moon's rays splashed across the bare right forearm of Bull, he sent a bullet that slashed through the great muscles.

Burning oil splashed around him, a pillar of fire rushed up, and when a whistle screamed he let go the valve and turned from the blinding dust.

The silence got on my nerves I arose impatiently and walked down the pale beach, where the stars glimmered in splashes along the wettest sands.

A splash to the right led me to take a dozen strokes hastily, but to no purpose.

"I'll just see where it was printed," she said to herself, drawing out the book and backing off hastilyso hastily that she came into collision with the sawhorse table, and the paste splashed out of the bucket.

For many minutes the grizzly stood with his big head drooping, and the blood gathered in splashes under him.

When the tide is at the turning and the wind is fast asleep, And not a wave is curling on the wide, blue Deep, O the waters will be churning on the stream that never smiles, Where the Blue Men are splashing round the charmèd isles.

"And he waited, until a trout, to remind him, perhaps, took a fly with a splash beneath his nose.

But the water splashing above my ankles and a scream from Euphemia made me drop the line, which immediately spun out to its full length, making the stake creak and move in the sand.

I'd have liked to see the old place and the fells again, and when I was half asleep I thought I heard the beck splash among the thorns and the pee-wits crying.

Then, a little before the dawn, and when the sea was yet full of darkness, I was greatly startled to hear a prodigious splash amid the weed, mayhaps at a distance of some hundred yards from the boat.

In other words, she was a break-water against which feminine sympathies could dash and splash without submerging the hospital service.

His shooting exploits were confined to the murder of a pair of pet pigeons perched on a roof, while he confessed, as regards hunting, that it was a bore to get up so early in the morning only to have one's boots and leathers splashed by galloping farmers.

There was a splash behind him and soon he could hear the puffing and short breathing of a swimming dog.