92 Verbs to Use for the Word darting

And with that he threw a naming dart at his breast: but Christian had a shield in his hand, with which he caught it, and so prevented the danger of that.

But Mary had seen the dart of his hand and the sudden alertness in his eyes.

And he told me how men went out to take these whales, and stuck long, pointed darts into them; and how the sea was discoloured with the blood of these poor whales for many miles distance: and I admired at the courage of the men, but I was sorry for the inoffensive whale.

The boar, my sisters! aim the fatal dart, And strike the brindled monster to the heart.' Pentheus astonished heard the dismal sound, And sees the yelling matrons gathering round: 20 He sees, and weeps at his approaching fate, And begs for mercy, and repents too late. 'Help, help!

I have felt the dart of love.

God grant that in the deadly joust The enemies that thou hast roused, May hurl at thee the unparried dart And pierce thee, liar, to the heart.

He had avenged himself upon the life-long scorners of his name and fame; but the blow that shattered their pride had sent a dart to his own heart.

As Adonis was mortally wounded by a boar's tusk, so (it is here represented) was Adonais slain by an insidiously or murderously launched dart: see p. 49.

For a seconda whole beautiful rich secondhe remained in this engaging attitude; then, as if struck by an electric shock, he suddenly spun round with the obvious intention of making a dart for the door.

With the Indians he soon became a great favorite; and the readiness with which he acquired the use of the bow, and learnt to cast the dart, and wield the light tomahawks that were used by the Indian boys to practice their young hands, excited their warmest admiration, and made them prophesy that he would one day become a distinguished Brave.

and shall shoot you dart or javelin so strong as shall transpierce you six lusty fellows at a time, hauberk and shield, like so many fowl upon a spitvery sweet to behold, brother!

Thus I quenched the fiery dart of criticism which my protégée herself had thrown into the transaction, not without a certain sense of the humor of it.

They warded off the darts discharged from the ballisters against them, by the assistance of turning wheels, which either broke them to pieces or carried them another way.

To wing his sure resistless dart, Where all its force is known; And rule the undivided heart Despotic, and alone.

while groaning nature weeps "The limits of thy mercy dares to scan, "The object of thy love, his victim,Man; "While yet I linger, lo, the suff'rer dies 115 "I see his frame convuls'dI hear his sighs "Whoe'er controuls the purpose of my heart "First in this breast shall plunge his guilty dart:" With anxious step he flew, with eager hands He broke the fetters, burst the cruel bands.

But mad I was!" Charles, thanks to the resolution with which he combated the tendency, and to the steadying influence of his work at the desk,despite his occasional murmurs, his best friend and sheet-anchor in life,never again succumbed to the family malady; but from that moment, over his small household, Madnesslike Death in Milton's visioncontinually "shook its dart," and at best only "delayed to strike."

Trembling for Rustem's life the captive groaned; Basely his country's glorious boast disowned, And said the Chief from distant China came Sohráb abrupt demands the hero's name; The name unknown, grief wrings his aching heart, And yearning anguish speeds her venom'd dart; To him his mother gave the tokens true, He sees them all, and all but mock his view.

Thrice blest was I what time thy piercing dart I could withstand and conquer in days past:

Right mighty is thy power, O cruel Love, High Jove himself cannot resist thy bow; Thou sent'st him down, e'en from the heavens above, In sundry shapes here to the earth below: Then how shall mortal men escape thy dart, The fervent flame and burning of thy fire;

And from his breast withdraw the barbed dart? There issweet Hope!

One of those archers closely I did spy, Ayming his arrow at my very hart: When suddenly, with twincle of her eye, The damzell broke his misintended dart.

[1097] Juvenal, Satires, x. 8: 'Fate wings with every wish the afflictive dart.' Vanity of Human Wishes, l. 15.

He was playing at 'puff the dart,' which is played with a long needle inserted in some worsted, and blown at a target through a tin tube.

Just like the friend, whose brightest smile Is spared, our sorrows to beguile; Who like some angel from the sky, When needed most, is ever nigh To pluck vile slander's envious dart From out the wounded, bleeding heart, And raise from earth the drooping head

50 And see, says Love, who call'd me near, How much I deal with Nature here; How both support a proper part, She gives the feather, I the dart: Then cease for souls averse to sigh, If Nature cross ye, so do I; My weapon there unfeather'd flies, And shakes and shuffles through the skies.

92 Verbs to Use for the Word  darting