He has gained the other corner, and in a moment he will be in the thick copse where the Union flag had been seen, but as he makes a dash through a clump of laurel he is confronted by two men, muskets in hand.

Ditson's parents were wealthy, and they furnished him with plenty of loose change, so that he could cut quite a dash.

How happy that man might have been, if there had been added to his natural and acquired endowments a dash of morality!

The little fellows would, between whiles, as if to keep their hands in, use the black squirts against one another; but they often gave them a dash of the rose-water at the same time.

Dear Southey,You'll know whom this letter comes from by opening slap-dash upon the text, as in the good old times.

A movement of the beam 90° to the right of the sender indicates a dot, a similar movement to the left indicates a dash; the beam is lowered vertically for front. 25.

It was like a scene from a Wild West exhibition at home, except that these German horsemen lacked the dash of our cowpunchers.

But soon I heard the dash of oars, 500 I heard the Pilot's cheer; My head was turned perforce away, And I saw a boat appear.

His delivery is moderately even; his words clear; and he can throw a good dash of imagination into his language.

For four days, therefore, with only what water they could bring by dashes to the spring under fire, they had held their own in the pit.

It's better to dare the dash and die, than not to dare, and lose her.

" *** We fear that our allotment-holders are losing their dash.

"It's got just that dash of colour which Edith Terrace wants.

The Duke and the General were kept rather busy in holding their positions on the seats, and when they saw that I was keeping the horses straight in the road, they seemed to enjoy the dash which we were making.

Scarcely had he pronounced these words, when they heard the dashing of waters which fell from a neighbouring rock.

[Footnote 5: We may suppose a dash and pause after 'Dutie is'.

A stationary table, however, in the center of the room assisted Mr. Heatherbloom in eluding the wild dashes, the while he continued to lunge and dodge in a most businesslike manner.

We found that glorious dash down through the palisades of the Columbia, and the sail, through the entrancing waterways of Puget Sound, a fitting prelude to our recent Alaskan journey.

Who that ever saw him sitting in the boat beside his master, watching with eager eye and whole body trembling with excitement the line as it was cast, the flies as they touched the surfacewho can forget old Dash?

He gave me the impression of mad hastemaking a dash out here between breaths, as you might say.

Shop windows were partisan to the blue, but held dashes of crimson as a sop to the demands of hospitality and welcome.

With the breaking of the intense darkness what a surprise was in store for the Germans! Back of the four remaining British ships that had at first engaged the Germans, interrupting their dash and holding them in check until the arrival of a force strong enough to engage the foe more closely, came now the relief promised by Vice-Admiral Beatty.

" XI It was, indeed, tougher business than we had yet knowna dash into the enemy's country, where my poor head was in excellent demand.

The boy has fought a battle, in defence of his beauty, with another boy, bigger than himself, and beat his opponent most handsomely and, therefore, he likes Dash; and the maids like him, or pretend to like him, because we doas is the fashion of that pliant and imitative class.

On several occasions we chanced to meet Louis Philippe dashing by in an open barouche.