149 Verbs to Use for the Word leading

He took the lead, not only in the exercises within the school, but in all the sports and pastimes out of it.

I will follow wherever thou dost lead.

The balance sheet looked better than it was, but Jordan had given him a useful lead.

The pilots, on heaving the lead, found no bottom; so they ran on for three days, and at night they kept away from the land and shortened sail.

But when you, Harry, or you, Joe, pump the lead into him, shoot him so's he'll live long enough to know who killed him and why!" As he spoke, there was a quality in his voice that seemed to find the boys in the darkness and point each of them out.

Kurt's voice, however, was the loudest and he got the lead in telling about Lippo's obstinacy.

Thus it will be seen that South Germany still kept the lead in the movement for German unity; and the president of the committee was that Izstein, of Baden, who had been known to Germany chiefly by his ill-timed expulsion from Berlin.

Throwing a second cartridge into the gun, I let him have another shot, and I continued to pour the lead into him until I had him completely laid out.

we set saile, but the currant hauing more force then the winde, we were driuen backe, insomuch that the ship being vnder saile, we cast the sounding lead, and (notwithstanding the wind) it remained before the shippe, there wee had muddie ground at fifteene fadome.

I thought it wise to follow his leading, and I asked, "What tide do you mean?

" "It was very hot," said Betty, laughing; "we tried it in our big kitchen, but finally had to melt the lead in larger kettles hung over a crane in the shed down in orchard.

The speed of the freshman boat was something wonderful, and it was overhauling the sophs, despite the fact that they were pulling for dear life to hold the lead.

It is almost impossible to give any details of that pursuit, which was not brought to an end until we were close upon the shore of Oneida Lake, because it was all so confusingmore like the wildest kind of a foot-race, wherein each man was trying to gain the lead, and the hindermost frantic with fear.

"They must 'a' struck a new lead.

To add to his nervousness, Merriwell obtained a lead from first and stole second on his delivery, getting it easily.

But the professional woman flyer still maintained her lead.

The colouring substances employed are arnatto, turmeric, or marigold, all perfectly harmless unless they are adulterated; and it is said that arnatto sometimes contains red lead.

Q.Can you give any example of the benefit of increasing the lead?

Of the Areopagus itself nothing more is to be seen than a chamber cut out of the rock, to which similarly cut steps lead.

But Dan, who had secured the lead, stopped with a groan, pointing out over the water.

"While we stood on deck a small boat passed, and a sailor very gleefully called out the soundings as he threw the lead, 'Eight and a half-nine.'

To common sense the alchemist's dream of transmuting lead into gold seems preposterous, yet in a hundred laboratories radium is breaking down into helium, and the new chemistry bids fair to turn the time-honored jeer at the alchemists completely upside down.

After a moment of indecision, I raised my rifle, and sent the whizzing lead upon its errand.

My former readers will well remember some members of that organizationC.C. Piper, or "Gloomy," as he was called when not referred to as just "C.C."; Birdie Lee, a pretty, vivacious girl; Mabel Pierce, a new member of the company; Henry Robertson, who played juvenile "leads"; Miss Shay, and others in whom you are more or less interested.

"They've wasted enough lead to fight a battle," he heard one of the men say, scornfully.

149 Verbs to Use for the Word  leading