20 Verbs to Use for the Word tilt

Dryden's Epilogue spoken by Hart when The Silent Woman was played before the University of Oxford in 1673: Th' Italian Merry-Andrews took their place, And quite debauch'd the Stage with lewd Grimace: Instead of Wit and Humours, your Delight Was there to see two Hobby-horses fight, Stout Scaramoucha with Rush Lance rode in, And ran a Tilt at Centaure Arle

When she was full I sent her back to the barque, and then Allardyce and I, with the carpenter and one seaman, shifted the striped box, which was the only thing left, to our boat, and lowered it over, balancing it upon the two middle thwarts, for it was so heavy that it would have given the boat a dangerous tilt had we placed it at either end.

"While the bulk of the brigade swerved to the right the others held on and rode full tilt into wire entanglements buried in the grass thirty yards in front of the machine guns, and were made prisoners.

Suddenly from his lips in surprising volume, raucous, rasping, yet with a certain rollicking deviltry fit to set the head a-tilt, burst a chanty: "Oh, their coffin was their ship, and their grave it was the sea: Blow high, blow low, what care we!

I honor the poor,' she continued, 'and I know that in the kingdom of heaven many a poor man will sit in a higher seat than the rich; but that is no reason for breaking the ranks in this world, and you two, left to yourselves, would drive your carriage full tilt against all obstacles till it toppled over with you both.

FULTON taps TILTON for wine, TILTON taps FULTON for beer; FULTON gets a tilt, because TILTON finds him full.

The Boy started off full tilt to the rescue.

" So Dick mounted his wild horse, grasped his rifle in his right hand, and, followed by Crusoe, galloped full tilt down the valley to meet them.

"You mightn't think it, but at this time yesterday I was going full tilt up to Edinburgh.

When his eyebrows took just that tilt, and when the nostrils were drawn in and quivered with his breathing, then was it wise that she should remain by his side.

The dead man's face, upturned with a slight tilt to the ceiling that bulged so brutally above it, the stiff dark beard accentuating the tilt, the eyes, also upturned, white under their unclosing lids, the nostrils, the half-open mouth preserved their wonder and their terror before a thing so incrediblethat the walls and roof of a man's room should close round him and suffocate him.

Charlotte Alden said pleasantly that the weather was fair enough for out-of-doors play, and asked if I would try the tilt.

The group of four ascended the sharp tilt of the plank and entered the airship.

The early gasoline automobiles sounded, when moving, like an artillery company coming full tilt down a badly paved street.

Why, I've seen forty of 'em comin' full tilt right towards me, and narry Injun in sight.

But when the two were together, although the perfectly adjusted proportions of Judith's proud, dark face brought out the irregularities of Sylvia's, disclosed the tilt of her small nose, made more apparent the disproportionate width between her eyes, and showed her chin to be of no mold in particular, yet a modern eye rested with far more pleasure on the older sister's face.

I allowed him to gabble away full tilt for an hour on this subject, unconscious that I had taken the measure of him, and was grinning broadly to myself.

The Ramblin' Kid ignored the tilt between Dorsey and Chuck and leaned indifferently against the counter waiting for the clerk to fill out the entry blank.

He went up the village blessing his heart, and met the doctor full tilt coming down.

The traveler reported a tilt between two wagoners: "'What's cotton in Augusta?' says the one with a load....

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  tilt