23 Verbs to Use for the Word tossing

Mary gave a rebellious little toss of her head.

Ronleigh having won the toss and elected to go in first, the Wraxby men strolled out of the pavilion to take the field.

Well, on the occasion referred to, Angela had just regained her board after taking a toss, when a great beastly shark came along and cannoned into it, flinging her into the salty once more.

The greater part of the audience not caring the toss of a button whether Fletcher started his magazine or not, but thinking that it was rather good fun to interrupt the proceedings, now joined the opposition, and the unfortunate Bibbs was subjected to a brisk fire of chaff.

She lay among the myrtles on the cliff; And sighed for sleep, for sleep that would not hear, But left her tossing still: for night and day

And she'd gie a toss of her pretty head.

Meanwhile a tall grave personage in a doge-like cap, the only calm figure in the tumult, moved gravely here and there, regulating the dance, stimulating the frenzy, or calming some devotee who had broken the ranks and lay tossing and foaming on the stones.

Then she crept into bed, and lay tossing, wakeful, and anxious till near dawn.

The Reindeer came up slowly in the gathering twilight and went to anchor a biscuit-toss away.

Brave and young was he in heart, and loved right well his tossing, rolling home; and many a hard gale did he ride out in her alone, old as he was.

Amongst the first things that seem to be useless, may be reckoned the high tossing and swaggering preaching, either mountingly eloquent, or profoundly learned.

He seemed rather to consult the signs of the heavens than to regard the tossings and rushings of the water, which dashed against the side of his little vessel in a mariner that, to the eyes of his companions, often appeared to threaten their total destruction.

Against the sky in the west, where still lingered the sunset gold, we saw the wild toss of the horizon, shaggy with forest and cliff, gripping the heart like the motive in a symphony, and sending the sense of beauty all a-shiver through the mindall these surrounding islands standing above the water like low clouds, and like them seeming to post along silently into the engulfing night.

" Before Dave could prevent it, Dan started a determined over-tossing of the book pile.

20 His various modes from various fathers follow; One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow: His sword-knot this, his cravat that design'd; And this the yard-long snake he twirls behind.

With such a look she might have thrown a fateful toss of dice.

For hours she had been watching the tossing of the trees through the blindless windows.

20 And thou, my sire, not destined by thy birth To turn to dust, and mix with common earth, How wilt thou toss, and rave, and long to die, And quit thy claim to immortality; When thou shalt feel, enraged with inward pains, The Hydra's venom rankling in thy veins'?

He lost the toss.

" "Oh, I don't think I will this time," said Patty, with that assured little toss of her head which always meant perfect confidence in her own ability.

" She was working out of and then back into the freshly white gloves in a betraying kind of nervousness that belied the toss of her voice.

Will you bring up the rear, Georgina, as my poor admiral would have said?" Miss Crewys bestowed a parting toss of the head upon the doctor, and followed her victorious sister.

She got a tossing that made her head swim while she lay in the trough.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  tossing