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Then how many things had been spoilt or lost during their carriage from Tostes to Yonville, without counting the plaster cure, who falling out of the coach at an over-severe jolt, had been
dashed
into a thousand fragments on the pavements of Quincampoix!
He entered Maromme shouting for the people of the inn, burst open the door with a thrust of his shoulder, made for a sack of oats, emptied a bottle of sweet cider into the manger, and again mounted his nag, whose feet struck fire as it
dashed
along.
The abbe Pirard
dashed
into the business with all the force of his passionate nature.
The gentlemen laughed and nodded enthusiastically, as if that was what they had been waiting for all the time, except that K. had left his hat in his room so they all dashed, one after another, into the room to fetch it, which caused a certain amount of embarrassment.
It woke him up, and, with a snort of terror, he
dashed
off at three miles an hour.
Then he
dashed
on his great-coat and hat, and, seizing his umbrella, made for the front door.
Had it been a Richard there! the cup of liberty might have been
dashed
from England's lips, and the taste of freedom held back for a hundred years.
He beckoned hastily to his father, who stood at the window in speechless anxiety, with his hands extended towards his child in the attitude of benediction, and adding, "God bless you, Caesar, salute the girls," he
dashed
through the gate with the rapidity of lightning.
As the dragoons
dashed
by them, rending the air with their shouts, and with trumpets sounding a lively strain, the charger ridden by the youth became ungovernable - he plunged, reared, and his rider being unable with his wounded arm, to manage the impatient animal, Henry Wharton found himself, in less than a minute, unwillingly riding by the side of Captain Lawton.
It was for a moment only, when he
dashed
into the heat and darkness, where, missing the entrance, he wandered for a minute, and precipitated himself back, again, upon the lawn.
He called a dragoon, who was riding in advance, issued a few orders and cautions relative to the comfort and safety of Singleton, and speaking a consoling word to his friend himself, gave Roanoke the spur, and
dashed
by the car, at a rate that again put to flight all the philosophy of Katharine Haynes.
Again the bugle sounded a lively strain, and before the agitated Frances had time to rally her thoughts, Dunwoodie
dashed
by the party of dragoons, threw himself from his charger, and advanced to her side.
They continued in silent wonder until they heard the feet of his charger, as he
dashed
from the door with the speed of an arrow.
Mason and his men
dashed
down the hill, in pursuit, as they supposed, of their victims, but, on reaching the bottom lands, they found only the deserted horses of the fugitives.
And then the flame shot higher, and I saw the red quivering line upon the water between; and I
dashed
into the kitchen, screeching to my father that the French had crossed and the Tweedmouth light was aflame.
But at that moment Bonaparte seemed to lean over and say something to de Lissac, and the party wheeled and
dashed
away, while there came the bang of a gun and a white spray of smoke from a battery along the ridge.
They looked thick and substantial, each part being
dashed
off with magnificent dabs of colour on a clear grey background.
So saying, he
dashed
into the midst of the squadron of ewes, and began spearing them with as much spirit and intrepidity as if he were transfixing mortal enemies in earnest.
They
dashed
at the grating and escaped by it, save one that, finding itself hard pressed by the slashes of Don Quixote's sword, flew at his face and held on to his nose tooth and nail, with the pain of which he began to shout his loudest.
Come on!' and the cabman
dashed
his hat upon the ground, with a reckless disregard of his own private property, and knocked Mr. Pickwick's spectacles off, and followed up the attack with a blow on Mr. Pickwick's nose, and another on Mr. Pickwick's chest, and a third in Mr. Snodgrass's eye, and a fourth, by way of variety, in Mr. Tupman's waistcoat, and then danced into the road, and then back again to the pavement, and finally
dashed
the whole temporary supply of breath out of Mr. Winkle's body; and all in half a dozen seconds.
Who was that, that
dashed
it from his lips?
Mr. Tupman threw himself into the hedge, Mr. Snodgrass followed his example, the horse
dashed
the four--wheeled chaise against a wooden bridge, separated the wheels from the body, and the bin from the perch; and finally stood stock still to gaze upon the ruin he had made.
I think I see their frightened looks now, and feel the ease with which I flung them from me, and
dashed
my clenched fist into their white faces, and then flew like the wind, and left them screaming and shouting far behind.
For a moment it would die away, and the traveller would begin to delude himself into the belief that, exhausted with its previous fury, it had quietly laid itself down to rest, when, whoo! he could hear it growling and whistling in the distance, and on it would come rushing over the hill-tops, and sweeping along the plain, gathering sound and strength as it drew nearer, until it
dashed
with a heavy gust against horse and man, driving the sharp rain into their ears, and its cold damp breath into their very bones; and past them it would scour, far, far away, with a stunning roar, as if in ridicule of their weakness, and triumphant in the consciousness of its own strength and power.
With this ebullition of rage, which was not unaccompanied with something like a tremble, at the expression of his wife's face, Mr. Pott
dashed
the current number of the Eatanswill INDEPENDENT at her feet.
With these words, which he repeated with great emphasis and violence, Sam Weller
dashed
his hat upon the ground, in a most unusual state of excitement; and then, folding his arms, looked firmly and fixedly in his master's face.
'I drove the old piebald in that 'ere little shay-cart as belonged to your mother-in-law's first wenter, into vich a harm-cheer wos lifted for the shepherd; and I'm blessed,' said Mr. Weller, with a look of deep scorn--'I'm blessed if they didn't bring a portable flight o' steps out into the road a-front o' our door for him, to get up by.''You don't mean that?' said Sam.'I do mean that, Sammy,' replied his father, 'and I vish you could ha' seen how tight he held on by the sides wen he did get up, as if he wos afeerd o' being precipitayted down full six foot, and
dashed
into a million hatoms.
But after the cabriolet had
dashed
up, in splendid style, to the house with the yellow door, 'making,' as one of the vixenish ladies triumphantly said, 'acterrally more noise than if one had come in one's own carriage,' and after the driver had dismounted to assist the ladies in getting out, the small round head of Master Thomas Bardell was thrust out of the one-pair window of a house with a red door, a few numbers off.
As it pulled up, one of the loafing men at the corner
dashed
forward to open the door in the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention.
Holmes
dashed
into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood running freely down his face.
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