Flung
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I will be calm; I will be calm, Sir;'in proof of his calmness, Mr. Pott
flung
himself into a chair, and foamed at the mouth.
Upon this, the women set up a loud and dismal screaming; and rushing in small parties before their favourite brothers,
flung
their arms around them to preserve them from danger.
Leaving Sam Weller to rescue the luggage from the seven or eight porters who
flung
themselves savagely upon it, the moment the coach stopped, and finding that they were about twenty minutes too early, Mr. Pickwick and his friends went for shelter into the travellers' room--the last resource of human dejection.
'I'm a heavy sleeper,' said Mr. Dowler, as he
flung
himself on the bed.
So saying, the surly man leisurely descended from the wheel, on which he had been poising himself on the tops of the toes of his right foot, and having summoned the boy in the gray livery, opened the coach door,
flung
down the steps, and thrusting in a hand enveloped in a dark wash-leather glove, pulled out the old lady with as much unconcern in his manner as if she were a bandbox.
Exerting all his strength, at this moment, my uncle wrenched the ill-looking man's sword from his grasp, and
flung
it clean out of the coach window, upon which the younger gentleman vociferated, "Death and lightning!"
'Ungrammatical twaddler, was it, sir?' said Pott.'Yes, sir, it was,' replied Slurk; 'and BLUE BORE, Sir, if you like that better; ha! ha!'Mr. Pott retorted not a word at this jocose insult, but deliberately folded up his copy of the INDEPENDENT, flattened it carefully down, crushed it beneath his boot, spat upon it with great ceremony, and
flung
it into the fire.
The puny plot of the story was so thin, however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the action to the fact, that I at last
flung
it across the room and gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the day.
He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning across the room he
flung
open the door.
I rushed across the bedroom,
flung
open the window, and looked out.
He shut and bolted the door behind him, and
flung
himself into a chair, mopping his forehead.
Tarvin
flung
an American quarter skyward, and clipped it with his revolver as it fell.
The low morning sun
flung
the shadow of the resthouse before him.
The woman drew herself up to full height, and, without a word,
flung
herself down upon the ground, clasping Kate's feet.
Kate
flung
the door open wrathfully.
Tarvin, who had drawn rein in the court-yard without dismounting,
flung
his right leg over the pony's withers, and held his peace.
He
flung
the match down, the eyes retreated, there was a wild rattle and crash in the darkness, a howl that might have been bestial or human, and Tarvin, panting between the tree roots, swung himself to the left, and fled back over the mud-banks to the ledge, where he stood, his back to the Cow's Mouth and his revolver in his hand.
With the energy of disgust, and with a hot memory of the least assured and comfortable moments of his life burning in his breast, Tarvin
flung
himself on the turning of the river and the building of his dam.
They were no less careless about the dam, it was in the blood, he supposed, for the head man of a coolie-gang, who must have crossed the Amet twenty times, showed him a new ford across a particularly inviting channel, which ended m a quicksand; and when Tarvin had
flung
himself clear, the gang spent half the day in hauling Fibby out with ropes.
Something sprang out of the darkness where the guard slept, and where the King's fighting apes were tethered; and the horse reared as a gray ape, its chain broken at the waistband,
flung
itself on the pommel of the saddle, chattering.
The woman of the desert
flung
an arm round her waist.
Tarvin could hear his groom industriously polishing a bit round the corner, and when the man came up in response to his call he
flung
himself down by the side of the horse, howling with grief.
Umr Singh opened a tiny palm at a word from the Maharaj in the vernacular, and
flung
it outward at Tarvin.
A trooper
flung
himself out of the saddle on the word, and stood to attention at the horse's head.
In his joy at being now safely on his way to Kate, Tarvin could have
flung
everything he possessed to the crowd almost the Naulahka itself.
The lounging escort at the door was suddenly scattered by a trooper from without, who
flung
his horse desperately through their ranks, shouting, "A letter for Tarvin Sahib!"Tarvin stepped into the veranda, took a crumpled half-sheet of paper from the outstretched hand, and read these words, traced painfully and laboriously in an unformed round hand:DEAR MR.
The reiterated and passionate farewells of the women in the palace, and the cyclonic sweep of a wedding at which Nick had altogether refused to efface himself as a bridegroom should, but had
flung
all their world forward on the torrent of his own vitality, had worn her out; the yearning of homesickness she had seen it in Mrs. Estes's wet eyes at the missionary's house an hour before lay strong upon her, and she would fain have remembered her plunge into the world's evil as a dream of the night, but"Nick," she said softly.
He observed that at the approach of the kalends of July, that is to say in the last days of June, one of the peaks, called Scartaris,
flung
its shadow down the mouth of that particular crater, and he committed that fact to his document.
It was formed by one of those torrents of stones
flung
up by the eruptions, called 'sting' by the Icelanders.
He baited it with a small piece of meat and
flung
it into the sea.
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