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"Hurtle" Quotes from Famous Books

... word, the sombre space under the wall is lit up by four flashes, followed by the report of as many pistols, while the "tzip-tzip" of bullets, like hornets hurtle pass their ears, leaving no doubt as to who has been ...

— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid

... spite of all that may array itself against us. So there are the two halves of the virtue which is here put before us—unmurmuring submission and bold continuance in well-doing, whatsoever storms may hurtle in our faces. ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... last word, the sombre space under the wall is lit up by four flashes, followed by the report of as many pistols, while the "tzip-tzip" of bullets, like hornets hurtle pass their ears, leaving no doubt as to who ...

— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid

... a smothered ejaculation, bent and picked up a bit of iron, relic of some sportsman's passage. Tito saw the raised hand and ducked, hearing the missile hurtle over his head and plop into the water behind him. It frightened him, but not so much as the man's face. Like a small, terrified animal he bent and fled. The breaths came quick from his laboring breast, ...

— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... have the rush and the shock of battle, the closing of legions, the hurtle of arms and the clash of ...

— A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John Miller Dow Meiklejohn

... on. When I stopped to rest I would shove a stone loose and watch it heave and slide, and leap out and hurtle down, to make the dust fly, and crash into the thickets, and eventually start an avalanche that would roar ...

— Tales of lonely trails • Zane Grey