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..., but there are, no less, natures so robustly protected, that this sort of projectile falls flat and harmless on skulls of triple brass, as cannon-sho...

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... closing in from the sides to intervene. The little old lady struck like a projectile upon the resounding chest of the foremost of these, and then Ann...

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...he was full, because she had something in com- mon, even in repose, with a projectile, of great size, loaded and ready for use. That indeed, to Susie’... ...t Densher felt himself turn pale. His mind rebounded for the moment like a projectile that has sud- denly been met by another: he stared at the strang...

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...s fall. The Emperor satisfied turned away, unmindful of the fact that this projectile he had launched had caught among the bushes below, and presently...

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...therleigh 73 H G Wells to convey the quality of her; just simply and with projectile violence: “My God! Benton had heard of a woman who lived with a ...

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...zed the arm of M. Stanislas Kapp, just scratching the flesh. M. Kapp’s own projectile, meanwhile, had passed at ten good inches from the person of Val...

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...as out of spirits, and out of temper, and kept an iron pot lid by him as a projectile for the correction of Mrs. Cruncher, in case he should observe a...

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...nd which she did not practise. The he seemed to sweep out of life, to be a projectile into the beyond. And often, when he went away, she talked to the...

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...Stukely Culbrett had said, ‘Then there is the man, for he is undoubtedly a projectile’; nor were politically-hostile punsters on an arrow- head inacti...

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...is worthy of notice; for it is as if, in a question about the force of any projectile, a man should urge the resistance of the air, not as a limitatio...

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... couple thickly. Windows were thrown up;, forth came a rain of house- hold projectiles. The cry of “Blood! blood!” was repeated by numbers pouring on ...

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...selle de la V alliere with delight. “Yes, madame, as maid of honor.” The old lady’s head sank down as if the blow had been too severe for her. But, al...

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... to the gate. With lively curiosity everyone tried to get a glimpse of the projectiles as they flew over their heads. Several people came round the co... ...how cannon balls had fallen on a house close to them. Meanwhile still more projectiles, now with the swift sinister whistle of a cannon ball, now with... ...all sitting in the cellar, lis- tening. The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the othe... ...ubts. This could not be done, as from the spots selected by Napo- leon the projectiles did not carry to the Russian works, and those 102 guns shot int... ...id not notice the sound of the bullets whis- tling from every side, or the projectiles that flew over him, did not see the enemy on the other side of ... ...crowds of wounded men and stretcher-bearers came back from that direction. Projectiles began to fall still more frequently in the battery. Several men... ... ears to the ever-recurring sounds, distin- guishing the whistle of flying projectiles from the booming of 161 Tolstoy the reports, glanced at the ti...

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...s come bunched up under the number one guard: they know that they are mere projectiles, and that it’s no use trying to fight. The wounds are mostly br...

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...tents. Galleries of rushen hurdles were raised as a protection against the projectiles. The Carthaginians shut themselves up within them and stirred o... ...ables, which held back a great beam bearing a spoon for the recep- tion of projectiles; its base was caught in a skein of twisted thread, and when the... ... table before a slender meal with their hearts big with sighs. These cruel projectiles bore engraved letters which stamped themselves upon the flesh;—... ... that they might have been taken for an assemblage of large tortoises. The projectiles slid over these oblique masses. The Carthaginians threw down mi...

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...tinctness of reality, he heard the boom, boom, boom of firing, the thud of projectiles, groans and cries, and smelled blood and powder, and a feeling ...

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...tical Economy, which there is between the art of gunnery and the theory of projectiles, or between the rules of mathematical land-surveying and the sc...

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... refuge. Then, and not until then, would he flash from his hiding place, a gray projectile, incredibly swift, never failing its mark — the fleeing squir...

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...w cannon balls had fallen on a house close to them. Mean- while still more projectiles, now with the swift sinister whistle of a cannon ball, now with... ...e all sitting in the cellar, listening. The roar of guns, the whistling of projectiles, and the piteous moaning of the cook, which rose above the othe... ...doubts. This could not be done, as from the spots selected by Napoleon the projectiles did not carry to the Russian works, and those 102 guns shot int... ...id not notice the sound of the bullets whis- tling from every side, or the projectiles that flew over him, did not see the enemy on the other side of ... ...owds of wounded men and stretcher-bearers came back from that direc- tion. Projectiles began to fall still more frequently in the battery. Several men... ... ears to the ever-recur- ring sounds, distinguishing the whistle of flying projectiles from the booming of the reports, glanced at the tire- somely fa... ...tinctness of reality, he heard the boom, boom, boom of firing, the thud of projectiles, groans and cries, and smelled blood and powder, and a feeling ...

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...no! They bound upwards like ar- rows, cleaving the seas above with as much projectile force as the glittering water-works of Versailles cleave the air...

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... and lets loose motor-cars, bicycles, wireless telegraphy, aeroplanes, new projectiles of every size and shape, and a multitude of ingenious persons u...

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...dislodged him by a volley of clods, stones, lumps of bread, and such other projectiles as were at hand. 4 Cashel Byron’s Profession On this rainy spr...

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... one as he. What shall we say of this omnipresent appearance of that first projectile impulse, of this flattery and balking of so many well-meaning cr...

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... past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past? (As a projectile form’d, impell’d, passing a certain line, still keeps on, So t...

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...in rushing south to London or north to Scotland. The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley cl...