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Hurtle   Listen
verb
Hurtle  v. t.  
1.
To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish. (Obs.) "His harmful club he gan to hurtle high."
2.
To push; to jostle; to hurl. "And he hurtleth with his horse adown."





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"Hurtle" Quotes from Famous Books



... flags when the gunpowder introduced into the rocky soil was about to take effect. It was our theory that our passage there, in the early afternoon, was beset with danger, and our impression that we saw fragments of rock hurtle through the air and smite to the earth another and yet another of the persons engaged or exposed. The point of honour, among several of us, was of course nobly to defy the danger, and I feel again the emotion ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James
... presence. Yes, that must be Ferguson! The thought flashed through the boy's mind and, unconscious of his own safety, his lips opened to cry the alarm, which would have sounded his own death knell, when he saw a tomahawk hurtle through the air and bury itself in the man's brain. He fell to his knees without a moan. The Indian, leaping to his side, had scalped him before Rodney realized what had happened. Then, seizing the lad by the shoulder, he ordered him ...
— Rodney, the Ranger - With Daniel Morgan on Trail and Battlefield • John V. Lane
... exclaimed Mrs. Morel, "if he didn't hurtle himself up as if he was trying to get in the smallest space ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence
... before it changed and softened into violet and purple shades. The group of pines on the beach seemed drenched in a sulphurous light and the clarity of their outlines hurt the eye. Like a heavy and compact mass, ready to hurtle down, the foliage of the gardens bent over the crumbling walls. From the mountains came a gusty wind that announced the approaching ...
— The Indian Lily and Other Stories • Hermann Sudermann


Words linked to "Hurtle" :   cast, crash, travel, lunge, go, dart, dash, precipitate, riposte


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