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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



... brothers lie When the fierce ice-winds hurtle by; On either side and 'neath my breast Lir's sons have ...
— A Book of Myths • Jean Lang
... climbed 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
... that the folds projected above his hat, and would shut out all bullets that might hurtle against the unique helmet. At the same time the covering descended so low about his ankles that it trailed upon the ground, and portended disaster in case ...
— The Phantom of the River • Edward S. Ellis
... Oh Mamatee, once more! I had a dream, and heard the gusty breeze Hurtle from out a sea of hissing pines, Then dwindle into voices, faint and sweet, Which cried—we come! It was my love and yours! They spoke to me—I know that they are near, And waft their love to us ...
— Tecumseh: A Drama • Charles Mair
... throbbed, it evidently rocked upon that toe; if steadily, and very long, he grew tremulous, perhaps afraid. Once, a woman who was about to become a mother went mad, because she thought The Stone would hurtle down the hill at her great moment and destroy her and her child. Indians would not live either on the village side of The Stone or in the valley beyond. They had a legend that, some day, one, whom they called The Man Who Sleeps, would rise from his hidden couch in the mountains, and, ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker


Words linked to "Hurtle" :   crash, riposte, thrust, sling, dart, hurl, precipitate, locomote, travel, go, lunge, bowl, cast, dash, move, throw, catapult


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