Eighteen ships of the Allied Fleet were captured; one, the Achille (74), blew up with a terrific explosion.
She drifted to leeward, and about half-past three blew up.
The Bellerophon, whose masts and cables had been entirely shot away, could not retain her situation abreast of L’Orient, but had drifted out of the line to the lee side of the Bay, a little before that Ship blew up.
The cannonading was partially kept up to leeward of the Centre till about ten o’clock, when L’Orient blew up with a most tremendous explosion.
The Spanish Mercedes blew up, and the others were seized as prizes.
In the afternoon the wind increased, and blewfresh from the S.
Vanguard, Sannite, and Archimedes, with about twenty sail of Vessels left the Bay of Naples; the next day it blew harder than I ever experienced since I have been at sea.
Even the lawless wind, it was believed, respected his dreadful secret, and never blew aside the veil.
One afternoon, when the wind blew soft, and the sun was refulgent in the azure above, we proposed an excursion in the forest to our friend the banker, who was now quite convalescent.
On learning Hopkins's business he blew out the light, saying, "We can do that in the dark.
We shan't get much here," whispered a lady to her companion, as John Murray blew out one of the two candles by whose light he had been writing when they asked him to contribute to some benevolent object.
Then taking the rifle in its case, she blewout the candle, and passed out of the tilt, carefully closing the door behind her.
For a week snow fell and gales blew with such terrific fury that no living thing could have existed in the open, and during this period a halt was unavoidable.
He just sat down on the poop, and blew his cheeks out.
He blew himself out like a turkey-cock, and for the second time within half an hour insisted on telling Mackintosh every detail of the affair.
Near the entrance, getting such breeze as blew from the sea, stood the governor's house in a garden.
When Dr Macphail blew out his candle and crawled cautiously under his mosquito curtains, he gave a sigh of relief.
And then the night, with that great, sky shining with gold, that seemed to stretch more widely than the skies of Europe, and the soft airs that blew gently through the open hut, the long night again was all too short.
Roses red and violets blew And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.
Daffy-down-dilly came up in the cold, Through the brown mould Although the March breezes blew keen on her face, Although the white snow lay in many a place.
Another with his arms crossed on his breast, stood a few steps off from the chapel, and now and then blew upon a shrill whistle.
Sharp-shooting went on for half an hour; the firing then ceased, and the mountaineers were beginning to congratulate themselves on their victory, when the powder magazine blew up.
Thereupon one of the Kalmucks drew a pistol from his pocket, and before the bystanders had time to interpose, heblew out the chief's brains.
Soudjouk Kaleh shared the same fate, but the Circassians blew up its fortifications before they retired.
Putting the bag on the table near his pillow he blew out the candles and dropped with a sense of careless and delicious exhaustion upon the soft mattress.
Then the shadows deepened rapidly; the lake grew black, and the night wind blew its first breath in my face as I turned a corner, and a projecting bluff of rock hid from my view both island and canoe.
Then he blew out the taper and went out, closing the door noiselessly behind him.
And when the men of both armies beheld that drawn sword, they blew trumpets and horns and shouted grimly, and made them ready for battle.
I will fight him as he is, or not at all," and Beaumains blew such a blast that it rang through the castle.
And so he vanished, and a horn blew loudly, as a horn is blown at the death of a beast.
Then the Green Knight seized a horn which hung from a thorn tree, and blew three notes upon it, and two damsels came and armed him, and fastened on him a green shield and a green spear.
A fair wind blew them to Dover, and there Sir Lancelot asked tidings of King Arthur.
As he did so, Frederick again struck him heavily with the whip, and, at the same time, blew a piercing signal on the boatswain's whistle that he usually carried with him.
Frederick Delaval again blew a piercing shriek on the whistle; and when the Wild Bull heard it, and once more felt the stinging lash of the heavy whip, he swerved round, and with a bellow of pain and fury trotted back to the herd.
The young man blew another shrill whistle, and cracked the long lash of his whip until its echoes reverberated like so many pistol-shots.
The night was growing warmer; the sea breeze had died out, and a hot wind blew languidly from the west.
The other blew ashes gently from the bowl of his pipe, exposing the ruby coal before he spoke.
He picked up one and blew a fleck of dust from it carefully.
It was a lucky wind that blew that Dutchman into his path, and luckier still her being so richly fraught that he may dazzle thine eyes with the sight of gold and gems, and so blind thee to the real purpose of his voyage.
Sakr-el-Bahr gave the word to row, and Vigitello blew a second and longer blast.
Suddenly the captain set him a question, very softly, that fired the train and blew all his lingering self-resistance into shreds.
In autumn the partridges whirred up, birds in flocks blew like spray across the fallow, rooks appeared on the grey, watery heavens, and flew cawing into the winter.
And he trembled as if a wind blew on to him in strong gusts, out of the unseen.
He took up the necklace carefully, and blew the coal-dust from it, as it lay in the hollow of his hand.
The wind blew Ursula's face, and her clothes cleaved to her limbs.
Big holes were blown into the sky, the moonlight blew about.
Her hair was loose and blew about her shoulders, she ran swiftly, wearing sandals when she set off on the long run to the dew-pond.
They went over the field, where a thin, keen windblew round the ball of the hill, in the starlight.
He blew the fine-curled hair quickly off his lips.
He fired again, and the shot blew metal loose from the top of the boat's hull.
The snapper-boats blew their front tubes, decelerating, and squashed down to the asteroid in a roar of exhaust flames, sending the Planeteers running out of the way.
He leaned over the sight to fire again, but before he had sighted, an explosion blew the assault boat completely around.
A charge hit the boat aft and blew its stern tubes off completely.
Rip blew a drop of perspiration from the tip of his nose.
One gaunt fellow thrust a clasp-knife into the buttock of a shamming Spaniard, and, when he sprang to his feet, blew the back of his head off.
I saw your name on a piece of paper that blewout of his tent one day.
Then the Indian blew his breath upon the spark and a little yellow flame leaped up.
The storm blew down the palm tree, where I built my nest.
Little gusts of sick, warm wind blew across the great avenue at the corners of the intersecting streets.
The air within the cars was deadly; if a window was raised, a storm of dust and cinders blew in and quick gusts caught away the breath.
The wind had risen again and now blew hard from the west, so that the Violetta was protected on a lee shore, though where we stood the waves rolled in tumultuously.
And presently the powder-magazine blew up into the air with a crash as if the earth were rent in twain, heaven burst to shivers, and hell sunk ten thousand fathoms deeper.
Great waves of glitter blew lightly along the pitted dark surface, as swift as feathers chased by the breeze.
The blackened ground smoked quietly with low creeping wisps, till a little breeze came on and bleweverything away.
He blew his nose, nodding at me dolefully: "Ay, ay!
The gale had freshened since noon, stopping the traffic on the river, and now blew with the strength of a hurricane in fitful bursts that boomed like salvoes of great guns firing over the ocean.
The rattan screens were down, and through the strange greenish gloom made by the foliage of the trees outside a strong windblew in gusts, swaying the long draperies of windows and doorways.
Alexis promptly blew out the candle, grasped his friend by the arm, and hurried him through the dark to the door.
A gentle breeze, laden with soft moisture, blew from the dark woods; the mist was piled in a gray mass along the horizon; and in spaces of sky as delicately blue as blanched violets, small stars flashed clearly.
He stood where you stand, detective, and blew his brains out.
The Panamanian blew a wreath of smoke against the ancient wall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
