A pair of white breeches are summersaulting in the air, and a bay horse is seen careering in a wild head in the air sort of way, back to the rear instead of following the hounds.
About a cable's length, on one of the quarters of the Montauk, was a ship careering before the gale like themselves, though carrying more canvas, and consequently driving faster through the water.
The billows, no longer following each other in long regular waves, were careering upwards, like fiery coursers suddenly checked in their mad career.
Yula was careering over the snow at racehorse speed, ten miles an hour, and poor little Yankee, almost frightened out of his senses, was bent upon making a dash at the ribbon waving so enticingly before his eyes.
The snow was already hard, as the two ran briskly forward, with Yula careering and bounding in extravagant delight.
But, as it is, we are merelycareering gaily over the sunlit waves at an unearthly speed.
When I came to the surface, two dark-skinned sailormen were dragging him in, struggling and cursing and pointing wildly toward the horizon, where his launch was careeringaway with the speed of the wind.
When we were not careering together, he sat glued to his chair, refusing to dance.
She felt like one who, under an æsthetic influence, seems to himself careering through mid-air, conscious only of motion and vanishing forms.
A bird flew over her then, high above her head, careering in fickle circles, and at length sailing down out of sight far into other heavens.
Mr. Phillips began his lecture, and, you may depend upon it, by this time the lion was in him, and he went careering on.
Hugh gave a complete account of the experiments they had made with the careering plate.
The plate, which had been careering violently for a few moments, now went more slowly, making regular short motions and returns, at right angles to its chief direction, as if letters were being formed by the pencil.
His mother had found him careering about his nursery in wild glee, and flinging his toys about, in perfectly boyish, almost mannish, altogether wicked, indifference to the danger of destroying them.
Next day all Quebec had heard in amazement how, when and where Beelzebub and his infernal crew had been seen careering in state after nightfall.
Ere long they reached the Greygoose River, and, paddling into the centre of the current, were soon careering towards the sea at a pace which they thought rendered their being overtaken almost impossible.
In less than half an hour they were careering over the ice in the direction of a bay in the land where fresh bear-tracks had been seen the day before.
At this critical moment they heard a noise behind them, and, glancing back, beheld their dogs careering homeward, with the empty sledge swinging wildly in the rear.
As he spoke, firing was heard in the distance, and looking in the direction of the sound, Charles perceived that several of the skirmishers had been shot down, while the riderless horses were careering wildly over the field.
He then pressed her hand to his lips, and springing on the steed from which Colonel Wyndham had just dismounted, he called to the others to join him, and was soon afterwards seen careeringat their head across Salisbury Plain.
When this pale horseman was careering over the world in the zenith of his power, excommunication and interdiction were the terror of individuals and the scourge of nations.
This was the time when the pale horseman was careering over the world carrying desolation everywhere by his instruments of oppression--sword, pestilences, famine, and the wild beasts of the earth.
For some time I continued to see these dwarfs running among the pebbles of the Crau, jumping over tufts of grass, or careering along the road by the carriage side, making faces at me.
He found me careering about the gallery, like an owl in sunlight, looking for Brueghel, and when he found what I was after, led me back to them, one on each side of the entrance door.
When Dunne saw Bingo's careering form she knew that her only hope for safety was to get into her stable, and Bingo was equally sure that his sole mission in life was to quicken her pace in that direction.
The north wind sent his snow-horses, hissing and careering over the white earth, tossing and curling their white manes and kicking up more snow as they dashed on.
Then he saw Mr. Palmer with a force of men busily engaged in checking a fire that wascareering through the bushes.
Clouds hung about their summits, or lingered along their sides; but the uprising sun soon dissipated these, or sent them careering aloft, as if bound for heaven.
At sunset we went into camp on the banks of the Fontaine qui Bouilli, while a snow-squall was careering around Pike's Peak.
Some were in wagons with their spoils of buffalo meat and robes; but the majority went careering along on horseback.
Soon it passed away into airy clouds, careering along the sky, and presently vanished altogether.
A herd of buffalo werecareering madly through it, with a troop of savage horsemen in full chase, plying them with their bows and arrows.
It was as though we were careering madly over a multitude of fine-tooth combs.
It pleased him mightily to be set on the crest and brink of that great cliff, high in the mist, the gray wind blowing by, the black sea careering from an ambush of fog to break in wrathful assault upon the grim rocks below.
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