They had rowed so close in to shore, he thought, to avoid such a collision as had happened in the mists earlier in the night, when a large barge was run down by a gunboat and sunk.
Evidently this came from an altercation, in which both had forborne the use of weapons, thus suggesting some collision of interests, as between personal associates or former friends rather than a hand-to-hand conflict of armed enemies.
I hope fervently he has sense enough not to use those breech-loaders we are sending in such quantities, and that he won't repeat the Penjdeh blunder by provoking some collision with the Russians on his border.
Rushing steeply earthward, his craft only partly in hand, he came into violent collision with a telegraph pole.
At the moment of the collision he had been hurled from his seat; shooting out sideways over one wing, he had missed striking the telegraph pole, and had avoided also any entanglement with the wreckage of his machine.
Then Thibault re-called the wish that he had uttered in his moment of anger after the blow from the whip and his collision with the horse.
Hence the Irish, or Scotti as they were termed, established themselves by force of arms in the west of Scotland, and came into collision with the Picts, who occupied the eastern part.
This collisionis continuously preparing revolutions and wars.
It rather resembled a ship that had been in bad weather and in collision with a few steamers.
Leopold of Tuscany, however much disposed to avoid collision with his kinsman, the Emperor of Austria, could not altogether free himself from the rush of reforming zeal which was spreading through Italy.
This collisionis the more to be regretted because, until its occurrence, the leaders of the German movement had exhibited the same dignity and moderation of temper which had been shown in the early phases of the Bohemian movement.
In the meantime the growing collision between the power of Prussia and the power of the Assembly at Frankfort was exciting new divisions in Berlin.
In Pavia and Padua, on the other hand, the smokers came into collision with the students, who fought with their bare fists against the soldiers' swords.
The Federal troops were sent against the insurgents; at the first collision the latter were easily defeated; and the insurrection was only remembered as the Struve-Putsch.
That rising had also, unfortunately, brought about a collision between Baden and Bavaria, and, at least, a feeling of suspicion between Baden and Wuertemberg.
But the negro's services were not required, for the collision and all that followed was ended with startling swiftness.
The bulkhead which they had bolted across the huge rent made in the ship's side by a collision that had sent her to the bottom had, for some unforeseen reason, blown out.
He unconsciously set to work to calculate how long it would take, at the present rate of comparative progression of his own car and the runaway train, for the inevitable collision to occur.
As for the canoe, the collision had driven her to one side just as she had seemed on the point of running along in close company with the launch.
The remainder smashed themselves into matchwood, all save five in rear, which, with retarded impetus, found only a bank of fallen dirt and rock that broke the collision and left them shaking on the track.
The collision knocked me silly, and guess I lay away there on the decks out of sight; but I never reckoned you'd have men aboard ready to take such risks to rescue a passenger.
After coming in collision with Kutusoff, he retreated through this same town of Borowsk, and no sooner had he passed through it than it ceased to exist.
I'm not afraid of either of these two doing anything dangerous singly, for they are both careful, but when they are of different minds, I never know what the collision may produce.
He had no vicious tastes or tendencies, and was too gentlemanly and quiet ever to come into collision with the authorities.
But why have they trusted to the imaginary collisionof sentiment between the Governor and Intendant of New Orleans?
If ever we were in collision with our real brothers and rivals we should leave all this fancy out of account.
It is equally obvious that these two necessary sanctities of thrift and dignity are bound to come into collision with the wordiness, the wastefulness, and the perpetual pleasure-seeking of masculine companionship.
And I would at least have covered my face with my hands, to blot out the scene, had I not suddenly remembered that other and strangely similar occasion when a car came into violent collision with a human body.
Collision with lives so putrescently abominable that my own by contrast seemed enviable, had a tendency to make me forget my troubles.
Fischelowitz bowed till his nose almost came into collision with the counter.
In trying to draw away, Vjera found herself suddenly in the stream, and just then a broad-shouldered officer who chanced to be looking the other way came into collision with her, so roughly that she was forced almost into the Count's arms.
After coaling and starting again seaward a collision occurred in the channel with a Government schooner, carrying away the after part of the steamer’s deck cabin, which caused a detention of several days to repair damages.
They were finally taken away from the neighborhood to prevent a collision with the men, who were enraged at their bullying behavior.
There is no suggestion that the United States is without interest in the right bank of the Mississippi for fear of a divided government, or because germs of collision will develop in spite of affinities in manners and language.
I am aware of the difficulties in the way of settling the question, owing to the fear of a collision between Protestants and Catholics; but I think Parliament ought to have the power to make the Irish people contented.
The Irish Parliament now came into collision with the English on a case of appellate jurisdiction, but they were soon taught their true position, and with becoming submission deferred to their fate.
The agent is the instrument used to draw out the last farthing from the poor; he is constantly in collision with them.
They do not seem to have come personally into collision at this point, and insofar as either makes reference to the occurrences there, they are in substantial agreement.
In 1940 a terrible mid-air collision occurred over Rio Janeiro.
Collision in mid-air was always the nightmare and dread of aerial navigation.
He had hastened to Chippinge on receiving White's belated express, but rather because, irritated by the collision with Flixton, he welcomed any change, than because he was sure what he would do.
So much had happened since his collision with Flixton in the Square.
Meanwhile thecollision with the crowd had loosened the guests' tongues and never had a Vermuyden dinner gone more freely.
