They are always on the wing, like stormy petrels, flying swift and low, just skimming the waters, yet darting like arrows, as if seeking for something which they could not find on land or sea.
The lawyer, darting a keen glance at the speaker, softly shook his head.
But no sooner had the lawyer made his presence known by this impetuous movement, than Ransom woke from his trance and, darting down, lifted the girl in his arms and began moving with her towards the house.
Darting off, Gerald was gone but a few minutes, returning on the run to report that Pepper had not been back since morning.
Davies was darting swiftly to and fro between the tiller and jib-sheets, while the Dulcibella bowed a lingering farewell to the shore and headed for the open fiord.
If it was high and northerly we explored the inner fastnesses; in moderate intervals the exterior fringe, darting when surprised into whatever lair was most convenient.
Meanwhile the lions were darting this way and that, Madame Ella shouting to me to get out quick, and lashing with her whip, while the dogs kept chasing them about the cage.
This feat the bird performs by darting upon the reptile and carrying it aloft in its talons, afterwards dropping it on the ground from a considerable height.
Darting forth rays, as the sun when it shines out.
There was a great deal more banter and fun, and the March of Education was resumed with small recruits in clean pinafores darting out of homes here and there to join it.
She amazed Helen by suddenly darting towards her and putting her arm around her.
But he managed to recover himself, and caught a shadowy glimpse of the great shark darting off, as the knife dropped from the wound and sank to the bottom.
The Frank could not restrain a groan of despair, while Rothada, darting back to his side with a flask of wine, cried out in terror.
But then a little maiden came darting across the room and knelt to clasp his wasted hands.
For a moment the violet eyes were upraised in a look of tender mockery, and then their owner was darting off to join the queen's following.
When he came back he found a large snake, with its head raised, and its tongue darting in and out, hissing at the dead birds, as if hardly comprehending how they lay so still.
Have you seen her eyes shining under her eyebrows like rays of light darting under the arched boughs in a forest?
On the red shield above his head the gilt sheaf of thunderbolts darting between the initials of his name seemed to be aimed straight at the nape of his neck as he sat with bared elbows spread on the table, poring over the crumpled sheets.
On its red field, in relief and brightly gilt, was represented a sheaf of conventional thunderbolts darting down the middle between the two capitals T.
The third day that Hiawatha fasted, he was too weak to walk about the forest, and he sat by the shore of the lake and watched the yellow perch darting about in the sunny water.
Its gleams are used by the Wabeno as his arrows, and he sits there hating all the world and darting forth his poisonous beams of baleful light to injure all who stray within his reach.
You lie,' says the wren, darting up a perch and a half above the big fellow.
Darting down again, we spied a door under the stair, and got into a labyrinth of excavations.
Just now his horse shied and he saw a hare that had been driven out of a strip of meadow land, and was darting right in front of him towards the Jungfern Haide.
Caesar growled in vigorous protest, and darting away, began circling the ground before him, back and forth, in widening curves, as Coquenil had taught him.
They were darting about in the air among the treetops, as well as amid the bushes in the deep ravine, catching insects on the wing.
Unlike the familiar chippie, he does not usually find a perch in plain sight, from which to rehearse his song, but keeps himself well hidden in the bushes or trees, darting into a hiding place as soon as he thinks himself discovered.
A flock of cedar waxwings were also "tseeming" in the top of a tree, darting out at intervals into the air for insects.
The spirit of Nelson appears, like a comet in the sky, dartinglightning at the Flotilla.
Barnabas had a huge twenty-pound iron club in his hand; grinding his teeth, and with eyes darting fire, he seemed capable of meeting single-handed the whole troop.
The business that so occupied these winged and flashing gems, these darting iridescences, was in truth the universal business of hunting.
A few minutes later, the good sun having dried its wings, it went darting and hurtling over the pool, a gemlike, opalescent shining thing, reflected gloriously in the polished mirror beneath.
Their short, powerful wings gave them a flight so swift and darting that, for all his superior strength, he felt himself at their mercy.
Even the great black carnivorous water-beetle, with all its strength and fighting equipment, was careful to give wide berth to that dreadful, quick-darting mask.
It was itself no mean swimmer, but it could not escape the darting terror that pursued.
Ever and anon an osprey could be seen darting into the water, to rise with a fish in his claws, which he was quickly compelled by the baldheaded eagle to drop.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "darting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
