The vision steals upon you at all hours,--now rounding its flowing outline to the mellifluous metre of Epic hexameter, and again with its bounding life pulsating with the glorious dashes of tragic verse.
The letters are represented by dots anddashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .
A courageous man is ready for battle; a brave man courts it; a gallant man dashes into the midst of the conflict.
He spent the time of our visit making spiteful dashes at us, in the vain hope that the gods might in the end reward his perseverance and lengthen his chain sufficiently to allow him to bite us but once before we left.
When it attacks it stretches its neck and head low along the ground and hisses; it then dashes at its adversary, seizes him with beak and claws, and lays on to him right well with its powerful wings.
Each bird appears to visit its nest every few seconds, but generally it contents itself with hovering in front of the hole for a fraction of a minute and then dashes away.
The dots and dashes frequently fail or run together, owing either to feeble signals, contact of the wires with one another, with trees, or other objects, or to the instruments not being in perfect adjustment.
Only where the stream dashes down from the mountains, forcing its way through the valley, does the greensward appear.
A few of the dogs, indeed, go at him; but the now furious animal gores them with his antlers, hurls them bleeding to the ground, and then dashes off towards the swamps.
See whether they rather be not pieces and scraps of words, as they that are in haste write but dashes and points for letters.
She has not taken a dozen steps when the juggernaut dashesinto the pyramid of rocks.
Trueman sits down at one of the tables inside the bar enclosure and hastily dashes off an affidavit containing the facts he has discovered, and a formal motion to dismiss.
He dashes the tables on the rock, as if to break the record of the useless laws which the people have already broken, and, with his hands free, flings himself without pause into the midst of the excited mob.
Nor is it only the second table which covetousness dashes to fragments.
The Oos is a most turbid, turbulent stream; dashes through part of the town with angry, headlong speed.
The Oos, the most turbid, turbulent strip of a river, dashes along as if in a perfect fury at those confining walls.
After three hours a yellow light is seen through the swirling snow, and the team dashes into a yard and comes to a halt at the steps of a house.
When an avalanche dashes furiously down the mountain it leaps over these tunnels and continues down on the other side without doing the road any harm.
He grows cold with fright, and putting up a prayer to Allah, springs and dashes through the drifts in the hope of reaching the nearest village of tents.
The water forces itself through ravines barely 50 yards wide and dashes with a deafening roar over falls and rapids.
These black dashes on the white expanse of salt and sand have about the same effect on the picturesqueness of the scenery as coarse scrawls with a blunt pen on a fine page of calligraphy.
You see them here and there, scattered about, all facing north, like so many black dashes in the otherwise delicate tones of grey and white of the soil.
He dashes toward the coconut and, with a tail flip, returns it for another round.
Rearing up on to his hind legs, his heavy tail straight out behind him Abercrombie dashes into and across the circus rink.
Happy he that seizes and dashes thy little ones Against the rock!
It is Alice, the thought of Alice, that dashes the present with a contrast to the past, and makes all I now attempt so poor and valueless.
The orderly, who terrifies the village as he dashes past at speed, is but the bearer of an invitation to dine.
Footnote 532: 'Nor can the strong bridges endure the sudden force of the rushing water: in such wise, swollen by heavy rain, the stream with mighty force dashes upon the piers.
Ropsley's cigar is finished, and he dashes it down somewhat impatiently.
I hear the splash as he dashes in; I see the circles thrown behind him as he swims; whilst I am straining every nerve to reach the water's edge.
Blots like mashed spiders, or crushed huckleberries, occasionally intervene, but the old veteran dashes them with sand, leaving a swearing compositor to scratch off the soil, and dig out the words underneath.
You hear the splashing of paddle wheels, and the next moment a huge steamer dashes past you in the mist.
Madly out of Deadwood gulch, the abode of thousands of lurking shadows, dashes a horseman.
So to the utter bewilderment of his friends, who know his methods, Jack suddenly dashes to the front, takes the pole away from the Harvard leader, and is off at a tremendous pace.
Age is the outer shore against which dashesan eternity.
Then, he dashes it down under the grate, with such force that the broken splinters fly out again in a shower; and he leaves the house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dashes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
