Terrible thunder-storm prevails--the dashingrain is imitated as closely as dried peas and No.
The falls descend two hundred feet, of which sixty is in a single cataract--primarily a wild, dashing water-fall.
The stream is a dashing mountain brook, embalmed poetically by the pen of Street.
On the left of the French, a little strip of land along the southern edge of the Avocourt Wood was won, but in a dashing counterattack the French recaptured it.
A little later by a dashing bayonet charge the French drove them out of the greater part of the place except one corner, where they held on determinedly despite the furious attacks that were launched against them all day long.
Noticing that the German bombs were outranging the British he sprang from the trench and dashing forward under hot machine-gun fire at short range, after bombing the enemy's post, leaped in and bayoneted three German bombers.
At first the French enjoyed every advantage, for though the Germans had penetrated the position, the French by a dashing attack occupied almost the whole of the wood.
The French delivered a dashing counterattack, and were successful in freeing all but a small part of the place.
The boat went cutting through the tide-waves and dashing the spray over her bows, the wide sea was opening all around them,--the salt wind stung his brain to keener life.
The keel grated on the pebbles,--some one came dashing down the narrow path, shoved them off, and leaped on board.
But that dashing commander, Philip Kearny, was held up by Jackson's concentrated guns; so Hooker and Reno advanced alone, straight for the railroad line.
The eager gray lines kept pressing on like the rising tide of an angry sea, dashing in fury against all obstructing fronts and swirling round the disconnecting flanks.
That day the furious current was dashing driftwood in whirling masses against the flotilla, which had all it could do to keep station, even with double anchors down and full steam up.
A bull had escaped from its leaders, and driven frantic by the cries of the multitude, it was dashing savagely along.
The sea, clothed round with raiment of white waves, and rich with sparkling life, dashing itself along the beach, breathes a monotonous murmur that wafts itself inland and falls with vague music upon the listening ear.
Now at last they can see the doomed vessel; the incessant dashing of the waves is slowly tearing it in pieces; some figure with flowing hair can be seen near one of the dismantled masts.
When I reached the street the engines and water carts weredashing in the direction of the fire.
While we were dashing through a mass of rocks and stumps one of our horses fell dead, and brought us to a sudden halt.
Streets were full of sleds and sleighs, the latter dashing at a rapid rate.
Here are you and I, dashing blades, who have been doing penance by trying to be fine gentlemen at watering-places, when it wasn't at all in our line.
Our next specimen is that of a now successful author, who, owing to the peculiarity of his style, fell, notwithstanding a rather dashing debut, into great difficulty and distress.
Dashing up the hill, to the houses which the enemy had used for vantage ground, they found them vacated.
But when the civil war broke out, he resigned his commission, and joined the fortunes of the confederacy, where his record as a brave and dashingsoldier is well known.
Something rather more dashing seemed to him to be indicated.
And, at the discovery, the dashing driver resumed his post at the wheel, and she began to deal with the situation with composure.
Whenever I meet him, he always seems to be dashing off to catch the next train back to New York!
Comes from the box as on the coach goes dashing The lonely driver's hail.
On reaching the lower hall, however, he endeavored to create a diversion in his favor by dashing into the barroom and clapping the occupants on the back with indiscriminate playfulness.
It was still raining, and the wind, which had increased to a gale, was dashing the drops against the slanting cabin windows with a sound like spray when Mr. Abner Nott sat before a table seriously engaged with his accounts.
The former was a dashing looking blade, of not more than forty, attired in blue, slashed coat, ornamented with gilt buttons, and bedecked at collar and cuffs with a profusion of lace.
It required all of Watkins' skill to keep it upright, the flying spray constantly dashing against our faces.
A fine skin that Hector brought triumphantly in one day, the spoil from a fox that had been caught in one of his deadfalls, was in due time converted into a dashing cap, the brush remaining as an ornament to hang down on one shoulder.
Soon afterwards the station was in the hands of the British, as the result of a dashing cavalry charge.
They then stripped him perfectly naked, lashed him with cow-hides till there was scarce a sound piece of flesh in his body, dashing cold water over him at intervals, and then recommencing their barbarities.
As for bathing in the sea, plunging into the surf, with the waves breaking over your head and the water dashing and sparkling all about you, I need not say much about that.
Fortunately for the boy, the Duke was ready with his gun, and when the Elephant came dashing up he put two balls into his head.
And then the "express" would go dashing furiously down some street below us, the pony at gallop; and the line would form in front of the post-office and stretch like a black snake up Washington Street.
She heard Peggie moving in the next room and sprang out of bed, dashing cold water over her face and head in feverish haste to wash off the tears and cool down the turgid blood that throbbed in her temples and crimsoned her cheeks.
He unclasped the shutter and dashing the window open, sprang out on the terrace, followed by Prue.
He was a dashing young fellow, and a political crony of old Hugh.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dashing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
