Quick as thought the Mormon threw forward his rifle, but before he could pull the trigger the active Zulu had struck up his muzzle and the piece was harmlessly discharged in the air.
The shell pitched harmlessly on the open ground between the forward and support trenches.
Actually it fell short and well out in front of the trench and only a few splinters and a shower of earth whizzed over harmlessly high.
Sometimes a gun-shield had burst a shell, which if there had been no such attempt at protection would perhaps have passedharmlessly over the heads of the gunners.
Disregarding the Chinese cruisers, which were now badly cut up and firing harmlessly at long range, Ito concentrated his attack on the two armour-clads.
The rest ricochetted harmlesslyover the water, throwing up sparkling geysers of foam in the bright sunlight.
The fireships went aground here and there, and burned harmlessly to the water's edge.
The plates were badly bent, but the shot had fallen as harmlessly as pebbles upon the side of a barn.
They were struck repeatedly, but the balls fell harmlessly against the iron plating.
Shot which glanced harmlessly from the others penetrated her angled sides.
Tom wondered if the others, the fellows about him and the noisy crowd in the stand, could guess the feeling of absolute rapture that was his as the bat swept harmlesslyover the ball.
Then came an out-shoot that went for a strike and a foul that fell harmlessly in the stand and put the score two and two.
But the hero had his sack held over his left arm and the stones and earth fell harmlessly upon it, and, tightly gripping his iron hammer, he rushed in and struck the giant to the ground.
But the river giant was so slimy that the blow slid harmlessly off his green chest, and as Makoma stumbled and tried to regain his balance, the giant swung one of his long hairs around him and tripped him up.
But the animal was hardly staggered, as the missile flattened on its skull and fell harmlessly to the ground.
But as soon as Ted had fired the shot that had brought down the man wolf he had jumped through the scuttle into the attic of the house, and the balls harmlessly riddled the cupola.
Then came the crack of a rifle, the bullet whistling harmlessly over his head, as he scrambled up the steep declivity, rattling down stones and earth into the water below.
I loaded the latter, however, but as often as I leveled it to fire, the little bullets would roll out of the muzzle and the gun returned only a faint report like a squib, as the powder harmlessly exploded.
Upon this discovery is founded the inimitable safety-lamp of Davy, by means of which the explosive gases of a mine are harmlessly ignited within a cage of wire gauze.
Brady drew a pistol, and presented it at Frank's head--the lieutenant knocked up the muzzle, and the ball flew harmlesslyto the ceiling.
The Ajax was still in stays; but her commander found time to fire his battery of stern-chasers, the balls whistling harmlessly past the Rattler's stern, missing her widely.
Whether it was because of his sudden fright or the quickness with which the agile figure dropped at the flash, the charge whistled harmlessly through the leaves.
It struck; I could see the flash, saw an aerial shatter before the charge wentharmlessly into the body of the building.
He turned his face to one side attentively, and darted his light--harmlessly yellow now--to where a lone tree showed its great leaves beginning to waver in a night breeze.
The soft pillow struck the disc; together, entangled, they fell harmlesslyto the floor.
They opened fire on the 2nd Brigade, but the greater part of the bullets flew harmlessly overhead.
The Egyptian fire was very inaccurate, most of their bullets passing harmlessly overhead.
The spear clanged harmlessly from the commander's armor, and the warrior who had attempted to pull him from the carrier died before he could give much of a tug.
As she passed close under the muzzles of St. Philip's guns she fired rapidly canister and shrapnel, the fire from the fort passing for the most part harmlessly over the ship and the heads of her crew.
The fire-rafts drifted harmlesslyon to the western bank of the river, and then burned out.
Most of our bolts struck harmlessly into the ground or the water or rang against the stones of the moat wall.
But my mother, just then seeing my design, struck up the weapon with one swift blow, so that the bolt sped harmlessly over the heads of the horsemen.
A gust of wind came just as he drew trigger, and turned his bolt enough in the hundred and fifty yards of its flight to make it pass harmlessly to one side of our enemy.
All shrieked over our heads and exploded harmlessly among the forest trees; one, however, dropped near the railway bridge and went off like a Hampstead squib on a wet bonfire night.
Our progress was now very rapid, and except for a few bursts of shrapnel which continued to fly harmlessly over the front ranks and injure such as were far behind, we approached our old station, Kraevesk, easily.
The chief defect of the first Whitehead torpedoes, which were finished and tried in 1866, was that they kept bobbing to the surface, or else they would dive too deep and pass harmlessly under the target.
They were acquainted with Vittorio's harmlessly revolutionary views, and with his reasons for not voting.
The air was torn by the zipp of the bullets, but for the most part the hail of missiles either flew high or harmlessly expended itself in the soft earth.
The lads could see some of the bullets kicking up spurts of dirt a long way wide of their mark; others must have sungharmlessly overhead.
Overhead the shrapnel was flying, the iron hail for the most part bursting harmlessly in the rear.
So they all stood in the twilight, nodding their heads and clearing their voices, happy and harmlessly absorbed.
She knew, too, that all her fascinations recoiled harmlessly from that rugged block of ironstone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harmlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
