Religion was darkened by dismal bodings of endless doom, and embittered by the fierceness of polemic strife; and the moral atmosphere seemed lurid with the hurtling anathemas of rival sects.
As I let him get up, a hurtling volley of great raindrops tore through the foliage over our heads, and a blast, carrying with it the dank, unwholesome breath of an upheaved watery underworld, swept across the surface of the lagoon.
We had dodged and run nimbly to right and left before the little brass signal piece belched fire and sent a volley of nondescript missiles hurtling into the scrub palmettos under which we had been crouching.
A brick and some plaster clattered about Jan Cuxson's feet as he crossed the temple chamber and stood looking out at the jungle, and the animals of all sizes and shapes which were hurtling through the undergrowth.
The seething of the water told him that they were still hurtling through the lane of ice, and floes grated alongside.
Hurtling through to the kitchen and stumbling over an assortment of clanging pans, Stirling found the second door which led to the deck.
Hurtling west, and then edging toward the north as the day advanced, the Pole Star avoided the pack and settled down to steady progress toward the American shore in the vicinity of Icy Cape.
The clang of a bell told that the leader had urged more steam, and the ship was hurtling through a sea free from ice.
As if it was the best of jests, he laughed aloud, and picking up a stone, sent it hurtling after the cur.
The Englishman picked up a stone and sent it hurtling across the lawn for the collie to chase.
When he returned to where he could see the hurtling object before him, he saw that it was a ship.
That meant that its gyros were stopped; that it was helpless, drifting, disabled, powerless to avoid hurtling meteoric stones.
With a swift whir an iron pot came hurtling past me, and, missing the Duchess by a hand's-breadth, went clanking under the gatehouse.
A rope ladder came hurtling down at our feet, and a man, nimbly descending, held it tight at the bottom.
The hurtling bulk of Armijo crashed against a wall and dropped like a bag of grain as the plunging Delaware whirled to pounce upon it.
The two quick roars of the cannons and the hurtling solid shot, which raised dust-puffs high up on the hill, checked them and they spread out into two thin lines of racing horsemen running toward both sides of the encampment.
She's shore movin' fast enough now," observed Tom, watching the hurtling driftwood going spectrally down the almost luminous surface.
Soon they were out in open space, hurtling toward the sun under the drive of every possible iota of power, and Costigan took off his armor and turned toward the helpless body of the captain.
Inertialess now, pausing briefly from time to time to enable the crew to accustom themselves to the new sensations, the Boise pursued the invader; hurtling through the void with a velocity unthinkable.
Should all Elmbrook have risen up one morning and gone hurtling down to Lake Simcoe, it would have left him seated alone, undisturbed, on its vacated ridge.
She had just finished the lowest step of the porch when she was startled by a tremendous uproar in the Sawyer orchard, and the next moment something came hurtling over the fence and landed with a splash in the pail at her feet.
Rudie was violently body-checked by the lone defense man but Walt was left free to skate in upon the goalie and sent the puck hurtling into the net.
Taber rooters, going mad as Carl's close-up shot sent the puck hurtlinginto the net for the goal which tied the score.
Hurtling off the incline, body perfectly poised, the only contestant from the South carried well over the landing field and came down as gracefully as a bird.
With radio, one merely sat at a machine, turned a key and picked up sound that went hurtling through the air with only electrical power to bear it on.
Hurtling through bushes, dodging swishing limbs, he burst panting into the clearing of the Bobb hilltop.
So far as any human connection was concerned, the engine gondolas, the hull, the fore-car might have been so many separate planets hurtling through space.
The extreme summit of Perboewatan had been blown into a thousand fragments, which were hurtling upwards and crackling loudly as the smaller masses were impelled against each other in their skyward progress.
He marked that quarter of the enclosure which was most remote from the chief point of attack--most remote from the provident watch of Harold, whose cheering voice, ever and anon, he recognised amidst the hurtling clamour.
Only in solitude could that strong man give way to his emotions; and at first they rushed forth so confused and stormy, so hurtling one the other, that hours elapsed before he could serenely face the terrible crisis of his position.
Before the door stood a pair of officers trying in vain to shield their gay attire under scanty shoulder cloaks from the hurtling inclemency of the night.
The stars were ever and anon concealed by the thick pall of cloud which the wind from the south drove hurtling athwart them.
Saying this, he makes a dash for the door, hurtlinghis way through the crowd close standing between.
Just above the hips it caught the hurtling shape, and the knotted legs fell one way, the torso another as the blade sheared clear through its hairy body.
Therefore quite to her taste was the Twentieth Century Limited which was hurtling her on the way to Chicago.
He seemed hurtling through space at the expense of tremendous muscular action.
A second later a trench-mortar bomb came hurtling down through the air, and fell on the parados near the two men.
Over a gaping hole in the ceiling was a bed, its iron legs weirdly twisted, which threatened to overbalance at any minute and to come hurtling down into the hall beneath.
He leaped to one side almost as the panther's talons were closing upon him, and as Sheeta went hurtling to the ground beyond, Tarzan was racing for the safety of the nearest tree.
The mighty wings fluttered a few more times, spasmodically, the talons relaxed their hold, and Tarzan of the Apes fellhurtling downward toward the distant jungle.
Bursts of flame began to play around the rocketing spaceship, the explosions hurtling it from side to side as it twisted and turned in a frantic effort to escape.
He disappeared and a few seconds later a coil of rope came hurtling down.
The sky above the Vulcan was filled with the drone of hurtling shells.
A dim shadowy bulk was hurtling through the blue water.
Down came the hurtling mass upon the Swash, keeping every head elevated and all eyes looking for the dark object, as it went booming through the air above their heads.
On it came, booming and hurtlingthrough the air, tossing high the jets, at each leap it made from the surface, striking the water for its last bound, seemingly in a line with the shell that had just preceded it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hurtling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
