Trying to ascend several feet by it, he fell into the sea; but by a sudden lurch from the ship, he was thrown into the mizzen-shrouds, where he fixed himself as well as circumstances would allow.
Suddenly, with a howl of terror, the professor, who never seemed to entertain the thought of letting go of the bird, was jerked from his foothold by a sudden lurch of the ship.
We left them sitting on the bow--or rather perched there in positions none too secure in case of a sudden lurch of the ship.
He gave a lurch forward to the seat, stumbled, and the watch dropped from his hand.
For a moment I thought he might go overboard, and I clutched at him frantically; but with another lurch and an indistinct admonition to me not to be afraid, he sank into the corner of the bench and was asleep in a second.
The lurch of the vessel sent the struggling men against the taffrail with great violence.
He succeeded in fixing the hook, but a violent lurch of the ship tore the handle out of his grasp and cast him into the bottom of the boat.
The coach, you say, gave a sudden lurch backwards, and thus threw you off the hind seat under the coach wheels?
When he got to them he found both had partially secured themselves, though the least lurch of their bodies would certainly have placed them in a more perilous position.
The portly, ruddy appearance and pronounced lurch or roll of Captain Thomas Arlington left no doubt as to his calling.
A man who has been left in the lurch generally takes it out in strong language.
The basket was not only large, but uneasy, seeming to be troubled by internal convulsions, which made it tip and lurch in a way that from time to time threatened to upset Mandy Ann's unstable equilibrium.
At last there sounded under the keel a strange gurgle, and the bateau gave a swinging lurch which sent half the treasures of the "Chaney House" clattering upon the bottom or into Mandy Ann's lap.
For a second or two the blood in his veins ran ice, as he braced himself to feel the log lurch out into the sluice and plunge into the trampling of the abyss.
Banks and the cowboys, waiting breathless, saw Harvey with a determined lurch close the main-line contact.
Gottschalk, left in the lurch by his former friends, now turned for help to the powerful pope Nicholas I.
The ground began to swirl up to them at an alarming speed; the balloon, which had up to now been drifting so smoothly that its movement could hardly be felt, started to lurch down in sickening swerves and drops and swings.
I feel grateful to him, and always shall, because he left me in the lurchthat day when the water came in.
But an unexpected lurchof the chair, coming at that moment, landed him in a squirming heap on the floor.
A lurch of the boat canted me and I threw out my left hand to prevent myself from diving overboard.
Leavin' Mr. Gibson an' me in the lurch in Buenos Ayres.
Why does my father leave us in the lurch like this, making us be poor and insignificant?
He had been cheated too often and left in thelurch before, he said.
A quick lurch forward, and Orme sailed through the air, coming down heavily on his side.
For three days the great floe voyaged on through unrelenting storm, riding down the lesser ice-cakes, and taking the waves with ponderous lurch and slide.
Once he saw a black cow moose, tormented with flies, lurch out madly from the thickets and plunge wallowing into the lake.
He was distrusted and constantly left in the lurch by his ungrateful court, which did not even repay him the sums that from time to time he was obliged to advance out of his slender means to necessitous fellow-countrymen in Russia.
So absolutely did he feel himself one that his first angry exclamation when Rome left him in the lurch in 1832 was: "I will teach them what it means to defy a priest!
With a suddenlurch forward the Sergeant plunged headlong in the snow.
Hamlin thrust his head out of the nearest window, but a sudden lurch hurled him back, the coach taking a sharp curve on two wheels, and coming down level once again with a bump which brought the whole four together.
She rose from the seat, but a sudden lurch of the car sent her back again with an exclamation of anger which could be heard by all.
I ran over and told the fellers and they all got away, so as long as you didn't leave them in the lurch it was all right.
If the island should lurchyou might get your feet wet.
