Plunging into the first stream, we dashed for some distance along its bed.
Away I sped bareheaded through the pelting rain, now crashing through thick underbrush, now up to my waist in swollen streams, plunging on and on, only mindful to select a course that would baffle horsemen in pursuit.
Indeed, the deep-water channel, down which the ships must pass, was only about three hundred yards from the guns of the enemy, and which from their elevation could send a plunging fire directly down on their decks.
The opposite shore gained, the black fishermen having landed their passengers, plunging into the water, carried out their net in a semicircle, and soon began dragging the ends towards the strand.
We did as I proposed, and then plunging into the copse tried to make our way through it.
After the next shot two or three of the horses were seen plunging wildly, and one of the guns appeared to have received some damage--the distance was too great to ascertain what it was.
As the dismasted ship rolled in the foaming seas raging around her, first the guns on one side were allowed to slip through the ports, then those on the other went plunging into the deep.
I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell-- Oh, I was plunging to despair.
Lion instead of plunging into the cool water, as was his ordinary habit, stood still on the brink, looking up into Frank's face, with a perplexed and wistful look.
Ten minutes before Jack put the brown colt to the test it had been a wild, terrified, plunging creature, and yet, as he stepped back to try its intelligence and submission, his face was confident and expectant.
The leading chariot was swaying dizzily, and the driver was trying with all her strength to pull the plunging animals down.
If he were able to turn the team, he would undoubtedly save them from plunging into the seats where hundreds of people were sitting.
Manuel, now as helpless as a ship without a rudder, was being buffeted over the back of the plunging animal.
He fell down the stairs, and went plunging through the house, with a string of hornets trailing after him, like a comet's tail.
He scrambled up hastily, but a great slice of rock cleaved off beneath his feet and went plunging downward.
Rattleton's heart was in his throat, and he felt that they were plunging into unknown and terrible danger, but he said: "Go ahead.
Of a sudden, as they approached a point where the bluffs narrowed till they were close together, the negro gave a sudden wild howl of terror, tried to turn his wheel about and went plunging headlong to the ground.
Up and down the rear of the lacerated Fifth Waldron rode thrice, spurring his plunging and wounded horse close to the yelling and fighting file-closers, and shouting in a piercing voice encouragement to his men.
Little puffs of red dust, lifted by the plunging hoofs of passing teams, dispersed in a grimy shower upon the recumbent man.
A number of naked laborers were holding a man by the legs andplunging him head first in the water to his neck, to his breast, and at last to his waist.
They had been plunginghim into the water and he was not angry; they did nothing to her, and still she made an uproar.
Then the triple and repeated leaps churn the water into the snowiest foam and spray, so that the falls have great brightness and lightness in spite of the quantity of water plunging over.
Everyone who visits Corra Linn walks through the ground to Bonnington Linn, which from the Corehouse side is seen in face, the water plunging over in two streams divided by an island.
Now the waves rush over the bow, and again a cross wave catches the side of the boat, throws her almost on her side, sweeps bodily over her; while she pitches and rolls with a motion quick as that of a plunging horse.
The life-boat comes swiftly on, running before the still heavy gale; now rising like a cork to the mounting seas, or plunging boldly through the surf and broken water.
The plunging water dislodges stones from the face of the ledge over which it pours, and often undermines it by excavating a deep pit at its base.
Plunging madly across the drift, they were soon gathered in a grand crowd at the entrance of the gulley, and striving to ascend it five or six at a time.
Plunging his spurs into the foam-covered flanks of his horse, he sprang forward in advance of the three giraffes; and as he expected, they came to a halt.
The loud report was followed by a heavy plungingin the water, and the behaviour of the crocodile gave evidence of the correctness of the hunter's aim.
Led by a large male, they commencedplunging about as if determined to make a break up stream.
It required all their strength to hinder the horses from plunginginto the pool.
This removed the support of the snow backed up between the river and the top of the cliff, and it went plunging down into the water, leaving the top of the hut exposed, and solving the problem of the prison of snow.
He reeled; a red blindness assailed him; and, in spite of a fierce effort to maintain command of his strength and faculties, he found himself plunging headlong upon his bed.
To her dazed attention the avenger himself stood before her in all the terror of infuriated justice free from its leash and plunging forward headlong and irresistible to satisfy its vengeance.
In the impenetrable darkness of the noisome place, strange noises startled me as blind, unseen reptiles escaped from my path, plunging into the water with a splash, and great lizards scuttled to their holes beneath the stones.
He had feared to approach the waters, and my resolution to desecrate them byplunging in filled him with awe.
In the gray of dawn, as the Anvil men were roping their mounts from the remuda and the horses were plunging wildly into the press of their brethren, Lafe called his strawboss and told him to take charge of the work for the day.
Johnson replaced Buffalo Jim and sat on a board between two posts, dangling his legs, staring at everything but the plunging steers.
The youthful riders were also on the point of plunging among the reeds, when two hideous, black monsters, fiercely snorting, suddenly confronted them.
Well, I can't make any comment on that last remark of yours without plunging into platitudes that would make you terribly contemptuous of my struggles to avoid them.
I'm feeling a worthless brute," said Michael, plunginginto a dejected acquiescence in the worst that could be said about him.
Plunging endlong into the water, the impetus created by my fall from such a height would be slowly resisted by this denser element.
I found no pleasure in plunginginto bogs, wading through rivulets, and penetrating thickets, for the sake of dispatching woodcocks and squirrels.
Barnes held the plunging horses in control, while the gentlemen scrambled to the ground and assisted the ladies to dismount.
Mr. Preuss attempted to walk along the upper edge of one of these fields, which sloped away at an angle of about twenty degrees; but his feet slipped from under him, and he went plunging down the plain.
As I stand with my chin on the dodger's ridge And dreamily eye our plunging craft There's a rattle of heels on the flying bridge And a gruff report that the watch is aft.
Loud, loud they laughed, and laughing, Blew the foam from bearded lips As blows the gale the whiter foam From the bows of plunging ships.
