How many such a horse had thought that the lithe body on his back was something to race with, toy with, and, when tired of that, fling precipitately to earth!
But time fugues precipitately through the land of art.
All within me was tumult and terror, and I rushed precipitately out of the house.
This is an old acquaintance of Watson's and mine; and, in the course of talk, he expressed some surprise that Watson had so precipitately deserted his house.
The apprehensions I had precipitately formed were thus removed, and I readily consented to perform this service.
The sum which he demanded for his furniture, though enormous, was precipitately paid by me.
A young Indian approached with a grave and pensive air and slow step, but suddenly turning round, he ran offprecipitately as one terrified.
We breakfasted this morning on a little island of exceeding beauty, rising precipitately from the water.
They abandoned their camp, destroyed their stores and many fled precipitately towards Charleston, while Major Majoribanks halted behind the palisades of a brick house.
The people were thrown into consternation, and precipitately fled to the garrison houses, while a courier was dispatched to Hadley for aid.
These cowardly savages, when they saw the English approaching in such force, precipitately fled, without giving their chieftain any warning.
Fearing that the Indians were too numerous in the vicinity to be encountered by their small band, they brought off the garrison, and retreated precipitately to Hadley, not tarrying even to destroy the property which they could not bring away.
Nearly all the Narraganset Indians had now abandoned the English, and, with cowardice which it is difficult to explain, had retired precipitately through the woods to their own country.
The savages continued their hostile gesticulation until Captain Standish drew quite near, and then they precipitately fled.
For some reason Colonel Murray left so precipitately that he overlooked a picket of 20 of his men, who were captured; then he made descents on two or three other places, and returned to the head of the lake by Aug.
Precipitately she hastened through it, as if with her last display of strength after the exhaustion of that walk.
Belle whirled upon her with such a vivid and instantaneous flash of anger that the girl stepped back precipitately and dropped the box.
These were strongly built; but as soon as the defenders perceived that the assailants had gained their flank they precipitately withdrew into Quinsan itself.
But if it fared badly with the Chinese, the armies of Akouta continued to be victorious, and the Khitans fled not less precipitately before him than the Chinese did before them.
Kiassetao attempted to resist the Mongol advance at Kien Kang, the modern Nankin, but after an engagement on land and water the Sungs were driven back, and their fleet only escaped destruction by retiring precipitately to the sea.
But all his expostulations were vain, for Cæsar precipitately rushed into the pond, and in an instant plunged into the middle with his charioteer behind him.
Lancaster, at the head of an army marched to York, whence the king precipitately retreated to Newcastle.
The Earl of Fife, too precipitately attacking Balliol's forces, was at once defeated, and the invaders marched northward towards Dupplin.
Directly they observed my party, the greater number turned off and precipitately fled in another line of retreat.
The rest, thus suddenly awoke from sound sleep, witnessing the sudden carnage, and with no foe visible, fled precipitately to their forts.
Thomas, fearing an attack, released the arm he held and retreated precipitately to the door.
Bindle had purposely left the door ajar and through the slit he had, a moment previously, seen the clergyman disappear precipitately through one of the bedroom doors.
The more nervous among the women guests had immediately assumed fire to be the cause of the disturbance, and thinking of their lives rather than of modesty and decorum, had rushed precipitately from their rooms.
Claudet stood one moment, dumfounded, before the door so pitilessly shut in his face, then, falling suddenly from his happy state of illusion to the dead level of reality, departedprecipitately down the road.
He then precipitatelyleft the room, and, in five minutes, had galloped out of the Park.
Abashed, astonished, ashamed, she precipitately drew away her hand, and sought quietly to retire.
I knew her character fair, I precipitately made my addresses, and concluded myself beloved in return .
She heard some step advancing, and precipitately drew back.
The sight of Mr. Sefton nearly drove her back precipitately to the maiden fastness of her chamber.
At that moment Mr. Bolton appeared at the top of the stairs in his shirt sleeves; but at the sight of Patricia he turned and bolted precipitately out of sight.
She did not look up as Mrs. Desmond and her brother entered, but softly closing the door after them, glided precipitately from the room.
He sprang toward the doorway, but in that moment the beautiful phantom turned and fled precipitately before him.
Once or twice he precipitately changed his course, hurrying down some narrow lane, between desolate looking rows of houses, low and ill-favoured, whose inmates recruited themselves from the lowest types of the mongrel population of Rome.
As he did so, a tremendous peal of thunder shook the house and the stranger precipitately retreated into the shadow of the doorway.
As he spoke, he peered so intently into the masked visage of the Sicilian dancer, that she precipitately retreated.
