The spy came on toward them slowly, his horse reeling under him, and man and beast alike were nearly shot to pieces.
The shrieks of the thieves upon the reeling crosses were terrible to hear.
A man would come reeling out into the street with bloody face or gashed limbs.
Here would be a womanreeling in drink; yonder a young mother hardly strong enough to walk the streets.
Dodging the blow, before the breed could recover his balance, the Frenchman lunged with his one hundred and seventy pounds behind his fist into Lelac's jaw, hurling him reeling into the water ten feet away.
Seizing one by his long hair, with a wrench he hurled the surprised Husky backward into the water and sent a secondreeling to the stony beach with a fierce blow in the face.
Some of the troops stole out of the line, and filled their canteens with the liquor at this shop, and, lacking discretion as well as correct personal habits, were soon reeling from the effects of their frequent potations.
This time the onslaught was boldly and successfully resisted; and Sheridan, taking advantage of a momentary reeling of the enemy, charged upon them with infantry and cavalry, broke their lines, and thoroughly routed them.
Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame!
We are hustled into maturity reeling with our passions and imaginations, and we have drifted far away from port before we awake out of our illusions.
It fell with fearful force, breaking the Scotchman's shoulder and sending him reeling back.
After him sprang Peter, thinking that the game was his, but at that moment the ship, which had entered the breakers of the harbour bar, rolled terribly, and sent them both reeling to the bulwarks.
Then with an ugly push of the shoulder he sent Quest reeling into the shed.
At length, whilereeling on our way, Methought I heard a courser neigh, From out yon tuft of blackening firs.
Brave sons of her, far severed wide By purpling peak or reeling foam; From western ridge or orient side, She calls them home, she calls them home.
The reeling junks behind me and the racing seas before, I raped your richest roadstead--I plundered Singapore!
As he did so Bulling stopped him with a heavy left-hander on the face which sent him reeling backward, quickly following with his right and again with a last terrific blow upon the jaw of his dazed and reeling victim.
Outridden, outfought, outgeneralled, they were smashed through, ridden down, and whirled back reeling in confusion.
He had burst through the half-troop guarding the upper end of the defile, had left them red and reeling to count their dead, and the overfolding hill-spurs swallowed him.
In that room with the long window, low-growled, the one thin thread of clear-sighted unselfishness was reelingout to very slight approval.
It is a little quiet, but they all say it will begin to pick up in a day or two," Morgan prevaricated, with a view to reeling him out, having no other diversion.
He stood with weak legs braced wide apart to fix his reeling senses on the sight--the amazing, comforting sight, of a field of growing corn.
And St. Georges, reeling back against the opposite bulkhead, stared down at him, forgetting all that was taking place around the burning transport in his misery at that revelation.
He floundered along the streets, reeling from right to left like a drunken giant, encountering the kerb-stone, skimming the lamp-post.
A gleam of sunshine breaks through the grey sky, and catching the clouds of spray turns them to rainbow hues that envelop the reeling ship with the glamour of a magic world.
Now, if you know that road in the Vale of St John, you will remember that it is what Mr Chesterton calls "a rolling road, a reeling road.
He went down like a stone, his senses reeling under that frightful impact and yet half conscious of the fact that some one must have come up behind him in the darkness and struck him with a heavy weight.
Then he clutched the reeling man by the arm and dragged him across to the window and bundled him out with as little ceremony as if he had been a sack of oats.
Grimly, doggedly, with senses reeling and muscles nearly dead, the last survivor of a dying planet fought desperately on under the malignant rays of the vivid green moon!
But one thought hammered at my reeling brain: "The New York!
Reeling as he walked, he went into the shed that sheltered the engine.
At closer range one of the men proved to be their father, and he was in a maudlin condition, reeling back and forth as the buggy bumped along.
He was on his feet almost as the beast was down, reeling with sheer weakness, but recovering with dogged persistence.
All that day Hito worked him mercilessly, in a mean and entirely comprehensible spirit of revenge, until, being not fully recovered from his drinking-bout, his brain was reeling and he could scarcely keep his legs.
He staggered off the couch, clutching at Sada's shoulder for support, reeling and blind with drink, and towered over Wulf.
He felt he was losing his senses, and the next blow from one of the men sent him reeling into the street where he fell heavily, striking his head against the curbing.
