There go the dressing tents," said Phil calmly as a ripping and rending was heard off by the paddock.
A series of reports followed one another until it sounded as if a battery of small cannon were being fired, together with a ripping and tearing and rending that sent every spectator in the big tent, to his feet yelling and shouting.
I was really ripping mad at his taking French leave and so giving Silvia cause for her anxiety, but I forbore to reprimand him by word or tone, lest he get even by "coming back" literally.
The psychology of the human animal, when confronted by these tangles, these ripping tides of the heart, has little to do with so-called reason or logic.
And when a thunderstorm comes down upon the world out of the northwest, with jagged blades of fire ripping up the black bellies of the clouds, I know all about the heart of Attila and the Vikings and tigers and Alexander the Great!
And then, suddenly, the quiet, golden morning flashed back; and we were ripping the placid waters of a lake.
It makes little difference to me whether or not an epic goes at a hexameter gallop through the ages, or whether it chooses to be a flood of muddy water, ripping out a channel from the mountains to the sea.
I see by the papers that that ripping old royalist, Count Irma, is implicated in the revolutionary movement and that, by the king's orders, he has been arrested and imprisoned in the Fort of Sulberga on a charge of sedition.
On the opposite bank Corporal Jensen and his crew, sixty yards from the enemy's position, were ripping the low intrenchments with the revolving cannon.
Over a hundred bodies were buried there and in many a battered form could be seen that ripping course of a shrapnel.
He had caught his reins, and I was on him and off in the bush, between bullets that came ripping the leaves about me, before they could give chase.
One crossed her bow, ripping a long furrow in the sea.
So I went and got hold of a ripping good place in a kind of sunk fence.
But his grip on her never relaxed; he dragged her back to him, resisting fiercely, ripping the thin shirt from her shoulders, baring her white, heaving bosom.
It went, with a ripping cheer to boot; a cheer that was repeated here and there all over the place as Bannon's offer was passed along.
No doubt heaps and heaps of grand passions had transfigured grimy garrets, and had made of them perfectly ripping backgrounds.
And there wereripping bits of reckless passion in Herodotus too.
They've got a ripping little girl as Lola; took her out to tea and shopping the other day; I'll bring her round.
The white waves were ripping like comets along the fringe of ragged rocks under the great granite cliffs, and our boat reeled and plunged under the strong west wind, and sent the foam flying in sheets as we tacked against the cross seas.
For reply, I ran up to the door and thrust my fist through the canvas, ripping it away from its clumsy tacking.
For with the ripping away of that black oval, I had looked into the slant, inscrutable eyes of Fong Ling.
We skirted the house by a narrow walk; she was leading the way by this other entrance, when, spread out over its low step, blocking our progress, I saw a small Japanese woman ripping up a satin dress.
I was still making my observations, when I heard the crack of a shot, and the ripping of plank, on the forward part of the quarter-deck.
Then the voice fell to a sort of low growling, as of a dog which worries its prey, and I caught a sound as of ripping cloth.
One bullet plunked through close to his head, ripping a big hole, another exploded back in the tail compartment and half of the peninsula could be seen through the hole.
I saw some few men rippingopen the pockets of the dead with their jackknives and taking therefrom watches, money and other valuable things, reeking with putrefaction, and transferring them to their own pockets.
I had a ripping time at the transport; I hope they enjoyed the peas--they deserved to.
With a ripping sound the canopy top was stripped clear of the vehicle and left dangling from the low hanging limbs of the trees under which the buck-board wagon had been dragged.
Where's thatripping little hat you wore yesterday?
He felt clawing fingers seeking his throat, felt ghastly nails rippingat his shoulders.
Mal Shaff leaped upon the fallen foe and kicked him with his taloned feet, ripping him wickedly.
The skin should be taken from the animal by ripping from the lower front teeth to the vent, and peeling around the lips, eyes, and ears, but without ripping up the legs.
She lay along his neck, closely, to escape the ripping and tearing of the trees and vines.
There was a snapping and ripping and rending, and amid a shower of falling leaves a horse burst through the screen.
There was a ripping and tearing of vines and boughs.