And screaming a string of curses, he struck as he raved and swore-- Floored Joe Lacrosse and the swamping boss and announced he was ready for more.
Before the life-boat was launched he passed along the port deck of the steamer, commanding the people not to jump in the boats, and otherwise restraining them from swamping the craft.
Those in the life-boats longed to return and pick up some of the poor drowning souls, but they feared this would mean swamping the boats and a further loss of life.
You are travelling, and if you can make time by nearly swamping yourself, or by dragging your craft across a point, or by taking any other base advantage of the game's formality, by all means do so.
The swampingeffect of intercrossing is referred to in the Origin, Ed.
These figures show the measure of truth in the alleged swamping of Ireland with priests.
With a mighty flirt of her tail (which same came near to swamping our boat) she "sounded," as it is called.
But with a sea running so high there was danger of swamping every moment.
I doubted if, under a pocket-handkerchief of sail, I could have got her head around withoutswamping her.
Its importance, indeed, can only be denied by denying theswamping effects of intercrossing, and such denial implies the tacit assumption that interbreeding and interblending are held in check by some form of segregation.
The favoured few alone survive and mate with one another, so that there is here no question of the swamping effects of inter-crossing, none but well-adapted individuals being left to mate with one another.
The swamping effects of inter-crossing is an objection which has been repeatedly urged against the Darwinian theory.
He lifted and flung overboard the mass of splintered wood and flapping cloth, then fell to bailing with all his might, for the danger of swamping was imminent.
The question then naturally occurs--How have these divergent forms escaped the swampingeffects of intercrossing?
AN] Its importance can, indeed, only be denied by denying the swamping effects of intercrossing, and such denial implies the tacit assumption that interbreeding and interblending are held in check by some form of segregation.
He has been absent; he is not in the firm; and what is swamping Muir is an investment outside of his regular business.
I have invested in the same dead stock that is swamping him, and so know whereof I speak.
They had become convinced that the storm was one of wind and lightning only, when suddenly the rain came in a dash so fierce that swamping seemed inevitable.
The sail had to be lowered, and, as the wind increased and blew in gusts and squalls, it took all the canoemen's skill to keep from swamping before they gained the eastern end of the great Island of St. Ignace.
By some means he got the disabled yawl around without swamping it and headed it for the narrow reef passage which was now all but hidden by the tumbling seas.
While we labored, the increasing shore clamor told us that our time was growing critically short, and in the fiercer spurt of haste that ensued we came within an ace of swamping our frail foothold.
But this question of the swamping effects of intercrossing will be considered in another chapter.
On the contrary, as I say in my paper, it is calculated to give this struggle a better chance than ever to develope adaptive character in the sexually isolated forms, because the swamping effects of intercrossing are diminished.
A good idea," said Robert, who did not relish a swamping of the canoe in the cold St. Lawrence.
Possible Swamping of the Capables by the Incapables.
To this gigantic work, admired even in the time of the magnificent Roman empire, is undoubtedly owing the preservation of the Eternal City, which it has secured from the swamping that has befallen its neighboring plains.
And his old fellow before him perpetrating frauds, old Methusalem Bloom, the robbing bagman, that poisoned himself with the prussic acid after he swamping the country with his baubles and his penny diamonds.
They do the swamping by striking the lower side of the branch with the blade of the axe, the side towards the root of the tree, what might be called the underside, and chopping upwards towards the top of the tree.
This is the reason that swamping is the most dangerous part of the lumberman's work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swamping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
