They sprang quickly to their feet and began to sniff the soil round the rock, in order to discover traces of his footsteps, and they galloped after him with terrific speed.
It was beautiful weather when they set out, but as soon as they had got some distance from the shore there arose a terrific storm.
Well, I never saw anything, and what I heard was what you heard, a terrific banging at one's bedroom door, generally about from 2 to 3 A.
The bronze portals opened as of their own accord and a terrific gust of wind extinguished every light in the thousand-jetted candelabrum.
A flash of lightning followed by a terrific peal of thunder roused him from his reveries.
Give me Theodora and I will fill the cup of torture that I have seized on your shadowy altars, and quaff your health at the terrific banquet board of Evil in toasts of torment--in wine of boundless pain!
He had made him see the King of the Hopeless Throngs on his black basaltic throne in the terrific glare-illumined caves, where Michael had cast him and where Pain's roar rises eternally night and day.
A flash of lightning that seemed to rend the vault of heaven was followed by so terrific a peal of thunder that it seemed to shake the very earth.
The lightnings twisted and streamed like silvery adders through the dark vaults of the heavens, and terrific peals of thunder shook the shuddering world in its foundations.
It was followed by a peal of thunder so terrific that it shook the vast pile of the Emperor's Tomb to its foundations, clattering and roaring, as if a thousand worlds had been rent in twain.
It was in my own home town, and I had to stand for a lot of good natured kidding, but those who were there will remember how scared the Yale coaches got during the last part of the game, when Columbia made terrific advances.
In the first scrimmage a terrific report sounded across the field.
Then some one from the crowd would reach over and spank the crouching Indian a terrific blow, hastily drawing back his hand.
Like Graves, Bunker in spite of his great weight, was fast enough to play in the backfield in those years when Army elevens were relying so much upon terrific power.
The big cats bit and tore at each other, using their terrificclaws and their powerful paws, one stroke of which is said to be sufficient to break a bullock's back.
Down came the paw with terrific force, and the boys could hear the back bone snap.
On the airship, not far distant, there was no little alarm, for those left behind heard the terrific roars, and feared Tom and Ned might be in some danger.
They ran into a terrific storm, about half way over, and Tom took some pictures from the steamer's bridge, the captain allowing him to do so, but warning him to be careful.
It was out of order, and he guessed that the terrific wind was responsible for it.
As he spoke the ship gave a terrific plunge, and the occupants were thrown sideways.
There was a terrific struggle, and the older beast went down, the younger one clawing him terribly.
They went spinning on mile after mile at what Patty thought was terrific speed, but which Mr. Banks seemed to consider merely moderate.
A terrific storm was approaching at the time, and I was obliged to put young Ellison in charge.
Venning started violently, for just then from the river there came a harsh, growling call; and no sooner had it ceased than the ground shook to a terrific roar.
I'm as hungry as three, and have been under a terrific strain to keep from eating the finest and fattest baked 'possum you ever saw.
But the Okapi slipped on, and had a very good lead when Hassan and his slave- hunters set up a terrific outcry on finding that once more they had been tricked.
His tongue no longer clave to the roof of his mouth, and when the great beast was within ten yards of him, he let forth a terrific yell and jumped to his feet, with his rifle in his hands.
Then he leapt back, just in time to escape a terrific sweep of a hooked hand that would have disembowelled him, as the monster, after a shake of the head, delivered its favourite blow at the abdomen of its adversary.
Some of us have heard the furious roaring of a blizzard and observed the enormous force and terrific speed of the tempest, leaving behind death and destruction in its wake.
His strength was half gone, and a terrific blow sent him reeling.
So terrific was the fire that the Chinese batteries soon ceased to play.
They were in formation of sections of four, and were exposed to a terrific rifle fire from the whole line of the city wall and also from the Chinese houses lying between the wall and the settlements.
A terrific scene was fancied (in the case which we have now in mind it was a picture of serpents), and the patient was thrown into a state of most agitating fright.
The inexperienced Republic, distracted and impoverished by these terrific blows, was fast falling to ruin.
There were three brigades, which appeared with the banners which had passed through the terrific conflicts of Lodi, Rivoli, and Arcola.
Then, with a terrific howl of mingled rage and fear, the fiend fell back and disappeared through the earth--as if a second time hurled down in headlong flight before the thunderbolts of heaven.
On went the terrific wolf, with wilder and more frequent howlings, which were answered in a thousand tones from the rocks and caverns overlooking the valley through whose bosom he was now careering with whirlwind speed along.
Fernand, however, caught the arm of the brigand and dragged him along with him into the water, while a terrific scream burst from the lips of Nisida.
It was hard to with-stand the terrific blows of that mighty female, for her sword played with the quickness of lightning and smote like the heavy crashing of a storm.
Aillen, with all the terrific strength of which he was master, blew again, and the great jet of blue flame came roaring and whistling from him and was caught and disappeared.
But the dog-like barking, and the terrific head and teeth, to which the imagination gives something of a human aspect, leave the advantage of the horrible still on the side of the poet.
Finally, a number of terrific explosions lit up the air.
Still emigrants were on their way, when a most terrificwinter set in.
Off Cape Disappointment, the surges dashed to the height of the masthead of a ship, with most terrific roaring.
But that tenderness is roused into one of the most terrific outbursts that ever passed his lips.
It is the prayer of one who for four terrific years had held the chief position in conducting the executive affairs of one of the major empires of the world.
His hatred would find an outlet in terrific explosions of wrath.
The keeper had gone down to the valley for fresh stores, and to learn something of the terrific disturbances that were said to be threatening the entire Eastern coast with annihilation.
Something in the formation of the coast caused a terrific surf, and at many places there was scarcely any beach, and they found themselves compelled to climb along trails that made even the burros dizzy.
I, as the medico, under the influence of a terrific roll, gave my arm a most awful wrench.
The bottom must be a full mile down and I doubt whether the ball could withstand the terrific pressure.
For--stealing up on them like an enemy in the night, a terrific storm was racing in from the sea.
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