So it may have seemed to the canoeists, who saw only a scrap of the great forest, that thrusts southward to the river at a place called Hachette.
The tumult increased, and was made more terrible by the screaming of the women and the crying of the children, which were increased as some unfortunate defender of the pah went down before the spear-thrusts of the enemy.
A spear was thrust through at the defenders; answeringthrusts were given, but with the disadvantage that the enemy were about two to one.
We are like whirling tops and rolling balls-- For even when the sleepy night-time falls, Old Curiosity still thrusts us on, Like the cruel Angel who goads forth the sun.
We had to pause some minutes to allow her excitement to subside to a certain extent, or she would have discharged after two or three thrusts of my potent weapon.
And she moved in unison with me, meeting each slow thrust down by an equal movement upwards, and squeezing my prick in the most delicious manner internally, as she retired again to meet succeeding thrusts in the same way.
A very few thrusts brought down his first tribute on the altar in the exquisite recess of Venus, the voluptuous goddess of love.
He lay panting in ecstatic joy for a much longer period than before, with convulsive upward thrusts of his still half-stiffened prick within my mouth, which:' still continued its pressures and suctions to his infinite delight.
I had been giving shortthrusts more to stimulate her passions than to alleviate my own; and as she was totally unaware of what was going to happen, she widened her thighs and heaved up her bottom, expanding her vagina in the act.
Very few powerful thrusts on my part, seconded by energetic action on hers, and she spent again with a scream of delight, and with a pressure on my cock that almost hurt it.
She called out to me to shove on; two or three thrusts on my part, and the dear, lecherous creature again poured down her nature.
Oh, the delight he gave me was inexpressibly delicious; his rapid and eager thrustswere as eagerly met by the upheaving of my bottom to reciprocate them.
She sees some face in a sheepskin; she thrusts at that.
She thrusts her abdomen into this cavity and, with her head hanging outside, begins her laying.
These words were all said in a jerky way in the midst of plenty of cutting and foining; for, though the Frenchmen did not attempt to pass the doorway, they kept on making fierce thrusts at us, though with little result.
Returns are made without lunging if the adversary can be reached by thrusts or cuts.
Number two initiates the movement, number one thrusts as soon as the opening is made, and number two then attempts to parry.
Two more were pierced through and through by the quick and mighty thrusts of the powerful arm.
There are those to whom vanity brings more of pain than of pleasure; there are also those whom it oftener keeps in the background, than thrusts forward.
Amidst the unceasing din, and the tumult of men hurrying this way and that for gold, or pleasure, or some self-desire, the vast fabric thrusts itself up to heaven and firmly plants itself on soil begrudged to an occupant that yields no lucre.
While we were interchanging thrusts and blows, Came more and more, and fought on part and part, Till the Prince came, who parted either part.
Tybalt under Romeo's armthrusts Mercutio in, and flies [with his Followers].
But Chrysippus thrusts his wise man headforwards for the sake of gain, as far as Panticapaeum and the desert of the Scythians.
The latter takes them, puts his finger to his cap, and gracefully thrusts them into his pocket.
He had thrown off his past as one discards a cloak which the wind and weather, thorns and sword thrusts have torn and worn.
Now it was Mr. Garry's turn to suffer in silence the thrusts and blows that rained down on him from his opponent.
But the unhappy creature is no fencer; it thrusts without method, at random.
Then, applying her oviscapt, she thrusts it through the side of the pod and perforates the circular trap-door.
When its reservoir is exhausted by the conversion of dry dust into mud the miner descends to its chamber, thrusts its proboscis into the root, and drinks deep from the vat built into the wall.
Instead of breaking at random under thethrusts or the cuts of the new-formed larva, it opens of itself along a line of least resistance which occurs expressly for the purpose.
He rolls it up and thrusts it under the sofa, upper left.
The casks of wine he had drunk in his short life were telling now, and his thrusts grew weaker.
The builders seem, however, to have failed to realize that walls which would support the half dome of the apse would not necessarily prove sufficiently strong to resist the thrusts of a tunnel vault.
Wall ribs were, for example, omitted, and the diagonals were made of segmental section, thus rendering unnecessarily severe the thrusts of the vaults.
The panels are therefore more symmetrical in elevation and the thrusts are more evenly distributed from pier to pier.
The advantage of the warped system in thus concentrating the thrusts was, in fact, realized only when inert stability which forms the keynote of Norman work gave way to the carefully balanced thrusts and counter-thrusts of Gothic architecture.
Needless to say, no flying-buttresses are necessary with such a vault as the thrusts are easily absorbed by the piers.
The pointed arch having less thrust than that of semicircular section was better suited for stone construction, a fact which explains the pointed section of many French domes whose outward thrustswere thereby greatly reduced.
In fact, the whole system is one of inert stability, analogous to Roman construction, and exhibits little if any advance toward the elasticity and balanced thrusts which were to characterize Gothic architecture.
These forward thrusts were made especially from the fortresses Grodno and Kovno, and the fortified place Olita.
This resulted in a warfare of alternate thrusts by Russians and Germans aimed now at this point, now at that, in the disputed territory.
Through the dead pine leaves on which we sit, here and there thrusts itself up a slender stem, holding upright one of Colorado's matchless blossoms.
A blue shirt shows up on the raft; he picks out a fresh log, thrusts it angrily under the boom, and comes floating down towards the bridge.
The next shock comes with a crash that is plainly heard by those upstream; again he springs as the log thrusts back, and comes down neatly as before.
The current thrusts against its hinder end, and the buoyant wood answers to it like the tail of a fish, slipping sideways round; the steersman sways, but with a swing of his pole recovers his balance, and stands steady as before.
He has thus missed his opportunity to cure him, and Gurnemanz, indignant at his boundless stupidity, opens a side door, and thrusts him out into the forest, uttering a contemptuous dismissal.
In breathless haste she thrusts a curious little flask into Gurnemanz's hand, telling him it is a precious balsam she has brought from a great distance to alleviate Amfortas's suffering.
The crocodile opens his wide voracious jaws in order to devour the man; but the man takes this opportunity and thrusts the point of his spear into the creature's mouth, by which means he is generally killed upon the spot.
I have scarcely commenced the ascent, when a boy, starting up from the cover of a rock, thrusts upon me a notice gracefully written in three languages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thrusts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
