It would shoot as far as the stockade, and it might topple a man over if he hit him just right.
He was not at all particular as to the stability of his perch, and often mounted the boxes when it seemed to the experimenter inevitable that they should topple over and precipitate him to the floor.
This he succeeded in pulling toward him, at the same time raising it slightly from the floor, but his efforts caused the large box to topple over and he quit work.
On the crag above, and looking as if about to topple down on it, is a massive fragment of the fortress of the Princes of Orange, razed by Louis XIV.
The white smoke of the artillery curls almost visibly off the canvass, and the cracked and half-sprung walls look as if about to topple down on the besiegers.
Don't it look to you like Sandy was tryin' to catch us off balance and topple us over?
He had come here quickly, very quickly, after shooting Thady Shea and seeing him topple into that gully; he knew that no other man could walk here and arrive so soon after he had arrived himself.
I'll look no more, Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
There is a ruined house next door, we will carry the bodies there at once and topple one of the mud walls over them.
As Bert watched he saw the man sway toward the edge, and, an instant later, topple over into the water, where there was quite a swift current.
At Rabaul, Rear Admiral Matsuji Ijuin had told his sailors, “Japan will topple if Bougainville falls.
And Admiral Ijuin’s prediction that Japan would topple after the loss of Bougainville proved to be accurate, but not because of this loss, particularly.
Some of the stones had fallen down, and the whole structure looked as if it might topple over at any moment.
Washington acted as if he expected his friend to toppleover unconscious, but Jack showed no bad symptoms.
The keystone of the arch was in both cases withdrawn--why did the one structure toppleinto ruin while the other stood firm?
It is perfectly natural for a man to stoop down over the edge of a precipice to gather the flowers that are growing in some cranny in the cliff; and it is as natural for him to topple over, and be smashed to a mummy at the bottom.
Also, they threatened to topple over on the vines, that so kindly did their part in trying to make the old place look alive.
As Tavia and Dorothy ran after the wagon containing their friends, while the vehicle swayed from side to side in the road, they saw it give a sudden lurch, and almost topple over on the steep embankment which descended to the river.
One knows not when some over-hanging pinnacle may topple down.
It was composed of rocks of all sizes and shapes, almost coal black, piled one on the other at so steep an angle that it was extraordinary how the mass held together and did not topple over.
All architects and engineers and builders have to take this law into consideration or the structures they put up would topple over.
When you jump off a moving street car, you have to run along in the direction the car was going or you fall down; your body tries to keep going in the same direction it was moving, and if your feet do not keep up, you topple forward.
Whenever the center of weight is not over the base of support (the bottom on which the thing is standing), an object will topple over.
I was out here abalone-hunting, and I guess one of these big rocks must have been poised just right to topple over.
Anyhow, in climbing down here I managed to topple it.
She thought his exertions, his disappointment and the heat had combined to topple him over into insanity.
He saw the head of the wave topple over, adding the mite of its crash to the tremendous uproar raging around him, and almost at the same instant the stanchion was wrenched away from his embracing arms.
Sometimes the head of a watery cone would topple on board and mingle with the rolling flurry of foam on the swamped deck; and the Nan-Shan wallowed heavily at the bottom of a circular cistern of clouds.
He barely heard the little serving table beside him topple over, spilling his brandy.
Hardly had he traversed half the distance, when there was another shot, and Hal saw Chester, who was advancing to meet him, topple to the ground.
He struggled, kicking one man to the end of the room, and causing the kang to topple over; but, in spite of his strength and the rage which added to it, he was helpless.
This beastly thing is on the point of upsetting already, and with my weight added to one side would topple over.
All they knew was that the latter were slashing and tearing at the far side of the bales, and with such exertion that the whole barrier threatened to topple over.
