There followed a tremendous shock which shook the building sideways and tossedit about with something like a spiral motion.
The Sioux, they flee like a wild wolf-pack At the flick of the shot-tossed sod, Six braves have lurched to the fore fetlocks And two of the Sergeant's squad.
Into their midst Garcia sprung And a chubby lad to his shoulder swung, Who, laughing, clutched at his corded neck Like a sailor tossedon a rocking deck.
Violet's serenity and lowliness seemed to breathe peace on a storm-tossed ocean; and her want of self-assertion to make Theodora proud of submitting to her slightest wish without a struggle.
The gentleness and quietness of her demeanour were a refreshment to Theodora's tossed and undecided mind; and in administering to her comfort and pleasure, the anxieties and remorse subsided into a calm like her own.
As much better as it is to have found one's anchor than to be tossed at the will of the waves.
It was now that Marion, like a tempest-tossed vessel, surrounded by darkness and fear, turned for direction and help to that steady and benignant light burning at a distance, which alone could direct her into a haven of rest.
I am really between the horns of a dilemma, and must be tossed upon one or other of them.
Until a very short time before his demise, he was in excellent health, and his conduct was marked by that serenity of manner and cheerfulness of speech which showed that the tempest-tossed spirit had at length found a haven of refuge.
The little shoe tossedfrom one side to another; finally it filled with water.
As Sadu's roar broke the silence, the Hairy One tossed Alurna aside and swung up his massive club to beat off the attack.
Rising, Tharn tossed aside the lifeless body and, not deigning to acknowledge by look or gestures the pandemonium of acclaim, disappeared through the arms-room door.
She knew, now, it would have been wise to have tossed her sandals down first; her bare feet would have held to the rock with more certainty--but it was too late for that.
With an effortless motion he drew her into the circle of his arms, tossed her lightly across one broad shoulder and broke into a run, heading back in the direction of home.
Alurna, prostrate where Mog had tossed her a few feet away, watched the grisly drama with frightened eyes.
With tears streaming down her cheeks, almost hysterical, Laura tossedaside the quilt and sank down in a heap on the bed.
She tossed her head disdainfully as if the matter was not worthy of further discussion, and sank down on the bed.
When Heyst met him in Delli, Morrison was walking along the street, his eyeglass tossed over his shoulder, his head down, with the hopeless aspect of those hardened tramps one sees on our roads trudging from workhouse to workhouse.
Ricardo tossed up his chin to indicate the room above; from which Schomberg, his wits painfully aroused by this reminder of Mr. Jones's existence, concluded that the latter had withdrawn into his bedroom.
For sauce, have good gravy, with morels, truffles, and mushrooms, tossed up to a proper thickness.
These hands," and she tossed in the air her shriveled arms, "these hands are as free from blood as yours.
The river rolls on with its heaving swell, and the white foam is tossedtowards the shore, while the soft summer air still bears on its wing the sound of the cataract's roar.
Taking his own blue police ticket from his own waist coat pocket, he tossed it on to the table; then he flung his head back until his spike of yellow beard almost pointed at the ceiling, and shouted with a barbaric laughter.
Before the three cabs, however, could reach up to the spot, he had gone up the high railings like a huge grey cat, tossed himself over, and vanished in a darkness of leaves.
Then she looked at the folk, all smiles and ready understanding of them, until they hurrahed again and rang their bells and blew their horns, and she looked like a blossom tossed on the wave of pandemonium.
Then she tossed her head again and rode on, and said not another word, nor I, but I knew well what she meant.
Suddenly she tossed her head and flung out her curls to the breeze, and swung Merry Roger's bridle-rein, and was away at a gallop and I after her, measuring the ground with wide paces on my tall thoroughbred.
Again this storm tossed mariner is born from a cave, or the door of a rocky cavern, within which he had been preserved from some terrible catastrophe, caused either by water or fire.
The son of Ymer was preserved in a storm-tossed bark, his father being dragged into the middle of the abyss, where, from his body the earth was produced.
But the life trampled out in the slime of the street, crushed to dust amidst the roaring of the wheel, tossed countlessly away into howling winter wind along five hundred leagues of rock-fanged shore.
He pointed to a heap of carelessly-tossed letters upon desk-top.
His soul was torn and tossed and twitched within him.
She tossed at him contemptuously a glowing crimson blossom which she ripped from the great mass at her rounded breast.
She tossed the tumbled braids of her hair back over her shoulders.
Her busy fingers tossed aside tissue paper and silver wrapping, until the brown rows of sweets were revealed.
A little Cockney lad with a dirty bandage round his head, who had tossed in pain all day on the chancel steps, turned to the window to greet the daily miracle of the sunset.
Then she tossed aside her cloak and hat, and went straight into the living room, peeling off her gloves, saying in a gracious voice: "Hello!
He waved his sinewy arms, crouched, postured, tossed back his head.
A pitiable heroine, an unstable creature tossed about from one compassion to another, from a contemptible dissatisfaction here to a half-hypocritical idea of reparation there, and now to self-abasement!
Bildad was muttering excitedly in his own tongue, and as Guy watched him he tossed his arms and sat bolt upright.
At this Sir Arthur groaned aloud, and tossed down three or four glasses of champagne in rapid succession.
Forbes and Canaris held it while it tossed up an down in the swirling eddies.
The raft had been tossed but lightly upon the beach, and with but little effort it was pushed free of the shore and trembled on the water.
They followed instructions closely when the guard brought them food at noon, and in the evening Melton tossed on the floor as though in pain.
Fairly pushing Sir Arthur out of the canoe into the water, waist deep, he tossed the provisions far out on the island, caught up the guns, and made a frantic leap.
The channel became more turbulent and rocky, and the raft tossed and trembled as it swept over brawling rapids and grated over unseen obstructions.
He was still sleeping, but it was a restless, uneasy slumber, for he tossed about and moaned.
Guy picked up one of these andtossed it over the edge.
The flowing water made not a sound, and yet the current was swift, for a bit of paper that Melton tossed in was snatched from sight immediately.
The first sensation was one of uncontrollable fear, and they hung with all their might to the logs, expecting every instant to be tossed into the water.
Whoever stole them," said the captain, "was afraid to retain them lest a search should be made, and as he had no way to destroy them he tossed them down here where they could easily be found.
The Greek hastily motioned Sir Arthur and the colonel into the cavern, and hurriedly tossedin the provisions bag by bag.
Then he bound the two together, tossed them on the saddle of the Arabian horse and rode home.
The wind blew freshly and drove the chest away from the shore, and the uneasy billows tossed it up and down; while Danaë clasped her child closely to her bosom, and dreaded that some big wave would dash its foamy crest over them both.
As it approached, Medea tossed the contents of the gold box right down the monster's wide-open throat.
The man muttered something in his own tongue, but as it did not seem to be an answer in the affirmative to Jimmy's question, the lad tossed his end of the rope on the raft and let the structure go floating on down stream.
These latter he tossed under the building, where he also hid the body.
They even took his shoes, and tossed him a pair of old, half-rotten ones which the tallest German discarded.
One of the notes she tossed upon the "rouge," and the other two she crushed into her pocket.
In his black cravat he wore a splendid diamond pin, and on his finger, as he tossed a louis on the "noir," another fine gem glistened.
Tossed out of some woman's life, in a day it would be far out on the ocean, bobbing, bobbing with the rest.
Each one had tossed his far-away country into the cosmopolitan pot, our talk had been on a world-wide scale.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tossed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
