The human voices sound like fitful screams of seabirds, heard in wild snatches between thevolleying gusts; while overhead the sails are booming like artillery, as the spilling lines strain to get the grip.
Her forefoot cuts through the water like the slash of a scimitar; while her bows throw out two seething waves, the windward one of which breaks into volleying spray a-top and rattles down like hailstones on the fore-deck.
The first two games were slow, a little volleying and a good many "outs.
That spurred Keineth; the fourth game was faster with some hot volleying and pretty returns and won by Keineth and Billy in a quickly mounting score.
Keineth, under Peggy's tutorage, was faithfully practicing at tennis, spending much time volleying balls back and forth across the net and trying to understand the technic of the game.
He dragged Carleton to the side window, and pointed up the track--the 229, sparksvolleying skyward from her stack, was just disappearing around the first bend.
Our volleying was becoming nonsensical, for having picked up numbers of Chinese Mauser cartridges, we amused ourselves firing away almost all the ammunition we carried.
Now safe in the knowledge that a general retreat was taking place from this quarter, we started volleying savagely.
The Italians are lying comfortably on their stomachs completely out of sight, and wildly volleying far too often.
Through the volleying drifts of English, Kim caught the general trend of the talk, and it interested him very much.
Out into the black, fog-bound night went thundering and volleying the stricken ship’s appeal for aid.
Jack; and again he sent a frantic query volleying along the air waves.
In crisp, flashing sentences he sent, volleying through the air, an explanation of the case.
I'd enjoy seeing them play any old time, but you'll excuse me if I get behind a tree somewhere when the serving and the volleying are going on.
The opposition having observed that the little lisping girl was weakening began to hammer her, volleying at her, hurling ground balls into her court, directing almost their full attack at her.
George, standing beside her, gave her such advice as he was able, regarding serving, volleying and position in the court.
He was now sitting up on his haunches on a floe, and staring silently at the volleying cloud which marked the Falls.
And now it seemed to him that the trampling roar grew louder every second, drowning into dumbness the crashing and grinding of the ice; and the volleying mist-clouds seemed to race up-stream to meet him.
A roar like the awful voice of a park of artillery throbbed past them on the volleying wind.
In the hush of their voices they heard the wind volleying through the trees and roaring high overhead among the black clouds.
Her wit, her volleying repartee, her humour, are almost incredibly brilliant.
The warmth of the tent and the soft luxury of the rich rugs had brought a flush of red to a cheek which yet tingled with the volleying of the Baltic raindrops.
Down went a brawny sergeant, who had stopped to raise his fallen captain; but on swept a score of others while the bamboos blazed with the fierce volleying of the Krags.
It is an essential point that the racket should not be too heavy; on the other hand an over-light racket is far from desirable, except perhaps for a volleying game.
The "lob" is a useful invention against net play, being merely a stroke lifted high over the opponent's head, thus preventing a volleying return.
While the volleyinggame is almost universally the practice of first-class players--A.
Some controversy had already taken place in the columns of the Field as to whethervolleying the ball, at all events within a certain distance of the net, should not be prohibited.
Their chief rival, and the leading exponent of the non-volleying game for several years, was H.
After a year or two it became evident that neither the volleying tactics of Renshaw nor the strong back play of Lawford would be adopted to the exclusion of the other, and both players began to combine the two styles.
Johnston's game has no real weakness, while his forehand and volleying are superlative.
He is not yet a good low volleyer, and never will be while he uses the peculiar grip common to his people; but his high volleying and overhead are now excellent.
He can meet Kumagae at his own baseline game until he gets a chance to close in to the net, where his volleying is remarkable.
His volleying is very hard, crisp, and decisive, coupled with an occasional stop volley.
One of the men had been charging the net and volleying consistently off the frame of his racquet, giving a wonderful display of that remarkable shot known the world over as "the mahogany volley.
Parke's volleying is steady and well placed but not decisive.
His volleying above the net is almost faultless on his forehand.
Louis Raymond, the left-handed star of the South Africans, has an excellent ground game coupled with a good service and fair volleying and overhead.
Thomas with his hard-hitting off the ground, and his brilliantvolleying is a fine foil for Pat Wood's steady accuracy.
His volleying is very good owing to his great reach.
His volleyingis accurate, steady, well placed but defensive.
His volleying is brilliant while his overhead is magnificent.
Now the clappings multiply--multiply at last into an almost continuous volleyingof sharp sounds.
Already I can hear a heavy sound, as of surf, within the temple court; and as we advance the sound becomes sharper and recognisable--a volleying of handclaps.
And through that hush there burst upon the ears of all a fearful and unfamiliar sound, as of a colossal cannonade rolling up from the south, with volleying lightnings.
What with the howling of the storm, the wind that took voices and whirled them high and away, the thunder above and the volleying musketry below, to hear an order was about the most difficult feat imaginable.
One and all they splashed through, not now in covering mist, but in hot sunshine, the 37th volleying at their heels and from the bluffs above the Shenandoah, Poague and Carpenter and Wooding strewing their path with grape and canister.
Like a ring of lightning, they, volleyingand ca-ira-ing, begirdle her from shore to shore.
There was some volleyingof this sort, and then Fardale attempted a run, but the runner was pulled down promptly, and the teams lined up for the concluding struggles of the game.
There had been some volleying after the kick-off, and then Wellington had made an effort to run with the ball, but had been brought to earth by Buckhart.
The volleying of musketry and the booming of cannon at early dawn, had told of the fighting that had commenced.
The whole pass was a scene of carnage, resounding with the clash of arms, the tramp of horses, the volleying of fire-arms and the cries of the combatants, with now and then the dreary braying of the trumpet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "volleying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
