Thrusts
[θrʌsts]
Examples
- He is greatly irritated by the irony of Socrates, but his noisy and imbecile rage only lays him more and more open to the thrusts of his assailant. Plato. The Republic.
- Caroline used to be fluttered by them at first, but she had now got into the way of parrying these home-thrusts like a little Quakeress. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Jo thrusts the handle of his broom between the bars of the gate, and with his utmost power of elaboration, points it out. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The French made costly but glorious thrusts at Arras and in Champagne in 1915, the British at Loos. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He makes social movements conscious of themselves, expresses their needs, gathers their power and then thrusts them behind the inventor and the technician in the task of actual achievement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My blade was swinging with the rapidity of lightning as I sought to parry the thrusts and cuts of my opponents. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- We still were fighting furiously as we talked in broken sentences, punctured with vicious cuts and thrusts at our swarming enemy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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