Dashing

Examples

• Turning, I saw a dozen black pirates dashing toward us from the melee. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Yes: there was a chaise- and-four, a short distance before them, dashing along at full gallop. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In a big, dashing hand, Laurie wrote. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• My father slept in the cabin; and I lay on the deck, looking at the stars, and listening to the dashing of the waves. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• No, I must say good evening, said Will, dashing up a passage which led into Lowick Gate, and almost running to get out of Raffles's reach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A well-bred servant, in a cocked hat and dashing livery entered my room, with many bows. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• So everybody walks in the street--and where the street is wide enough, carriages are forever dashing along. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Many people did so fancy, and Becky was for a while one of the most dashing ladies of the Countess's salons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• On the 4th Van Dorn made a dashing attack, hoping, no doubt, to capture Rosecrans before his reinforcements could come up. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The boy paused, and looked back; but there was no time to stay, and, dashing the tears from his large, bright eyes, he was up in a moment. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Henry and Frederick Lynn are very dashing sparks indeed; and Colonel Dent is a fine soldierly man. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Miss Hannah, who was conceited, dashing, pushing, flourished hers consciously and openly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A dashing way he had of treating me like a plaything, was more agreeable to me than any behaviour he could have adopted. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The engines would not run evenly, one would stop and another go dashing on at a tremendous speed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Though, as far as myself is concerned, a dashing spirit has counted for sommat, to be sure! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Such a dashing young fellow as he is, with his good looks, rank, and accomplishments, would be the very husband for her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The golden secretary darted through the room like a meteor with a dashing French-woman who carpeted the floor with her pink satin train. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I wish I could be there without dashing your spirits, he said. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He is dark, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and often twice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• This dashing young Barnacle, in a word, was likely to become a statesman, and to make a figure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Editor: Stacy