Plunging

Examples

• The darkness seemed to be swaying in waves across his mind, great waves of darkness plunging across his mind. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was divided entirely between his spirit, which stood outside, and knew, and his body, that was a plunging, unconscious stroke of blood. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You villain, why do you shrink from plunging into the irretrievable Gazette? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The world was torn in two, and he was plunging like an unlit star through the ineffable rift. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They went right to the bows of the softly plunging vessel. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Jos succeeded in plunging into the coat, and came forward blushing and stuttering out excuses to his fair visitor. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then plunging his hands and head into the fountain, he washed from them all marks of the midnight revel. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a photograph and a letter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was falling through a gulf of infinite darkness, like a meteorite plunging across the chasm between the worlds. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This was introduced by Craufurd (British patent No. 7,355, of April 29, 1837), and consisted in plunging the iron into a bath of melted zinc covered with sal ammoniac. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The narrative tells of his coming to New York in 1869, and immediately plunging into the business of gold and stock reporting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• While he was thus plunging and gyrating, another lasso would be thrown by another Mexican, catching the animal by a fore-foot. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And I come here for shelter, and find another of my friends--the last remaining to me--bent upon plunging into the dreadful scene! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Meanwhile her heart was plunging, she was almost fainting. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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