Darting

Examples

• Flo, darting to my window--How sweet! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• To me, sir,' said Mr. Creakle, darting his head at him suddenly, and drawing it back again, 'the principal of this establishment, and your employer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The lightning, darting and flashing through the blackness, showed wildly waving branches, whipping streamers and bending trunks. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Holmes had lit a cigarette and was shooting little darting glances all over the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I saw Holmes's eye darting to right and left among the litter of iron and wood which was scattered about the floor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We see Jack Thriftless prancing in the park, or darting in his brougham down Pall Mall: we eat his dinners served on his miraculous plate. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There were a number of letters, bills, and notebooks, which Holmes turned over and examined with quick, nervous fingers and darting, penetrating eyes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• No, no, said little Ruth, darting up, and seizing her hands. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The sight of them in the open brought a score of fliers darting toward us from all directions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They are in the bowling-alley, cried the stranger, darting through the bushes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• We can enter in a minute, he gasped, darting out again. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Bob Sawyer stopped to hear no more; but darting from the surgery into the outer shop, cried in a stentorian voice, 'Ben, my boy, she's bolted! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.

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