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Sentences starting with dash

Dash forward is my motto, and not only while in the saddle during the chase. [10]
Dash it to dash! [5]
Dash and courage and generosity had been the beacon lights on her horizon. [9]

Sentences ending with dash

He did everything with a dash. [11]

Sentences containing dash two or more times

I've been here twenty-five years, and dash, dash my dash to dash, if I haven't entertained twenty-five separate and distinct earthquakes, one a year. [5]

More example sentences with the word dash in them

I was blessed with a sturdy health such as few men enjoy, and came to myself sooner than had been looked for, with a dash of cold water. [9]
Occasionally a horseman will dash among us. [5]
My first impulse was to dash forward and destroy the Bedouins. [5]
But Perrot, who was not far from the fallen brothers, suddenly made a dash within easy range of the rifles of the British, and cut Gering and two of his companions off from the main body. [11]
He made a vicious dash at me that boded no good, but I slipped behind the hominy block; and Polly Ann, who was like a panther on her feet, dashed at him and gave him a buffet in the cheek that sent him reeling again. [9]
It is no use to represent this as a dash across country on impatient steeds. [4]
He took it up where it left off, "with an affection which----" and drew a long dash, as above. [6]
Not being able to see where they are going, these poor creatures dash themselves to pieces against the rocks or are precipitated over the cliffs and thus many valuable lives are lost annually. [6]
My second was to dash to the rear to see if there were any coming in that direction. [5]
There certainly seems to be a dash of the Benedict Arnold in this transaction. [11]
I tossed the tin cup with its chemical fires full in his face, as he made a dash for me. [11]
After a while they moved on, and as they approached the final short dash of the home-stretch we closed up on them and joined them. [5]
You were wounded then, by the way, in that dash Lauman made. [9]
When he saw the wonderful youth dash by, Ulrich marvelled that his steed did not put forth wings and soar away with him into the clouds. [10]
In a word, the whole thing, at a dash of the pen, is at last put in the power of Congress; for if they do not have this popular sovereignty until Congress organizes them, I ask if it at last does not come from Congress? [7]
To lie in the warm sand, which accommodates itself to any position of the body, and listen to the dash of the waves, is a dreamy and delightful way of spending a summer day. [4]
The army of the Vendee, under Detricand Comte de Tournay, had made a last dash at a small town held by a section of the Republican army, and captured it. [11]
After we were stripped and had taken the first chilly dash, we discovered that haunting atrocity that has embittered our lives in so many cities and villages of Italy and France --there was no soap. [5]
We did not stir till all twenty-four were safe; then we made a dash for the tents of Lancy, which now showed in the first gray light of morning. [11]
Concerts of this sort, generally with more popular music and a considerable dash of Wagner, in whom the Munichers believe, take place every night in several cafes; while comic singing, some of it exceedingly well done, can be heard in others. [4]
These are old recollections, with not much to recommend them, except, perhaps, a dash of life, which may be worth a little something. [6]
And, as I reached the door, the North Wind spied me, grinned, rubbed his stomach, made a false dash at me that frightened me out of my wits, and finally went through the pantomime of scalping me. [9]
Many a good Protestant of the old Puritan type would have felt a strong impulse to seize this "idolatrous" figure and dash it to pieces on the stone floor of the little church. [6]
Was it not possible to make a dash for freedom? [11]
Mr. Humphrey Crewe possessed, as may have been surmised, a dash of all these gifts. [9]
I was the only one that could swim, so I made a dash for it, and Miss Hooker she said if I didn't strike help sooner, come here and hunt up her uncle, and he'd fix the thing. [5]
If I could only describe, Herr Eysvogel, what it is to dash headlong upon the foe! [10]
The old state of things was defeat, defeat, defeat--and by consequence we had troops with no dash, no heart, no hope. [5]
If he did not make a dash for it, it would soon be closed entirely. [9]
I think it not improbable that Ewell, Jackson, and Johnson are pouring through the gap they made day before yesterday at Front Royal, making a dash northward. [7]
For it does need a strong dash of heroism to take one's own life. [11]
As we came near the end of the string, I felt as I did when I was looking at the last dash of Ormonde and The Bard at Epsom.--Twenty feet, and a long piece of string left.--Twenty-one. [6]
I should think myself a criminal if I said anything to chill the enthusiasm of the young scholar, or to dash with any skepticism his longing and his hope. [4]
But while still listening, the noise gradually ceased, and he heard nothing save the howling of the furious storm and the threatening dash of the surging waves, or a single cry borne by the east wind. [10]
She has at length seen in her varied European experience that it is more profitable to have social good form according to local standards than a reputation for dash and brilliancy. [4]
And tho' they lacked not fire and skill, they had not my lady's dash and daring to follow over field and fallow, stream and searing, and be in at the death with heightened colour, but never a look away. [9]
The new case is the very opposite; it is this: men all on fire with pluck and dash and vim and fury and energy--a restrained conflagration! [5]
After all that is said, at last, by a dash of the pen, everything that has gone before is undone, and he puts the whole question under the control of Congress. [7]
Tracy was taken into full and equal partnership, and he went straight to work, with dash and energy, to reconstructing gems of art whose accessories had failed to satisfy. [5]
Several times, at intervals, when Joan's dull captivity grew too heavy to bear, she was allowed to gather a troop of cavalry and make a health-restoring dash against the enemy. [5]
The day after I helped the choir I made a dash or two with them, but was not lucky. [5]
It was like him to dash in unexpectedly, as he has broken into the line of European princes. [4]
Any fellow, young, handsome and with enough dash and colour to make him romantic could do it. [11]
Marshal Neil, with half a century at his disposal, could not dash off anything better in his last moments than a poor plagiarism of another man's words, which were not worth plagiarizing in the first place. [5]
She had not given much heed to this, but she saw its justice now in a dash of revealing desire. [5]
It is a fine sight to see the evening sunlight suddenly strike the leafy declivity at the Castle's base and dash up it and drench it as with a luminous spray, while the adjacent groves are in deep shadow. [5]
All had food enough to keep them from misery, though often it got no further than sour milk and bread, with a dash of sugar in it of Sundays, and now and then a little pork and molasses. [11]
As we turn down the hill into this place of the mournful name, we dash past a procession of five country wagons, which makes way for us: everything makes way for us; even death itself turns out for the stage with four horses. [4]
It was simple, descriptive, with a dash of epigram. [11]
He caught the dash of the dark, piercing eyes, the luminous look, the face unpainted--in its own natural colour: neither hot health nor paleness, but a thing to bear the light of day. [11]
There is a dash of metempsychosis in it--and it is the strength of the piece. [5]
We made a dash for them, were discovered, and shots greeted us; but we were on them instantly, and in a moment I had the pleasure of putting a bullet in Lancy's heel, and brought him down. [11]
All his old dash and self-possession seemed to have forsaken him. [11]
Could not a cavalry force from General Thomas on the upper Cumberland dash across, almost unresisted, and cut the railroad at or near Knoxville, Tennessee? [7]
A few days before, he had made a sudden dash for the nearest large city,--and when the Doctor met him, he was just returning from his visit. [6]
The one had been distant, splendid, brooding (so she glorified him); the other was an impressionist imitation, with dash, form, poetry, and colour. [11]
Is not my anger terrible as I dash your argosy, your thunder-bearing frigate, into fragments, as you would crack an eggshell?--No, not anger; deaf, blind, unheeding indifference,--that is all. [6]
Nature does not always put the needed dash of poetry into her extensive prospects. [4]
Sir Philip Egerton also informs me both as to red-deer and fallow-deer that, in fighting, they suddenly dash together, and getting their horns fixed against each other's bodies, a desperate struggle ensues. [1]
If we are allowed by the Legislature to build the bridge which will require them to do more than before, when a pilot comes along, it is unreasonable for him to dash on heedless of this structure which has been legally put there. [7]
It had an air of dash about it which went far towards redeeming the dead level of respectable average which flattens the physiognomy of the rectangular city. [6]
The one is achieved suddenly, by a dash, and it lasts as long as the author can keep the attention of the spectators upon his scintillating novelties. [4]
With the first abatement the conductor turned out with lanterns to look for the road, and the first dash he made was into a chasm about fourteen feet deep, his lantern following like a meteor. [5]
It was not a pleasant story,--and yet there was much of credit in it to the young rake its subject,--of dash and courage and princely generosity beside the profligacy and incontinence. [9]
Whereupon Brinsmade made a dash for his pistol on the ground. [9]
The crowd got a brief and unexpected dash of diversion out of the king. [5]

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