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Sentences starting with flying

Flying bits of wood struck Venters, and the hot, stinging pain seemed to lift him in one leap. [13]
Flying half-way across the room, it alighted on the table, and a little mud from the heel dropped on the clean scoured surface. [11]

Sentences ending with flying

Shot after shot the twelve-pounders of the Frenchman drove like dun hail at the white timbers of the yacht, and her masts and spars were flying. [11]
Yes, it was the English flag defiantly flying. [11]
The day of the battle dawned darkly, with great flakes flying. [9]
You can even see the crows flying. [2]
Then they came pounding out of the door, a file of thoroughbreds, to plunge about the barnyard, heads and tails up, manes flying. [13]
He was as one who lifteth up the yoke, He was as one who taketh off the chain, As one who sheltereth from the rain, As one who scattereth bread to the pigeons flying. [11]
The weathervane perched on the gable, and veering in the wet breeze, seemed like a live fish swimming in its own element; and through the open window she saw Insall bending over a lathe, from which the chips were flying. [9]
All the strings of conscious duty were loose, and some of them were flying. [11]
Now we can march into Congress with drums beating and colors flying! [5]
All night we jogged along with easy sail, but just at dawn, in a sudden opening of the land, we saw a sloop at anchor near a wooded point, her pennant flying. [11]

Short sentences using flying

Where is he flying? [10]
Keep the flag flying. [11]
The King is flying. [10]
No patter of flying feet. [13]
Whither art flying? [5]
Time is flying. [10]
Simply flying. [11]

Sentences containing flying two or more times

I wonder if you ever heard the lines--foolish they read, but they are not: "'All summer long there was one little butterfly, Flying ahead of me, Wings red and yellow, a pretty little fellow, Flying ahead of me. [11]
And so, presently we took to the hand-car and went flying down the mountain again; flying and stopping, flying and stopping, till at last we were in the plain once more and stowed for Calcutta in the regular train. [5]

More example sentences with the word flying in them

For within five years Paris fell--1436--and our King marched into it flying the victor's flag. [5]
But no,--everything went wrong we had only flying trips here and there in place of the leisurely ones which we had planned. [5]
Half our navy would have anchored under the guns of these suddenly alienated fortresses, with the flag of the rebellion flying at their peaks. [6]
And suddenly there would be a shout, and Mammy's turban go flying from her woolly head, or Mammy herself would be dragged down from behind and sat upon. [9]
He is wholly without hope, and is only thinking of throwing away everything and flying to some foreign land. [5]
He was often with us, in flying visits, and I can well remember that his coming and the expectation of it gave a kind of elation to the summer--that and Margaret's supreme and sunny happiness. [4]
They were glowing with a fire of excitement which was like a fever devouring the spirit, with little dark, flying banners of fate or tragedy behind. [11]
The water-bearers of whom you desired to speak to me do not interest me--I care no more about them than about the swallows flying over the house yonder. [10]
The lower things were flying from it, a spirit of womanhood was living in her-- feebly, but truly, living. [11]
Of course we were all distracted in a moment--everybody was flying everywhere, and nobody doing anything worth anything. [5]
The wonderful turmoil went on--presently a bright spark sprung from a blade, and that blade broken in several pieces, sent one of its fragments flying to the ceiling. [5]
The hunted doe went down the "open," clearing the fences splendidly, flying along the stony path. [4]
On the following Wednesday, with her flag flying and her sails set, the Peggy Stewart was run ashore on Windmill Point. [9]
He listened with weary ears to the ever-recurring sounds, distinguishing the whistle of flying projectiles from the booming of the reports, glanced at the tiresomely familiar faces of the men of the first battalion, and waited. [2]
In a moment we, too, had the British Flag flying at our mast-head. [11]
The whole post was there, and there was such another whooping and shouting when the seventeen kids came flying down the turf and sailing over the hurdles--oh, beautiful to see! [5]
All he knew was that at the commencement of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted "Cavalry! [2]
The Governor's announcement was such a shock that he choked and coughed, the crumbs flying in all directions; and another pint of canary must be taken to flush his throat. [11]
Only by degrees was she able to get sufficient control of herself to begin her copying, when she found a certain relief in action--her hands flying over the keys, tearing off the finished sheets, and replacing them with others. [9]
When the top was reached and we went flying down the other side, there was no change in the program. [5]
He knew it was Napoleon--his hero--but at that moment Napoleon seemed to him such a small, insignificant creature compared with what was passing now between himself and that lofty infinite sky with the clouds flying over it. [2]
Even while he was flying to her, her gentle spirit might have gone on another flight, whither he could not follow her. [5]
The King's flag was flying from the roof of one of the cottages, and His Majesty was probably within. [5]
The assembly hall was filled when we arrived, aglow with candles and a-tremble with music, the powder already flying, and the tables in the recesses at either end surrounded by those at the cards. [9]
When the death-moment was come, the colonel and his officers took their several posts, the men stood at shoulder-arms, and so, as on dress-parade, with their flag flying and the drums beating, they went down, a sacrifice to duty for duty's sake. [5]
The Earl of Warwick and the English Cardinal (Winchester) hurried to the castle and sent messengers flying for physicians. [5]
There was a vision of a woman flying across the common, and we saw the dauntless Mrs. Harrod snatching her husband's gun from his resisting hands. [9]
Nobody expects chivalric virtues and the accompanying expenditure from this simple fellow; yet he practises them, and, when he once opens his hand, people stare at him as they do at flying fish and the hen that lays a golden egg. [10]
A shot from Venters, which missed the man but sent the dust flying over him made him run back to his horse. [13]
They had marched upon a camp of our excursionists by the Jordan, and the pilgrims only saved their lives by stealing away and flying to Jerusalem under whip and spur in the darkness of the night. [5]
The banners go up on the royal stand, and group themselves picturesquely; the heralds disappear at the other end of the list; and almost immediately the horses, ridden by young jockeys in stunning colors, come flying past in a general scramble. [4]
Then a sudden turn of the road brought us in sight of that fire--it was a large manor-house, and little or nothing was left of it--and everywhere men were flying and other men raging after them in pursuit. [5]
I got into trouble in San Francisco with the chief mate of the Flying Polly, because I tried to teach him his business. [11]
I have seen trouble flying at me in a hundred ways, but this was different--yes. [11]
To hear the tread of the flying herds, to see no being save him, the Scarlet Hunter, to hear the voices calling in the night! [11]
At night, trying to sleep, she had heard the ghostly footsteps in the church, which had sent her flying homeward. [11]
The men began to show uneasiness, too, and presently they came flying to me with ashy faces, saying she had sprung a leak. [5]
What he said to his chief had its effect, and soon there was a white flag flying on the tug. [11]
Gabord began humming to himself as he tied the bandages, and then he reached down for the knife to cut the flying strings. [11]
We had hearkened to her ravings as though spellbound and frozen; and when we at last took heart to put an end to her wild talk, lo, she was gone, and flying down the stairs with long strides. [10]
I was going to give him a scolding, but Sandy came flying in at that moment, wild with terror, and so choked with sobs that for a minute she could not get her voice. [5]
The opera was to come,--the Flying Dutchman of the air. [4]
And the next time I was heading away to the left of it--and not gaining on it much either, for I was flying around, this way and that and t'other, but it was going straight ahead all the time. [5]
Bad birds flying through the land (the British agents) had besought them to take up the bloody hatchet. [9]
He was whistling through his nostrils, wringing wet, flying lather, and as hot as fire. [13]
Meseems verily as though the fluttering handkerchiefs, the flying pennons, and the caps waved in the air had found voice; and Ursula turns her head to this side and that as though seeking help. [10]
By one of those accidents which make fatality, a small wooden house some distance away, with a roof as dry as wool, caught fire from a flying cinder. [11]
This was good; this would be romantic; two hundred and fifty people grouped on the windy summit, with their hair flying and their red blankets flapping, in the solemn presence of the coming sun, would be a striking and memorable spectacle. [5]
I was not thinking of the man, or caring for him, I was flying from my shame. [11]
Day after day they followed that flying column, and night after night they heard the sleepers call from the hills. [11]
But he liked them; liked that mad driving at twelve miles an hour, liked upsetting a driver or running down a pedestrian, and flying at full gallop through the Moscow streets. [2]
She rushed to the window in mortal fear, and looked down into the palace-yard; at that same instant the door of the great banqueting-hall was flung open, and a flying crowd streamed out in distracted confusion--then another, and a third--all troops in King Philometor's uniform. [10]
Do you see the wild birds flying towards Carillon? [11]
The man in the wagon senseless, the flying horse, the ravine, death! [11]
We are half the time 'in transitu', flying hither and thither, craving that exact adaptation of the weather to our whimsical bodies promised only to the saints who seek a "better country. [4]
As they reached the steps they beheld the slight figure of Mrs. Rindge on a flying horse coming towards them up the driveway. [9]
We rushed up the stairs to the top of this scaffolding, and stood there, above the vast outlying world, with hair flying and ruddy blankets waving and cracking in the fierce breeze. [5]
She could see the St. George's Cross flying at the fore of the largest ship. [11]
In skilful hands, the silent, bloodless noose, flying like an arrow, but not like that leaving a wound behind it,--sudden as a pistol-shot, but without the telltale explosion,--is one of the most fearful and mysterious weapons that arm the hand of man. [6]
But Jerry returned the shot, and his ball struck dangerously close in the dust at Wrangle's flying feet. [13]
Nicodemus tugging at the reins, and great splotches of mud flying in at the windows. [9]
I retreated to the recess of a closed doorway, and there the dog had me at his mercy, flying at my throat and face or any part of my body that presented itself. [5]
He rode down the perpendicular path in the rocks, from the Castle of Banias to the oak grove, at a flying gallop, his horse striding "thirty feet" at every bound. [5]
In the morning the people of Little Goshen, looking towards the glacier, saw a flag (they knew afterwards that it was crimson) flying on it. [11]
The captain urged the men to put forth all their strength, and very soon the boat was flying along under the western shore, and divided by an oozy flat from the eastern bank. [10]
She disappeared with the iron cross, and flying across the street, thrust it inside the post-office, then ran to the house of the Notary. [11]
Suddenly these conceived the idea that it was flying in panic before Joan; and so in that instant it broke and swarmed away in a mad panic itself, with Talbot storming and cursing after it. [5]
The uproar among the heathen grew louder and louder; fragments of stone and wood came flying towards the spot where the Bishop and officials were standing; but, suddenly, the tumult ceased, and, as if by a miracle, there was silence--perfect silence--in the temple. [10]
They then had the habit of assembling very early in the spring at particular spots, where they could be seen in flocks, chattering, sometimes fighting, bustling and flying about the trees. [1]
I was nearing the gate again, the dust flying from my moccasined feet, the sight of the stalwart Tom giving me courage again. [9]
The news beat the flying enemy to Yeuville, and the town rose against its English masters and shut the gates against their brethren. [5]
They hung over the fire while the forest cracked round them, and the flame smarted with the flying snow. [11]
He sat with the driver, and (when necessary) rode that fearful distance, night and day, without other rest or sleep than what he could get perched thus on top of the flying vehicle. [5]
She stepped to the door leading into the hall, opened it, went out, travelled its length, ran down a back hallway, out into the park, towards the stables, her blanket, as her hair, flying behind her. [11]
When George entered the capital he found flags flying, heard bells pealing, the explosions of mortars and firing of cannon, sometimes one shot after another, sometimes a deafening salvo of many guns together, and a thousand voices shouting "Hurrah, hurrah! [10]
He turned towards the bodies, then looked at the camels flying down the desert towards Dongola. [11]
I was on the back of a swan, which bore me through the air, and on another swan flying at my side sat Clara. [10]
The wishing-carpet of the Arabian Nights was a sensible idea--but our earthly idea of angels flying these awful distances with their clumsy wings was foolish. [5]
The feeling was that of flying, which I have often had in dreams, as have many other persons. [6]
Because we know that he always went flying light in the matter of baggage. [5]
The enemy had tacked and was standing west, with ensign and jack and pennant flying, the level light washing his sails to the whiteness of paper. [9]
It was a sunny and windy afternoon, and the leaves were flying in the air. [9]
Seized by a sudden whim, she rang her bell, breakfasted at an unusual hour, and nine o'clock found her, with her skirts flying, on the road above the cliffs that leads to the Fort. [9]
She saw him strike with his spurs, and in a twinkling horse and rider had passed over the dilapidated remains of a fence and were flying down the hard clay road, disappearing into a dip. [9]
I heard one startled exclamation from Croz, then saw him and Mr. Hadow flying downward; in another moment Hudson was dragged from his steps, and Lord Douglas immediately after him. [5]
The chief procession started with the lighting of the bonfires: Singing softly, choristers and acolytes in robes preceded the devout Cure, and pious believers and youths on horseback, with ribbons flying, carried banners and shrines. [11]
A remote farmhouse, standing a little off the road, banked up with sawdust and earth to keep the frost out of the cellar, blockaded with snow, and flying a blue flag of smoke from its chimney, looks like a besieged fort. [4]
The car was speeding over the smooth surface of the boulevard; the swift motion, which seemed to her like that of flying, the sparkling air, the brightness of the day, the pressure of Ditmar's shoulder against hers, thrilled her. [9]
The news went speedily round that Captain Delancy's flag was flying at the anchorage off the landing. [4]
The game was soon taken up, and before long, one tambourine after another was flying over the heads of the frenzied crew. [10]
There was something so grotesque in the figure of the half-caste, with his copper-coat flying behind him as the horses galloped away, that a wan smile came to Al'mah's lips. [11]
I feel like sitting down on my heels, putting my arms round my knees like this, straining tight, as tight as possible, and flying away! [2]
Then he heard shouts, and the hard scrape of sliding hoofs, and saw horses rear and plunge back with up-flung heads and flying manes. [13]
On the sixth shot the rustler threw up his arms and took a flying tumble off his horse. [13]
Some young fellows shooting at a mark in the meadow saw the flying deer, and popped away at her; but they were accustomed to a mark that stood still. [4]
In that moment she was like a seed flying in the storm above the mountain spruces whither, she knew not, cared not. [9]
A cold shiver seized me, and I was on the point of flying from the spot, when a fierce hurricane came from the East, struck the tree and overthrew it, so that its spreading branches were cast into the Nile. [10]
Any one could see that from the way Lyon was flying about. [9]
All morning she sat behind Mr. Cooke, on the rise of the cabin, her back against the mast and her hair flying in the wind, and I, for one, was not sorry the Celebrity had given us this excuse for a sail. [9]
The dome, the round and the Gothic arch, the groined roof, the flying buttress, are all familiar to those who have studied the bony frame of man. [6]

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