dart

• It dirled through my heart like a dart, and I looked down at my psalm-book sheepish and blushing. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
• She was straight as a dart, strong as a young hawk, fearless as a lion, and free as the wind. —  Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs
• For if by any chance the arrow which had done such deadly work had been sped from a bow instead of having been used as a dart, then it was from this gallery and from no other quarter of the building that it had been so sped. —  The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
• One of these male figures, naked, is leaning over the side of the cistern, about to strike a fish, or some aquatic monster, with a harpoon or dart--while one of his legs (I think it is the right) is thrown back with a strong muscular expression, resting upon the earth--as if to balance the figure, thus leaning forward--thereby giving it an exceedingly natural and characteristic air. —  A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three
• On the contrary, the excellence and beauty of a dart is to be light and piercing." —  The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates

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