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  • My feet ache worse than my head, and there's no reason for it that comes from toil, or dance, or kicking anything - it's just that something has to hurt, and who knows where the dart's going to fly when you don't have enough motor coordination to determine your body's fate?

    Piss drunk Nicholas Hranilovich 2010

  • At that moment, a gust of wind had blown into the open palace windows and diverted the dart's flight.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • The alcohol in combination with the dart's effect made him reel.

    BLACK FIRE SONNI COOPER 1990

  • The bird faltered and squawked again, then flew straight as a dart's flight north.

    Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965

  • It happened that among the other prefects of the troops, who had been sent out in all directions to reconnoitre, Titus Manlius, the consul's son, came with his troop to the back of the enemy's camp, so near that he was scarcely distant a dart's throw from the next post.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • Art thou wounded at all, and vexed by a dart's point, or dost thou come with a message for me concerning aught?

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • But he who by dart's flight his death should receive.

    Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems Anonymous 1878

  • The sword's sharp clangour, the dart's shrill anger,

    Pike County Ballads and Other Poems John Hay 1870

  • Could sighs have checked his dart's relentless force; [iii]

    Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Could sighs have check'd his dart's relentless force;

    Fugitive Pieces George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

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