plunge

• I gave a violent plunge, and then everything had vanished. —  In the Forbidden Land
• He had not been seen from the moment of the first plunge, and there were a score of places on which he might have taken refuge, and where, now that he was warned, he could dodge the searchers. —  The Grell Mystery
• I have seen a thin hair-stemmed flower growing on the edge of a cataract and resisting the force of its plunge, and of the wind that always lives in its depths, because its roots are in a cleft of the cliff. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
• A plunge, and all my miseries would be at an end. —  The Log of a Privateersman
• There was a wild plunge, a shriek from the crowd in front, and next moment the five boys were thrown down among the crowd, while the horse, with the shattered and overturned vehicle behind him, forced for himself a ghastly lane through the mob Of Gus and his three friends, Charlie, whom the shock roused to sudden consciousness, could see nothing. —  The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch

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