saults

"saults" -- interruptions to the navigation of the St. Lawrence -- which he had observed on his previous journey, and which were later named the La Chine Rapids (in the belief that they were obstacles on the river route to China).

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

To the hardily curio-sing entomophilust then it has shown a very sexmosaic of nym — phosis in which the eternal chimerahunter Oriolopos, now frond of sugars, then lief of saults, the sensory crowd in his belly coupled with an eye for the goods trooth bewilderblissed by their night effluvia with guns like drums and fondlers like forceps persequestellates his vanessas from flore to flore.

Finnegans Wake 2006

The carriage intended for the Princess Rosette had six blue monkeys, which could turn summer-saults, and dance on a tight-rope, and do many other charming tricks.

The Red Fairy Book 2003

Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fleet horse, unto whom he gave a hundred carieres, made him go the high saults, bounding in the air, free the ditch with a skip, leap over a stile or pale, turn short in a ring both to the right and left hand.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fleet horse, unto whom he gave a hundred carieres, made him go the high saults, bounding in the air, free the ditch with a skip, leap over a stile or pale, turn short in a ring both to the right and left hand.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Leslie caught hold of the water jug and wetting a sponge applied it to her white face, and by this and the aid of smelling saults, Sylvia soon revived.

Daisy Ashford: Her Book Daisy Ashford 1926

(W.T. Gibb, article "Indecent A.saults upon Children," in A. McLane Hamilton's _System of Legal Medicine_, vol. i, p. 651.)

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899

The boat-songs of the Canadian voyageurs are unique in character, and very pleasing when sung by a crew of broad-chested fellows dashing their light birch-bark canoes over the waters rough or smooth, taking them, as they take fortune, cheerfully, -- sometimes skimming like wild geese over the long, placid reaches, sometimes bounding like stags down the rough rapids and foaming saults.

The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861

A pretty hard-hitting affair, in which both guys show off their penchant for delivering some stiff blows, Vampiro with numerous marital arts strikes, Banderas with some brutal aerial dives and saults.

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And as they are sensible of the instability of their hearts, they feel a propriety, a necessity, and moral obliga - tion, to keep them with all dihgence, to repel the as - saults and intrusion of sinful exercises.

Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice 1812