dashings

His words hung in the air over the hazy ramparts of the red fort before dissolving into the dashings of the musical pigeons.

The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

_ His words hung in the air over the hazy ramparts of the red fort before dissolving into the dashings of the musical pigeons.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

He therefore who wishes to lose no time unnecessarily, and wishes also to avoid other inconveniences, such as frequent stoppages, and perhaps, some alarming dashings against other ships, prefers travelling those few miles by land in a post-chaise, which is not very expensive, especially when three join together, as three passengers pay no more than one.

Travels in England in 1782 2004

This low, fading light also suggests many useful hints as to arrangement, from the circumstance of the dashings of the brush in a picture but newly commenced, suggesting forms that were not originally intended, but which often prove much finer ones.

The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon

The sea, to the horizon, was white with its own dashings, and every mountain surge that swept to the shore was edged with light -- the whole, one magnificent sheet of phosphor and foam.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various

I thought that I was on the brink of some tremendous cataract a thousand times deeper than Niagara; some fall where the waters plunged into the depths of the earth; and where, gathering for the terrific descent, all other movements -- all dashings and writhings and twistings -- were obliterated and lost in the one overwhelming onward rush.

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder James De Mille

She felt it unfair that a body which could quiver to the swift tingle of frosty mornings on the hills, the buffetings and dashings of the North Sea waves, the still glamour of an aurora evening on a house-top, and the inarticulate ecstasy of love, should be so racked.

Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

The dogs, indeed, who had covered many more miles in their wild dashings than had their masters, were not above sitting down occasionally and lapping a memento of the last 'possum's sharp teeth, or passing a rueful paw over a slit and bleeding ear.

A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903

Mademoiselle DeBerczy's white horse was slim and graceful as became its owner, who glanced with lady-like apprehension at the dashings and plungings and other dog-like vagaries of Flip.

An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada A. Ethelwyn Wetherald 1898

When seated the Marquise accompanied her words with little jerkings and perkings of her fluffy head, with wavings of the hands and rollings of the eyes -- the corelatives of her dartings and dashings while on her feet.

The Street Called Straight Basil King 1893