Example Sentences

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“There is a peace amid’st the shock of arms, That satisfies the soul, though all the air Hurtles with horror and with rude alarms.”

From How the Flag Became Old Glory by Valentine, A. C.

See, as the hurricane Hurtles in wrath Squadrons of clouds amain Back from its path!

From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence

Like an echo of Dante's "Infernal hurricane that never rests, Hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine; Whirling them round."

From Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Lewes, Mary L.

See, as the hurricane Hurtles in wrath Squadrons of cloud amain Back from its path!

From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese