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From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2011

Ye dart upon the deep, and straight is heard A wilder roar, and men grow pale, and pray; Ye fling its floods around you, as a bird Flings o'er his shivering plumes the fountain's spray.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Where others toil with philosophic force, Their nimble nonsense takes a shorter course, Flings at your head convictions in the lump, And gains' remote conclusions with a jump.—Cowper,

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob

Down drop the sails; in order ranged, each crew 244 Flings up the foam to heaven, and sweeps the sparkling blue.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

The murmuring waves are tranquil now, And on their breast each twinkling star With which Night gems her dusky brow, Flings its mild radiance from afar.

From Mazelli, and Other Poems by Sands, George W., ca. 1824-1874