How To Use Dashing In A Sentence

The guys were clean-cut and dashing, the girls were curly-haired and red-lipped.
A dashing swashbuckler of love, loss, and revenge in the midst of a plot to hide a conspiracy involving Napoleon's return to power.
The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
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This may by some readers be attributed to the absence of that dashing _caricatura_ style and constant aiming at antitheses, which, if it relieve the vapidness of the story, does not add to its natural attractions. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832

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Spread over two floors with a stairwell between, gorgeous girls in Prada, Dolce and Versace lie back on couches sipping negronis, watching dashing men in Armani smoke imported cigars over iced bourbon.
-- They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20_000L. any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield, whose character and manners could authorise a hope of the domestic happiness she had there learnt to estimate, or put Edmund Bertram sufficiently out of her head. Mansfield Park
He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile. Kiss & Break Up
At other times they feed in tidal pools on the sand, dashing this way and that as they spot good morsels of food. Times, Sunday Times
According to conventional wisdom, the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu was discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham, a dashing American explorer with a satisfyingly assonant name who later went on to be the Governor of Connecticut and a US Senator. Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Who really discovered Machu Picchu?
And you'll look dashing at weddings or other events when the band strikes up.
Sushi platters are served by the dashing staff and music is an eclectic mix of ambient sounds that have probably been pre-approved by the owners.
Almost 32, he pushes himself through one of the toughest regimes on the tour, dashing up and down hills before pumping iron and spending hours on the practice court.
When he saw the mess the pig had made, he dropped the pail and snatched his bulbous bagwig from his head, dashing it to the boards and cursing.
Into this the winds would drop from the high places like broken-winged birds, dashing themselves against the polished walls of the Pyweack, dashing and falling back and crying woundedly. The Trail Book
The volume of meltwater dashing down from the glaciers had transformed normally benign streams into charging torrents that demanded respect.
A villain to our dashing heroes. Times, Sunday Times
Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
[Page 32] grace of architecture; but the taxi-cabs and private motors are almost as abundant as in peace-time, and the peril of pedestrianism is kept at its normal pitch by the incessant dashing to and fro of those unrivalled engines of destruction, the hospital and War Office motors. Fighting France
He was 26, scraping a living as a private tutor, and came to call with his dashing friend Edward Irving, who had once been Jane's teacher.
The dunes of Holland are sometimes protected from the dashing of the waves by a revetement of stone, or by piles; and the lateral high-water currents, which wash away their base, are occasionally checked by transverse walls running from the foot of the dunes to low-water mark; but the great expense of such constructions has prevented their adoption on a large scale. [ Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 05 (historical)
Again: — Pallid and mad, he swift upsprang, and he tore up a tree by its lusty roots, and down the declivity, dashing with rapid leaps, panting and wild, he struck the ravisher on the temple with the mighty pine. A Review of 'Alroy'
There's the dashing hero, a former pilot stricken with impending blindness who stoically refuses to be pitied.
She is firmly matched in Peter Bowles, a dashing man who carries the world in the furrow of his brow but who radiates genteel grace.
But why then did not those profound rabbies amongst the Jews, and the Stoicks and Epicureans (those oracles of reason) amongst the philosophers, baffle and refel these babblers, and so dashing their absurd doctrine in its first rise, prevent its spreading, by a mature and thorough confutation? Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
And Sarah Jessica Parker will never know as she's in Italy, probably meeting some dashing Italian count who will beg her for marriage and give her a condo and beautiful children.
A once dashing figure became a historical footnote. Times, Sunday Times
She left her family to move to Argentina with her lover, a dashing polo player.
Spent most of today dashing about Madrid with rachelmanija who arrived last night, although too late (flight delays, etc.) to come to the art show opening at the bookbindery La Eriza (although we did stop by today, around "merienda" time, and got to help finish off a few boxes of leftover strawberries -- yum!). Breakfast in Bed
My clever wee dog was for dashing off, the same as when he's smelt a rabbit, so we caught up our plaids and came away after him, only stopping to snatch a brand from the hearth and smoor the fire. Drums of Autumn
Then I entered into a contract of partnership with them and we chartered a ship and packing up all manner of precious stuffs and merchandise of every kind, freighted it therewith; after which we embarked in it all we needed and, setting sail from Bassorah, launched out into the dashing sea, swollen with clashing surge whereinto whoso entereth is lone and lorn and whence whoso cometh forth is as a babe new - born. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I think it's my impeccable facial hair and dashing good looks. The Sun
Am dashing about to get ready, so boodling and backboodling will have to wait. Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
I'm sure this macho mailman is very dashing but my advice is to stamp him" Return to Sender" and try and get out a bit more. RESCUING ROSE
Does she feel rather dashing, a bona fide member of someone else's generation, or is she merely indulging her younger and stupider staff?
Lando Calrissian being dashing is cringe-worthy. Why the Star Wars Prequels Are Actually Good (Part 2)
Finding little to eat in the bleak, snow-drifted woods, it soon began to depredate on the moose, and killed two or three, generally by lying in wait and dashing out on them as they passed near its lurking-place. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
Dashing mixologists behind the bar prepare classic concoctions to get you in the mood and you could just pop in here for a drink.
She had the responsibility and honor of driving Ruth and the dolls in her own donkey-cart to the scene of action, where the school children, and some of the idlest or most good-natured of Mrs. Alwynn's friends, were even then assembling, and where Mrs. Alwynn herself was already dashing from point to point, buzzing like a large "bumble" bee. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
Uncommonly in the context of a horror film, Karloff is not top-billed; though his bearded and begoggled visage looms large in the psychedelic opening credits with the film's title spelled out in animated bones, à la ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, that distinction falls to dashing Jean-Pierre Aumont, who stars as photojournalist Claude Marchand. Archive 2006-12-31
The latter dazzled him not only with his unconventional paintings (Delacroix posed for one of the dying figures in The Raft of the Medusa), but also with his dandified dress and dashing lifestyle.
I grinned, picturing my mother dashing back and forth in the kitchen, clad in a frilly pink apron and caked with flour, a sewing needle in one hand and a whisk in the other.
Two elegant Scotsmen travelling together wore dashing kilts at dinner.
The funniest and most dashing idea seems to be the ‘family cus-cus weekend’ which will take place in August.
The water of the springs is as clear as crystal, except when rendered grumly by dashing rains, and is far sweeter and more palatable than the best filtered water of the lowlands. Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina.
My father was a very different sort of man from the dashing young British servicemen. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
The cavalry regiments have always been splendidly dressed, with the light horse being the most dashing.
He was wearing a dashing embroidered blood-red doublet, cape, and plumed hat.
Dark, dandyish, dashing, brooding – it combined an extraordinary mixture of male arrogance and almost feminine beauty, emphasised by vivid clothes, peacock hairstyles and smouldering glances. Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review
There are certainly ominous signs that the wealthy and privileged are dashing for the lifeboats. Times, Sunday Times
Dining and dashing was not unusual in the Salomon Brothers cafeteria.
It looks like a lovely one-horse open ice sleigh, dashing through the snow.
Apart from the dashing good looks, of course. The Sun
She had a startlingly dashing necklace and wore some sort of a uniform cap in a jaunty way.
At other times they feed in tidal pools on the sand, dashing this way and that as they spot good morsels of food. Times, Sunday Times
In between times, he has plugged away at a steady pace, approaching his work with a measured, thorough approach more dogged than dashing.
France was getting acquainted yesterday with the dashing young investment banker who has shot from obscurity to stardom and controversy as the country's new socialist economy minister. Times, Sunday Times
Ah yes, there he was, in his dashing shade of azure, heightened by his tan, winking from the wall.
He became a movie legend by thrilling audiences with his high-spirited adventures, roguish charm, and dashing good looks.
Strangely, although he had looked perfectly unharmed and very dashing while he'd been fighting, his tunic now had rips and tears all over it and his face had dirt marks all over it as if he had been struggling to win a losing battle.
I don't actually remember the con, because it's all a long blur of dashing from one meeting to the next and hugging people in hallways, but I do have to say that I sniffled a bit during the WF Awards when my Sycamore Hill roomie, Mary Rickert, picked up a pair of bookends. Home again, home again, like a turtle to his balcony.
She's a game old bird, though; dashingly dressed in sensible breeches and stout walking boots, she's off down the fairway to confront the offending husband.
Edward is not attractive or dashing, and he is not a smooth talker.
And for a dashing touch, he plucked a tail feather from his rump , which left him feeling rather cross.
The spray was dashing over her bows, and her jib was wet several feet above the boltrope. Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway
His first movements, too -- seemingly so brilliant and dashing, compared to the more steady but resultful ones of Johnston -- produced a thrill of pride and hope with all the people, save the thoughtful few, who felt we could not afford now to buy glory and victory unless it tended to the one result -- safety. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
Rather than joining the masses dashing from one megastore to the next, spending money they don't have on things they don't need, where better to spend leisure time than in the house of the Lord? Dear Mariella: I'm angry and frustrated with my husband. I wonder if going to church is the answer
He made the tasting far less arduous than his younger, more dashing, but decidedly less droll counterpart who was running the show this time around.
The emigrants had great fun at first coaxing their unwary fellows to stand near the windward gangway, and get well "soused" by the water which now and then came dashing over the rails. The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects.
That could lead to billions of pounds in payments, dashing hopes that banks can soon draw a line under the costliest mis-selling scandal in history. Times, Sunday Times
By simultaneously maintaining and dashing assumptions, he triggers ruminations on image reproduction via photography and, beyond that, on that archetype of image replication, the mirror.
They lived together; and when Dr. Grant had brought on apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week, they still lived together; for Mary, though perfectly resolved against ever attaching herself to a younger brother again, was long in finding among the dashing representatives, or idle heir-apparents, who were at the command of her beauty, and her 20,000, any one who could satisfy the better taste she had acquired at Mansfield Park
After much shouting and dashing about, a percher appeared, flapping its narrow wings and blaring the message given to it. Nemesis
Both King and Snyder eschew the vampire as dashing sophisticate or dewy-eyed romantic ( "King hates 'Twilight' more than I do," Snyder notes). The 'Riffs Interview: 'American Vampire's' SCOTT SNYDER on vampires, Vertigo & collaborator Stephen King
Eventually, dish after dish of sublimely spiced specialities came dashing out of the kitchen like a dramatic tour de force.
If it be low down the gullet, and other means fail, its dislodgment may sometimes be effected by dashing cold water on the spine, or vomiting may be induced by an emetic of sulphate of zinc Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
David wandered into the bathroom to perform his morning ablutions and all I heard was ‘Oh my God'. I went dashing in and saw what his oh my godding was about.
Hand wrench wrench gusset, I nod, Air Jordan VII, but cannot help but to henceforth see time and time afresh, that ravishing dashing blue dress man, while, just tin arise another?
All references to his drug use have been expunged, and he's now a dashing old adventurer grieving over his inability to save his son's life.
Into and across tree-ferned ravines, through dashing streams of icy water, past cataract and morass, the party plowed its devious way until long past noon. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series
As I came into the playgrounds this morning, I saw a dashing young fellow, with a tanned face and a blond moustache, who was walking up and down the green arm-inarm with Champion Major, and followed by a little crowd of boys. Dr. Birch and his young friends
Bathsheba's beauty belonged rather to the demonian than to the angelic school, she never looked so well as when she was angry -- and particularly when the effect was heightened by a rather dashing velvet dress, carefully put on before a glass. Far from the Madding Crowd
Just 10 minutes earlier, Smith had introduced me and a few other first-time mushers to dogsledding, and now I found myself listening to the excited baying of my dogs, who obviously were more confident about dashing into the forest than I was.
Two had blue swallow-tailed coats with brass buttons; and a fourth, a dashing young lawyer's clerk from Clement's Inn, was absolutely stirring a mixture, which he called a mint julep, with a yellow kid glove dangling out of his hand. The Three Clerks
There are solitary rock-columns that spring straight up out of the water and dark grottoes with narrow entrances; there are barren, perpendicular precipices, and soft, leaf-clad inclines; there are small points, and small inlets, and small rolling stones that are rattlingly washed up and down with every dashing breaker; there are majestic cliff-arches which project over the water; there are sharp stones that are constantly being sprayed by a white foam; and others that mirror themselves in unchangeable dark-green still water. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
He cut a dashing figure on horseback with his sombrero, bandolier and moustache. Pancho Villa, once a terrorist, now celebrated in New Mexico
It's a dirty old night out there, wind howling, rain dashing against the windows, not at all the kind of night to move far from the fireside.
People could gamble without panicking and planning to re-mortgage their home, or dashing out to get an advance on their paycheck from the corner money store.
He looked quite dashing in knee-high boots, maroon pants and vest, and a clean white shirt, with a feathered hat to top it all off.
Carroll said she bonded over the phone with her future husband, a military man she refers to as "dashing," and decided she'd marry him before they even met. The Seattle Times
Only on the bodies of the most dashing Italian motorcyclists does one now see leather in such flamboyant combinations, and only on the cases of treasured antique radio cabinets can one find such florid marquetry.
Heartless men, dashing knights of the keyboard, arranged their cards into pairs and flushes and whatever else was necessary to rob a rube - me - of his next week's paycheck.
Then I entered into a contract of partnership with them and we chartered a ship and packing up all manner of precious stuffs and merchandise of every kind, freighted it therewith; after which we embarked in it all we needed and, setting sail from Bassorah, launched out into the dashing sea, swollen with clashing surge whereinto whoso entereth is lone and lorn and whence whoso cometh forth is as a babe new - born. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He was the very model of the dashing RAF pilot.
Will the sound still call to mind the glamorous era of American intercontinental railway journey when the dashing Cary Grant and the lovely Eva Marie Saint drank champagne in plush, oak-paneled boxcars while evading cops, spies and double agents against the backdrop of the national landscape? A Radioactive River Runs Through It
I had already checked in online- but one of the problems with checking in online, is that it induces a sense of complacency- I found myself dashing to get to the airport on time, having dilly-dallied on a number of issues. A snatched chance to blog, terror and current reading
He cut a dashing figure in his black-leather jacket and blue jeans.
Still, dashing around the circular keypad is tough and does not make for lengthy e-mails.
He presents himself as a dashing, globetrotting playboy.
His footwork was excellent, not a step out of place, even on those fast, intricate grapevines in the beginning, his partnering was strong, and he played the dashing foxtrotting gentleman perfectly the way he glided over that floor. Tonya Plank: Dancing With the Stars: The Musical Mambo Gets Marlee Matlin Booted (and Shannon Elizabeth Hangs On)
There comes a time in every dashing young bachelor's life when it is only proper to settle down and start a family.
Waves were dashing against the rock
Certainly I never yet betook myself to thinking instead of singing, that I did not end in dashing wildly against the wires of my cage, with sure loss of feathers and at the peril of limb and life. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Looking just as snazzy as his teacher, Glee's prep school spy plays the part – and dashingly!
I've been dashing around all day.
Bathsheba’s beauty belonged rather to the demonian than to the angelic school, she never looked so well as when she was angry — and particularly when the effect was heightened by a rather dashing velvet dress, carefully put on before a glass. Far from the Madding Crowd
I was suddenly aware of the breezes rustling the grasses, tossing the branches of the trees to and fro, dashing the leaves against each other.
The illustration shows this famous example of nos ancetres les Gaulois, as the French still call their Gaulish ancestors: long blond hair flowing, thick blond moustache with pointed ends, dashing red cloak flung over his shoulder, seated on a rearing white horse. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The magic country of childhood reading
How many times had I had my hopes dashed by some handsome, dashing man?
It is very unlikely that any one else will be in white or anything at all dressy, and you will look overdressed, which is in very bad taste; besides, though the weather seems warm enough for such thin material here on shore, it will be a great deal cooler on the water; and should the waves or spray come dashing over us, you would find your dress clinging to you like a wet rag -- neither beauty nor comfort in it. Elsie at Nantucket
In the audience: the dashing Prince Rupert in a pink lutestring coat with silver lace, seen tête-à-tête avec clever Dickie Rider, the master builder of the theatre. Exit the Actress
Berlin's story was typical twenties fluff about a dashing Wall Street financier and a madcap aviatrix aboard a luxury liner, made topical by a plot twist involving the 1929 crash.
There is nothing static in Strand's New York: It is a city built of passing glances, a streetscape of dashing diagonals and unexpected angles.
The sparkling wavelets sported and capered with their grewsome burden, sometimes dashing it against some stray log, again bearing it far across the river as if purposely assisting it to elude its pursuer. The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old
Viewers will remember the dashing hero, Dirk, risking life and limb to rescue Daphne from the dragons.
The messenger fared forth and presently returned and reported, “I saw an army like the dashing sea with its clashing surge: and their horses curvetting till earth trembleth with the tramp; and I know no more of them.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Giving them an airy wave of his hand, such as seemed appropriate for a dashing paratroop commander, The Eagle sailed past. KARA KUSH
I dumped the girl I didn't like (but in a sweet, dashing James Bond short-of-way).
Mrs. Stearne looked once at Miss Temple and then to Lydia, her expression tinged with concern, and then met the smiling face of Miss Poole whose dashing figure had just — in her own opinion at least — somehow turned Mrs. Stearne, in her plain severe dark dress, from her place. The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters
A once dashing figure became a historical footnote. Times, Sunday Times
Then in storms a dashing hero, flashing a CID card and sending them packing. The Sun
Later that evening Luís Figo and company looked on askance as their new team-mate permitted a Japanese flunkey to protect his head from teeming rain by dashing on to the pitch with an umbrella at the final whistle. Even David Beckham could learn a thing or two from Craig Bellamy
You think a dashing, irresponsible hansom is more in keeping with the Factory Girls 'Club or some giddy Whitechapel frivolity!' The Convert
It came by the afternoon post -- the big, mauve, scented, sprawled sheets, dashingly monographed across one corner. Dangerous Ages
Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders' dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat, and the ambiance of aristocratic Vienna.
In his four months in residence Old Red had done a great job of dashing girlish hopes.
He was a copious writer, dashing off verses, very often on the wet surfaces of pub tables.
This is not about frenetic fullcourt pressure or whippet-quick guards causing turnovers and dashing downcourt with abandon.
You've joined the style consensus and probably look rather dashing. Times, Sunday Times
Even Chelsey claiming to be late for something and dashing off would be better.
Today, the prospect of an opinion columnist doing medical research before dashing off a column sounds positively quaint. Christianity Today
Aussie state cricket is bursting at the seams with dashing batsmen.
Tall, dark, handsome and eloquent, our hero cuts a dashing figure in the little city with big ambitions.
The minister wore a dashing cream-coloured suit and shades.
Tasty, single domaine offerings like this punch well above their weight, oozing dashing, oaky smoky, gamey fruit. Times, Sunday Times
She's also used her link to the WhiteHouse as proof she is better equipped to handle our foreign policy, but she makes up fictious accounts of dashing from a plane ovesees under sniper fire. Clinton touts commander-in-chief credentials
Dr. Solomon accompanies Robert Langdon, the rare symbologist who warrants the word dashing as both adjective and verb, through much of this novel, his third rip-snorting adventure. ... Fiction
As he ran on, crying out in his frenzy, "_Amok -- amok -- amok_! kill -- kill -- kill!" we saw some of the police dashing towards him with long poles, at the end of which was a fork of wood with iron spikes inside it. Old Jack
Are commuters with glazed expressions dashing hither and thither oblivious to all around them?
Then he wrote of the doctor and Margaret, whom he described as a dashing, brilliant girl, the veriest tease and madcap in the world, and the exact opposite of Maddy. Aikenside
He was nervous and cocky at our briefing, the dashing leader of a combat mission to the dreaded Ia Drang.
I know I'm not the most handsome or dashing guy in the world, but I'm really nice and try my hardest when it comes to impressing a potential mating partner.
They didn't want exciting flights where pilots were dashing all over the place. Times, Sunday Times
The goalie in the second game was a little dynamo - dashing with great speed and grace.
I should have known those whiskers anywhere-the very picture of a dashing hussar, eh? Isabelle
I am generally a rational person, and could tick off many a reason why dashing my body against a rock club's begrimed floor isn't a good idea.
One takes the outline of cliff or shore, dashing in what I may call the aggregated tints of forest and hill; the other paints by turns each special crag or ravine, with their colours in detail; yet both are correct, and we want both if we are to understand the island. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886
Alabama, the banks of which are frequently high and steep, a more dashing style of embarkation is adopted. Loading Cotton on the Alabama River
She was educated at a convent school, married a dashing young Indian doctor - a cousin-by-marriage to the Queen Mother - and began a happy union which was to take her halfway round the world.
My friend Bernd is the Opera director there, and is a bit frantic right now since he had to keep dashing off to sit in on rehearsals and nonesuch, plus I tagged along with him to this site visit for where they're going to do a Benjamin Britten piece in a church. Breakfast in Bed
They were triumphant and he felt like a dashing young blade in football.
Stromboli," replied the rickety little shepherd, dashing away from Hans and disappearing in the olive groves. Voyage au centre de la terre. English
No publisher ever felt it necessary to stick dashing images of Auden on his books.
He was nervous and cocky at our briefing, the dashing leader of a combat mission to the dreaded Ia Drang.
The waves were dashing against the shore.
Bearded vultures are the only living birds known to access bone marrow, which they do by dashing bones onto rocks from great heights.
He named his dashing spy after an unassuming U.S. ornithologist who wrote "Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming Airport, Jamaica's Third, Jamaica opens new airport named for Ian Fleming
Even his book jacket photo polarizes: is that the Dark Prince leering mischievously into the camera, Andy Warhol on drugs, or a dashing rebel smiling beneficently as he prepares to smash the state? April « 2007 « Bill Ayers
So my mother babbled some more nonsensical apologies, paid the bill, tipped the waiter, gave me a quick hug, and went dashing off.
None but a Parisian, and a Parisian of the upper spheres, could thus array himself without appearing ridiculous; none other could give the harmony of self-conceit to all these fopperies, which were carried off, however, with a dashing air, — the air of a young man who has fine pistols, a sure aim, and Annette. Eug�nie Grandet
Today, the prospect of an opinion columnist doing medical research before dashing off a column sounds positively quaint. Christianity Today
He saw himself as a dashing romantic figure and was mortified to find himself seen as a slapstick comedian.
The first half passed with few chances for either side, although Martin Taylor in the Wycombe goal distinguished himself by twice dashing out to smother the ball at Owen's feet.
Wagons, carts, mule teams and motor trucks - "lorries," the English call them -- were dashing to and fro. Air Service Boys in the Big Battle Or, Silencing the Big Guns
I was suddenly aware of the breezes rustling the grasses, tossing the branches of the trees to and fro, dashing the leaves against each other.
Ellie Thiry was already being monopolized by a Major Francis Basil Summers, a dashing British army intelligence officer who had been on the stage in London before the war and positively reeked of derring-do. A Covert Affair
Pet could, but Wee Charlie ... Get a grip! she admonished herself, dashing her tears away.
Are those historical romances in the Victorian / Regency age about dashing lords and young innocent debutants mere clones of each other?
A once dashing figure became a historical footnote. Times, Sunday Times
There will be part dry-dashing or re-plastering of front facades, fascias and soffits and new stone front walls.
But, for some reason that I couldn't quite explain even if I tried, I didn't tell her about the dashing man I'd been speaking to.
Ms Telford said the government was trying its hardest to raise aspirations amongst people from low-income backgrounds, but was only dashing their hopes by plunging them into tens of thousands of pounds of debt.
Others identify more intimate ambassadors: the first dashing yellow daffodil, the rising dawn chorus of birdsong, the earliest appearance of frogspawn in ponds and ditches, the first cut of grass, a pied wagtail over ploughed land and yellow catkins dangling from hazel branches all symbolise spring's arrival for someone. Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
His face was that of a dashing man, flawless in its complexion.
In his fleece-lined leather flight suit and dashing silk scarf, Dad epitomized exuberant youth and boundless vitality.
Handsome doesn't even begin to describe how dashing and debonair he looks.
The drinks meanwhile are exquisite: dashing barmen mix up cool signatures such as the Champagne Martini and the cucumber-infused Mojito.
My moral perceptions were not active, and there was a keen delight in dashing through the surf, when the billows threatened each moment to ingulf my boat, in pursuit of the wealth the greedy waves seemed eager to claim as their prey. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
Dining and dashing was not unusual in the Salomon Brothers cafeteria.
Tall, dark, handsome and eloquent, our hero cuts a dashing figure in the little city with big ambitions.
He was considered one of the most dashing and courageous horsemen in the country. The Sun
Anent this question the Tibetan legends speak of a strange lama who came to the land of Amdo from the far western regions and resided in Tsong K'aba's tent, a man of wondrous learning and piety, having a big nose and bright dashing eyes. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
Still, dashing around the circular keypad is tough and does not make for lengthy e-mails.
Here's a photograph of a young dashing Tim, sheepskin jacket over a swannie, his head thrown back in celebration of life, his huge chin leading the way.
They were happiest dashing off into the unknown—their diaries are filled with accounts of momentous discoveries made after enduring punishing hardships: getting lost, eating raw vulture flesh, trekking through rain forests shoeless and clothesless, being sucked into whirlpools for hours on end, fending off rabid buffalo attacks, falling with their horses into hippopotamus wallows, having all their hair eaten by rats while sleeping and negotiating with armed, xenophobic natives ready to stone foreigners for trespassing on their sacred farmland. The Fruit Hunters
Dressed in a spectacular brown, black and yellow Paisley patterned shirt, Mandela cut a dashing figure next to Sophie who chose a stylish powder-blue dress with low-heeled brown court shoes.
The Wimbledon crowd love a trier, particularly one who gives up his initial suspicion of grass, and being blessed with good looks or a dashing style does no harm.
The two principal bidders, -- and they seemed to enter into a pretty warm competition, -- were a gentleman of the neighborhood, who appeared to know the poor fellow on sale, and a dashing, buckish young man, who, it was said, was a slave-trader from South The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive
If you chance to take an elegant drive up the 'Fifth Avenue,' and meet a dashing equipage -- say with horses terribly caparisoned, a purloined crest on the carriage-door, a sallow-faced footman covered up in a green coat, all over big brass buttons, stuck up behind, and a whiskey-faced coachman half-asleep in a great hammercloth, be sure it belongs to some snob who has not a sentence of good English in his head. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
Some of their words convey the direct meaning of the thing implied – thus, ché-charm, "to sneeze," is the very sound of that act; toó-me-duh, "to churn," gives the noise made by the dashing of the cream from side to side; and many others. Roughing It in the Bush
When a shot is fired into a sleeping herd, all start up on their feet, and stare with peculiar stolid looks of hippopotamic surprise, and wait for another shot before dashing into deep water. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
Given his newspaper work, his studio business and his commercial assignments, Teenie was everywhere, shooting everyone, dashing in with his flashgun to take his one shot and dashing off to his next job. Life on the Hill
So, if you're a dabbling dork, a dainty dweeb, or dashing ding-a-ling… there's definitely a place here with your name on it.
TR would run against him in 1912 on the Bull Moose ticket, dashing both of their presidential careers and handing the White House to Woodrow Wilson. Devil Dog
They didn't want exciting flights where pilots were dashing all over the place. Times, Sunday Times
Gilad Sharon has his colossus of a father bestriding a stage on which he is the only major actor; as we follow him through his life—the hard-working farm boy, the dashing warrior, the brilliant general, the far-seeing statesman—the rest of the world exists mainly in order to be divided into those who appreciated his worth and those who didn't. The Line Between Bold and Reckless
He gazed upon these pleasaunces and saw beyond a surging sea, dashing with clashing billows, and he ceased not to explore the palace right and left, till he ended at a pavilion builded with alternate courses, two bricks of gold and one of silver and jacinth and emerald and supported by four columns. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Then along came the man she thought she would be spending the rest of her life with, dashing Scottish laird Archie Stirling.
The dunes of Holland are sometimes protected from the dashing of the waves by a revetement of stone, or by piles; and the lateral high-water currents, which wash away their base, are occasionally checked by transverse walls running from the foot of the dunes to low-water mark; but the great expense of such constructions has prevented their adoption on a large scale. The Earth as Modified by Human Action
At 82, he remains a tall, dashing figure and a serious charmer.

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