Mademoiselle suppressed a scream, as the youth staggered back under the blow.
With a roar the cannons-royal proclaimed themselves, and the Arabella staggered under a blow that smashed her bulwarks at the waist and scattered death and confusion among the seamen gathered there.
The Arabella rocked and staggered under that terrific hammering, although Pitt kept her headed towards the French so that she should offer the narrowest target.
The Milagrosa staggered slowly ahead, a gaping rent in her bulwarks; her foremast was shattered, fragments of the yards hanging in the netting spread below.
Mr. Rushcroft's conception of a bite or two may have staggered Barnes but it did not bewilder Miss Tilly.
He was staggered and somewhat abashed by the appearance of Miss Thackeray.
The thief was running downstairs when he staggered to the door.
A patrolman struck him with a club; and he staggered as the blow fell with a sharp crash on his head.
Plenty of strength to hold me up, but unable to balance myself, and when I put forth an effort I staggered about like a man trying to walk with paralysis or locomotor ataxy.
He finally almost tossed the water into his mouth, losing the greater part of it, and staggered about the room gasping and groaning.
During the fray a gallant and noble young friend of the narrator staggered and fell to the earth; at the same time a piercing cry was heard in the house near by.
We seized the first one, and staggered towards the spot where the lanterns glimmered, and loud shouts greeted us.
I seized her feet, and we staggered on, but ere we could leave the passage which led into the larger room I heard a loud rattling and thundering above, and the next instant something struck my head and everything reeled around me.
This rather staggered him, so I told him further to open the boat-house, instead of standing like a stock, as I wanted to moor the boat.
I staggered back, from the push, to fall over a boy who had crouched behind me there, ready to upset me.
Then I staggered backward into the chair placed for me, and gradually the sense of sickening misery departed.
Shrieking wildly and hysterically, she staggered fainting to a chair, while Boris and I struggled with the murderer to obtain possession of the weapon.
At the first step I attempted to take I staggeredand almost fell, but recovering myself, followed the turnkey.
Fragile, delicate women staggered under the heavy loads they bore to suffering children at home; the pale wife clutched hungrily at the huge ham, or the bag of coffee, for the wounded hero, pining at home for such a delicacy.
But it must be remembered that this was the very beginning, when a whole people were staggered by reaction of their own blow; and all seemed to stand irresolute on the threshold of a vast change.
Joe Woods reeled under the first blow full in the face, staggered under the second, and was borne back into the tight-jammed crowd of his followers.
In the utter darkness the two men gripped each other, struck, swayed together, staggered apart, only to come together again to strike harder, more merciless blows.
The hindmost of the Hounds surged against those in front, and the whole mob fell forward upon Redfield; he staggered over the threshold to save himself, and struck Enraghty backward in his helpless plunge.
She staggered to her feet, and dashed from the door.
The girlstaggered to her feet and ran between the two.
When the pressure slacked, they staggered to their feet and groped around the dark, stuffy little room.
It might have been merely from the force of his first swipe, or he might have slipped--but Shabako staggered drunkenly and barely avoided falling.
I staggered back into the room and recovered my strength.
He tracked the fatal stains out of the kitchen, and up the stairs to the passage to the street door, and noted the stains upon the balustrade, to which his father had clung as he staggered to his death.
The pirate staggered back: he was down--no; he was up again.
The black man was not very far from Tom when he staggered and fell.
Blackbeard staggered again, and this time there was a great gash upon his neck.
There was a report and a cloud of smoke, and when it cleared away Blackbeard had staggered up again.
In a moment he regained consciousness, and staggered to his feet, bruised and dizzy.
He staggered back two or three paces, as if he had received a sudden and deadly wound.
This parting speech was so well got up, and had so much the tone of conscious integrity unjustly suspected, that even Colonel Mannering was staggered in his bad opinion.
The old man staggered back as though from a mortal blow, stared absently at the doctor without replying a word,--and then left the house without looking at the sick girl.
He started, and looked wildly around; involuntarily he opened his arms; Elizabeth's hands dropped from her eyes, and she staggered towards the nearest couch.
She staggered out of the close room, toiled feebly up the stairs, and drank two glasses of wine to steady her trembling nerves; then she extinguished the lights in the house, and retired to her bed.
The astonished writer, staggered by his friend’s earnestness, begged for a sight of this volume.
He was a heavy man and I had all that I could do to get him on my back, but I staggered along for some distance until I came to a swing that some of the children had suspended to the branch of an oak.
As to Tom, he sprang to his feet and staggeredout of the house, groping his way between the pews, sputtering strangled profanity and gasping like a stranded fish.
But Quest lifted him to his feet by sheer will, and he staggered across the room.
Tommy staggered to his feet and dropped nearer the plane, eyeing the shrimp with horror.
Dodd, holding Haidia in his arms, to protect her, staggered ahead, with Tommy in the rear.
But he whirled around behind the desk with such unexpected violence that Keane staggered back in alarm.
Slowly he got to his feet and staggered to the doorway.
I--I--" and Sundown staggered around feeling for the word he wanted.
The weaker ones gave out and staggered away, cursed and taunted by their companions.
It struck him fair in the chest and staggered him for a moment, whereupon Dubois ran off again into the interior of the wood.
Then the inebriated individual, now hopelessly muddled by drink, staggered towards the door and lurched wildly round the corner, just in time to see mademoiselle cross the Boulevard and daintily make her way between the rows of stalls.
For a moment the two men faced each other silently, the one amused by the news he was imparting, the other staggered by its seeming absurdity.
The name of ill omen staggered the mother a little.
He had thought the old corpse buried past exhumation; the sudden rising of the ghost to walk had staggered for an instant even his superb incredulities.
It staggered the eye, like the sight of water running uphill.
