"Catapult" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moment, emptying the contents of her pocket on to the floor, and sifting them. There were two pocket-handkerchiefs of fine texture, and exceedingly dirty, as if they had been there for months (the one she used she carried in the bosom of her dress or up her sleeve), a ball of string, a catapult and some swan shot, a silver pen, a pencil holder, part of an old song book, a pocket book, some tin tacks, a knife with several blades and scissors, etc.; also a silver fruit knife, two coloured pencils, indiarubber, and a scrap of dirty ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... again, shot over his head as if from a catapult, and Dick went sprawling forward over the saddle onto the neck ...
— Ted Strong's Motor Car • Edward C. Taylor
... done! And the staircase Falls like the crash of night. And the Nude is wafted downward Like a catapult ...
— The Re-echo Club • Carolyn Wells
... seat and the back as if ejected from a catapult shot two figures, and flew together up the front walk, a tall boy and a little girl, just as the sun dropped low and swung a deep red light into the sky, flooding the front yard with glory, and staining the heavens far up ...
— Cloudy Jewel • Grace Livingston Hill
... strain, fluttered and thrashed against the mast with immense violence, and a noise more deafening than thunder, while the great seas dashed against the bows, now in full front toward them, with the force and shock of huge rocks projected from a catapult, and the wind shrieked and howled through the rigging as if the spirits of the deep were rejoicing ...
— Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 • Various
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