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Darted

Dart \Dart\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Darted; p. pr. & vb. n. Darting.]

  1. To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.

  2. To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams.

    Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart?
    --Pope.

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darted

vb. (en-past of: dart)

Usage examples of "darted".

With huge pronged poles they pitched hissing masses of blubber into the scalding pots, or stirred up the fires beneath, till the snaky flames darted, curling, out of the doors to catch them by the feet.

He put a sympathetic hand on her shoulder and squeezed past in the narrow space of the rear entry, lightly kissed her, and took her with him through the kitchen to the living room, where she stood embarrassed in the midst of a yawn while he darted forward and drew down on a cord which advanced dark curtains across the bow window.

Then she remembered the suitcase on the backseat and darted over to it.

Her eyes darted to the powerful Dreamer, fearful he might have had visions of her plans.

They waited for her beneath the stairs, too, and in the rafters of the attic and behind the sofa in the living room, and they darted from sight whenever anyone entered, and they came out at night to hunt down all the humans.

The hair on his head, a darker golden brown, was ruffled, for all the world as if his dresser had darted after him into the wings, and run a practised hand through his locks.

Brammington darted a raffish glance at Alleyn and accepted a fresh cigarette.

Saturn darted sideways and punched his way through a door without knocking.

He would have felt and looked more at home there than any of the periwigged Persons of Quality who darted across its stone floor, nervously, like stoats trying to make it across a darkling sandbar before owls could stoop on them.

Daniel remarked, after they had darted out through a side exit and gotten into a stairway, where it was possible to hear and to breathe.

The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.

It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and as well a thing placed upon authoritative record years ago by Scoresby, that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland seas.

For, of course, each boat is supplied with several harpoons to bend on to the line should the first one be ineffectually darted without recovery.

The severest pointed harpoon, the sharpest lance darted by the strongest human arm, impotently rebounds from it.

Even now, when the boats pulled upon this whale, and perilously drew over his swaying flukes, and the lances were darted into him, they were followed by steady jets from the new made wound, which kept continually playing, while the natural spout-hole in his head was only at intervals, however rapid, sending its affrighted moisture into the air.