What is "outflung"

Usage examples of "outflung".

Rawlins leaped three times backward with his shoulders hunched and his arms outflung like a man refereeing his own bloodletting.

John Grady turned again and hacked at the cuchillero with his tray and the cuchillero squatted and he saw him there thin and bowlegged under his outflung arm for one frozen moment like some dark and reedy homunculous bent upon inhabiting him.

With great care, she arranged herself half on, half off the bed, taking great care to put her head and outflung arms within the chalk marks on the floor.

A young man lay there, his right arm twisted in an impossible angle beneath him, his swollen, broken left hand outflung as though appealing for mercy.

Stanach caught a glint of fire on steel and saw Stormblade under Kelidas outflung hand.

She was down, lying in a spreading pool of blood, her left arm outflung, her hand reaching wide as though for help or pity.

Parelean, sprawled on his back with his sword in one outflung hand and blood all over his fine coat with the satin-striped sleeves.

The mother hen device hurried toward them again, arms outflung and quivering.

Dorath dropped suddenly to one knee and caught at Taran with an outflung arm.

A figure, arms outflung, lay motionless, one leg twisted under his body, partly covered with fallen stones.

And we stood for a season Like gods outflung from chaos, dreaming That we were the king and the queen of the fire That reddened the clouds of love that held us Blind to the new world soon to be ours -- Ours to seize and sway.

Lachaise, strapped into the central, padded chair, was leaning back with eyes open and arms outflung, showing no wounds but very plainly dead all the same.

His arm still outflung in an impassioned gesture, remained there as though stricken with paralysis.