What is "reeled"

Usage examples of "reeled".

He reeled before the merciless impact of those hypnotic eyes, but he held his ground.

The girl went backward, walking like an automaton, and Khemsa reeled drunkenly after her, hands vainly outstretched, groaning, slobbering in his pain, his feet moving heavily like dead things.

The girl reeled suddenly, and consummate climax of exquisite cruelty, reason and understanding flooded back into her eyes which flared with awful fear.

And then with a cry that almost burst the rocks, he reeled up and came rushing toward them, a knife lifted in his hand.

Her brain reeled with the drugging scent and she sought to crawl from the dais.

With a choked gurgle he reeled and went down, and Conan ruthlessly tore his blade free as his victim fell.

Thutothmes reeled and fell dead, his features blotted out in a rush of blackness that made the whole of him the same hue as his enchanted hand.

The axe cut through, the cross reeled on its splintered base and toppled backward.

In the full dawn Taramis reeled drunkenly from the temple, her eyes blazing with demoniac triumph.

Years ago he had been to Mecca, and ever since those holy, agonizing days, his brain had reeled with their heat, thirst, dirt and God-filled delirium.

Suddenly the houses were again shaken, the minarets reeled like cypresses, and the wall against which Captain Polyxigis was leaning split right down the middle.

He despised the wine-bibbers who reeled about the place, stuttered, made much of their unwashed thoughts or set up a howling.

At night they reeled, well fed and drunk, into the coffeehouses, then swirled into the Greek part of the town and fired shots into the air, terrifying those who crouched behind closed doors.

He had stuffed his glasses down his chest and reeled out to the Hospital Gate.

Those blades bit into the breast and belly of a Melted, who reeled, dropping or feebly hurling his sword, and fell.