What is "streamed"

Usage examples of "streamed".

To the west loomed the huge red ball of the sinking sun, now vanishing down the vapoury horizon, and filling the great heaven, high across whose arch the cranes and wildfowl streamed in line, square, and triangle, with flashes of flying gold and the lurid stain of blood.

While I wondered what would bring so many together thus early, there came a sound of flutes--for these people can do nothing without piping like finches in a thicket in May--and from the storehouses half-way over to the harbour there streamed a line of carts piled high with provender.

And with a little coquettish movement she turned herself, and held up one arm, so as to show all her loveliness and the rich hair of raven blackness that streamed in soft ripples down her snowy robes, almost to her sandalled feet.

A gauzy veil was thrown round and about the head, and of its two ends one fell down across her left breast, which was outlined beneath it, and one, now broken, streamed away upon the air behind her.

There we lay, clinging to the ground, and looked about us, while Ayesha stood leaning out against the wind, down which her long hair streamed, and, absolutely heedless of the hideous depth that yawned beneath, pointed before her.

It seemed to me that the pit had been enlarged, and ever and again puffs of vivid green vapour streamed up and out of it towards the brightening dawn--streamed up, whirled, broke, and vanished.

I retraced every step of our conversation from the moment when I had found him crouching beside me, heedless of my thirst, and pointing to the fire and smoke that streamed up from the ruins of Weybridge.

If the Martians can reach Venus, there is no reason to suppose that the thing is impossible for men, and when the slow cooling of the sun makes this earth uninhabitable, as at last it must do, it may be that the thread of life that has begun here will have streamed out and caught our sister planet within its toils.

The place was not so gruesome as last night, but oh, how unutterably mean looking when the sunshine streamed in.

Lightning streamed out of him, slender bucking threads that flashed unerringly at his five companions.

But the woman raised a hand, and a blast of white fire streamed from her fingers to smite the girl full in the face.

Mucus and saliva streamed from his nose, joining the flood of debris and liquids vanishing into the duct.

Sharpe and his men stayed in the square and watched as the cavalry streamed around the battalion.

He was wading to the waist, and his coat and trousers streamed with runnels of orange-coloured light.

Drifting, glimmering figures streamed up round him from the vast under-world of sleep, called unconscious.