On the sands they had horses waiting, which dragged the casks up the steep street of the little town with a fine rush and clatter and scramble.
The pond rose so quickly and the water rushed past so fast that people had to scramble out of their houses and begin working on them, to keep them from being washed away.
In a very few moments it was necessary for Elaine to scramble to her feet, pick up her cloth of gold coverlet and pall of blackest samite and gaze blankly at a big crack in the bottom of her barge through which the water was literally pouring.
At sight of her Anne tried to scramble to her feet, but sank back again with a sharp little cry of pain.
The escort was beginning to scramble up from the sidewalk.
They commenced to scramble down, and for a while we had a three-ringed circus.
No scramble.
"It is"—solemnly—"easier to scramble eggs than unscramble them.
Take egg whites only and scramble them for the most even and consistent consistency.
Wang-yun: Now those ambitious courtiers started to scramble for power, profit and influence.
I noticed Daniel, who will be ten in November, and Wes, who will be seven in December, scramble for their gear.
These include products by cult brands such as The Ordinary, Diptque and Glossier, leading to a scramble for the latest must-have items.
"And then there will be a scramble, and a sperm bank, and a tank will arrive in her living room.
When they fed, no one dared to scramble to be the first.
Instead, try this spinach scramble.
But light exposure will scramble the diamond's data: You can put something on top of the diamond, but if you were to walk around in sunlight, you would erase your wedding photos, most likely, he said.
Amid a scramble to find talent from non-traditional backgrounds, Citigroup is also testing behavioural profiling across its US investment bank and Goldman Sachs is piloting its own version.
It may sometimes be a scramble to find a socket to juice up your dying gadgetry, but the "first come, first served" rule stands fast in this area.
But when you travel across multiple time zones, like flying from New York to Moscow, those little pacemaker cells that thought they knew the routine scramble around confused before they can put on their show.
A spate of fundraisings by Chinese biotech companies has highlighted a scramble for leadership of the country's nascent life sciences sector and raised questions over how quickly China can rival the US and Europe as a source of blockbuster medicines.
