1 Her skirt caught on a barb; he carefully freed it.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XII 2 Yes; these laws might be engraven on a Queen Anne's farthing, or the barb of a harpoon, and worn round the neck, so small are they.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish. 3 His words were barbed but they were the barbs of truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVI 4 They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in lieu of a sceptre now.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 12. Biographical. 5 One morning the two big bulls, Gladstone and Brigham Young, thought spring had come, and they began to tease and butt at each other across the barbed wire that separated them.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII 6 Fifty glittering axes and barbed spears were offered unheeded at his life, but the savages respected his rank and calmness, even in their fury.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 17 7 He had a conviction that he would soon feel in his sore heart the barbed missiles of ridicule.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 13 8 In various unrevealed capacities he had come in contact with such people but always with indiscernible barbed wire between.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott FitzgeraldGet Context In Chapter 8 9 The Knight had scarcely finished a hasty meal, ere his menial announced to him that five men, each leading a barbed steed, desired to speak with him.
10 Struggling and kicking under the cuts of the cane and the blows of the knotty stump Stephen was borne back against a barbed wire fence.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceGet Context In Chapter 2 11 The excitement of the party banished, for the most part, the memory of Rhett's barbs and she was happy, happier than she had been in years as she planned her reception.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLIX 12 His impersonal courtesy toward her that had begun during her convalescence continued and he did not fling softly drawled barbs at her or sting her with sarcasm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER LVIII 13 But we heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, and Queequeg now and then stopping to adjust the sheath on his harpoon barbs.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow. 14 Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck. 15 Three punctures were made in the heathen flesh, and the White Whale's barbs were then tempered.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 113. The Forge.