1 Suellen, behind her mother's hack, wrinkled her nose triumphantly at Scarlett, who had been planning to beg the necklace for herself.
2 She gave Scarlett a glare as she saw her look longingly at the hack.
3 He took her to the Arion Ball, and had a hack for her both ways.
4 A hack now drove to the door, and the friendly family who had received the fugitives crowded around them with farewell greetings.
5 That was mean of Wells to shoulder him into the square ditch because he would not swop his little snuff box for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 6 It was Wells who had shouldered him into the square ditch the day before because he would not swop his little snuff box for Wells's seasoned hacking chestnut, the conqueror of forty.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 7 You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.
8 The soldier himself does the stabbing, hacking, burning, and pillaging, and always receives orders for these actions from men above him; he himself never gives an order.
9 You might have noted only the physical dying, the shattered frame and hacking cough; but in that soul lay deeper death than that.
10 I beat it and hacked it considerable a-doing it.
11 The uprights which held the thick vines were rotten and that night Scarlett hacked at them with the kitchen knife until they fell and the tangled mass ran wild over the grave.
12 It had been hacked or torn right out from the roots.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB 13 The Scotch Grays no longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON 14 And with fury, as it were with passion, the murderer falls on the body, and drags it and hacks at it; so he covered her face and shoulders with kisses.