1 Then suddenly Melanie turned toward her and, with a cry, hit her across the shoulders with all her might.
2 "I'll bet your pa never hit a darky a lick in his life," said Frank.
3 You will get out of this buggy this time, or I will hit you with the whip.
4 "I don't know which hit Beetrice Tarleton worse, losing her boys or her horses," said Grandma Fontaine.
5 Whether or not she hit him, she never knew, but the next minute the pistol was wrenched from her hand by a grasp that almost broke her wrist.
6 And with a rush, "But I didn't care and I hit them."
7 Use a big window at the back, with a cyclorama of a blue that would simply hit you in the eye, and just one tree-branch, to suggest a park below.
8 This peculiarity is most vividly hit by the French in the name they bestow upon that fish.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 9 True, one portrait may hit the mark much nearer than another, but none can hit it with any very considerable degree of exactness.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. 10 But in the foamy confusion of their mixed and struggling hosts, the marksmen could not always hit their mark; and this brought about new revelations of the incredible ferocity of the foe.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre. 11 Oh, I never hurt when I hit, except when I hit a whale or something of that sort; and this fellow's a weazel.
12 Yet they did aim at them, and hit them too.
13 Two Swedes had fell out of that bucket once, and hit the water, feet down.
14 That was his answer, and it showed his mood; from now on he was fighting, and the man who hit him would get all that he gave, every time.
15 Jurgis was not the mighty man he had once been, but his arms were still good, and there were few farm dogs he needed to hit more than once.