1 "Only wait a bit, old chap, and I'll give ye a sling for that wounded arm," cried cruel Flask, pointing to the whale-line near him.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin. 2 "Mind he don't sling thee with it," cried Starbuck.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin. 3 The agent said his face was striped with court-plaster, and he carried his left hand in a sling.
4 Though not a vaunting and bloodily disposed Goliath," returned David, drawing a sling from beneath his parti-colored and uncouth attire, "I have not forgotten the example of the Jewish boy.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32 5 Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 6 He took the place of Jean Valjean, who, on account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to the bride.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING 7 Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE 8 He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as though it did not hurt him.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—THE INSEPARABLE 9 And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune.
10 THEY was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
11 But, they tore up their handkerchiefs to make fresh bandages, and carefully replaced it in the sling, until we could get to the town and obtain some cooling lotion to put upon it.
12 Even then her tender hand hurled childish darts, and whirled about her head the twisted thong of her sling, and struck down the crane from Strymon or the milk-white swan.
13 And, besides, Beatrice Tarleton never willingly permitted anyone, black or white, to hold reins when her arms were out of slings.
14 He shakes Freddy's hand, and almost slings him on the ottoman with his face to the windows; then comes round to the other side of it.
15 "Never mind," he answered; and, slinging his weapon over his shoulder, strode off down the gorge and so away into the heart of the mountains to the haunts of the wild beasts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS