Слово "dash". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

  But a milk cart rattled noisily across the distant perspective; a butcher boy, driving with the noble recklessness of a charioteer at Olympic Games, dashed round the corner sitting high above a pair of red wheels.

Rachel dashed in, her heart racing.

The dogs had suddenly caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives.

Whatever Zaphod’s qualities of mind might include—dash, bravado, conceit— he was mechanically inept and could easily blow the ship up with an extravagant gesture.

"Joy to the fair!—thy knight behold, Return'd from yonder land of gold; No wealth he brings, nor wealth can need, Save his good arms and battle-steed His spurs, to dash against a foe, His lance and sword to lay him low; Such all the trophies of his toil, Such—and the hope of Tekla's smile! 3.

He did not wait for anything more, but dashed on; and the yells grew fainter behind him as he ran into the croplands where the villagers lived.

It was still impossible to imagine what he could have done to make her angry enough to hammer him over the head for fifteen or twenty minutes, yet not angry enough to pick him up by the ankles and dash his brains out.

On some days the courtyard was too small for them and the troop would dash down into the cellar, race up a staircase, run along a corridor, then dash up another staircase and follow another corridor for hours. They never got tired of their yelling and clambering.

Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash its hoof at my chest—”

The dogs had suddenly caught sight of them, and it was only by a swift dash for their holes that the rats saved their lives.

He did not wait for anything more, but dashed on; and the yells grew fainter behind him as he ran into the croplands where the villagers lived.

It woke him up, and, with a snort of terror, he dashed off at three miles an hour.

My father was a gentle, easy-going person, a salad of racial genes: a Swiss citizen, of mixed French and Austrian descent, with a dash of the Danube in his veins.

Don't you know that a reddish-haired person of Irish forebears, with a dash of Scotch, can't be driven, but must be gently led?

A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek, and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car.

The sweep and dash of the brush on the canvas made the only sound that broke the stillness, except when, now and then, Hallward stepped back to look at his work from a distance.

A young man—we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; a Don Quixote without his corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown; high cheek bones, a sign of sagacity; the maxillary muscles enormously developed, an infallible sign by which a Gascon may always be detected, even without his cap—and our young man wore a cap set off with a sort of feather; the eye open and intelligent; the nose hooked, but finely chiseled.

The dash was more fear-inspiring than any threat could have been.

Both are very easy to do, but I assure you there is no credit in doing so, no, none at all!), so, then, with a thievish look the cat was for some reason about to dash into the burdock.

At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terri-ble happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring.

It was still impossible to imagine what he could have done to make her angry enough to hammer him over the head for fifteen or twenty minutes, yet not angry enough to pick him up by the ankles and dash his brains out.

The boy stole a rose from one of the bowls and dashed off.

He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the window, cut at me with his heavy weapon.

She was snarling as she ran. She had heard the cry of her cub and was dashing to save him.

Then he dashed in wild pursuit amid the stream of the traffic, but the start was too great, and already the cab was out of sight.

Then remounting we dashed back to join the cavalcade.

In places the water dashed against their knees, and both men staggered for footing.

That notion was soon given over. Among the fallen rocks the breakers spouted and bellowed; loud reverberations, heavy sprays flying and falling, succeeded one another from second to second; and I saw myself, if I ventured nearer, dashed to death upon the rough shore or spending my strength in vain to scale the beetling crags.

At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terri-ble happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring.

In places the water dashed against their knees, and both men staggered for footing.

I dashed some brandy into the water, and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks.

He had bragged considerably about Mose's immunity in respect to ha'nts, and I think he was rather dashed at his favorite's falling-off.

His knowledge of the world, and very especially of South America, is surprising, and he has a whole-hearted belief in the possibilities of our journey which is not to be dashed by the sneers of Professor Summerlee.

Again and again she has thought that she has found happiness and was wildly and unduly elated thereby, and has had her hopes dashed to the ground.

"He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence."

"No, but dash it all, Poirot -"

"Dash it all, Evie, I can't haul him down to the local police station by the scruff of his neck."