The country dances were determined, not vulgar, and the Rondo-Burleske grew with unstoppable propulsion, hurling up grim visions with brusque inevitability.
Witnesses said a small number of people on the beach got up and ran, some toward the Boardwalk and at least two into the water, as the plane sputtered, fell from the sky and crashed with a boom, shaking the ground and hurling up showers of sand and gasoline.
The first explosion, outside a four-story brick building at 21-70 Crescent Street, hurled up a manhole cover near the west curb and sent smoke pouring into the street.
Since labour chases wealth, soon the mountain towns were brimming with favelas (self-built settlements), hurled up haphazardly on treacherous slopes.Rodrigo Neves, Rio state secretary of social assistance and human rights, declared that 5,000 families must move to safer ground at once.
In fact, a trip to any local home improvement center will reveal a huge selection of such machines -- ranging from inexpensive electric-powered, hand-held shovels to budget-busting, gas-powered behemoths that can hurl up to 1,800 pounds of snow up to 40 feet away in a minute.
I felt a weird sense of elevation, as if I had been lifted off the face of the earth and hurled up into the air to hang there, looking down with clear, sharp vision at the world I now only half-inhabited.
Just two weeks before that, in a race in Northern California, a 38-footer, racing from San Francisco to the Farallon Islands and back, got too close to the Farallons — spiky, lunar-looking outcroppings about 28 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge — and was hurled up onto the rocks.
In tropical West Pacific thunderstorms, air masses and their pollutants are quickly hurled up.
I rush to the back, where I find them giddy, hurling color up from the ground.
In one house, he told me, he had created a net of roses carried by birds hurling themselves up toward a Watteau sky, billowing with foliage and clouds.
Dana Ullman, the appealing central character in "Bridge of Sand," is on her way to a funeral — her husband, a state senator, has died of cancer — when she sees smoke "hurling itself up" from a Pennsylvania field.
