"Collide with" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... trouble is they don't know what we're goin' to do. Dan Hicks an' Jack Flaherty's been makin' a quiet brag that one o' these days or nights they'll take advantage o' this well-known peculiarity of ourn to collide with the Maggie an' sink us, and in that case we wouldn't have no defense an' no come-back in a court of law. Me, I don't feel like drownin' in that engine room or gettin' cut in half by the bow o' the Bodega or the Aphrodite. Consequently, you'd better ship that new boiler you promised ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... as Billy had come to a halt Matt sprang to the ground. A tree the boy had feared they would collide with was close at hand, and to this he tied the horse, making sure that the halter should be well secured; and for the time being, the danger of being wrecked through a ...
— Young Auctioneers - The Polishing of a Rolling Stone • Edward Stratemeyer
... wreck now in sight. He fairly flew through the last dense thicket and jumped out, just in time to collide with another hurrying figure. When the two picked themselves up, Jerry ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island • Gordon Stuart
... the Forum, anxious to see the spot where Galba had fallen.[427] They themselves were a sufficiently alarming sight with their rough skin coats and long pikes. Unused to towns, they failed to pick their way in the crowd; or they would slip on the greasy streets, or collide with some one and tumble down, whereupon they took to abuse and before long to violence. Their officers, too, terrified the city by sweeping along the streets with their bands of ...
— Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II • Caius Cornelius Tacitus
... if it was an automobile accident, it's not at all surprising. Was it reckless driving, or did you collide with something?" ...
— Marjorie's Vacation • Carolyn Wells
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