The gallant combatant came well primed by his master the duke as to how he was to bear himself against the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha; being warned that he must on no account slay him, but strive to shirk the first encounter so as to avoid the risk of killing him, as he was sure to do if he met him
full tilt. He crossed the courtyard at a walk, and coming to where the duennas were placed stopped to look at her who demanded him for a husband; the marshal of the field summoned Don Quixote, who had already presented himself in the courtyard, and standing by the side of Tosilos he addressed the duennas, and asked them if they consented that Don Quixote of La Mancha should do battle for their right.
They had not proceeded far, however, before they saw a party of horsemen, galloping
full tilt toward them.
So here they come,
full tilt. We could hear them because they wore boots and yelled, but we didn't wear no boots and didn't yell.
Their horsemen descended the mountain at a gallop, bent over their saddles, and rushed
full tilt upon the columns of infantry, which, crossing their pikes, stopped this mad assault.
I pulled up my centreboard, ran
full tilt into the mud, took in sail, and, standing in the stern, as I had often done at low tide, I began to shove the skiff with an oar.
As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside; here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat;
full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Water-bearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and to wind up with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep.
In racing across an open space I ran
full tilt upon a colony of snakes.
Dashing at top speed around a tepee, he ran
full tilt into Kiche lying at the end of her stick.
And surely, as Norman of Torn turned in the direction from which he had just come, there, racing toward him at
full tilt, rode three steel-armored men on their mighty horses.
Like the sword of Coeur De Lion, which always blazed in the front and thickest of the battle, Sam's palm-leaf was to be seen everywhere when there was the least danger that a horse could be caught; there he would bear down
full tilt, shouting, "Now for it!
And when a moment later Schurka joined her, they set off at
full tilt to the stone tower where Martin was a prisoner, taking the rolls with them.
It came charging
full tilt upon Bell, driving three inventors abreast--Edison, Gray, and Dolbear.