There was silence for a full minute beyond the locked door, and then it was flung open abruptly, and Ramsey strode out in his shirt-sleeves and snatched the booklet from her hand.

At seemingly random moments in his life he is abruptly flung to some other date - usually in the past, occasionally in the future - where he arrives, naked, onto or close to some scene relevant to his own life.

Orlando could see nothing, hear nothing, as though he had been abruptly flung into the vacuum of starless space.

They were all abruptly flung forward when Morn had to slam both feet onto the brake to keep from creaming two bicycle messengers snaking through the traffic with big flat square packages strapped to their backs.

The runnels of light wrapped around Sulu suddenly expanded outward and coalesced, wrapping him in a sheath of cobalt flame... then abruptly flung themselves off again.

Either Marc or Lynelle must have sent out a farspoken announcement of our arrival, for the front door of the tree-house was abruptly flung open and a diminutive lilac-skinned male Poltroyan dressed in jeweled robes bounded out to meet us.