Clipper had signed his own death warrant when he had made that desperate plunge.
Another critic said that Homer "made a sudden and desperate plunge into water color painting".
So it was on his death-bed that he made his desperate plunge, and went, it must be said, bravely, on the darkling voyage.
I made a desperate plunge.
It seemed hardly likely if, as appeared, he had been taking steps for a year to make his desperate plunge.
At the same instant the Puritan's left hand tore the dagger from the girdle and with one desperate plunge sank the keen blade home.
The Shadow had figured correctly; but he had not expected Hothan to take that desperate plunge.
And the corpse beside him - the cadaver which must have borne the brunt of Crofts' desperate plunge - was really that of a man.
With a desperate plunge of his heart, Stern recalled the kitcben.
Paul tensed, every fiber of his being coiling for a desperate plunge to stop her, but the distance was too great; he wouldn't be in time.