After a little study of their vague darts they proved to be fish.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
This time however your darts did not touch me.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
With all the keen longings of youth for change, this confinement, voluntary though it was, told painfully on the young girl, and when she did get a few moments of freedom, it was seized upon as a bird darts from its cage.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens