'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings,
Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings. Dryden.

He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung. Dryden.

I know thy generous temper well.
Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it,
It straight takes fire. Addison.

The sun begins to fling
His flaring beams. Milton.

Every beam new transient colors flings. Pope.

His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him. Walpole.

To fling about, to throw on all sides; to scatter. -- To fling away, to reject; to discard.

Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. Shak.

--To fling down. (a) To throw to the ground; esp., to throw in defiance, as formerly knights cast a glove into the arena as a challenge.

This question so flung down before the guests, . . .
Was handed over by consent of all
To me who had not spoken. Tennyson.

(b) To overturn; to demolish; to ruin. -- To fling in, to throw in; not to charge in an account; as, in settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days' work. -- To fling off, to baffle in the chase; to defeat of prey; also, to get rid of. Addison. -- To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. -- To fling out, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. -- To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.

And crop-full, out of doors he flings. Milton.

I flung closer to his breast,
As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath. Mrs. Browning.

To fling out, to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.

I, who love to have a fling,
Both at senate house and king. Swift.

England were but a fling
Save for the crooked stick and the gray goose wing. Old Proverb.

To have one's fling, to enjoy one's self to the full; to have a season of dissipation. J. H. Newman. "When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure." D. Jerrold.