Next the agile Munchausen attempts, by a quick turn, to take him in the rear of his position, but finds a strong body of five divisions hurled upon his headquarters with an impetuosity that knocks out half his teeth.
That on the arm was a slight thing; perhaps it would be less agile than before.
But she, with a simple turn of her agile right hand, disengaged herself from the bull-fighter.
In their races she was as agile as a boy and her legs looked like reeds; her hair hung about her head in thick rebellious locks twisting like black snakes.
He was a fellow of quiet movements and agile hands, and seemed to take no notice of the presence of the bull-fighter.
A kangaroo, like all his race, Of agile form and placid face.
They would take the trail, and Jim Boone, no longer agile enough to be effective on the trail, would guard the house and the body of Gandil in it.
It was Mary's way of showing happiness, and her master's acknowledgment was to run his gloved left hand up through her mane and with his ungloved right, that tanned and agile hand, pat her shoulder lightly.
The skylight was open, and it was easy to guess that he had crept out of his master's garret-window, which was only a few feet away and perfectly easy to get in and out of, even for a climber less agile than a monkey.
For the moment she was possessed with an envy for Sidney's agile imagination, a disgust at her own stolid faculties.
Having secured the loose planking she rose and turned her agile mind to the consideration of a desire that had began shaping when Trude said she could go around the world with the Egg.
She had had to piece together Trude's romance from the fabric of her agile imagination.
Mason [Illustration: Agile as grasshoppers, those fierce war dogs ripped and worried their prey.
These agilecreatures ran about on their hind legs with astonishing speed, using a long reptilian tail as a balance.
As agileas grasshoppers, those fierce war dogs ripped and worried their prey.
Horrified, the black bearded warrior glanced at the empty hilt in his hand but, courageous to the end, sprang in like a tiger to grapple with that small, agile man in khaki and serge.
Terrified, he flattened to the rock wall as a huge, though dangerously agile body hurtled by with the speed of a runaway horse.
Nevertheless, bison are surprisingly agile and are not creatures with which to trifle, especially in the breeding season, when bulls will charge with little provocation.
It is interesting to note that the muskrat is no match for the agile mink, and that one of these fierce carnivores moving into an area has resulted in the extermination of a whole colony of muskrats.
It is a matter of considerable interest to note how the nervous and agile fingers, accustomed to sovereign rule over the keys, handle the pen; how the musician feels as a man; how he estimates art and artists.
Garnet leaped after him, but he was no match for the agile boy, who in another minute had severed Paul's bonds and placed the weapon in his hands.
Hendrick was suddenly changed from a slow and sedate elephant into an agile panther.
To all these waters theagile air has perpetual access.
But Santina, agileand strong, pushed him back, and stood aloof.
It is only of late that this agile and tricky little quadruped has become domiciled in this county.
My coble will always be at your service, and I hope to be able to accompany you on some of your rambles, though I am not nearly so agile now as I have been.
His arms went about heragile little body, as her fingers clung to him.
However, he was interrupted by the stout but agile figure of Graham Brenchfield weaving in and out among the dancers and coming their way.
See her, in a foam of short fluffy green skirts, twirl and tiptoe on the glittering wire, all grace and slenderness and agile enchantment.
It is with difficulty that our agile oarsman, the raven-locked and graceful featured Jewish youth, whose services as guide we have again secured, makes his way among the countless pleasure boats that ply to and fro.
He was as agile as ever: as though he had not two legs like the rest of the people, but dozens of them.
The Iscariot turned and scurried about, agile and swift, as if he had not two but a dozen legs.
As she flew up one flight her agile parent ran down the other; upon which the little girl gave chase, only to find that when she had gained the bottom he was at the top.
They had scarcely finished when Mena knocked at the door and ushered in two women of Cyprus, with gleaming black eyes and slender, agile forms.
Agile as monkeys, the slave girls darted about her, pelting each other with blossoms and uttering peals of shrill laughter.
But the stout Crispus, although he had quickly thrown away spear and shield, was soon left far behind the agile stone-mason.
Many of the stones that had been inserted between the rafters had fallen out; nevertheless, sufficient remained to make it possible for an agile man to reach the charred and ruinous roof.
In her attitude, in the flash of her eyes, in the tone of her voice, in the thrill that went through her agile frame, Jean saw that the leap was inevitable.
Guarding himself against every feint, he ultimately succeeded in firmly grappling his agile assailant.
In the late campaign there was no comparison in the seamanship of the agile son of Nippon and that of the hulking peasant of interior Russia.
