They started off, rocking and bumping over the new track, and Carhart began stripping off his clothes.
There was a great racket about them of bumping cars and squeaking brakes, and of shouting and the blowing off of locomotives.
For a while he just rested, floating in the little space, bumping steadily against one wall or another, with barely inches to spare.
It was dark and he was bumping around in a tiny, tight space.
Here they were in a sort of shallow flaw running lengthwise, and they had to walk in a crouched position to keep their heads frombumping the low ceiling.
His sleeping body swung slowly to and fro in the tiny space, bumpinggently from one side to the other.
Freight cars by hundreds of thousands go bumpingall over the different railroads of the land, and all the while they are getting bumped and broken in accidents--large and small.
A second milk-train comes bumpingin at a far platform.
It is closed and sealed, while still ice-cold, and icy-cold she comes bumping her way east over three or four thousand miles of track.
Somewhere it was bumping its weary way in a lazy freight train, while a small boy, hungry and scared, was vainly calling to be let out.
He presently led the animals towards the stable, and the buggy, bumping into the open, showed a heavy list on the driving side which witnessed to the girth of the owner beneath whose weight the springs had all but collapsed.
For some moments they groped along in the gloom, their heads bent, to prevent them bumping the low mud ceiling, their lips silent, but in the hearts of each a sort of dull dread.
A fifth came riding up under the very nose of the last, and settled itself with a rattle of chains and bumping of sides against the quay.
Slowly he stumbled down the aisle with the despised toy bumping after him, and rejoined Louise.
John, as a prodigious bumping behind the lowered curtain told of scenery that was being shifted, "I wish they'd hurry up.
Maybe he has--that constant bumping on his nose will cause a swelling and close up the nostrils," ventured Elena.
One funny fish, grey in colour and about fifteen inches in length, kept bumping his nose against the glass side as if to come through.
And Phil dragged his steed over to the table, where he rocked back and forth for a moment bumping his nose against the edge of the table each time.
He hunched up his shoulders to his ears, arched his leg like a prancing horse, and off we went on our wild career, lurching into every couple on the floor, and bumping into all the outsiders.
The words did not carry to the youth on the skyline, but he saw, understood, and, slipping and bumping down the steep wall with more speed than sense, dashed across the draw and up the other side.
Crashing into the door head first, they sent it swinging back against the wall and followed it, bumping down the two steps still locked together.
Suddenly an Isvostchick stumbled along past me, down the empty street, and the bumping rattle of the sledge on the snow woke me from my laziness.
Down the Sadovya we slipped, bumping over the uneven surface of the snow, and the shops grew smaller and the cinemas more stringent, and the women and men with their barrows of fruit and coloured notepaper and toys more frequent.
The final snap of the lock on his trunk came to her at last, the bumping sounds of its passage to the hall.
I used to prowl around by myself with an analytical eye upon humanity, and I was always bumping into a lot of sordidness and suffering that I couldn't in the least remedy, and it often gave me a bad taste in my mouth.
The first time was on the night of January 25, when we had a stiff breeze from the north with some sea, so that the vessel was bumping rather hard against the ice.
Stubberud broke the forward part of the spare ski he had lashed under his sledge, and Johansen's sledge also suffered from the continual bumpingagainst the hard sastrugi.
He could run no more, for the anguish of mind he had been through, and the bumping and shaking he had received, were beginning to tell upon him.
Zhilin sat behind, swaying and bumping his face against the stinking Tatar's back.
The rest had been rattle and bang of jazz and chatter, and bumping about on a hot, swaying floor into obstreperous shoulders, and the smell of sweetened popcorn and fresh paint and sickly perfume.
Suddenly she had a vivid picture of him as a ragged, little fellow, stumbling about through his unfathomable darkness, bumping into things and leaving jagged holes in his child's black stockings.
Her directions barely kept him from bumping into the trees that grew closer and closer together.
I wasbumping against the sides of the tunnel as these thoughts went through my brain, and when I came plump against the transverse wall of what I called the home passage I turned to the left, and was soon in the open air.
We stumbled up the hill in the dark, bumping against trees and catching our feet in roots, even falling on our knees at times, and once we fell over each other and rolled down the hill.
One pack-horse was reserved for the camera and tripod, and to prevent him from ranging from the trail and bumping the valuable apparatus against trees or rocks, his halter was tied to the tail of Nixon's saddle animal.
It would miss entirely the main thing--the fight to keep the raft from bumping the rock island and splitting in two like the river did.
It was impossible to make the main middle channel from there, but we poled off without much difficulty and went bumping off down a shallow channel to the extreme right.
I starts cranking at the splash, and with the bergs all rolling about and bumping into each other no one can tell but what it was one of them that really started it.
The lad, after bumping down along the bottom to the lower end of the raft, had come to the surface no whit the worse for his ducking.
That was one of the queerest sensations I experienced on the whole voyage--having to avoid bumping the lower end of a rock the while I could see the riffle where a strong current was flowing around the upper end.
Being pretty well gone in the back and knees, she got away from me and slid the last ten feet, giving her bottom a bumping that it never did entirely recover from.
The occasional bumping and rocking of the machine he corrected automatically without looking up.
The guns began to bark clearly above the straining and bumping noise of the crumbling seaplane, and a wildly-aimed shell burst on the water half a mile to windward.
He got so excited when he heard the noise and saw the party that, inadvertently, he let his burden slide down the icy slope, bumping and bouncing clumsily from one impediment to another.
Kaviak's right runner, catching at some obstacle, swerved and sent the sled bumping along on its side, the small head of the passenger narrowly escaping the ice.
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