He spoke very slowly, and towards the end of every sentence dropped his voice, so that what he said was anything but distinct.
Then he went back, and sat down by the bed again, locking his dropped hands loosely between his knees, and looking steadily at the worn old colourless carpet.
For a moment he watched her, his head droppedforward like a menacing animal.
It was better not to chance possible complications-- Presently Joe dropped out of this debate.
She dropped her eyes Pity suddenly filled his own.
Her colour came up, her heart gave a curious twist, and she dropped her eyes.
Her soul was wrapped in a deep peace, and as the cooling air swept in, she dropped her tired head against the chair's cushion, and drifted into a dream of river and orchard, and of a white house set in green grass.
We arrived at Danville at daybreak and as the engine pulled into the yards I dropped off and walked down the track where I found a water spigot and there I bathed face and hands.
My hiding place was between some big boxes, and I knew I would not be discovered till after the ship had left port, so, feeling comfortably safe, I dropped off to sleep.
I literally buried myself in the bin and dropped off to sleep, for I was so exhausted I could hardly hold open my eyes.
My little one--see, the lady has dropped this paper.
A curve at its upper end hid the thoroughfare beyond, although the sound of wheels and the hoarse cries of hucksters were audible to him as he dropped upon one knee, and gently raised the inert figure.
Several candidates could not stand the pace and the grind and dropped out, but their places were eagerly taken by others.
Those holding the hose lines dropped them, and the crowd of fire-fighters surged back.
Porter was warned that unless he trained and practiced better he would bedropped altogether, and his sullen answer was that he "didn't much care.
Then, as he was charging around the end, with Dick and Stiver forming interference for him, he dropped the ball.
The victims ran with their arms over their heads for protection; when one dropped his arms and raised his head to cry for help, I recognized Tony Gonzales, the squarest, nicest man in the place.
As soon as they got going good, Mary and I dropped out of it.
When with the boys she dropped her tomfoolery, too.
They come straight and fairly bunched, while we dropped them.
Mother dropped her sewing and had a fit on the spot.
I dropped a man and the soldiers scattered behind rocks and trees.
At last Zampeto dropped something, and as he stooped to pick it up, I saw Mary plainly.
The women dropped their babies in the street, so they could have their hands free to talk.
Suppose she dropped her handkerchief as she was falling over a cliff--what would you do first: save her life or pick up the handkerchief?
The oak screen dropped as from the clouds: it is most acceptable; I might have guessed there was only one kind friend so ready to supply hay to my hobby-horse.
Letters have been dropped at Bedford, threatening to burn the town; and the inhabitants have been so intimidated, as to have placed a guard in many parts of it, several nights past.
Gradually Sieur Sarpy, yielding to the influence of heat and solitude, dropped his book upon his knee, and closed his eyes for a brief respite of repose.
Poor Pauline was overwhelmed with surprise and sorrow, but, without a word further, she dropped the paper into the fire.
But before he had the time to say a word either to quiet his fear or dissipate his conjecture, Zulma moved slowly from her place anddropped softly before his knees.
Zulma continued to hold Blanche on her knee and, sitting before the glowing fire, they both dropped off into sleep.
At times, in the march of discourse, the veil of the future was timidly raised, but immediately dropped again, with an instinctive shrinking of the three young hearts.
Whereat faintness overcame her, and she dropped helpless upon the sidewalk.
She then opened the door, stepped into the hall and dropped it into the mail box chute near the elevator.
I am going to deposit first a dime and then a nickel in the slot that's marked for one cent stamps," replied Ruth, suiting her actions to her words and picking up the stamps which the machine dropped into the receiving tray.
They were working on the levee, and haddropped everything, and pushed off in their craft, when Joe's cry of alarm reached them.
And do you think whoever dropped it is still here?
Joe and Blake had sections opposite each other, and, after talking across the aisle in low tones for a few minutes, they droppedoff to sleep.
That box was dropped there by someone who took refuge on this island.
Bureaus had fallen on their sides, smashing the plaster, and pictures had dropped from their hooks and lay on the ceiling.
Dunton droppedhis eyeglass and stared at his friend in amazement.
The ground dropped almost sheer away from it at the southern end, while almost the whole of the front of it was washed by a muddy and apparently deep pool.
The candlestick dropped with a clatter from his hand.
There, with no ceremony at all, they dropped him on the ground, and ran quickly down the corridor.
Westerham climbed to the top of the cab and dropped over the wall into the garden.
He moved slowly and cautiously, till he was nearly to the edge of the forest, and then he dropped onto his hands and knees and crawled forward, slowly, pausing every few moments to listen.
He dropped down outside the enclosure, but instead of striking the ground, he struck something which he realized was a human form.
He advanced from among the trees, and just before getting out where the light would encompass him, Ben dropped on his hands and knees, and began slowly crawling along, after the fashion of an Indian.
He looked upward quickly, and as he did so, a human form came over the top of the wall and dropped down, striking Dick and knocking him to the ground.
We swung down on the end of a tall tree, and dropped into the gulch, then suddenly a torrent came rushing down upon us and bore us a considerable distance before emptying into a river several miles from here.
The Times, any 13-inch shells that you happen to have on board might be hoisted over the side, disguised as bunches of bananas, and dropped on to the offending submarine.
He yelled out loudly, and stopping for an instant, as if in extreme pain, dropped to the ground, limped off a few paces, and was lost in the darkness.
On account of the large size and spreading habit of the plants, five seeds will be sufficient for a hill; and, in the rows, they should be dropped five or six inches from each other.
There is little permanency in the slight variations of character by which they are distinguished; and old varieties are constantly being dropped from the catalogues, and others, with different names, substituted.
In field-culture, it is planted in drills two feet apart; the seeds being dropped in groups, three or four together, a foot apart in the drills.
But, over along the next lane, a parallel track through the timber, there had been as stern a check; and the fury of the fire from the trenches in the thickets forced brave men to cover and dropped others in their tracks.
Society at the Point frowned upon them and, after the first formal call or two, dropped them entirely--a thing they never seemed to resent in the least, or even to notice.
He stood beside one when they fired it off, and I assure you Parry the clown never dropped as quick as he did.
Timothy searched in vain, and the coat was handed to Pat, who immediately took his knife, opened a corner of the coat, and out dropped two small peas.
A paper notorious for its veracity says "that a man in New Hampshire went out gunning one day this spring; he saw a flock of pigeons sitting on a branch of an old pine, so he dropped a ball into his gun and fired.
The shells of the enemy were falling thickly; and just as the soldier seized the soap, one dropped close behind him and exploded, tearing open an immense hole in the earth, and nearly burying the poor fellow.
His hand was extended to greet me, but as he looked at my face his arm dropped in surprise.
If shedropped her handkerchief to-morrow, fifty men would be scrambling for it, eh?
Sub-lieutenant Webb, being the officer in charge, dropped into the stern-sheets.
Part of the dog's jaw hasdropped an eighth of an inch.
At last the Spaniards dropped behind and the chums were free of any embarrassing society.
Had not Haynes grasped his comrade by the shoulders Webb would have dropped inertly from the balk of timber into the sea.
At the same time he dropped one of the Sub's two assailants, while the other, making no further attempt to close, hurled his knife with deadly precision at the Lieutenant.
Still carrying way the two pulling boats ran close alongside, while their crews silently dropped the heavy ash oars into the muffled rowlocks.
The banner dropped from his nerveless grasp just as a bullet, striking the animal on its white blaze, brought man and steed to the ground.
The bowman, hit by a flying fragment of shell, had dropped inertly over the thwart.
She reported that the younger of the children had dropped off to sleep, but the others were still eager.
The sinking sun dropped behind the mountains, and the following shadow also lay across Jimmy Grayson's face.
Then he uttered a joyous shout, dropped his lantern, and seized Sylvia.
A brook fed by the snows above formed a pool in the hollow, and then, overflowing it, dropped down the mountain-wall.
Lee dropped her hands again and walked a step or two away.
The "King" was a brave and sanguine man, physically and mentally disposed to hope, but his heart dropped like lead in water.
He handed the paper to Hobart, who looked at it a little while and thendropped it with an air of increasing discontent.
He dropped cross-legged on his choice, there to remain patiently until those he sought would come with the dark.
He dropped his glasses to swing on their cord, his eyes glistening as he spoke directly to Raf.
Raf's eyes met Soriki's, and the com-tech's hand dropped to hook fingers in his belt within touching distance of his side arm.
It was a maneuver which Raf copied, though he first dropped a flare as a precaution and brought the flier down in its red glare, with the warrior expressing shrill disapproval.
His sword-knife was gone, the spear they had given him for the arena he had dropped when he dragged the merman out of danger.
Before he dropped out of sight behind that barrier he raised the spear in salute.
On the rock beside the shining things it coveted, it dropped dried and shriveled fruit.
Sssuri stood up, and his hand dropped on Dalgard's shoulder, applying pressure which was both a warning and a summons, bringing the scout to his feet with as little noise as possible.
The pilot was secretly relieved when Captain Hobart dropped out of the hatch in the globe and made his way over to the flitter.
Then as suddenly it dropped to his side, and he fell on his knees before wriggling across the sand, his paws held out imploringly to his fellow captive.
Then one after another dropped away from the center mass and lay unmoving on the floor.
He noted a faint smell of heliotrope and knew she had dropped the flower for him.
At first, Kit could not see them well, but when they got up he started as he recognized the girl who had dropped the flower.
They were beaters, driving the grouse, and by and by Osborn, picking up his glasses, saw clusters of small dark objects that skimmed and then dropped into the heath.
The snow was thinner, but the wind had not droppedand buffeted him savagely as he struggled through a drift to the fold.
It had been blowing fresh, and although the wind had dropped the swell ran high.
The flicker was almost too slight to notice, but it hinted at nervousness and Kit dropped the message back.
A pistol-shot rang out and Kit, swinging round, saw that a flake of plaster had dropped on the table.
In fact, the night of the crisis, I dropped Van's pistol overboard; he'd got malaria badly and was feeling desperate.
If she dropped off, it was uncertain whether she would stop until she had rolled some distance; perhaps she might not stop before she reached the edge of the crag.
Sothern, his face white but his expression showing nothing, his voice grave and calm, dropped his own hand gently upon the lieutenant's shoulder.
He rose again, almost immediately, picked up the two revolvers and the knife, dropped them to the floor under his bench and sat down again.
Drennen came to understand dully as the day wore on that there could be but one explanation; a rush like this meant that some fool had dropped his pick into a vein of gold and word of it had flashed across the mountains.
And as he dropped Kootanie George fell with him, the big Canadian's broad chest taking the first of the flying bullets.
Lemarc and Sefton, speaking together, had dropped far behind; Hasbrook was close to Madden's elbow.
A hand, dropped to her lap, came up to the level of the table top and in its palm he saw the shining barrel of a small automatic pistol.
They climbed with the sharp slopes on the mountains, they dropped down into the narrow, flinty cañons, they heard only the swish of tree tops and the quarrelling of streams lost to their eyes in the depths below them.
And yet it was another two hours before he had dropped the last ten feet to the narrow, pebbly shore of Red Deer Lake.
It was peeping out at him from the little hollow upon the log's uneven surface where he had dropped it, a glint of gold from under the piece of bark which he had put over it and which had not been thrust aside by the winter winds.
The sudden sound of a voice shouting dropped down to him.
He turned back into the dugout, closed the door and dropped the wooden bar into place.
Then he dropped them so that they fell to his side like dead weights and swung about, turning his back upon her, going swiftly upstream toward the Settlement.
Then her head dropped again and once more she was moaning as when he had first heard her, moaning and weeping, her body twisting.
His jaw haddropped a little, he stood as if frozen in his place, even the hand which Sothern had just released held motionless half way on its brief return journey to his side.
He dropped suddenly to his knees, caught up the hem of her short skirt and pressed it to his lips.
When Alfred Van Hoosen quitted Harkaway he dropped in at the Union Club and played a couple of games of billiards.
Starting rapidly forward, he picked up the wallet, and pushing against Jack, dropped it into the pocket of his overcoat.
Examining the loads dropped by the porters, Tom found that about half consisted of food, half of small-arm ammunition, both valuable booty.
Adopting Mwesa's precaution, they climbed one of the trees that formed the boundary of their enclosure, dropped to the ground outside the zariba, and made their way into the nullah.
He had dropped thus into the enclosure to avoid making a gap in the fence.
They would no doubt move with caution, and, unfamiliar with the ground, would take some time in scouting over the rough, steep slopes, and would probably hesitate to adventure into the cleft which dropped deep into the unknown.
He unlocked the bag, dropped his letters into it, and took up the voucher slip bearing the number of letters enclosed; this would be signed at the post office and brought back with the incoming mail.
Matcham could not restrain a little cry, which he instantly stifled, and even Dick started with surprise, and dropped the windac from his fingers.
And in the meanwhile Dick Shelton had dropped behind a lilac, and had his crossbow bent and shouldered, covering the point of the forest.
Cautiously and silently, they dropped again upon the other side; nor did they dare to speak until they had returned to their old ambush in the gorse.
He dropped back again to the top round of the ladder in a kind of amazement.
As he dropped again to the earth, another arose a little farther on and repeated the same performance.
The priest droppedhis eyes, and with an inaudible benediction hurried on.
