But every dream ended with the thought of a wild chestnut running into the circle of his rifle's sights, leaping into the air at the report of his gun, and dropping inert on the grass.
And dropping one hand on her hip, she said cheerfully to McGuire.
He wobbled an instant, then his great knees bent, and dropping inert on his face the dust spurted like steam under the impact.
For by this time she was scrambling across the broken sloping roofs, as quick and agile as a cat, dropping over ledges, climbing up barriers and across coping tiles.
All Paris lay before me, afar off, in the splendid mists of the sinking orb, the glow of which seemed to fall into the grave at my feet, as the dull sounds of the sods dropping on the coffin broke in upon my last words.
A flight of winged fish skittered over the sea, and the clouds following the Gulf Stream turned rose with the dropping of the sun; the horizon bore a suggestion of Florida.
Me, in my vowed Picture, the sacred wall declares to have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.
A sort of track revealed itself, doubling and dodging and dropping down rocky slides, as if in flight before me.
The foot's dropping off her, sir," replied Michael, with his usual optimism.
Dropping her head softly on his shoulders, she whispered, "I think I could, Archy.
Both were fond of dropping into Mr. Smith's parlour and spending an hour or two with his only daughter, Mary.
Presently, Maud Bruce, tripping daintily across the path he had swept clean, let herself into the Square gardens, dropping her glove in the muddy street as she took a pass-key from her pocket.
Alvin held the reverse motion until they felt it safe to talk without dropping into whispers.
Rubber plants have an ugly habit of going to top, dropping off their lower leaves as they do this.
They are sensitive flowers, closing partly in cloudy weather, and actually dropping to pieces in a rainstorm or under severe winds.
Tiddler, dropping the dead man and snatching his rifle from Dennis's hand before he could interfere.
He stood still, and then he noticed that the door of the collecting box was open, and that while she peered along the deserted trench she was gathering the letters and dropping them into a receptacle beneath her white apron.
We're dropping right into the trees," said Dennis.
Up went the lad's arm and down came his clenched fist full on the bridge of the German's nose, dropping him back again.
A Company were dropping in after them, regardless of all consequences.
Dennis; and clubbing his revolver, he smote him fair and square between the eyes, dropping the spy like a stone.
Dropping his aggressive tone to mere querulousness, the man sought the whiskey demijohn, and helped himself and his companions.
But Kate only buried her face in her lifted muff, slightly raised her pretty shoulders, and, dropping her tremulous eyelids, walked on.
He was a man of great importance to the government, but he had a delightful way of dropping all the cares of State, once he reached home, and of romping with his two tiny grandsons whom he adored.
They were not more than two hundred yards above us, dropping bombs as they flew.
Each man thought of a way of doing it, and, in the first rush, one or two made it, but the rest of us only got a leg up and swung there before droppingback to earth.
I remember walking thither three afternoons in succession, my eyes weary with being set against the wind, and how, dropping suddenly over the edge of the down, I found myself in a new world of warmth and shelter.
For a long time this dropping fire was the one sign of human activity that came to disturb me as I walked.
Then came from the far distance the reports of a few dropping shot, showing that the riflemen of both parties were awake.
Her boats were lowered, and her people were seen dropping down into them with a rapidity which showed that they had abandoned all hope of saving their ship.
Do you know," he said, dropping into a chair by her side, "that you interest me immensely?
But poor Eric was too sick and tired, and his heart was too full to talk much, and he contented himself with civil answers to the questions put to him, dropping the conversation as soon as he could.
The signal agreed on was the (accidental) droppingof a plate by Brigson.
Ted, starting upright in bed, and then, shocked by the pain from his sudden movement, dropping back to his pillow.
Dropping to her knees, she knelt beside his bed, and covered his limp hand with kisses.
At first it seemed they were dropping terrifically; but gradually, frightened though she was, she could feel that some safety device was taking hold.
She seemed to be on the point of dropping her knee every time she spoke to him, and there was an unmistakable tremor of excitement in her voice even when she confided to him that she adored the ocean when it was calm.
One might have been pardoned for believing him to be a most intimate friend of the family and given to constantly dropping in at any and all hours of the day.
And when with a cry of joy she came rushing down, Cinderella-like, dropping her slipper in her excitement, and flung herself into his arms, he knew that life had begun for him anew.
But don't you let my sister know I told you about the sewing," she said, dropping her voice, as a brisk step was heard outside the door.
He looked up at my ejaculation of surprise, and, dropping the baby as if it had been a parcel, strode under the window.
She recovered herself instantly and faced him quite calmly, her hand dropping into her lap.
She turned toward the door into the passageway, then gasped suddenly and stopped, droppingher torch which clattered upon the steel floor.
