Gloriana tiptoed across the floor and opened the door to the room where the four sisters slept, and disclosed four flushed faces peacefully reposing on their pillows.
It won't take me half a jiffy, but if I don't do it now, it will be all over the floor by morning.
Grace, lifting a tousled head from the pillow to survey the hilarious group scattered about the floor of the spacious room.
Fear held them tongue-tied, and they crouched upon the dusty floor as close to the door as they could get.
Those who went with him noted that before he lay down, he knelt on the floor and prayed a while and made the sign of the cross over the bed, saying, "This is my deathbed.
Instantly the huge, snarling dog fell to the floor with a thud as if struck by a sword.
Cedric was taken by an older boy up some stone stairs to a small room whose ceiling, walls and floor were of stone.
Wonderfully carved jars and vases of wrought gold and silver stood about on the floor and each was filled with a different kind of perfume.
Sometimes in the evening twilight he would ask his mother if the stars were pinholes in the floor of heaven through which the glory shone.
The floor was made of a beautiful red copper that shone in the sunlight like burnished gold and seemed almost a dark red in the shadow.
They went to the floor below, where the great grinding stones were; and where a tangle of belting and shaftings half filled one room.
They heard her go stumbling up the stairs to the floor above.
Then he passed on and up a flight of stairs leading to the third and highest floor of the mill.
And about thefloor were a few half burned matches.
There's some old clothes that Jim Ellison left, hanging in that closet on the floor above.
Another shriek of the wind, that rattled the loose window panes on the floor above, as though by a hundred unseen hands.
They had barely time to spring from their places, and dart up the stairs that led from the middle of the main floor to the one next above, before the door was thrown open and a man stepped within.
Even the tiny little penny dolls clicked their china heels upon the floor as they followed the rest, and Raggedy Andy, carrying his loose arm, thumped along in the rear.
Raggedy Andy said, when the music stopped and all the dolls had taken seats upon the floor facing him.
So the dolls lay down, placing themselves flat upon the floor directly in front of the shell and where they could see and admire its beautiful coloring.
And Raggedy Andy lay upon the floor of the nursery and showed the dollies just how it was done.
When the music started tinkling he caught the French doll's hand, and danced 'way across the nursery floor before he discovered that her soft brown eyes remained closed as they were when she lay upon the "sick" bed.
Of course it did not burn Henny, but when he pulled his hand out again, it was covered with a great ball of candy, which strung out all over the kitchen floor and got upon his clothes.
Finally Raggedy Andy suggested that all the dolls lie down upon the floor directly before the shell and keep very quiet.
When the Easter bunny found out that Fido and the dolls were his friends, he came out from behind the rocking horse and hopped across the floor to the door.
The excitement ran so high and the pillows flew so fast, the floor of the nursery was soon covered with feathers.
But just as they got almost to the door, they dropped to the floor in a heap, for there, standing watching the whole performance, was a man.
The wooden horse started to roll across the nursery floor and if Raggedy Ann had not been in the way, he might have bumped into the wall.
After her ran all the dollies, their little feet pitter-patting across the floor and down the hall.
From the streets he turns into the Plaza de San Francesco, and perceives a light in a house opposite the Palace of the Ayuntamiento (the first floor still remains, all miradores, like the wooden houses in England).
Claire, turning over the marriage ring all the time, an uncut emerald of priceless value, which Blanche has flung on the floor and, unlike her gentle self, stamped on.
Skins of animals killed in the chase cover the floor and are also attached to the lower portion of the pillars which support the light roof, adorned with flags and banners, the standard of St. George conspicuous in the front.
The memory of Columbus (or Colon, as he is called in Spain, a name continued in his present descendants, the Duques de Veragua) is perpetuated at Seville by a large flagstone let into the marble floor in the centre of the cathedral.
Agnes swayed, turned deathly sick, felt as if she were going blind, caught hold of the nearest support, missed it, and sank upon the floor insensible.
From the lower bowl it escaped to the floor through a hole in the bottom.
He therefore began again, weaving a second floor about six inches above the first one.
The table was heaped high with papers: books and maps strewed every chair: even the floor was littered with bulky tomes and piles of manuscript.
She tapped impatiently on the floorwith her toe as she replied-- "How vulgar you are sometimes, Oliver!
And then he put his daughter gently from him and went down to his study, where he paced up and down the floor for a good half-hour, instead of settling down as usual to his work.
The walls were lined with rows of books, from floor to ceiling; and some easy chairs and small tables gave a look of comfort and purpose to the room.
The floor is bare for coolness, or partially covered with rugs, and the lanai is prettily furnished with comfortable chairs, sofas, and tables loaded with flowers, or wonderful ferns in pots.
The Viceroy and thirty gentlemen of his suite sat in a row, and the memory-expert, a high-caste Brahmin, was brought in and seated on the floor in front of them.
Her troubled thoughts reverted to the little picture which had fluttered to the floor from somebody's keeping only an hour before.
There was all-colored rugs and a waxed floor in here, and a real old-fashioned sofa in that corner and a mahogany table with carved legs over here, and long lace curtains at the windows.
He lowered his heels to the floorwith a thud and prepared to follow.
Here the floor shook ominously under foot, suggesting rotten beams and unsteady sills.
It had been secreted beneath the floor of Andrew Bolton's chamber, before his arrest and imprisonment.
But suddenly he fell to the floor with a smothered groan.
This is all bare assertion," cried Deever, who, in irons, sat upon the floor with his back against a chair.
She has two rooms on the second floor of the house, a sitting-room and a bed-room.
He set the trunk upon the floor and snapped back the lock with a skeleton key.
As he did so he saw a waiter coming down the stairs from the floor above.
In the hall from which the broad stone stairs led up to the second floor they paused a moment to listen.
As the burned match fell to the floor a beam of light suddenly shot across the gloom.
A man can go through thefloor or the walls almost anywhere.
Nick had barely time to drop flat on the floor behind a row of great glass jars full of clear fluid, the nature of which he could not determine.
All these rooms were on the groundfloor and entrance was easy.
These are small booths, and squat on the floor sit four or five men and women around a brazier, warming their hands while they smoke.
We were shown into a large room, the floor of which was covered with bamboo matting laid upon some soft substance.
The various foremen as they approached bowed three times almost to the ground, and in some cases they went first upon their knees and struck the floor three times with their foreheads.
They are built of mud, with neither window nor door, the floor on which the artisans sit being about four feet above the narrow street level.
They were packed closely together, covering the floor as well as the long sweep of bunks, so that he was compelled to crawl over their naked legs.
They squatted about and lay everywhere on the floor and on the long low bunks that ran the full length of the cabin along either side.
He could tell when a crocodile, hauled up from the lagoon, lay without sound or movement, and perhaps asleep, a hundred feet away on the floor mat of jungle.
He collided with the door-jamb, and, ere Jerry could follow him, whirled around in a part circle into the centre of the floorjust in time to receive the next shell squarely upon his head.
In the little stateroom the captain tossed a blanket on the floor in a corner, and he did not find it difficult to get Jerry to understand that that was his bed.
From the crest of the combing to the cabinfloor was seven feet.
Without a turn of head or roll of eye, aristocratically positing their non-existingness to their faces, he trotted for'ard along the cabin floor and into the stateroom where Skipper babbled maniacally in the bunk.
He sprang at the nearest, pouncing to crush it to the floor under his paws.
He staggered, with wide-spread arms to keep from falling, along the cabin floor for'ard to the bunk in the tiny stateroom.
Mrs. Compton says she found me on the floor of my own room, and that I was in a kind of stupor.
Suddenly as he thought he felt the floor gradually giving way beneath him.
The latter dropped the lamp, which fell with a rattle on the floor but still continued burning.
The floor of the cabin was covered with sand to the depth of a foot.
He started, but before he could move or even think in what direction to go the floor sank in, and he at once sank with it downward.
The floor was sunken in like the deck of the ship.
The sand had drifted in here and covered the floor and the berths.
By the light that flickered on the floor she saw it all.
He had been standing on a trap- door which opened from the cabin floor into the hold of the ship.
She flung herself on the floor at their feet, and prayed them to try and help her husband, who had been arrested on a charge of treason and was now in prison.
Hurrying to the third floorof the house, he paused at the door.
The projecting firstfloor of the house beneath which the humble workshop of Caleb Jennings modestly disclosed itself, had been occupied for many years by an ailing and somewhat aged gentleman of the name of Lisle.
But there be four gentlemen farmers that have come a great distance, and all the first floor is engaged; you will be more out of the noise here.
With a loud scream she fainted, and forcing her way through the arms of the nurse, fell on the floor with a loud crash.
I think I see you on the floor there, struggling with your murderer, who held a naked dagger in his hand, with which he had already stabbed you in several places.
He turned to go; and, on her threshold, his feet caught in something on the floor and he stumbled, trying to free his feet from a roll of soft white cloth lying there on the carpet.
But he did not ring for the lift; instead he took the spiral iron stairway which circled it, and mounted hastily to the floor above.
She took the murderous looking blades from him, threw one terrible look at Sanang, kicked the shroud across the floor toward him, and flung both knives upon it.
In that event," he said hoarsely, "there lies your winding-sheet on the floor at your feet!
On the fourth floor the matron on duty halted him, but when he murmured an explanation she nodded and laid a finger on her lips.
Then, under the strained gaze of the four men gathered there, the shroud fell to the floor in a loose heap of white folds.
And I killed him--I slew him there in his hotel bedroom on the floor above mine!
Now she grasped the knife, and she slipped from the bed to the floor and stood before the dazed man.
Far below them lay a floor of shining blue-green, the fertile plains of the Nile, shadowed here and there with groups of clustered palm trees.
It was very dark in the prison, and the straw which littered the earthen floor of the place was damp and filthy.
Then they again examined the floor and the walls of the prison; but there was no place where so much as a mouse could have crept through.
Janoo stamped her foot on the floor and nearly cried with vexation; while Suddhoo was whimpering under a blanket in the corner, and Azizun was trying to guide the pipe-stem to his foolish old mouth.
After he had finished that unspeakable crawl, he stretched his head away from the floor as high as he could, and sent out a jet of fire from his nostrils.
Round that basin the man on the floor wriggled himself three times.
Suddhoo put out an arm mechanically to Janoo's huqa, and she slid it across the floor with her foot.
He sank into my best armchair, and placed his bag on the floor beside him.
When I joined Pugh I found him dancing up and down the floor like a bear upon hot plates.
The floor was of worn brick, the walls were filthy, and the windows were nearly black with grime.
The seal cutter came in, and I heard Suddhoo throw himself down on the floor and groan.
The old, low room with its brick-paved floor was shady and pleasant, opening on the stone court where the porch was; the polished table was loaded with fruit.
Urbain bowed again, and looked at the floor with an inscrutable countenance.
A large bookcase rose from the floor to the dark painted beams of the ceiling, at one end of the room.
And Little Billee had all but fallen on the floorin a fit.
Venus herself, as she drops her garments and steps on to the model-throne, leaves behind her on the floor every weapon in her armory by which she can pierce to the grosser passions of man.
Maggie stood in dismay and terror, while Tom got up from the floor and walked away, pale, from the scattered ruins of his pagoda, and Lucy looked on mutely, like a kitten pausing from its lapping.
A book was lying on the floor at the foot of the bookshelf, where I had left Richard standing.
My own door was just at the foot of the third-floor stairway.
If I had had any presence of mind I should have made an excuse, and gone to my own room for a moment, and taken my chance of getting to the floor above; but I suppose he would have forestalled me.
I was recalled to the present by hearing some books fall on the floor (the library was over the parlor); and by hearing Richard's step heavily crossing the room.
The Vines to be syringed evening and morning until they break, and the walls and floor kept damp.
A moist atmosphere to be kept up by sprinkling the floor and paths, and by syringing the Vines lightly every morning and evening until the leaves begin to appear, when the supply of moisture will not be so much required.
Collect materials for fresh beds, and give those that have been some time in bearing good soakings of manure water; sprinkle the floor and heating apparatus occasionally.
Others who have no such convenience may place their pots in a cold frame in a sheltered situation, and upon a floor of rough stones overlaid with ashes.
