When a hen is near to the time of laying, her comb and wattles change from their previous dull hue to a bright red, while the eye becomes more bright, the gait more spirited, and she occasionally cackles for three or four days.
While thus occupied, they occasionally halt to look out for the female, and then resume their strutting and puffing, moving with as much rapidity as the nature of their gait will admit.
They are good layers, and their eggs are very large and well-flavored; their gait is slow and majestic.
That becoming as lame as the first, the miserable animal seeks its food on its knees; and, if forced to rise, its strange, hobbling gait betrays the intense agony occasioned by bringing its feet in contact with the ground.
When it comes my turn, then, as I happen to know my problem as well as the fellow who wrote the book, I'll rattle off my explanation at a gait that will force the lieutenant to stand on his feet to hear all I say.
After our first year here, he says, we'll have the gait so that we can go easily at the work given us.
Don't you worry, Dave; I shall soon get the Naval trotting gait to such an extent that I shall be saying 'sir' at every other word.
Lord Turfleigh swore behind the hand that still fumbled at his mustache, and walked away with the jerky, jaunty gait of the old man who still affects youth, and Lady Luce composed her lovely face into a look of emotional ecstacy.
Lady Luce paced up and down with thegait of a tigress.
Now she was large and heavy, with a mixture of unconscious stateliness and wistful motherliness in her gait and gestures.
The gait was feeble, the bearing had lost all its old erectness, the bronzed strength of the face had given place to a waxen and ominous pallor.
Robert had recognised the slouching gait and unwieldy form of Henslowe.
Our dromedaries, excited by the wide, open space in front of them, raise their heads and scent the wind, and then change their languid gait into something that becomes almost a race.
The big man swung along with the easy gait of perfect physical strength.
Yet, any one, seeing him as he traversed the miles from the Royal Palm Park at Miami, would have supposed from his gait that he was on some aimless ramble.
Yet Lourenço's eyes seemed to bore through the shades and the dark shroud blurring the trunks, for his steady gait did not falter.
Tucu grunted suddenly, and in one instant shifted his gait from the easy swing of the march to the prowl of a hunting animal.
This gait is fast enough and hard enough," he declared.
The whole line moved ahead at a much smarter gait than before.
When the candle burned upright and clear yellow, his gait was steady; but he started many times at corners where its flame bobbed and flattened and shrunk to a blue, sickly rag half torn from the wick.
One black fellow with a sliding gait ran into the closet and brought a sheet of thin iron, and a strange torch-like tube, which he lighted at the fire and blew into from the other end.
His feet sank deep into the wet moss at every step, and yet his gait had never seemed to Eugenie so firm, so elastic, as now.
Had any one fancied he recognised her gait and bearing, such a notion would have been scouted by the others.
Judge Priest's Jeff was a small, jet-black person, swift in his gait and wise in his generation.
Then he, too, departed, moving at his top walkinggait westward out Jefferson Street.
He made his way at a hobbling gait toward the back row of chairs.
He came up with a barely perceptible lurch in his gait and stopped at the Faxon stall, which was the third from the lower end of the shed.
Some one walking with the slow, uncertain gait of a very tired or a very feeble person was climbing up the stairs.
By the time the judge had traversed the shady yard and unlatched the front gate, Jeff was halfway to the showground and mending his gait all the time.
They have all something in common in their appearance, which gives them the air almost of relations—something in their gait and manners which declares them to be other than English, Germans, or French.
Indeed, one may judge of the spirits and disposition of a man by his ordinary gait and mien in walking.
He was limping very rapidly, but when he came along the veranda and entered the room his gait was slow and dignified.
Something about his tentative, saturated gait was familiar.
Meanwhile the tendency to drawing up of the heel by the calf muscles became less, and the gait improved.
The gait was spastic, and the patient was more troubled by a contraction of the calf muscles, which prevented his putting the heel to the ground, than by the foot-drop.
I knew not but the next Would be my final inch, -- This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.
As I had anticipated, the village of Meydum proved to be our destination, and the gait of the magnificent creatures upon which we were mounted was exhausting.
With gait slow and graceful she approached the diwan.
His anthropological measurements, which were below the normal, already indicated that he had started on life's pilgrimage with the gait of the victim; he belonged to the company of those "who must be saved by others.
When upon the ground itsgait is very easy and dignified; its voice resembles that of the Raven.
They can walk upon the ground, but generally hop; and though the latter mode of progression gives an air of awkwardness to some species, it contrasts favourably with the waddling gait of the parrots.
Its gait is so extremely awkward, that it may be said to progress by means of a series of short clumsy jumps, rather than by hopping in the usual manner.
Its flight is unsteady and awkward, and its gait upon the ground equally clumsy.
Its gait upon the ground resembles that of the Jackdaw, but amongst the branches it is considerably more active in its movements.
Their gait can scarcely be called a walk, but rather a waddle; the body is swung forward, and the long tail carefully raised that it may not touch the ground.
Half a hundred of those back-gait assailants were over our low wall with their axe-hooks and ladders before we could charge and prime, engaging us hand to hand in the cobbled square of our fort, at the tower foot.
I am paying bitterly for my pliability, for who so much the sport of life as the man who knows right well the gait he should gang, and prays fervently to be permitted to follow it, but sometimes stumbles in the ditch?
Its gait is swifter than the gait of milkman or fruit-and-vegetable man.
Sonnerat, making a mistake similar to that in the text, translates a passage in which this allusion occurs, in words to the following purport, 'Her gait resembled that of a goose.
The gait of an elegant woman is compared by the Hindu poets to the proud bearing of a swan in the water.
