He followed us, hopping in the grass or from rose bush to rose bush.
One moment he was hopping among some of the rose bushes and then he was gone.
A little indeterminate-colored bird was hopping quietly about in the grass--quite aware of me as his dew-bright eye manifested.
He was always hopping or jumping or turning head over heels, he could almost do wheels, like a London street boy.
Poor old Fuzzy," said Mary, who was hopping along as merry as a cricket, feeling quite safe with mamma's hand.
The birds were very tame: one little brown honey-eater camehopping near them for crumbs, and finally perched on the toe of Tom's boot, where it remained in a quaint attitude of alert attention.
They caught a glimpse of a wallaby hopping off to shelter; and once they came upon a native bear, sitting in a little gum tree, very still and solemn.
As Clancy sat worrying about various forms of disposal for Big Four, an official phoning from City Hall, said just an ordinary, common word, which had Clancy hopping up and down, furiously mad.
A crisp night air has folks turning up coat collars and kids hopping up and down for warmth.
A robin or two was hopping about on His Honor's lawn, looking for a squirming lunch; Lady was taking short walks with Nancy; Kathlyn having to go back to work in our big hospital.
Oh, roaming about the country withHopping Ned and Biting Giles.
The one was Hopping Ned, and the other Biting Giles.
So we travelled, I and my companions, showing off our gifts, Giles and I occasionally for a gathering, but Ned never hopping unless against somebody for a wager.
Presently she scattered more crumbs, first on the floor and then on the window-sill, and he soon came hopping up to them on his little pink toes, flirting his tail and looking as happy as a king, the glutton!
It is pleasant to observe how familiar some little birds are with these colossal statues,--hopping about on their heads and over their huge fists, and very likely they have nests in their ears or among their hair.
There is a little Junco hopping about the path to-day, in spite of the fact that the mercury has been very near zero most of the time for the last fortnight, and that the snow is drifted eight or ten feet deep in places.
On one occasion, when he was hopping among the plants in the house, I saw him carefully watching a Crow that was fighting his way against a heavy wind.
She was hopping about and talking in a most earnest and excited manner.
We used to have robins hopping over our lawn, and dear little yellow-birds used to build their nests in the pear-trees; but since the sparrows have got so thick, they have stopped coming.
The magic staff went hopping at his heels, as Quicksilver quitted the room.
Well, when its master entered the door, leaving this wonderful staff behind, what should it do but immediately spread its little wings, and go hopping and fluttering up the doorsteps!
There was a pretty greyish one, of the size of a lark, that was hopping about some great stones; and when he flew, he showed a great deal of white about his tail.
But he had not proceeded far, before he saw a poor Sailor who had lost both his legs in an engagement by sea, hopping along upon crutches.
In this cavity they put a bird occasionally; so that you may see a goldfinch or a linnet hopping as it were in the midst of the water, and the fishes swimming in a circle round it.
Sometimes it feeds on the ground, like the hedge-sparrow, by hopping about on the grass-plots and mown walks.
Hopping down, he trotted over to the group, his weazened, yellow face wreathed in smiles.
Allee same likee this," answered Pong hoppingabout in imitation of an animal running away.
Fleas being wingless insects travel with considerable difficulty over the ground; and though their hopping powers are notorious they are unable to make any long-continued progress in this way.
A short course of this tread-mill teaches the flea that the objectionable practice of hopping is useless and exhausting.
Then Devlin turned on his heel and left the room with Frost hopping after him protesting his innocence.
They watched as Frost came out with his short, hopping stride, and they heard Devlin mumble deep in his throat.
There is no school now," said the grasshopper, as he sat on a daisy flower, "but I am hopping along to get out of danger.
But the savage wushky-woshky gobbled them up with three mouthfuls, and didn't stop hopping after Uncle Wiggily on his one crinkly leg.
Then some bad boys and a man came along to see if there was anything in the hole-trap, or the string-trap they had made; but when they saw the bird flying away and the rabbit hopping away through the woods they were very angry.
Then Uncle Wiggily looked down in the grass, and he saw a mamma hoptoad and a whole lot of her little toads hopping along.
Anyhow, Uncle Wiggily was hopping along one fine morning, following a stormy night, and he was thinking about the swimming lesson he had had a few days before.
As long as he is within sight of the windows he goes without stopping, very deliberately, and now and then hopping on one foot.
Then with that extraordinary hopping movement of his ran off across the mud.
He stumbled a little further, where the mud began to get softer and deeper, but struggling up again, went hopping on towards the river.
To this we directed our steps, I leaning on Halleck's shoulder, and hopping along on the unhurt foot.
It took a leg off a man in troop H which preceded us and had dismounted to fight on foot, and I saw him hopping around on his one remaining limb and heard him shriek with pain.
Softened, but distinctly audible, the sound of hopping and gliding feet reaches her ears, while, now sadly caressing and anon merrily careless, the strains of a Strauss waltz float on the air.
I was thinking to-day of it--and of Leila hippity-hopping up the stairs in her one pink slipper.
And now, why are you hopping on one foot in that absurd fashion?
Let him come, anyway," said Polly, hopping up and down.
It's no matter," said Polly, hopping up with a little laugh, and straightening her hat.
Kit gave a shout of joy and hastened after the blackbird, who was hopping along the ground in front of him; and the next minute he found himself standing in a blaze of sunlight in front of a high stone wall.
I told you that some of Violet's playfellows were toads--the same ugly brown toads you have seen hopping about your own garden walks.
She gave a low call to the cub; but the cub was preoccupied now, sniffing at the rabbit tracks, and lifting himself on his hindquarters to stare longingly at the rabbits, who were hopping off to discreeter distance.
In fact, there were the merry rabbits hoppingabout in the moonlight undisturbed.
