The chauffeur snatched up a wrench, leaping out of the automobile.
Leaping its rim, Ralph sank as in a snowbank, ducked down his head, pulled the stringy wooden fiber over it, and snuggled inside the hogshead, out of view.
He seemed to be watching somebody or something, and was so long at it that Van got impatient, and leaping from the wagon approached his side.
But when she walked down the drive half an hour later, with the collies leaping about her, the writer quietly fell into step at her side.
He walked toward the stable, and whistled what was evidently a signal, for three romping collies came running to meet him, and were leaping and tumbling about him as he went around the curve of the drive and out of sight.
A building which has a lady and gentleman painted in fresco, and making love from balcony to balcony, on the façade, as well as Arlecchino depicted in the act of leaping from the second to the third story, promises something.
No welcoming west portals here, no extended transept arms of sacrificial mercy, no soaring buttress, no leaping pinnacles.
Here, indeed, were the rare and delicate flowers; and life, in all its fresh and beautiful forms, was leaping forth in wild and sportive luxuriance at my feet.
It is called English Island;[49] is heavily timbered; huge vines of the wild grape are leaping like living things from branch to branch, and the wild pea flourishes all over the surface of the soil in most luxuriant profusion.
He was in a dozen places at once, leaping hither and thither about the room in sinuous bounds that reminded the woman of a panther she had seen at the zoo.
Be it so, then," said Belhumeur cheerfully, leaping into his saddle.
Would I be the tiger, blind with desire of blood leaping at the wild-deer's throat, to slake a cruel thirst?
And yet, did you not hear, my friend, how they yelled and shouted, leapingfor joy to think they had got their queen back again?
Leaping on his horse, the king bade Sarchedon change his bow, replenish his quiver, and follow him across the defile.
A score of hideous figures now came leaping into the open space, and formed themselves in a circle round the queen, the spearmen and the dead warrior laid upon his shield.
Into the sunshine, Full of light, Leaping and flashing From morn to night!
This, with my aversion to leaping hedges, made me withdraw to a rising ground, from whence I could have the pleasure of the whole chase, without the fatigue of keeping in with the hounds.
Mountain, leaping to his feet in a purple, swollen veined fury.
I would have placed her in the asylum you selected, but she eluded me by leaping into the pit.
With leaping heart and flushed face she turned her back to the direction from which the sounds seemed to come and waited listening, trying to appear unconcerned.
Then he took a quick step forward and seized her hands, holding her at arm's length, his eyes leaping in admiration.
The flames were leaping from building to building until thirty squares were ablaze, consuming over one thousand structures.
Warm sun and rain required to develop the characteristics we so much admire in our leaping friend.
A single fish apparently, was at intervals of perhaps a minute, leaping near a point.
By this time salmon were leapingabove me, below me, and at my very feet.
I had formed an idea, a wrong one, that the presence of salmon would be made manifest by the leaping of the fish; on the contrary, were we to judge by this sign alone, but very few had visited us.
As soon as the ice disappears they will be found gambolling in the salt-water streams, and leaping readily at the fly.
Sometimes the trout rush at the lure like a flash, leaping clear over it in their eagerness.
In the fragment, also, called "Vanished Light," he describes the amber shadows and courtyard filled with flickering emerald and the chirrup of leaping water.
With what sudden incommunicable pang do I watch the gracious little figure leaping in the light.
Fabricius, leaping to his feet in horror; 'was she sold, then, for a slave?
Leaping on the back of the fresh steed he clattered through the narrow streets, and, on gaining the open, moonlit road, flew along at a frightful speed.
From Exeter to Barnstaple, we crowded sail with horses' tails, and a heavy sea of mud leaping and breaking under the forefoot of our coach.
The doors flew open, and I was all eyes to witness the magnificent sight of "the monarch of the waste" leaping forth into the sunshine, exulting in his freedom.
Once more Cousin Edward shook the box, and the leaping dice turned up--"Eleven.
And leaping on a horse, he rushed in pursuit of the bandits; the hunters and Indians, leaving the burning camp to a few plunderers, also started after them.
When the dance began, the Old Dogs let their robes fall behind them, some dancing in a circle, with the body bent forward, andleaping in the air with both feet at once.
Valentine took a scrutinising glance around him; with a movement swift as thought he caught up Dona Clara, and, leaping from the calli, he fell into the midst of a detachment of Comanches, who welcomed him with shouts of joy.
The squatter saw that any discussion was useless, and he must settle the question by force; so, leaping over the corpse of his wife, he tried to seize the girl.
The gulf, lately so calm and smooth that the island was reflected as in a mirror, had suddenly darkened; the furiously leaping waves flung themselves together like wild horses; the island quaked, shaken by terrible shocks.
Gabriel and, leapinginto the sea, he cleft the waves with the rapidity of lightning.
His horse, under this terrible stimulus, acquired fresh vigour, and, leaping a gully eighteen feet deep, put between his master and his pursuers a barrier which they dared not cross.
William Douglas, springing on his brother with raised sword, while he, leaping back, drew his, and with a movement quick as thought and eager as hatred defended himself.
Presently she rushed forward, occasionally leaping into the air, towards the fence which separated me from the fields.
His mother looked at him with her eyes like coals from which the leaping flame has just died out.
There was a keen leaping light in my cousin Wat's blue eyes, the light that I afterwards grew to know as the delight of battle.
