The big, clumsy creature had already seen them coming and had quickened his pace to a lumbering gallop, which yet brought him over the snow at a good speed.
At length, far out on the snow fields, he made out a dark form lumbering along toward the rocks.
The father saw his son's head go down, and for an awful minute Henry Sears heard the lumbering train rumble by.
Then Piggy turned on his side and swam swiftly to shallow water, where he stood and splashed his victim, who was lumberingtoward shore with his eyes shut, panting loudly.
Looking down, we beheld Felix seated on the top of a most extraordinary vehicle, the driver of which he had superseded, and was trying to persuade the lumbering old horse to get on.
Most lumbering vessels would have bumped a hole in their bottoms, but I'll be bound she has not rasped an inch of her keel.
The lumbering ark of a car was laden with bags and trunks and bundles, for the Americans meant to be comfortable.
She was followed by a pompous little man, who made a legal speech with lumbering attempts at humor.
Then there came into sight a slow lumbering bullock-cart with the wheels screaming enough to give you toothache.
Lumbering and logging are the two great occupations of the Western Canadian winter, and what you see here is the fruit of that work.
The noise of a lumbering foot plodding down the lane caused her to be abruptly dismissed.
Molly took to flight, the lumbering foot accelerated its pace, and the pastoral appeal to her flying skirts was heard--"Moll!
Halfway down the hill, after he had lifted the mare from her shuffling fox-trot to a lumbering gallop, Old Jerry turned back for a last shouted word.
This includes the tools used in lumbering and the methods employed, as well as exhibits illustrating the tan-bark industry, the turpentine industry, and the charcoal industry.
And finally lumbering as a science finds a place in the scheme followed in this department.
We had individually found one thing or another to quarrel with in our past life, and were pretty well agreed as to the inexpediency of lumbering along with the old system any further.
The hills are very steep, so that the post-carriage, which is as heavy and lumbering as a French diligence, has to be drawn up by buffaloes.
The driver sits astride the tongue of the cart, and sets the thing going by giving the animals a kick in the rear, or seizing the tails and giving them a twist, which sets the beasts into an awkward, lumbering gallop.
Thus, as soon as the roads became passable, scarcely a day went by in which a large, lumbering family coach, driven by a negro coachman and attended by a negro groom on horseback, did not arrive at Brudenell.
Nearer and nearer drew the gigantic game, and with steady, lumbering pace they followed the old trail.
His instinct was to "charge" and he made one lumbering plunge.
But labouring and lumbering heavily along, the snow spotted as he bounds with blood, the huge animal at last disappears round some rocks at the head of the glen.
The parent duck has also disappeared; the drake you disposed of, Hamish, as the coward was lifting up his lumbering body, with fat doup and long neck in the air, to seek safer skies.
He surveyed the lumberingcreature a minute or two, strongly tempted to give him a shot.
Wharton Edwards possessed wonderful fleetness of foot, and counted on no trouble in running down the lumbering beast; but when he struck the point where he ought to have been visible, he was not in sight.
The bear did not seem to be looking for large boys just then, and, after lumbering into sight, disappeared among the vegetation, which was rank in that section.
There was just enough arrowy moonlight reaching that portion of the rocks for him to identify the huge, lumbering mass as that of an immense bear.
There stepped inside the Seigneur of Rozel, who made a lumbering obeisance, then got to his knees before the Queen.
Go and tell that lumberingidiot to come to me instantly.
Mary did not waste words: where would have been the use of pulling up the poor spiritual clodpole at every lumbering step, at any word inconsistent with the holy manners of the high countries?
We passed many marching men and many lumbering supply trains which were going our way, and we met many motor ambulances and many ammunition trucks which were coming back.
The driver of the wagon swung his lumbering team about with all the strength of his arms, and back again came the six horses, galloping now.
Now it was bare, except for a few baggage trains lumbering along under escort of shaggy gray troopers.
The fife and drum, and the lumbering roll of the cannon, were daily heard in the quiet streets.
I earnestly hope for the immediate enactment into law of the legislation now pending to encourage American capital to seek investment in the islands in railroads, in factories, in plantations, and in lumbering and mining.
A big lumbering company, impatient for immediate returns and not caring to look far enough ahead, will often deliberately destroy all the good timber in a region, hoping afterwards to move on to some new country.
It was a most charming ride or walk, and I got out and walked several miles ahead of the lumbering conveyance.
It was by no means impossible to carry in the lumbering carriage, or to read during the leisurely journey, a whole library of such voluminous and now forgotten books as the Modern Traveller.
On such occasions, when I heard him lumbering by, I used to fancy he was taking an after-supper promenade and puffing a meditative cigar as he went along.
