Half a dozen people in voluminous broadcloth were already gathered about the lich-gate when Fuller appeared, carrying his portly waistcoat with a waddle of good-humored dignity, and mopping at his forehead.
The Squire is always engaged in mopping it out, like Mrs. Partington.
Bobby, mopping his fine Harvard brow, his six feet of manhood shrinking perceptibly as he looked about for a chair in which to collapse.
Can't you see I've just finished mopping up this big ark of a kitchen?
Before they had time to take stock of it, a stout, slovenly woman who was mopping the floor, bore wrathfully down upon them.
The poor old chap was mopping some blood off his forehead, and though he did look so forlorn he bowed to me in quite a friendly way.
Perkins came hobbling along, his red face redder than ever, hustled his way through the laughing, jostling crowd of niggers at the top of the steps, and jumped down among us, mopping his face.
A dog-cart drove up in the dusk, and a man entered, mopping his head.
The commandant ended up by mopping his head and ordering me to go to gaol.
In a fury of exasperation he clambered down to the water's edge and washed his face; moodily mopping it with his handkerchief he stared across the water.
Garry stared blankly at the packing litter and the tall Irishman in the center of it wearily mopping his forehead.
Before he reached the clause in question Kenny was on his feet, mopping his forehead.
While I'm in a horrible perspiration," confessed Alec, mopping his brow.
Dick slung his borrowed rifle over his shoulder, strapped the cartridge belt about him and leaned against the wall mopping his forehead.
He sat back in the gharri smiling and perspiring, mopping his forehead from time to time.
Thought I should never see you again," declared Joe, mopping a very fevered forehead.
Matilda was silent; and the housekeeper presently came to a pause again; sat back on her feet, wrung her mopping cloth, and considered Matilda.
Miss Redwood was mopping up the yellow painted floor of her kitchen, as Matilda softly pushed open the door and looked in.
Mrs. Malone, loudly, meanwhilemopping her neck with her handkerchief.
The dealer uttered a stream of oaths, and, mopping his face with a handkerchief of dubious hue, looked around for the author of this apparently unprovoked attack.
That will do you," said Moore, mopping his face with his handkerchief.
He went to his own room, panting, mopping his damp gray hair with his fat wrist, and looking at no one.
Charlie was at the wheel and Breck was mopping up the slime that the anchor chain had made on deck.
Someone, whose face he recollected, was bending over him, holding up his head and mopping his brow with a wet cloth.
The men, young and old alike, mopping their moist foreheads with their handkerchiefs and straining at their collars in partial suffocation, crowded the corridors in quest of cooler air and an opportunity for a pipe or a cigarette.
Bézuquet at last was allowed to continue, mopping his forehead and puffing as if he had just mounted five pairs of stairs.
The host met them with coat and collar off, mopping his brow.
The costumer came forward to attend to the nervous old beau who was mopping his bald and shining poll with a big silk handkerchief.
Say," asked the stranger, mopping his brow, "do you always go home like this?
Mopping the perspiration from his brow, the boy sat down.
Mopping the perspiration from his brow, he began studying the fastenings that held the cover to its place.
The infantrymen encountered only an occasional rifleman while mopping up.
Other elements of the 19th Infantry were engaged in mopping up in the Pastrana sector.
The 1st Battalion spent the next few days mopping up the area and sealing off the tunnels with grenades.
The 3d Battalion spent the rest of the day and the following day moppingup in Palo and sending probing patrols southward in order to make contact with the XXIV Corps.
While the mopping up was going on, patrols from the 12th Cavalry pushed to the south to make contact with the 77th Division.
The 96th Division was engaged in mopping up in the mountains overlooking Leyte Valley.
Eight divisions were engaged in mopping up for varying lengths of time on Leyte, but only an outline of their activities will be attempted here.
The regiment spent the next two days in mopping up and patrolling the area around Dagami.
The 1st Squadron spent the day mopping up the town in search of the enemy.
The units of the 96th Division spent the next three days in patrolling and mopping up.
Merlin was mopping his forehead as if in intense fatigue after a hard struggle; Robespierre was coolly taking snuff.
He paused, exhausted at last, mopping his forehead, then drinking large gulps of brandy to ease his parched throat.
I bet it goes clear through to China," said the Captain disgustedly, resting on his spade and mopping his brow.
Now, tell us your trouble," said Gladys, mopping Katherine's head with her last clean handkerchief and getting it as wet as those up on the tent ropes.
There was the worthy priest, mopping his forehead with a huge pocket-handkerchief and blowing like a rhinoceros.
