The children, however, do not trouble themselves about the serious signification; but only take pleasure in the movements of the boats and in splashing the water.
A Lichtensteiner who had found himself in the crowd, surprised at the exclamation, placed himself near them and continued to watch their movements narrowly.
Only a malicious smile, which played upon their dark faces, and the restless and inquisitive movements of their twinkling eyes, gave them any appearance of being aught but lifeless statues.
By these mad movements and continual changes, I incur the danger of losing it.
It effectually hid our movements as we crossed the plain before it.
We were escorted by Fritz, whose kindly interest in our movements never flagged.
All these movements depend upon what we call instinct--that is to say, organic habits registered in the nervous system of the race.
Certain definite objects outside it invariably produce certain definite movements on the insect's part.
Their olfactory nerves give them nearly all the information they can gain about the external world, and their brains take in this information and work out the proper movements which it indicates.
Movements of great importance making for a municipal water-system occurred in 1899, the thirty years' contract with the assigns of John S.
He explained briefly that Lord Alberan and Sarakoff had travelled up in the same compartment from Dover, and that Sarakoff's strange restlessness and excited movements had roused Lord Alberan's suspicions.
I recalled her former appearance when her manner had been nervous and bashful, her eyes downcast, her movements hurried and anxious.
We skirted these, creeping along the opposite bank behind a fringe of bushes, certain that the darkness concealed our movements from the two men on guard.
At the lower end of the float I managed to silently remove my boots, and then waited, listening to the movements of the men above.
It was hard to work through the routine of the next few days, although some excitement was given us of Maxwell's brigade by scouting details sent across the valley to observe the movements of the British patrols.
The movements of my horse caused the ropes to lacerate my wrists and ankles, the pain increasing so that once or twice I cried out.
And as I stared at him his movements became professional.
As the distance is one hundred and eighty miles, the advantages of the post house system in facilitating the movements of the couriers are manifest.
The movements of the packets were clothed with secrecy, and it was only when the vessels were bound for Halifax that the public were notified that a mail was being despatched.
There was a concourse of women and children at the Repettos' house, and I shall not forget Mary's anxious little face as she keenly watched the movements of the steamer.
Walking across the moor, we kept a look-out for the cattle and spied them some distance away on higher ground; they appeared to be watching our movements narrowly.
Your Excellency will do me the honor to give me the earliest intelligence of the movements of the enemy.
Vaudreuil has departed, for by transmitting these accounts to the Minister of Marine, I enable him to judge better of the measures he has to take, knowing the force andmovements of the enemy on these coasts.
The movements of the English troops at New York, indicate an intention of sending off detachments from that garrison.
On the action of yellow light in producing the green colour, and of indigo light on the movements of plants: by P.
The movements of these magnetic poles have been the subject of extensive and most accurate observation in every quarter of the globe.
These currents must not be confounded with the great electrical movements around the earth.
Such must be the case, from the chemical changes taking place during respiration and digestion, and the mechanical movements by which, even during external repose, the necessary functions of the body are carried on.
That Littell had testified falsely as to his movements on that night.
I then accounted for his movements in the following way: he had consumed about half an hour from the time he left Madison Square till the time he took the train at Eighteenth Street.
I plainly heard it rushing about, as I pushed the jacket into the aperture; and once or twice I felt it coursing across my legs; but I took no heed of its movementsuntil I had made all secure against its retreat.
For a good long while I sat in my little boat watching the movements of the gulls; and then, satisfied that I had not made the excursion in vain, I turned myself to carrying out my original design, and landing upon the reef.
I intended to stop again before going too close, in order to watch the movements of these pretty creatures; for many of them were in motion over the shoal, and I could not divine what they were about.
Of all the movements of birds, either upon foot or on the wing, I think there is none so interesting to look at as the actions of the fishing gull while engaged in pursuit of his prey.
His movements were rapid and restless, and there was that appearance in his eye which would have warranted the supposition that he was a little flighty, even if his conduct had not fully proved the fact.
His step was deliberate and dignified, and though his tall lean figure was not a symmetrical one, nor were his movements graceful, yet there was something very pleasant in the aspect of him even at a distance.
There he remained all the next day, keeping watch of Mr. Sanborn's movements through the cracks in the boards.
A little dog draws near; his movements are observed and noted with an accuracy that the Landseers of to-day could scarcely excel.
He describes the movements and attitudes of certain chanters by which they "resembled actors": so that we thus get information on both at the same time.
Saxe drove the goat away, but it took his movements as meaning play, and danced and skipped, and dodged him and then dashed by, and on ahead, the same gambols taking place at every attempt to send the animal back.
On the instant, and as by miracle, order was re-established: the movements fitted in with one another with such uniformity that the enthusiasm did not disturb the regularity.
This is the only means to oppose a dam to the contra-Revolutionary movements of the aristocrats and enemies of the Nation.
He described the movements of the sun, its appearance at various seasons of the year, and why it was never entirely dark in those regions.
But the Grecian and Italian movementsapplied to all the arts.
The painter cannot reproduce these movements and sounds.
But hitherto, movements of the kind have not been serious, for with one exception they are lost in oblivion, and the exception is little more than a vague memory.
In fact, the leaders of these movements were persons of his own family.
Feeling that there must be concessions to the defeated Pagan party, in accordance with its ideas, he looked with favor on the idolatrous movements of his court.
