He rushed in pursuit, his bare feet padding upon the stone flags.
He jerked the leather strap that hung from a panel of the door; heard a muffled tinkle, the padding of feet.
The door closed quickly; again the padding of feet.
Trent threw a glance right and left; broke into a run, his bare feet padding on the damp planks; paused at the corner of the deckhouse.
After some further hesitation there was the sound of the padding being removed from the keyhole, the insertion and turning of the key.
Helen, padding through the shallow water, joined Janet and they watched the awesome scene together.
There was a rush of feet padding down the hall and Helen made good her promise, reaching the shower room two jumps ahead of Janet.
The hollow between splint and waist must be filled with padding before this wide cloth is applied.
Usually there are spaces in the palm of the hand and front of the wrist requiring to be filled with extra padding in addition to that on the splint.
Thick, upholstered padding covered the spaces where openings should have been, and there was only the muffled vibration of the motor and the occasional curiously distinct noise of a flexing spring.
For myself, I could not even turn my head from its position in the padding and I felt as if I were being crushed by thousands of tons of pressure.
The supports were elastic and the padding deep and soft.
Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp.
Outside her tent she had heard a soft padding sound, and peeping from under the flap, she had seen a splendid, tawny tiger, who looked at her with brilliant topaz eyes which fascinated her so that she could not turn away.
Stephen was led through the remembered labyrinth of covered passages, dim and cool, though outside the desert sand flamed under the afternoon sun; and as he walked he was aware of softly padding footsteps behind him.
The girls stared eagerly, too, at the few veiled and swathed figures of native women who mingled with the crowd, padding timidly with bare feet thrust into slippers.
She loved the padding of her feet on the floor and the sound of her sing-song: "The pussies are blue, the beds are blue, the matches are blue and the mousetraps and all the litty mouses!
She saw him quite clearly; she heard the padding tap-tap of his paws and very toe-nails; she felt his warmth brushing hard against the front of her skirt.
How many thousand walks did we not go together, so that we still turn to see if he is following at his padding gait, attentive to the invisible trails.
At the end of every few paces it turned sharply and stalked back again along the same line, padding softly, and purring like a roll of little muffled drums.
The game is rough and many and harsh are the jolts we receive; consequently we must use whatever padding and guards we can to provide against injury.
As there is practically no tackling or falling, the "soccer" uniform does not require the same amount of padding as a Rugby player's uniform.
I asked, with eagerness and hesitation both in my voice, as Pan started padding out through the monster-haunted darkness towards the square of silver light beyond the huge door.
In a second he was padding away from me into the trees beyond the garden as swiftly as I suppose jaguars and lithe lions travel.
Then I decided to shake him, and had already moved forward to do so vigorously when there came a sound of footsteps padding softly behind me, and I felt a stream of hot breath burn my neck as I stooped.
In his mind's eye, before the event, they had been the mere background or padding of the scene, but somehow in reality they were the most prominent personages there.
Felice Charmond was a practised hand at make-ups, as well she might be; and she had done her utmost in padding and painting Fitzpiers with the old materials of her art in the recesses of the lumber-room.
Along this ladder Blake could hear barefooted figures padding and grunting as cases and bales were cautiously carried down and passed from boat to boat.
Then they scrambled up a ladder, and he could hear her quick hands padding about in the dark.
The entire mask is constructed of the best hardened wire, extra heavy padded with goat hair, and the padding faced with the best imported dogskin, which is impervious to perspiration, and always soft and pliable, each.
In the silence which followed he could hear the padding steps of the huskies going round the house, and the sound of them sniffing about the door.
The gliding of the sled across the snow, and the padding footsteps of the huskies, thundered down the tunnel of the river through the pines like the galloping of heavy artillery over gravel.
It was while she was sitting in the one chair, padding the sticks crudely enough but effectively, that Ward, gazing at her with the light of love in his eyes, thought of something he had meant to tell her.
Billy Louise, attacked with a spasm of shyness, went abruptly back to padding the makeshift crutches and changed the subject.
Laughing secretly, Atthis and Gyrinno dash off, padding through the rain, across the court.
I wonder he did not do some paddingto bring his calves into the market, and make--as he would have done--a handsome profit out of the play.
When Eugene Aram was to be produced, it was thought advisable to do some padding to make Irving presentable.
It is his largest canvas, and though there are no long-breathed periods such as in the B flat minor Scherzo, the phraseology is amply broad, without padding of paragraphs.
Chopin needs no such clangorous padding in this etude, which gains by legitimate strokes the most startling contrasts.
When the padding takes the form of mutual "spoofing," the scene assumes an uncanny likeness to the usual lines of a modern "high-class vaudeville duo.
And we can instance scene upon scene where the self-evident padding can either furnish an excuse for agile histrionism, or become merely tiresome in its iteration[161].
There are numbers of scenes of the sort quoted above, where the apparent monotony and verbal padding could be converted into coin for laughter by the clever comedian.
At one time this splendid raiment had swathed an imposing figure, but now the frame was bowed, its whilom comfortable padding fallen away, its parchment-like skin folded and wrinkled and brown.
All Egypt was but a padding that the structural framework of religion supported.
When a coolie has donned the maximum quantity of cotton padding he is about as nearly bomb-proof as an armor-plated cruiser.
In winter the people nearly freeze, or would but for the fact that the men put on heavy woolens, and the women pile on cotton padding until they look almost like walking feather beds.
The cry of the wolves came nearer; I heard their feet soft-padding on the rocky ground; their quick panting filled the air.
Sure never had such a drumming of hoofs, such a padding of paws and feet been heard on its old pavement!
