Rising cautiously she aimed the rock to fall several feet to one side of the man below her, then reaching her hand far back she let fly, just as she had seen bombers do in France whenpracticing bomb-throwing.
While Jack was out on the river practicing for the approaching competition, Penny accompanied her father to the mainland to mail letters and make a few purchases Mrs. Gandiss had requested.
I am not on the crew, and the men are training and practicing secretly.
After this the freshman crew took to practicing nights, and it was said that they worked as no crew of freshies every worked before.
The freshmen were getting their ball team in condition for the coming season, and they were practicing as often as possible.
There were drawbacks to Murray's complete success in the House of Commons; there were qualities which he lacked whilst practicingat the bar.
Once, says Lord Campbell, the young lawyer "was surprised by a gay Templar in the act of practicing the graces of a speaker at a glass, whilst Pope sat by in the character of preceptor.
The two boys capered into the ring and proceeded to show off the results of their week of practicing and labor.
Billy Carpenter came out to Sunnycrest nearly every afternoon on his bicycle, and he and Jo Perkins and Christopher had great times practicing pitching and batting down in the long meadow.
And it was John who kept me practicingeight hours a day, studying and practicing until I thought I'd drop.
The rest he acquires from the time and facility their manner of life affords for practicing these pursuits, and at the age of 17 or 18 makes his first excursion in quest of his enemies’ horses.
To explain their mode ofpracticing medicine, surgery, etc.
Conkling dropped out and is now practicing law, and so I might go on enumerating leaders who have severed their connection with the party and are no longer identified with it.
The Presbyterian can keep a man from working on Sunday, but not from practicingdeceit on Monday.
If our country were overpopulated, the effect of immigration would be to lessen wages, for the reason that the working people of Europe are used to lower wages, and have been in the habit of practicing an economy unknown to us.
About this time he began to practice striking with his talons, as an Indian boy might begin practicing with his bow and arrow.
If they had been long practicing together, they could not have succeeded better.
Ambitious of song, practicing and rehearsing in private, he yet seems the least sincere and genuine of the sylvan minstrels, as if he had taken up music only to be in the fashion, or not to be outdone by the robins and thrushes.
This consists of the large number of men and women who are practicing Osteopathy as standing for all that makes up rational physio-therapy.
What a monster, to sit there all night practicingon the piano.
I want Lottie to finish her practicingbefore Herr Ludwig comes.
You see, Averil is so thoughtful, she never forgets anything, and she says it will never do for you to annoy people withpracticing scales and beginner's exercises down in the morning-room.
She was practicing steps, gaits and attitudes, apparently; she was doing the thing gracefully, and was very much absorbed in her work.
By practicing the above exercises you will find in a short time all the organs that nature intended to be used for breathing will be in play.
It was slow scale practicing and was maddening to the singer.
To practice breathing is not practicing singing, and the teacher who keeps a pupil indefinitely on "breathing lessons" is either "killing time" or is not a proficient instructor of voice culture.
By practicing your eyes in looking at things at a great distance they will grow stronger.
Illustration] There are certain cautions which girls should use in practicing games and athletics.
The success of his trick depended on the presumption that his fellow-capitalists would not succeed inpracticing the same trick.
It is written that the children of Israel, when practicing an enforced vegetarian diet in the wilderness, yearned after the flesh-pots of Egypt, and probably with good reason.
If the passage calls for a staccato touch do not waste your time as many do by practicingit legato.
The proportion in which mental and physical activity is compounded, determines, to my mind, the distinction between practicing and real study.
I could see no object in practicing evenness in scales, considering that a perfectly even scale is essentially devoid of emotional (musical) significance.
I have repeatedly watched students practicing industriously, but becoming worse and worse and actually cultivating faults rather than approaching perfection.
The worst possible thing is to start practicing too fast.
I was terribly bored with the technical exercises he gave me, but have since learned that one can save much time by practicing scales and exercises.
Why waste time in practicing passages which you can play perfectly well?
She knew the importance of regularity, and one of the first things I ever learned was that if I missed one or two days' practice, I could not hope to make it up by practicing overtime on the following days.
This is not done by practicing any species of black art, or by consciously following any psychological formula, but by the sheer intensity of feeling of the artist at the moment of performance.
The student should constantly strive to avoid monotony in practicing exercises.
These exercises I make by selecting difficult parts of famous pieces andpracticing them over and over.
Then why spend hours in practicing at the keyboard with the view of doing something we can already do?
This is preaching one doctrine and practicing another.
During that long night of moral darkness and human depravity, which lasted nearly a thousand years, all Christendom was reeking with moral corruption, and practicing the most abominable crimes.
Bennett after he was excommunicated from the Church; and accused the Saints with practicing the grave immoralities described by this arch apostate.
October of the same year; now a Practicing Physician, in Minnesota.
The regiment remained at Camp Dennison, doing tedious guard duty and practicing the military drill, until the 26th of June, when it had its first experience in packing knapsacks, at 3 A.
I've been practicing doing up parcels all afternoon, so as to learn how to tie the string nicely and not cut it until after the knot's tied.
Since 1909 he has been practicing independently and in the intervening period of eight years he has gained a place in the front rank of the successful attorneys of Walla Walla county.
His ability was such that he might have gained a fortune bypracticing the highest branch of English law, if his energies had not been diverted in another direction.
Another was getting up in the night and practicing an ablution of the stomach by a method too heroic to be described in anything but a medical treatise.
We could never discover just how it was that the band happened to bepracticing all alone twenty-two miles from Ojinaga in the desert.
