He even told how I was dressed, with a poke bonnet trimmed in rosebuds over my curls, sitting in a little rocking chair on a table.
Great numbers of White Butterflies are continually rocking themselves across--they go over in coveys of four or five at a time--I counted 50 in five minutes, which bodes ill for the cabbages.
Katy burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter, rockingherself to and fro, and ejaculating, "Oh!
A tidy, rosy-cheeked young woman sat rocking the deserted little Tommy to sleep, to the tune of "I've been roaming.
We found the Conservator gently rockinghimself amid the orange trees of his patio.
The howl and roar, the rattling of the doors and windows, the rumbling in the chimneys, the apparent rocking of the very house that sheltered me, and the prodigious tumult of the sea, were more fearful than in the morning.
Rosanna found her little workbasket and, taking a book to read until her guests came, went over to the playhouse and commenced rocking in one of the little wicker chairs.
And she fell to moaning and sobbing and rocking herself to and fro in uncontrollable grief.
Seeing that its effect upon me was so agreeable he sought to achieve the same happy result by drinking largely of it himself, so that he grew hilarious and broke a pumpkin over my head, rocking and rolling in his seat with laughter.
But when he crept close and peeked in again, there sat the old womanrocking back and forth.
The old woman was rocking back and forth, her face quiet with that terrible, pent placidity which Casey could not understand.
The old woman sat there rocking back and forth, steadily, quietly.
In the center of the room, facing the window, a woman sat in a wooden rocking chair and rocked.
But there was the old woman in the rock hut above them, rocking back and forth and staring at a wall that had no visible opening save one small window to let in the light of outdoors.
Rocking in a chair never hurt anybody that he ever heard of.
She was rocking steadily, quietly, with never a halt.
The picador mounted, drove in the spurs, and the horse, rocking and pitching, accomplished a few blind paces toward those dripping horns that horribly awaited him.
A rocking theme is set over this basso ostinato and the most enchanting effects are produced.
When I stood by my father's side, the old woman just lifted her head once to cast on me a scowling look, and then went on again rocking herself.
When he had lowered himself upon it, his face was nearly on a level with that of the old woman, who took no notice of him, but kept rocking herself to and fro and moaning.
She went on rocking herself to and fro, her stays creaking, and a faint moaning sound coming from her lips; and suddenly she drooped over her lap, her hands fallen to her sides, as though she had gone into a kind of coma.
She was holding her head in her hands, rocking her body to and fro; and her eyes were evidently shut, for she had not noticed me.
His eyes beheld her in her fair loveliness, rocking herself to and fro on her chair.
They moved forward with a lazy rocking motion, and the gold rays of the lamp flashed on their heads and outlined the shadows cast by the two slender young forms with a narrow line of light.
A bare pine table on which the lamp stood; a couple of kitchen chairs; a cot bed next to the wall; a small stove; a rocking chair and a sewing machine; these were the objects which the lamp illuminated.
When the stove had begun to radiate heat she lifted Sylvia, quilt and all, into the rocking chair and drew it up in front of the fire.
Then she started rockingherself to and fro, in an agony of grief.
In sunken ponds the stars were mirrored, rocking gently on the surface of the ruffled water.
Rosy loved to race with them better than anything else; though sometimes she would sit down in her little rocking-chair, holding her lap full of them, and rocking them to sleep.
The night under the bright, starlit sky, on board the softly rocking launch, wrapped me in a feeling of safety and coziness I had not enjoyed for a long time.
A Rocking Horse is always faster than an Elephant.
Out of a piece of wood the toy doctor made a new leg for the Rocking Horse.
May I take my Rocking Horse out on the porch and ride him?
The one where I will have Daddy take your White Rocking Horse is a toy hospital, where all sorts of broken playthings are mended.
The sweet chap was just going to say he could see nothing, when there came a whinny from a big White Rocking Horse standing on the floor near a lawn swing.
And now tell me about yourself," urged the White Rocking Horse.
All the next day they were together, and the White Rocking Horse told how he had once lived in a big department store, and how he had been given a ride in an automobile.
The White Rocking Horse galloped back down the hall, and the Doll made her way into the room of the little girl whose birthday present she was.
Nice brown eyes, I think she said," cried the Rocking Horse.
Back and forth swayed the Rocking Horse, and each time he moved he went a little faster.
But the White Rocking Horse could see in the dark.
We can, if we are sure there is no one to watch us," bleated a Lamb on Wheels, who stood on the floor near a White Rocking Horse.
I must mend the broken leg of thatRocking Horse as soon as I fix the Elephant's trunk.
The White Rocking Horse felt glad when he heard this.
But when I heard you speaking, White Rocking Horse, I just had to come out, trunk or no trunk.
He did not come very near Rose, who had crawled up out of the water and sat rocking herself too and fro and nursing her hurt ankle.
On the doorstep sat a woman who appeared to be rocking her baby to sleep in her arms.
There's the little cradle I rocked him in that I kept all these years--" Emily herself could hardly check her tears at thought of the mother rocking this empty memento.
Here comes Emily," said Mrs. Barlow, who had been rocking in her chair.
That night she saw gorgon faces leering in at her window, and her dreams were of new-moon scimiters and the rocking of the camel ride.
It was Serena rocking herself placidly in the rocking-chair.
And still in my dreams at times I feel the rocking rhythm of the camel ride and the winged bulls of the Assyrians seem to haunt me like familiar sights.
