Rolling himself up into the smallest possible compass, he sat for a long time crouching behind the chimney; while the police were rummaging under the beds and in the closets of the house, in the hope of finding him.
During this time the pirates were rummaging the sloop, but found nothing but a ring and a pair of silver buckles not inserted in the list.
In rummaging the sloop, the connivance of the governor was detected; the secretary, falling sick with fear, died in a few days, and the governor was compelled to refund the hogsheads.
He then bade him give an account of his cargo and money, and of everything aboard his sloop, for if upon rummaging they found the least article concealed, they would burn the vessel and him in her.
Hugh was rummaging in the storeroom, and presently came out carrying a piece of canvas and a small sack, from which he took a palm, a large sail needle with a crooked point, a piece of beeswax, and a ball of heavy thread.
They were rummaging about for souvenirs in half-destroyed dugouts where dead bodies lay.
Swift then, as your fell Red Caps are heard in the Corridor rummaging and slamming, the two Citoyens light their pipes and begin smoking.
Patriotism rushes in, tumultuous, from grundsel up to ridge-tile, through all rooms and passages; rummaging distractedly for arms.
Then I will get ready," said Hans, and went into his chamber, where I for a long time heard him rummaging among his water-boots.
But while rummaging about, from an angle formed behind one of the cases he drew forth a cane, to all appearances an ordinary Malacca walking-stick.
Some bullets," reported a policeman who had been rummaging further in the rubbish.
Raskolnikov put in again, still addressing Nikodim Fomitch, but trying his best to address Ilya Petrovitch also, though the latter persistently appeared to be rummaging among his papers and to be contemptuously oblivious of him.
He went to the stove, opened it and began rummaging in the ashes; the frayed edges of his trousers and the rags cut off his pocket were lying there just as he had thrown them.
Ilya Petrovitch had sat down and was rummaging among some papers.
On his return from the Hebrides, while rummaging one morning for flies in an old desk, Scott came upon a manuscript, long since laid aside, containing the first two or three chapters of Waverley.
I shivered, if the curtains were disturbed, at the thought of the mischances consequent on the confused and hasty investigations made by the men in a hurry to depart, who were rummaging everywhere.
Emile, as he watched Raphael rummaging busily in the dining-room.
Breakfast over, Johnson and the hands turned to upon the cargo; while Nares and I, having smashed open the skylight and rigged up a windsail on deck, began the work of rummaging the cabins.
He didn't like the idea of any one, friend or no, rummaging in his pockets at night.
Abner was still rummaging in his pockets when the train went out.
They told us, in York, that there was a Frenchman, of our burthen and metal, rummaging about among the fishermen, lower down on the coast.
La Chesnaye, go and see if by rummaging all my pockets you can find forty pistoles; and if you can find them, bring them to me.
He began rummaging on the bed, behind the doors, under the chairs.
She was rummaging about in her jacket-pocket for something, and started slightly when she became aware of Mona's presence.
He disappeared through the companion, while Gunsaules vanished within the storeroom, where I could hear him rummaging noisily about.
Very likely he is up in the dusty attic squatting among the cobwebs, or rummaging for curiosities in some old drawer or another.
But Harry was not upstairs among the cobwebs, nor rummaging in any drawer whatever, nor talking to John in the stable, nor playing with his toys in the loft, nor anywhere else that any one could think of.
They stood, therefore, before the Baron in the ludicrous attitude of having their eyes fixed upon the Hebrew Croesus, and with their hands rummaging in large European coat-pockets.
What a royal ragfair this place must have been for rummaging antiquaries, equal to twenty Madame Tussaud's and all the ragged regiments of Westminster Abbey put together!
We were much impressed by his {184} testimony to the efficiency of mission work, for the French official is far from favourable to the Roman Catholic Church.
I had also the privilege of seeing His Excellency Tong-Shao-Yi in London, and he did not discourage the plan.
He told us that the Chinese merchants had once tried to have a Chinese captain, but the moment the ship reached the first port of the Yangtsze, the custom officers were on board rummaging here and rummaging there.
Unwiseman, rummaging through the carpet-bag for his air-gun, which he had purchased in Paris while the others were visiting Versailles.
The Inspector scorned to reply, and after rummaging about in the bag for a few moments, he produced a small box of macaroni.
Just like you," grumbled the tidy schoolmistress, rummaging among the cans of spice and pickle bottles.
The bears must have been rummaging finely here while we slept.
When I awoke on the morning of October 8th I heard the crunching of heavy steps in the snow outside, and then began a rummaging about among our meat and blubber up on the roof.
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