The man was buttoning his coat, his red jowlssagging a little, almost as if Drew had used the carbine across his unprotected head.
Near two o'clock he made it, and the advance were walking their horses into the fringe of Lexington--this was home-coming for a good many of the men sagging in the saddles.
Croff brought them out unerringly behind a sagging rail fence well masked with the skeleton brush of the season.
Despite weatherbeaten clapboards and sagging roofs, the fine ornamental detail of doorways and window frames assured similar niceties within.
Sagging floors and weak stairways are braced, as are fireplaces injured by dampness and frosts.
At the table, his thumbs hitched in a sagging revolver belt, sat Ned Rutherford.
Beaudry, sagging over the horn of the saddle, added his word timidly, but the Rutherford girl would have none of his thanks.
It was sagging down in the middle, and it wasn't very wide.
With Mama's help, we got the sagging gate dragged open just in time for Old Dale to come jogging through, with Wiley astraddle of his back.
By the time I came to the back pews, the bottom of the hat was sagging down.
When the house was getting filled up with folks and the tree was sagging with presents and I was already in my Christmas tree costume and it was almost time for the Christmas Eve program to begin, he still hadn't come.
As soon as Mama went inside, she and Aunt Lovie started talking about thesagging old benches.
John Massey's house was the last one at the end of the road, a little place with a roof that needed new shingles and with sagging steps leading up to the door.
Sagging beams injure the walls and ceilings of the house and are apt to crack the chimney, rendering it dangerous.
Arches over openings less than 4 feet wide seldom sag, but sagging is not uncommon in wider fireplaces, especially where massive masonry is used.
Ka-bi-gat' held the heavy sagging pot on her knees and leaned the hardened rim against her naked breasts.
With a scream of pain the man staggered forward and clutched with one hand at his head, his gun still in his grip sagging floorwards.
He mouthed back--speech was beyond either; sagging at the knees he reeled forward and his right arm went poking out in a wobbling, uncertain punch.
Gib showed me how stout the cross-beam is which has kept the roof from sagging farther.
There's a broken door almost crushed under the sagging roof.
Dick stepped back and looked critically at thesagging roof, then he beckoned Gib and together they talked in low tones.
Age had sapped from beneath the skin, so that every curve had collapsed to bagginess, the cheeks and the underchin sagging with too much skin.
On the very heels of him, so that they met and danced to pass each other in the doorway, Mr. Vetsburg entered, with an overcoat flung across his right arm and his leftsagging to a small black traveling-bag.
A quick doubling up of the sagging silhouette, and the groan of a clutch violently thrown.
She stood looking at him, cheeks cased in palms, and her sagging eye-sockets seeming to darken, even as she stared.
She has a sort of petrified prettiness, the ghost of girlhood in a face furrowed and sagging with fretted years.
With his shaggy hair covered, and all his face sagging with lines of weariness, the gun-fighter seemed no more than a middle-aged man asleep, worn out by trouble.
Calamity whipped down the gun and fired, but even before the trigger was pulled he was sagging toward the floor, for Bard had shot to kill.
Nance, craning her neck to see, caught a glimpse of a white face with a sagging mouth, and staring eyes under a profusion of tumbled red hair.
An oily calm spreading across the sea from shoreward overhauled her by degrees, overtook, and held her, with sails idle and sheets tautening and sagging as she rolled on the heave of the swell.
He indicated the sagging door behind him, and Lou followed his gesture with a reluctant eye.
Others trimmed hedges and trees, put the lawn mower to their grass, bolstered up sagging fences, and rehung gates.
Out of the sagging gate and up the winding lane she went, her feet twinkling over the dew-wet sod, a song on her lips, her eyes as bright as the stars which Dawn had smothered when she tiptoed over the eastern hills.
Mouth sagging open, eyes glaring, the tyrant slowly raised his arms--a suppliant.
The gross face was shrunken, the cheeks sagging in folds of woe; cruelty and wickedness were wiped from it; the evil in the eyes had been washed out by tears.
Whereupon the student on the bed rolled heavily over, sat up dejectedly, and ogled him with red eyes and a sagging jaw.
The flannel bandage, draped around it by loving hands, hardly supported his sagging jaw.
He seemed to himself to be sagging like an ice-cream in front of a fire.
When he looked at the broken and sagging bridge he had suddenly thought of a trick he had seen performed in a circus that had exhibited in Cresville.
Jerry felt himself going down as he reached the sagging middle of the broken structure.
He looked at the sagging bridge, at the gap where the span was missing, and at the angry waters that swirled between him and the other shore.
The wires should be drawn taut to prevent sagging with the weight of fruit and leaves.
Deep brown of sagging rusty wire seems to be the complementary colour of an intense and shadowy green.
And, shouldering his rifle, he walked leisurely into the woods, the cartridge belt sagging en bandouliere across his woollen undershirt.
II When Stormont gently halted his horse it was dawn, and Eve sagging against him with one arm around his neck, sat huddled up on her saddle fast asleep.
It was a night toward the end of the month, no rain falling now, but the sky sagging low with a weight of cloud.
The place was small, a main street flanked by frame houses, a wooden arcade jutting over the sagging sidewalk.
