For ten minutes he examined his work, shifting his position from minute to minute, until the change of positions brought him backed up beside Valerie, and his thigh brushing her arm made him aware of her.
The hillock must have grown a good deal, by reason of the shifting sand; but, all things considered, the place was well enough described.
The making of an extra room in a Japanese house is only a matter of shifting a paper screen or so into a ready-made groove.
It's natural to him, and I don't believe the shifting platform will interfere with his aim.
The battle line was shifting continually, although the Germans were being pressed steadily back toward the east and north, but among so many generals it would be hard to find the particular one to whom they were bearing orders.
The comparison is just, but I can't yet tell any shifting of the artillery fire.
The target had been so high in air, and of such a shifting nature that the Uhlans had little chance to hit it.
In the stories of adventure there are rapidly shifting scenes, though in a more limited spatial area.
The picture is described in vivid detail even to the flowers in the meadow and the shifting colors of the sea.
Is not the Japanese alliance a dubious device for the partial shifting of burdens too heavy to bear?
The consequence is that, in compromising the integrity of his work, he necessarily builds his own practice upon a shifting foundation.
But back of it were subtleties that shaded and changed one into the other like the shifting of dreams.
She was not, like so many, endeavoring to put the ocean into a tea-cup, or to tie up the shifting universe in a mess of strings called law.
Most merchant vessels now have the yards at the fore and main of the same size, for convenience in shifting sails; so that the same topsail may be bent on either yard.
A vessel is usually thrown upon her beam-ends by a sudden squall taking her, when under a press of sail, and shifting the ballast.
Let her come up head to the wind, and fall off on the other tack, shifting the helm if she gathers sternway.
When her head is off enough, fill away the head yards and haul out the spanker, shifting the helm for headway.
One of these out-riggers should be fitted on each side, and all trouble of shifting over, and rigging out by purchase, will be avoided.
So while the caravan dragged its laborious way through the burning, shifting sand, Alexina and her kinswomen leisurely ascended the Nile.
The bubbles seethed around Mr. Heatherbloom's legs; unmindful of them or the shifting sands beneath foot, he strode straight as might be for the shore.
He stared helplessly into Pole's inscrutable face, and then his shifting eyes fell guiltily.
He was very pale, his skin appearing almost ashen in color, and his eyes, under their heavy brows, had a restless, shifting expression.
His skin was yellow, his hair stood awry, and his eyes had a queer, shifting expression.
The face of the gaunt farmer fell as he came forward, his eyes shifting uneasily.
Floyd noted the shifting look of dissatisfaction on his thin face, and his absent-minded manner, as he exchanged perfunctory greetings with those around him.
The blue of the heavens showed no break but the shifting bits of white cloud, and the hills and mountains rolled away, solid masses of rich, dark green.
He spent nearly the whole day shiftinghere and there through the forest, but late in the afternoon, as the Indians yet seemed so numerous in the woods, he concluded to go back toward the islet.
No shifting and juggling of stocks and bonds of coal-carrying railroads!
The valet avoided her direct gaze, and, shifting uneasily on his feet, began to fuss with the leather bags he was carrying.
She could not avoid a comparison between the clear, steady eyes of Ralph Winston and the glowing, shifting ones of Elijah Berl which had moved her so profoundly.
Her eyes dreamily watched the shifting shadows as the sinking sun moved them to and fro in a stately march.
She could build up nothing on a character whose foundations were of shifting sand.
For an hour the Rajah had remained watching the unchanging scene, scarcely for an instant shiftinghis own position.
The softening influence of the years spent with Lahoma was no longer apparent in his shifting bloodshot eyes, his crouching shoulders, his furtive hand ever ready to snatch the weapon from concealment.
Maybe it got in the habit of shifting about looking for Indians in the sagebrush.
In either case, swift flight was still imperative, and the shifting sand, beaten out of shape by the constant wind, promised not to retain his footprints.
His feet sank deep in the sand, then trod lightly over vast stretches of short sun-burned mesquit, then again traversed hot shifting reaches of naked sand.
And for the central figure in the picture, the one constant quantity when all else was mutable and shifting and indistinct, the big, calm-eyed Norwegian on the opposite box, hurling his huge machine doggedly through space.
Happily, he hit upon the expedient of shifting the responsibility for the decision to other shoulders.
That is moveable, and by keeping the sail up, and shifting places, we might worry through a great many nights, without them Canada wolves finding a way into our sheep fold!
Here the Indians resorted to an expedient that enabled them to give one of their party time to breathe, by shifting their paddles from hand to hand, and this too without sensibly relaxing their efforts.
They were rapidly bringing up more guns and more riflemen, and, shifting a part of their fire, a storm of death blew in the faces of those who would go to the rescue.
He may have started out as a Union man, but he's shifting around now, I fancy, to suit his own plundering and robbing forces.
There was a little shifting about in court; a policeman, looking curiously human without his helmet, pushed forward from the door and took his place by the little barrier.
The performance of the day before had been played to an end, the night scene-shifting was finished, and the players of the new eternal drama were not yet come.
Then, when he was near enough to the line, he pointed the nose of his balloon downward by shifting the elevation rudder, and he came slanting down, just as we slide down a hill on our bob-sled.
But I think I can get down now by using the depression rudder and shifting the planes.
There, as he knew, the spongy, shifting sand bottom would prevent even the progress of a decent walk.
The finger of silence lay on the lip of Nature, even the broad leaves of the quassia rising and falling on the shifting breaths of air, without that peculiar rustling sound generally belonging to the forest domain.
He was sunk now clear to the knees in a weaving, shifting mass.
Jack shuddered as theshifting sands wound about his waist.
The sea itself was full of shifting greens and blues, and far out a fleet of boats like grey-winged gulls hovered, fishing.
He spoke without shifting his position, without even turning to look at her: if the thing was to happen, it was to happen in this way, with the whole width of the room between them, and his eyes still fixed on the outer snow.
Mr. Jackson, shifting himself slightly in his chair, turned a tranquil gaze on the young man's burning face.
