The white-painted truck skidded around the corner, the doctor on the rear step, in his summerish looking white ducks, swinging far out to balance the weight of the car.
Pedestrians, of course, had scattered to the sidewalks; but the wheels of the ladder-truck skidded on the icy street and the taxi was caught a glancing blow by the rear wheel of the heavier vehicle.
The Defiance skidded less than two feet and struck a projecting knob of rock the size of a goose egg.
Logs were laid over rocks, the boats were skidded over them about their own length and dropped in again.
It just skidded along in one piece and stopped inches from my feet.
I tipped up the sculpture and the part on which it had skidded wasn't marred at all, not even dulled; the gray spheres were as glisteningly bright as ever.
Log after log skidded upon the carriage and was brought forward, while Houston, fascinated, watched the kerf mark of the blade as it tore away a slab-side.
Chasms lurked at the corners, the car skidded and lurched from one side of the narrow roadway to the other; once the embankment crumbled for an instant as a rear wheel raced for a foothold and gained it just in time.
Except that once we killed a brown chicken, and that another time we almost skidded into the canal, the journey was uneventful, almost calm.
How firm and white and shapely it was, and how determined and fearless the grip it could put on the steering-wheel when the big Darby car skidded dangerously!
But though the machine leaped and climbed and skidded most perilously, nothing daunted the girl with a grip on the steering-wheel.
His companion stared at him wildly for an instant, and then skidded into the passage beyond, escaping by inches a shot which clipped the door as he lunged through it.
So intent was Ross upon escape that he did not glance behind but skidded out on his hands and knees, thus fortunately presenting a poor target to the third man coming down the hall.
Noddy did slow up, but not much, and his car skidded worse than at any time yet.
Noddy was wise enough to do this, though even at the reduced speed at which he went around the bank, his rear wheels skidded rather alarmingly.
Even with this precaution, and aided as they were by the chains on the rear wheels, the red carskidded or slewed so that Jerry thought it was going over.
It almost grazed the mudguards of the machine in which the three boys were, and, skidded dangerously.
The rear wheelsskidded a little, and then the car, on the right side, slumped down into the mud and water, hub deep, and stopped dead!
He could see where the wheels had skidded and disturbed much of the surface of the drive--whether when the car entered the barn or when it came out, he could not say.
He saw where the auto wheels had skidded on the path going up to the barn--didn't you, Neale?
Arrived at their destination they worked swiftly, Ellen making her selection of necessities while the men skidded the boat down to the water's edge.
When the entire outfit had been packed across, the whale-boat was also skidded over on small drift logs.
There were squeals and little screams as feet slipped and skidded on the polished floor; but people soon found their dancing feet, got under way of the music, and swung to its rhythms with more ease, security, and pleasure.
Her hand holding an opal to the wheel trembled, the opal skidded and was scratched.
The lightless car skidded to a dusty standstill ten feet from the plane.
Ko Loo skidded the big limousine around two more dim corners at twenty miles an hour, and pulled up abruptly in front of a dark warehouse.
For several hours I pushed and heaved and skidded and floundered about on highways and detours and pathways that baffle description.
Taranto himself felt sand scrape raspingly against the side of his face as he half-rolled, half-skidded along the ground.
Only some Hun dead and wounded we had skidded into.
The car, while going at a terrific pace, had skidded at a corner of the wet road and turned over.
Buck attempted to follow but the machineskidded sideways, struck a slope and after a mute struggle with adverse conditions came to a standstill.
Applying the power, the plane rolled, skidded slightly then came to a full stop.
Then other men piled them by means of long steel chains and horses, just as they would have skidded them in the woods.
The marsh was cut over; the "eighty" on section eight was skidded without a break.
One after the other the teams emerged from the forest, gathered speed on the incline, and came flying down the hill, the great sleds cracking and groaning under the strain of enormous loads as they skiddedaround the bottom turn.
Rubber shoes, I fancy," said Ben, as his feet skidded on the pavement.
Gloria twisted the wheel sharply to avoid it; the car skidded on the damp pavement, and reeling crazily, caromed into the iron fence around the statue with a crash.
Slamming his strength against the controls he skidded the Albacore sharply off to the opposite side, and then pulled the nose up in a power zoom.
In the nick of time Dave kicked rudder hard and skidded out just barely enough to miss the mass of flaming debris and plunge on down by.
Then a staff car appeared down the road making its way along slowly and with difficulty, because, being without chains, it skidded humorously with engine racing and the chauffeur trying vainly to steer.
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