They sat slapping at the mosquitoes till a whistle screamed on the Lower River.
The Colonel kept on bowing magnificently at intervals and pressing refreshment, O'Flynn slapping his thigh and reiterating, "Be the Siven!
It vas healthier for us in der vater dan it vas on der poat," put in Carl, slapping at his wet clothes.
Ferral, slapping Carl on the shoulder, "do you think two thousand plunks would buy the craft, Carl?
Why should he, with his fifty thousand pounds, receive a slapping premium, whilst our three hundred of available capital remains unrepresented?
Bob, slapping down the prospectus on the table, with the jauntiness of a Cockney vouchsafing a pint of Hermitage to his guests--"What do you think of that?
All that night the Rangers walked up and down, slapping their thighs, scratching their legs, for the older the night grew the harder did those fleas seem to take hold.
The watcher observed that Ned carried no rifle, only a revolver slapping against his thigh in its holster as the boy stumbled on up the mountain side.
With pistol holsters slapping against their thighs, Rangers and Pony Rider Boys strode from the camp, circling to the left after leaving the rocky pass where they had their resting place.
Slapping his knee, he continued: "The white men in the camp are two-sided; they pat you with a hand that is always ready to strike.
It's a little chilly, my dear," remarked the Major, slapping his arm.
You'll be a scholar yet if this keeps up," replied Dan, slapping him upon the shoulder, as the mountaineer glanced up with a pleased and shining face.
He took off his Stetson and removed its thin powdering of white alkali dust by slapping it noisily against his leather chaps.
The man abruptly transferred his attention to the horse; gently slapping his neck and pulling playfully at his twitching ears.
And the guide, slapping and shaking the snow from his clothing and adjusting his cap, walked down from the bridge to one side and sat upon a rock in sheer fatigue.
That is all right, Mr. Ringfield," said he, slapping him quite affectionately on the back.
And so slapping the boy on the back, Jake Dolan went down the street winding in and out among the brick piles and lumber and mortar boxes, whistling "Tread on the Tail of me Coat.
He passed into the stable and, slapping the hungry and expectant oxen lovingly, spoke to them as was his habit.
Boy found his waiting companions outside, and, slapping Declute’s narrow shoulders, he bounded down the path toward the creek.
Do go and finish; I 'm tired of this,' said Mary, slappingaway at the mosquitoes.
After the astonished Turk had looked at it for a moment, he commenced in good round English, and poured upon him a volume of incoherent rhapsody, slapping the paper violently with his hand and pointing to the road.
A moment later their talk was interrupted by Charley Powell, who, slapping Jack vigorously on the back, told him to take off his saddle and turn his horse loose, for he was going to take the horses over and turn them into the cávaya.
After supper, Hugh, Joe and Jack were sitting together near the cook fire, Hugh smoking and the boys slapping viciously at the mosquitoes, which were pretty bad.
He thought it must be very funny indeed, because every one was laughing and bending double and slapping legs while he talked.
Slapping the rest back into their container, Ross pressed a button on the control board.
Out of nowhere whirled a lacy gray-white net, slapping him back against a bulkhead to glue him there.
I suspected it," she said at last, slapping her leg.
I don't see why not," Martie said discontentedly, slappingdown her cards noisily.
Mr. Tate was not there, Potter Street told her, taking his feet from a desk, and slapping his book shut.
It was to take them, indeed, that she endured the long, silent evening, with its incessant muttering and shuffling and slapping of cards.
Jack, slapping his palm against that of his friend and crushing it as if in a vise.
Now, that's what I call good luck," exclaimed Jack, slapping his friend on the back.
Dot's just de way to spell it," said Otto, slapping his friend on the shoulder and laughing as though pleased beyond measure.
Now I can't just go down there and start slapping switches around on the thing," Gefty went on.
He swung the cubicle door switch to the left, slapping it flat to the panel.
The three men walked unevenly, now and then laughing uproariously and slapping one another on the back.
Oh, as they go," slapping his rapier and his pockets which had recently been very empty.
By that I mean, don't get so tied up slapping German fighters down that it will be so light by the time you jump that ground observers will see that you bailed out of Yank planes, and not Nazi ones.
The Lockheed touched with a sound like that of a giant slapping the palm of his huge hand on a tin roof.
