The barrel had come upon a slight obstruction, and the man had evidently lifted and pulled at it until his shoe, by reason of the extra weight put upon it, had sunk deep into the light soil.
The listeners heard sharp words, and then a slight scuffling of feet.
As the crude latch was lifted, with a very slightcreaking sound, a movement was heard inside, and then a heavy body was heard striking the ground at the rear.
She was a very practical person in matters connected with millinery and dressmaking, and in a minute had planned the slight alterations and additional furbishings required for their party frocks.
To cast off her mourning for her unhappy father would be, she felt, a slight to him.
If Deleah thinks she is going to put that kind of slight on me she's mistaken.
Increased by seeds sown in spring in a slight hot-bed, and placed in the open border later; or if sown out-doors it will still flower in the autumn.
After flowering, the plants should have a slight heat, and when starting into new growth should be repotted.
Cuttings of young shoots may be inserted in sandy or peaty soil under glass, in slight heat.
Increased by seeds sown in April in a slight hot-bed.
Young shoots can be taken in spring or early summer with a heel, and placed in sandy soil, on a slight bottom heat.
It is best to put them in a frame and give them slight bottom heat, although they will grow if planted in the open in April or May, but the plants will make much less growth the first season.
Seeds should be sown as soon as ripe--in summer--in pots or pans, and placed in a slight bottom heat or in the open air.
Cineraria, and some others sow seeds in August in slight heat, or make cuttings about the beginning of September.
Propagated by seeds, which should be sown in a slightheat in spring; or by bulbels, which are abundantly produced.
A slight shade and careful watering will be necessary.
By cuttings from the leading shoots, placed firmly in a pot of sand; they first require a cool place, but afterwards may be subjected to a slight warmth.
It may be that sometimes the bearers were suspected of seeing too much; and it is plain from the general military policy of the German armies that very slight suspicion would be acted on in case of doubt.
Thence it curved back again to the Vamheule Farm, on the Ypres-Poelcappelle road, running from here in a slight southerly curve to a point a little west of the Ypres-Langemarck road, where it joined the French.
Further out the giant forms of the transports which accompanied that division loomed up through the slight mist.
Even though the new law will presumably hold good only during the present war, the impression created by the decision of the Austro-Hungarian Government on the enemy and on neutrals cannot be a slight one.
At most he has felt some slight stirring of the blood on my account; some transitory emotion, calmed by a slight effort of reason.
It is nothing but a slight dizziness, which will pass over.
A slight indisposition came over her and compelled her to go away without taking leave.
Fully to understand Lessing's influence, and fully to understand the bearing of his works, some slight previous acquaintance with German literature is absolutely requisite.
I do not deny that a handsome mouth set off with a slight curl of scorn, sometimes acquires thereby additional beauty.
Even a slight injury to his knee might work to his disadvantage, since it was bound to cripple him at some time during the remaining thirteen or more miles that must be passed over before the goal was reached.
At any rate he was engaged in whipping poor Sam to his heart's content, possibly for some slight infraction of the law he chose to lay down for the guidance of the pair over whom he had control.
It may have had some slight effect elsewhere, but in France its influence has been enormous.
Strange fellow," said Perkins to his spoon, when, after a slight breakfast, Brent had left the table.
All this must he do, nor must he slight a single convention.
Placing the accumulated morality of his own life against the full-grown evil of his father's, it angered him to think that by the intervention of a seemingly slight quantity the results were made equal.
A slight wave from the old flood had reached the bark and rocked it.
The slightcheck afforded by the interposition of the Americans was over.
Taking into account the respective rates of speed, the frigate, whose course made a slight angle with that of the ship of the line, would probably cross the bows of the latter within range of her battery.
For the light was fading; it was getting darker; there was a slight sense of chill, a growing dimness in the air.
Slight cracks were audible like sharp reports, muffled but quite distinct.
That's twice they couldn't understand it," observed Judy, in the slight pause he made for effect.
This involves the hauling home of all the hay and grain, and the hauling out again of all manure,--no slight task.
No matter what amount of water may be used for flushing out the soil-pipe, its sides will always be more or less coated with organic filth; and, however slight this coating, there will be a certain amount of decomposition.
The mere cleaning work of both the roadway and roadside grass spaces, it will be easy to induce children to perform for slight rewards and encouragement.
It is that evil Roger de Horn again," she said, with a slight tremor in her voice; "he has come back under another name.
But Dame Margaret uttered a slightsnorting sound, as if she were less satisfied with what she had observed.
Hugh looked, and a slight shiver took hold upon him.
I tell thee, Leofric, if he did put slight upon us, we have revenged that slight in baths of blood!
He was burning with zeal in the cause of the Barons, and intensely eager to avenge the slight put upon that cause by the stratagem of Northampton.
Edward gave him a slight smile of gratitude and approval, and turned his keen glance towards Leofric.
There was a slight rustle in the thicket close behind.
Then a slight sensation was caused in the hall by the sudden stepping forward of Lord Amalric de Montfort, who asked leave to bear a certain testimony about this very man.
A slight commotion now stirred through the crowd, and certain persons pressed forward to give their evidence.
His slightframe was convulsed by the paroxysm of his grief; from time to time a strangled sob broke from his lips.
De Montfort looked up with a keen, quick glance into the face of the Prince, and then a slight cloud as of anxious thought passed across his thin face.
Edward noted their glances, and a slight smile crossed his handsome face.
The cars came together with a slight shock and the three were thrown into a giggling, struggling heap on the platform.
There was a new stone dock, and up the slight rise from it, about a hundred yards back from the shore, was the heavily-framed lodge.
The perpendicular faces of the bluff present three or four varieties of clay formation, slight differences in color and texture being noticeable.
A slight chill ran up my spinal column, concerning which I made no comment.
From a slight elevation we were able to look through the entire extent of the chasm, which appeared to be about twelve hundred feet in length, and varied from four to ten rods in width.
He was evidently seeking to attract our attention to his perilous position, for he was poised at a dizzy height, several hundred feet above us on a veryslight projection, where he appeared like a moving speck.
The interesting affairs of the treaty had caused me in some degree to slight my responsibilities.
So regular had been the ascent, and so great was the distance, that the huge pyramid looked nothing more than a slight swelling on the face of the earth.
Maskull felt a sort of emotional inflammation, as though a very slight external cause would serve to overturn his self-control.
The newcomer was of middle height, very slightand graceful.
She gave a slight shiver, and turned away from him.
Yet, with all his sensitively retentive memory, Woodfall did not care for slight interruptions during his writing.
Slight and frail is the thread, yet it has a double strand.
Moreover, had the line been carried under Ludgate Hill, there must have been a slight detour to ease the ascent, the cost of which detour would have been enormous.
Gifford, with his usual headlong partisanship, says the same; but there is every reason to suppose that the words are those uttered by Beckford with but one slight alteration.
This same year, the greedy despot Henry having discovered some slight inaccuracy in the assay, contrived to extort from the poor abject goldsmiths a mighty fine of 3,000 marks.
The six elegant clustered columns already alluded to, however, needed butslight repair.
This slight hint perhaps led Shakespeare to select this street for the scene of the prince's revels.
The slight encounter which followed filled the island with terror, and there is no doubt that many excesses were committed on both sides.
She infected her readers with her own enthusiastic admiration; and, in spite of her slight technical and historical equipment, Mrs. Jameson produced a book which thoroughly deserved its great success.
A slight insurrection was easily suppressed, and a plot formed by some nobles to hand him over to the English king, Henry VII.
He sat eying the other for a little while with a slight frown between his eyes, but in the end he nodded.
I had a hand in those enterprises," was the answer, and with a slight bow the gentleman went his way.
But after a little the stimulant brought a slight reviving, and he talked in broken and disjointed phrases.
Puzzled, he hastened forward until from a slight elevation, which commanded a burial ground, choked with a tangle of brambles and twisted fox grapes, he found himself looking on a picture for which he was entirely unprepared.
I was jest seekin' fer a match," said Joe Givins as a slight sound from the other attracted his attention.
These having been already named, we shall give a slightsketch of each, with its capital and chief towns.
The generality of people form their judgment of education by slight and sudden appearances, which is certainly a wrong way of determining.
Only the slight coincidence of the use of the (then familiar) verb "wax" in both passages could suggest imitation in the case of such a well-worn commonplace.
But by the tests alike of quantity and quality of reproduced matter, it is clear that the indirect influence of the Senecan tragedies and treatises on Shakspere was slight compared with the direct influence of Montaigne's essays.
She uttered the words as coolly as if they were of very slight importance; but Dotty’s little heart beat like a drum.
And yet no one but you would have let his political zeal break out on so slight provocation.
A slight sickness, my heart beating rather more rapidly than usual, a choking in the throat, and a difficulty of utterance; such were my sensations as I walked to the Cosmopole.
The abbess gave her horse a slight touch of her heel and bade the young man follow.
Ricarik then made a slight incision on the right breast of the lad so as to whet the hawk's appetite.
His wavy black hair, divided in the middle of his head, fell in ringlets on both sides of his forehead, which was furrowed by a deep scar, and shaded his manly face that bore a slight brown beard.
