Sometimes we slither over altogether but the sand is soft and spills do not disturb one much.
Twice or thrice I got it half-way up, only to slither down to the river again tout ensemble.
The wind was again strong and cold: the ship had commenced her oldslither and heave, slither and heave, which mercifully we had forgotten.
Up comes the deck in that fainting swoon backwards--then down it fades in that indescribable slither forwards.
And he glided off into the rain and was lost to view long before the slither of his footsteps had died away.
Dan, with recollections of Anzac fresh upon him, remembered that slither of earth from those crump-holes on the left.
Temple froze, watched Charles slither away across the high-piled green carpet until, safely away across the room, he came upright groggily.
He tried to rise, succeeded only in a kind of shuddering slither before he subsided.
How much more of that scuttle-and-slither treatment do you think he could have taken?
I can't stand things that scuttle and slither and crawl," said Ives.
And now, homeward bound, the horsemen slither down the hillside, plunge into a pine scrub, to emerge therefrom on the border of a small plain, and chase a mob of brumbies grazing thereon.
But now he heard the avalanche stirring, the whispering slither of the first pebbles.
One could hardly be expected to slither about in soft slush for second-hand things of that kind.
With a rush and a slither of hoofs in the loose sand the Concho riders, headed by Shoop, swung up to the gate and dismounted.
The Mexicans, led by Loring, loped up and reined with a slither of hoofs and the snorting of excited ponies.
The Olema only smiled oddly, in the dim and perfumed obscurity of the passageway, along which the slither of the many sandaled feet on the gold pavement made a soft, creeping sound.
The slither of the dry snow--the white, fine snow of sand--filled all space with a whispering rustle that could be heard through the shouting of the simoom.
From the sea, the noise of waves breaking along the lower works of Nissr mingled with the hiss and refluent slither of the tumbling surf on the gleaming beach.
It was the slip, slip, slip of a native footstep, the slither of a cotton-padded sole coming down the flight of stone steps.
David heard the bolts shot to again, and the faint slitherof departing feet.
He leaned forward, still gripping the cord, listening intently for any sounds there might be, and fancied as he did so that he could hear the soft-footed slither of some one in the passage.
I caught the slither of a bare foot and I was warned.
The street was silent, silent but for the slither of the padded soles of the attackers, silent save for that and the almost soundless tread of others following bearing a similar burden.
Then the Ranger was tumbling down the goat track in a slither of shale.
They curve up all together like a glittering bow and slither down again.
And as he looked he heard a second object slither to the floor.
And all around, weird in the conflicting lights, hurried gnome-like figures mountainously laden, and in the confusion of sounds could be heard the slither and thud of trunks being conveyed to the hold.
Before I realized the danger of a vast sliding crate, two strong arms were curled round my waist and I was flung aside, to slither and roll down the swaying deck until I was stopped by the bulkhead.
In the bottoms the slitherof our moccasins in the black mud would wake clumps of water snakes, big as a man's head, that knotted themselves together in the sun.
