It still burned, blazing brightly in places, again smouldering sluggishly and sending into the still air smoke clouds whose fumes were a choking horror of burned flesh.
There were red drops that struck upon his hands or fell sluggishly to the floor; the head and face had taken the blow of a clubbed rifle or a heavy boot.
And though Barker's plane reached the stalling point, and fell over sluggishly on wing to present a perfect target for the pilots and gunners above, not a single Nazi sliced down in a dive to pick off the Englishman.
And perhaps it was fate that put a fairly smooth strip of ground directly in front of the Spitfire mushing sluggishly forward.
There it is of a dirty red, and muddy, and moves sluggishly between lofty poplars and planes which overshadow its flat banks, while the long gray grass hangs down from thence to the surface of the water and literally covers the trees.
A few long and vigorous strokes sent the boat directly up to the broadside of the whale, with its bows pointing towards one of the fins, which was, at times, as the animal yielded sluggishly to the action of the waves, exposed to view.
The last drop of the precious liquid secured, the vessel moved away, sluggishly now because of its prodigious load.
Vast as that field was, it could not encompass the whole of the fleet, but half of the lip of the gigantic cone soon disappeared, its component vessels subsiding into a sluggishly flowing stream of allotropic iron.
Crowland is at the confluence of two rivers, which flow sluggishly through this flat but beautiful and verdant region.
As soon as this happened, the liberated Trouble began to drift sluggishly shoreward, swinging broadside to the wind.
And as he looked, an edge of silver shone on the distant rim of the waters; and then the moon, misshapen, wizened and darkling, heavedsluggishly up from the deeps.
Max here displayed his agility, by laying hold of a long bough which extended from bank to bank, and walking "hand over hand" across the stream that flowed darkly and sluggishlysome twelve or fifteen feet below.
My shoulder," he answered thickly, as if the words came sluggishly and were half-strange to him.
His eyes roved stealthily from point to point of the basking afternoon room, then once more sluggishly refastened on Fanny.
The bow swept into the onward current, it moved more swiftly, and then sluggishly settled against the bottom.
II He woke late the following morning and emerged sluggishly into a sparkling rush of sunlight.
In the tap-room the soldier encountered the newcomer, seated not far from the fire as though his blood flowed sluggishly after his long ride in the chill morning air.
The blood of the patroons flowed sluggishly through the land baron's veins, but his French extraction danced in every fiber of his being.
It hung together in banks, flowing sluggishly down the slope of the land and driving reluctantly before the wind, and very slowly it combined with the mist and moisture of the air, and sank to the earth in the form of dust.
And I assert that I watched them closely time after time, and that I have seen four, five, and (once) six of them sluggishly performing the most elaborately complicated operations together without either sound or gesture.
On the tallest spire of the place, which was now sparkling in the early sunbeams, the French flag, the pestilent tricolor, that waved sluggishly in the faint morning breeze.
His mouth was puckered on one side into angular wrinkles, like a curtain drawn up awry, while a clotted stream of black gore crept from it sluggishly down his right cheek, and coagulated in a heap on the deck.
Up rose the submarine, though not with her accustomed rapidity, and soon she was pounding sluggishly in the still agitated sea that swept her fore and aft and washed over on all sides.
Below lay not water, but a smooth surface of viscid slime, here luminous with the florescence of rottenness, there furrowed by a tiny runnel of moisture which sluggishly crept across it to the slow stream beyond.
The yellow Tiber is flowing by the railway track, sluggishly and silently, on to the sea.
Sluggishly the turbid tide of the Tiber rolled towards ancient Portus.
John of the Catacombs preceded his new patron through the tall weeds which almost concealed him from view, until they reached a clearing not far from the river, whose turbid waves rolled sluggishly towards Ostia.
There was another boat coming sluggishly up the bay that night, far astern of the Spray, a handsome big sloop, beautifully modelled and with finely tapered, shining yellow spars.
The yacht went sluggishly in stays, hung almost in the eye of the wind for a moment, and then, failing to make headway against the heavy seas, fell off once more and would not come about.
And through that prairie, meandering sluggishly to the ocean from the northeast, came the wide, deep River Placid.
Then, after what seemed like a few hours, when a shield began sluggishly to form, Hilton transferred his probe to the mind of the Second Thinker, one Lord Ynos, and absorbed everything she knew.
All that was definitely ominous was the bank of black cloud lying sluggishly offshore.
As yet the lane was narrow; and there were pans in it--adrift and sluggishly moving away from the Amen shore.
A long arm moved out toward us, but it moved slowly and sluggishly instead of with the lightninglike swiftness which had characterized the movements of the others.
Illustration: They were moving sluggishly along the red light, seeming to flow rather than crawl.
They were moving sluggishly along the red light, seeming to flow rather than to crawl.
They fell sluggishly away, through the great space which yet separated the Earth and the Moon.
