As we approached a closed room there came to us sounds of splashing water and happy squeals.
The lower ranks of young Japan were engaged in a fierce water battle of ducking and splashing and a trial of endurance, as to who could stay under longest.
I was listening anxiously for the wife's step, but except for the low hum of machinery and the splashing of the water I heard nothing.
In the house all was silence, and outside the splashing and churning of the water falling over the wheel came distinctly to my ears.
The Tripolitans seemed disorganized, for their oars no longer moved together and the blades were splashing wildly.
The men bent their backs splendidly to their work, jeering the while at the enemy as the balls whistled by their heads or sent the foam splashing over them.
The shots weresplashing all around him, but nothing had been carried away, and the American jackies jeered cheerfully at the wretched marksmanship.
Harry, blowing and splashingabout in the water like a small whale, on the day following the fishing excursion.
As they came up to the lake, Dick ran on first and dashed into the reeds at the side, splashing and paddling about, and here and there taking to swimming.
They came swimming about near where the doctor and Jack looked over, shouting, splashing each other, and generally clamouring for the piece of money to be thrown in.
As for what you call splashing through mud in dress-pumps, I know what you mean and I avoid it.
Leave the shoes and socks for a day or two--that is my advice," laughed the deputy as he rode away, splashing through the flood that still surrounded the compound.
A deafening sound of splashing of water and stamping of feet told of the near neighbourhood of a drove of buffaloes returning to their homes for the night.
Splashing along as I was, I had a better chance of keeping the vermin off; but then I could not keep it up.
The toadstool collapsed upon itself with a strange splashing sound.
The others settled by the edges of the splashing fluid, quickly absorbed in an ecstasy of feasting.
The splashing he made in the water soon attracted the attention of the sentry on the forecastle, who, having been instructed by Frank, had kept a good look-out.
Not an oar was used, for the young officer did not know but the rebels had posted sentries along the bank, whom the least splashing in the water would alarm.
He had started down the stairs, when he heard a slight splashing ahead of the vessel, like a heavy oar dipped carefully into the water.
It was very dark, and the only sound that broke the stillness was the splashing of the wheels of a steamer as she went on her way up the river.
She heard a slight splashing sound and the next moment the grateful feel of water was upon her burning eyelids, as the Texan sponged at them with a saturated bit of cloth.
Only a moment he held it there, then with a thrash of disappointment that sent the water splashing over the dust-coated rocks, he raised his head and stood with the water dripping in streams from his muzzle.
She plops splashing out of the water) Raoul darling, come and dry me.
Frank, if you don't stop splashingme with that horrid water, I'm going to get out and walk.
Anywhere from Harlem to a Jersey City pier,'" finished Frank, wickedly splashing some drops of water on Grace's immaculate white dress.
The returning boat's crew seemed fully alive to the need for haste; the men at the oars were splashing mightily and digging deep.
At the same time the thought of him splashing there alone was even less pleasant.
But I had never been out of England in my life, and did not like the picture of splashing with grandpapa in Paris.
The Twins had retired to wash in the little out-house at the back, and their splashing was audible every now and again above the crackling of the wood fire, which now, as before, filled the kitchen with fragrance.
Only the tick-tack of the tall clock and the splashing of the Twins disturbed it.
The open door gave the wind a new crevice to fill, and it slapped wrathfully at the buckets, splashing the contents on the floor.
Thaine leaned back in his chair and clasped his hands behind his head while he looked steadily at the splashing waters before him as he said frankly: "Yes, there is.
Saving the splashing of the fountain, and the occasional harsh scream of the peacock, all was at peace, as if by contrast with the tumult that raged in Valentina's soul.
The splashing of the fountain seemed to soothe her, and for a little while her eyes were upon that gleaming water, which rose high in a crystal column, then broke and fell, a shower of glittering jewels, into the broad marble basin.
All he knew was that he was aboard ship, with the warm air coming in through the port, and the water was splashing and slapping against the side.
Then, as the Nautilus swerved a little from her course, the word was given, and a shot went skipping across the moonlit sea, splashing up the water in a thousand scintillations, and taking its final plunge far ahead of the schooner.
At the prick of the lancet the blood spurted out, splashingagainst the looking-glass.
Often they had started when, with a sudden movement, his hat entered the diligence through the small window, while he clung with his other arm to the footboard, between the wheels splashing mud.
A winter snow-water bath seemed a necessity, a luxury indeed; for they all indulged, splashing with the same purpose and zest that they put into their scratching among the leaves.
A much biggersplashing drew me quietly through the bushes to find a marsh hawk giving himself a Christmas souse.
Many of them were splashing about in tiny pools of snow-water, melted partly by the sun and partly by the warmth of their bodies as they bathed.
As she flew along her helm was put hard down, a puff of smoke shot out from her quarter, and a cannon ball came hopping and splashing over the waves, passing within a hundred yards of where we lay.
All day it was splashing and swashing through mud and mire, the rain-drops shining on the gun-barrels and dripping from the heavy-footed horses.
Very slowly and silently we crept on through the dense fog, our feet splashing and slipping in the sodden soil.
They heard the noise and the splashing of water and thought some accident had occurred.
Soon all but Carmen Chadwick were splashing in the silvery water, playing hide and seek with the moonbeams on the ripples and feeling a thrill and a magic in the river which was never there in the daylight.
Mr. Saunders opened it again and gazed vindictively after the bulky figuresplashing through the slush.
There was the salt smell of the marshes in the air, and the hissing and splashing of the surf on the outer beach were plainly to be heard.
Finally, the Captain laid down his hoe, and came splashing over to where his friend was standing.
Another plunge, a splashing run, and they were on the hard sand of the beach.
The sound of the surf on the ocean side of the beach was no longer a steady roar, it was broken into splashing plunges and hisses with, running through it, a series of blows like those of a muffled hammer.
The first wave tripped over the bar and whirled beneath him, sending the dory high into the air and splashing its occupant with spray.
Ever, and in spite of all, Silviane rose up before him, splashing him with mud.
He crossed it, splashing through the mire left by the rain, and reached a little pathway, a delightful lovers' lane, as shady in summer as any arbour.
