The black man sprang high up into the air, and shot out both his arms and his legs, coming down all a-sprawl among the heather.
In the corner a very fat man was lying all a-sprawl upon a truss, snoring stertorously, and evidently in the last stage of drunkenness.
Well, it's true; But a quill and bigsprawl is the fashion, so wot is a feller to do?
Sprawl as a problem farther out Throughout the Basin where centers of population and industry are on the jump, sprawl is also gnawing away at the countryside.
Though the ugliness and dreary crowded sameness with which standard sprawl replaces decent landscapes are reason enough for opposing it, other good reasons exist as well, perhaps especially in rural counties.
Human beings boom outward from the Washington metropolis and the other centers of population in search of a fuller life, and the consumptive sprawl and sameness of the communities built to receive them often deny it to them.
It not only justified a slow progress up the hill, but at the crest a sprawl on the turf beside the road, to contemplate the Weald from the south.
Mr. Hoopdriver, sprawling down there among the bracken, must sprawl without our prying, I think, or listening to what chances to his breathing.
I spent much of the evening making up nice little speeches which I wished I had had the sprawl to get off on the spur of the moment.
Would you like a row o' stalls to sprawl your dirty carcase on?
Nearly as easy to sprawl face-downward on a camel-saddle as on the ground--and he had tied himself on.
At night when the young King was sleeping, his wife was to draw the clothes off him and empty the bucketful of cold water with the gudgeons in it over him, so that the little fishes would sprawl about him.
You know the Sprawl family that live in the old shack down near the blacksmith shop?
Well, I came on one of the little Sprawl girls a-cryin' on the road and searching in the grass.
Of the two birds thus suddenly smitten by fate, the younger, shot through the heart, lay motionless where he had dropped, a sprawl of black and white, and ashen feathers tumbled by the little ripples of the pool.
He went down at the first crash, a pathetic sprawl of long limbs and long, ineffective, beautiful antlers; and barely escaping with his life, he fled away into the thickets.
Early every summer the glory of the snapdragons and the wallflowers is overwhelmed for a time by the blossom of the pear-trees and the plums which spread themselves abroad and sprawl even over the top of the wall.
I never was more surprised in my life than to see that monstrous 'ton of man' heave over suddenly and sprawl in the dust!
Scotty protested and reached for French Frank, who whirled upon him and fell on top of him in a pummelling clinch after a sprawl of twenty feet across the sand.
As it was, I would sprawl out in the shade on my one day of rest and dally with the Sunday papers.
A very deep river could only be crossed by standing on a stone, leaping to an old log, and thence with a final sprawl to the farther bank.
Great sunflowers, a foot in diameter, sprawl over the railings, dahlias and marigolds nod in the evening sunshine, and broken fruit-trees lean over the walks.
Long lines of net, brown and red, are extended on the gravel, and here and there a man sits patching it, while great numbers more sprawl idle on the warm stones.
Stephen stands at the pianola on which sprawl his hat and ashplant.
Blazes Boylan and Lenehan sprawl swaying on the sideseats.
He'd get frightened and sprawl all over the ice--no wild creature can handle himself well on the ice.
Losing all sense of caution, he would begin to sprawl upon the ice.
The brass-buttoned hotel porter, a-sprawl in a wicker chair in the hall, lowered his newspaper and looked up over his silver spectacles.
The peddler lay at full length, a bundle of strange travel-wrecked clothes, suggesting a lay figure in his limp inertness and the loose sprawl of his limbs.
I humbly entreated that the ill-used mass might be allowed to sprawl in undisturbed misery.
If Ben leaned over the rail he could glimpse the black sprawl of them: DIANA.
