Seven miles below the Tennessee, on the Illinois side, we sought relief from the blazing sun within the mouth of Seven Mile Creek, which is cut deep through sloping banks of mud, and overhung by great sprawling sycamores.
A sad-eyed, shabby place, with the pipe line for natural gas sprawling hither and yon upon the surface of the ground, except at the street crossings, where a few inches of protecting earth have been laid upon it.
He had almost reached the lowest branch of the tree from which the creeper depended when the thing parted beneath his weight and he fell sprawling at my feet.
Involuntarily I glanced backward to discover the origin of this new and menacing note with the result that I missed my footing and went sprawling once more upon my face in the deep muck.
Down went that great mountain of flesh sprawling upon the ground.
I hope earnestly it will soon be over, and a fine pink Gosse sprawling in a tub, and a mother in the best of health and spirits, glad and tired, and with another interest in life.
There was no sound in the great lonely forest, save for the low murmur of the wind through the sprawling boughs.
When Maurice was lifted from his horse and placed on the ground, his legs suddenly bent under him, and he went sprawling to the grass.
In a moment he was left behindsprawling in the snow.
Then he gathered his strength for an effort, and the next moment she was sprawling in safety at the feet of her lover.
The Jovian brought his other hand around in an arc that caught the Earthman across the face, sent him sprawling ten feet away.
He blinked against the pain and saw that he was still in Venusport; rather he was at the edge of the swamp near the sprawling compound.
And the signal brought to the roadside an anxious group of women at a sprawling farmhouse not a mile beyond the spot where the two cars had been stalled.
Page after page of the large and sprawling writing she turned over, face down upon the table.
Taggart's head shot backward, he crumpled oddly, his legs wabbled and doubled under him and he sank in his tracks, sprawling on his hands and knees in the sand.
Calumet drew the hand fiercely away, overturning Bob so that he fell sprawling into the dust at his feet.
He shook him as a terrier would shake a rat and left him at length sprawling in the middle of the road, his clothes all covered with dust.
Jake and Empty nobly supported him, and in a few minutes the room was cleared of all the attackers except two who were sprawling upon the floor.
The great squab seems at such times to be sprawling in space, without the least support.
It is more than a place of rest after the fatigues of her confinement: it is a guard-room, an inspection-post where the mother remains sprawlinguntil the youngsters' exodus.
Then I shall tell you more--if you can stand more after this--fourteen sprawling and vacuous pages.
He could do nothing but blunder and stagger about in the middle of the thick, dark forest, stumbling and sprawling over the roots of the trees, and knocking his head against the branches.
The robbers were all about--some preparing the feast, some already carousing, some quarreling over their plunder, some sprawlingabout the floor.
Strawberry Hill is sprawlingand vast, the progeny are liliputian, but the family likeness is striking.
Both of his hands were imprisoned in the grasp of a sprawling fist.
The lazy giant was sprawling on the most comfortable of the sofas; the pair were alone in the dainty little drawing-room.
Instead of sprawling the letters out so, write each character compactly, but join it to the following one by a distinct link-stroke, as it were.
Then break yourself of the habit of crowding your letters too closely together, on the one hand, and sprawling them out unduly, on the other.
The next moment she lay sprawling and struggling on the deck with a broken back.
He satsprawling across the hearth, a pipe in his mouth, and a pot of porter at his feet.
The men had halted here, weary after their long, hot march, and were sprawling on the grass and in the shade of the bushes.
But the soldier lay sprawling and inert, and by the time the chauffeur had reached him there was no doubt in that worthy's mind that, at last, this wretched meddler with things that concerned him not had been laid by the heels.
The other three, sprawling in their chairs, were openly and unashamedly asleep; even the dogs lay in fantastic attitudes, breathing heavily, inert like logs.
Then he went in turn to each of the three men sprawling in the chairs.
Mahommed Gunga seized the lamp, bent for a few seconds over the still sprawling fakir, whipped him again twice, cursed him and kicked him, until he got up and ran like a spectre for the gloom beyond the trees.
Suddenly her eye fell upon the sprawling frame of Billali, and she seemed to recollect herself.
As Grace spoke they both turned quickly, for there was a sudden noise of an overturned chair in the further corner of the room, and they could see a dark figure sprawling on the floor.
Thea glared round her at the crowds, the ugly, sprawling streets, the long lines of lights, and she was not crying now.
The sprawlingold house had gathered them all in, like a hen, and had settled down over its brood.
