He was possessed by a madness to live, to thrill, "to squirm my little space in the cosmic dust whence I came," as he phrased it once himself.
He turned back to his music, waved his bow in the air, laid it across the strings and drew forth sounds that made the visitors squirm in the chairs they had taken.
It was characteristic of Smith that he did not slacken his horse's pace--he could squirm out somehow.
This thought, slightly consoling to Meeteetse, did not seem to comfort the Indian woman, who continued to squirm on the rickety seat and to strain her eyes into the darkness.
These big fellows are likely to squirm away" 33 They rode through a world shot to the core with sunlight.
Squirm as you like, you can't get over the fact that Hilton was in his room when the bullet that killed his father came from the wood.
When Henry VI was being borne to Chertsey in an open coffin, the Lady Anne made Gloster squirm by her cry: "O gentlemen, see, see!
The car began to squirm around all over Boston, and finally the conductor came back and wanted more money.
For a moment they stand and squirm like angle-worms on a hook, and froth at the mouth, and look, as they stand there, like a pile driver that has been run into by an engine.
Young walk and jump well; squirm | Young walk and jump well; fight and but rarely bite.
And then, when all the rest of her family began to squirm and fidget against the sides of the pen she added with a sigh, "Look at them!
Unless Grunty reached the trough among the first, there was never a place left where he couldsquirm in.
Collier might squirm when he learned of the trade, but perhaps he could be made to see the desperate necessity of it.
Twist and squirm as he might, the jaws of that trap held him fast.
His income had never warranted him in purchasing a pair of socks, so now, upon the removal of his shoepacs, his toes were fully at liberty to squirm and wriggle in the most soul-satisfying manner.
So that it isn't entirely babyish and foolish to howl and squirm about when you are hurt--though it is manly to keep both within reasonable limits.
Out of the water sprang the old root, seeming to writhe and squirm in a most lifelike manner.
He had to dodge and twist and squirm his way through the undergrowth.
The critter dodges even while he's in the air, but he couldn't squirm aside altogether, an' the sharp axe caught him a gash that laid his shoulder open.
Again he tried to squirm free and during the struggle that followed the hand holding the pistol was raised from the floor.
Yuma tried to squirm free, failed, and with a curse drove his left fist into the side of Hollis's face.
The men stirred in their seats, the sleepers were nudged awake, everyone started to squirm around.
He was falling, falling, and squirm as he might, the bottom of this terrible shaft was nowhere in sight.
Redbird tried to bite and kick him, to squirm away.
Auguste felt his guts squirm as he realized what a thin barrier protected this trial from being abruptly ended.
He used to sob in his sleep an' call out and squirm that he couldn't bear to see them flogged, an' leap up in bed in a sweat.
Tinker lay still for a while, and then began, to squirm away.
Tinker fetched a circuit to within a hundred yards of the backs of the Biggleswades, threw his straw hat on the sand, dropped on to his stomach, and began to squirm along towards them, taking advantage of every ridge and hollow.
Course that gets a squirm out of him, like I hoped it would.
That gets an uneasy squirm out of Old Hickory, but he comes right back at him.
A skillful squirm or two, and he gets his elbows loose.
And that's one of the few times I ever saw Old Hickory Ellins squirm at a come-back.
To make a sick girl squirm like a mud bank on an eel's skin?
I'll give that sick gal a drink that'll make her squirm like an eel on a mud bank.
He stayed three months and said it was heaven, account of not having them unnecessary evils on the place that would squirm round a man's legs and feel of his hair and hide round corners and peek at him and whisper about him.
