As they came up with me the woman stopped and swept her face with her hand, while the child, depositing the basket in the dust with great care, wiped her little sticky fingers on her pinafore.
The child crept close and put a sticky little hand confidingly into the tired old palm.
And we do not listen, because most of them wrote in verse, and verse is not liked unless it tells of love or beauty or the sticky pathos of drawing-room songs.
The girl handed us sticky slabs of Africa's maize bread, and then padded off with the tray.
Mrs. Smith rubbing a little more flour on her hands, and plunging them again into the sticky mass she was kneading.
She picked up two plates, sticky with molasses, and having a piece of pork rind on one, and set them into each other.
There was a drawing of tea set up in another teacup, and there was a sticky little tin teapot.
He took his knife and sprung the end of the tin enough to pour a little of the thick, sticky substance into a glass.
There were some strange characters marked on it, presumably Chinese, and while she studied them she noticed that the can had sprung a little at the upper edge, and a sticky substance began to ooze into her palm.
Mary had thoughtlessly fed the little boy with soft cake, and the little boy had first made his hands sticky with it, and then pawed the sofa, which had cost him (B.
And oh, anything rather than sticky door-handles and greasy spoons, and those awful voices hailing one all over the house!
Everything was sour-sweet andsticky from the juice.
On she plunged, pitching and rolling, descending by degrees and with ejaculatory whoops among the sticky sweetness, part of which was still uncomfortably warm.
In her contortions, she overbalanced herself and fell shrieking in, going promptly to the bottom, where quite a pool of sticky sour-sweetness had already collected.
The sticky substance on seeds and fruits not unfrequently serves another good turn besides enabling them to adhere to animals.
A number of fruits, and even the upper fruit-bearing branches, have sticky glands with which to catch on to any passing object.
Some of these spores float on water, and some are sticky and thus gain free rides.
Their feet, no matter how lightly they stepped, sank in the mire, and when they pulled them out again the mud emitted a sticky sigh.
Now and then some portion of the shore, eaten into continually by the powerful stream, would give way and fall with a sticky sigh into the river.
A cloud of steam rose from his horse's haunches, its head was sticky from sweat, and great flecks of foam flew about from its snorting nostrils.
When we reached the first rubber-gatherer's store the delicacy which all our men most eagerly coveted was condensed milk, and to my amused horror they solemnly proceeded each to eat a canful of the sweet and sticky luxury.
Then each dead or dying animal became itself a lure for all kinds of flesh-eating beasts and birds, which in their turn were entrapped in the sticky mass.
Slowly but surely her outer coat was melting away, leaving sticky brown streaks on Tommy's fingers and on the snowy whiteness of the clean bed-quilt.
Mrs. Radford was reading, while Annabel learned to sew with a hot needle and sticky cotton on a long calico strip.
Miss Margaret held out a bottle of boiled sweets that were just the very best kind he liked; hard and scrunchy they were on the outside, soft and sticky within.
But Tommy, conscious of grimy hands and sticky mouth, thought this was a summons to wash, and affected not to hear.
Pollinium of an Orchis (Habenaria), with its stalk attached to a sticky gland; magnified.
Now the neighboring bristles, which have not been touched, slowly bend inward from all sides toward the captured insect, and bring their sticky apex against its body, thus increasing the number of bonds.
The Sticky Glass Pick up a wineglass and fill it with water; while doing so say something about the state of the glass; you can say that the stem feels a little sticky, but perhaps it will do for the trick.
Clay soil is very sticky when it is wet, as you will be sure to remember if you have tried to walk over it.
The sticky sap of the coniferous trees is obtained by making a cut in the bark.
The hard surface of the chilled iron wears well in sandy and gravelly soil, it does not rust deeply, and it clears well in sticky soil.
The disk type of plow is used in very dry and hard soil and also in very sticky soil.
They were small dolls, with sticky pink-painted faces and sticky black-painted hair, and they were dressed in tissue paper.
One bird walked right over his wet palette; I stepped out and waved my sun-bonnet to frighten him off, but he had both feet in a sticky mass of Chinese vermilion, and for a moment was unable to free himself.
Then," I added, triumphantly, "all we have to do is to haul in our birds and detach the wealth of Midas from their sticky claws!
Perry Alford indicated a moist, dark circle on his wash blouse and a sticky lock of hair.
Then they went home merrily in the warm, dusky twilight, very happy, with their hands and mouths sticky with sweetmeats.
Is it your recollection that the sticky tape that appears on this wrapping was affixed to the package which this is?
You have, I notice, now in your hand, some sealing tape or paper sticky tape, am I correct?
Mrs. Paine has torn from the package some sticky tape.
Miss Reporter, would you mark the strip of sticky tape I now hand you as "Ruth Paine Exhibit No.
It is wider than the variety we have heretofore identified--is it your recollection that this sticky tape came on this particular package when it was delivered to your home?
When it was hot and dry, there arose stifling clouds of dust, and when wet the sticky nature of the ground could even bring a “caterpillar tractor” to a standstill.
The way was along a track of sticky mud of the typical Somme variety.
She picked up all the sticky dolls and putting them in a basket she carried them out under the apple tree in the garden.
The ground is so stickythat wagons on country roads may mire to the hubs in the pasty earth.
The children ran the long length of the porch leaving their footprints on the fresh, sticky paint.
Billy grabbed the sticky limbs and gave a valiant tug, but the body did not move an inch.
Calyx long, cleft almost to the base in 5 lineal parts thickly set with small glands, exuding a sticky gum.
The whole plant issticky and emits a garlicky odor.
My friend and l'Encuerado set off in search of it; but I did not dare to venture farther with my boy over the damp and sticky ground.
Sumichrast explained to the young naturalist that tree-frogs havesticky disks on their feet, and by the aid of this mechanism they could move about on leaves and even on smooth surfaces.
In the subterranean passages of a termite's nest there are arches which seem to be composed of morsels of wood stuck together by some sticky matter.
