His top-boot sank quickly through the yielding crust, and the black subsoil rose with oily, sucking action, 'and his foot was immediately buried out of sight.
His arms were outspread, and, for the moment, they offered resistance to the sucking strength of the mud.
Then he turned, and the two made their way back to the edge of the sucking mire.
His heavy lips parted and closed with a sucking smack as though expressing appreciation of a tasty morsel.
The watchers heard the gurgling mud, like to a great tongue licking, as it wrapped round the doomed man's body, sucking him down, down.
Good," he muttered, as, sucking in a heavy breath, he returned to the stove and turned his back to it.
In fact, she almost did forget them once or twice at moments when Janet McFadden was busy sucking the jaw-breaker.
Like the former it lives on the body of its host, and obtains its food by plunging its stout beak into the bee and sucking its blood.
The maxillæ in the butterfly are united to form the sucking tube, while in the bee the end of the labium (Fig.
Another puzzle for the evolutionist to solve is how to account for the change from the caterpillar with its powerful jaws, to the butterfly with its sucking or haustellate mouth-parts.
They are described by a gentleman who watched their operations with great interest, as 'stealing up to a louse, coolly seizing and tucking it under the arm, then inserting the beak and sucking it dry.
While many of the mites are parasitic on animals, some are known to devour the eggs of insects and other mites, thrusting their beaks into the egg, and sucking the contents.
The damage done by the larvæ and pupæ, then, consists in their sucking the sap from the roots of forest, and occasionally fruit trees.
A savage review is hemlock to a sucking author; the one on me knocked me down--but I got up again.
Come along, now, we'll treat ye as if ye was all sucking babies.
Both midshipmen and men might be seen sucking them heartily, as we once more stood into action.
In the chapters devoted to dinners, no mention has been made of the sucking pig, beloved of Charles Lamb.
Still the subject is a vast and important one, in its connection with gastronomy, and lends itself to poetry far easier than doth the little sucking pig, upon whom Charles Lamb expended so great and unnecessary a wealth of language.
As she gazed at Julian Maldon in that dreadful interior, chewing apples and brown bread and sucking oranges, only when he felt hungry, she loathed the Knype Ethical Society.
To which process of blood-sucking Mr. Verity was, in fact, rather scandalously subjected before Tandy's Castle passed into his possession.
Hordle paused impressively, sucking in his under lip.
He walked forward over the soft couch of fallen, water-soaked leaves, his boots squelching at times into inches of sucking mud, and his spirits rose.
The cafes, no longer crowded by smart people, were thinly patronised by bronzed young men in overalls, not innocent of lubricating medium, thirstily drinking ginger swizzle or sucking iced-lemon squashes through yellow straws.
Are not your kisses then as filthy, and more, As a wormesucking an invenom'd sore?
My bowells are growne muddy, and mine eyes Are faint with weeping: and my liver lies 130 Pour'd out upon the ground, for miserie That sucking children in the streets doe die.
And when the sucking child doth strive to draw, His tongue for thirst cleaves to his upper jaw.
Footnote: Mr. Rand observes that this is evidently an allusion to the bear's being supposed to live during the winter by sucking his own paws.
And he sat on the floor sucking a piece of maple-sugar, greatly contented, troubling no one.
The Cherokee account is that, seeing an infant sucking its own toe, he tried to do the same, and failed.
And besides their sucking the Devil leaveth other marks upon their body, sometimes like a blue or red spot, like a flea-biting, sometimes the flesh sunk in and hollow.
And Tom, notwithstanding his bumptiousness, felt friends with him at once, and began sucking in all his ways and prejudices, as fast as he could understand them.
My soul is as the soul of a sucking babe by his wicked soul; but, as for his body, the imperious gods who mock us have given him a most exquisite outside, the case of an angel masking a devil.
And again he drank the cool fluid, sucking it greedily from the cup ere he returned it to Perpetua.
When finger-sucking is one of these habits, the fingers are sometimes rubbed with bitter aloes, or some equally disagreeable substance.
One of them kneels apart, sucking a great wine-skin.
It roars me as gently as a sucking dove, and is as kind and cordial as my host and hostess and the other people in the house.
Lantier, who felt gay, was sucking his barley-sugar, and smacking his lips.
Meanwhile, Clemence had got to the end of the rump, and was sucking it with her lips, whilst she wriggled with laughter on her chair because Boche was whispering all sorts of smutty things to her.
All that day I heard not a sound but such as I made with my paddles, and the sea was like so much glass extended about me, and a mist all around the horizon caused by the sun suckingup with his great heat the vapors from the water.
Jones has sat in here day after day, sucking on cigarettes and beating on that typewriter, until good health no longer knows him.
When it became known that Mrs. Henderson had likened the mill owner, to his face, to a mosquito suckingblood from his employees, the whole town laughed.
In most of the species, the tongue, or lingua, is converted into an organ for sucking honey, or other liquid food, and the mandibles are adapted for biting or cutting.
They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostly at twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking the honey by means of a long, slender proboscis.
That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
