He swung along the dark roads talking to his cat, watching the sky with its sprinkling of large stars.
He swung off down the dark street with his cat and knapsack, struck out into the country along the back roads which ran among the poor hill farms to the northeast.
He threw caution to the winds, swung with his left, and tried to close.
She tied up a little lacquered box full of boiled rice and snails for his journey, wrapped it round with a silk napkin, and putting his extra clothes in a bundle, swung it on his back.
When the bullet struck the head it swung to the opposite side, as if hit by a fifty-pound sledge-hammer.
The Japanese portion of the town was gay with flags flying from bamboo staffs, in honour of the approaching New Year, and red and white lanterns swung along the ridgepoles.
Mr. Strong, hanging up the receiver, swungabout enthusiastically.
He swung down on the sill, and slid into the room, perspiring and white with fear.
Henry's was of this sort; and, as he swung along through the clear brisk air, the world seemed his football once more.
Sandy, emboldened by the discovery of the plank, made the first rush up and was immediately knocked from his perch by Tod, whose pole swung around his head like a flail.
Resting the end of the pole upon the sand-bank, as the boat swung round, he gave it a vehement impulse towards the shore.
So Grace gave up her little red hood, and Dick swung his cap, and up they both went into the air; and the children shouted, and the flag snapped and fluttered, and altogether they had a merry time of it.
I thought of what your mother would say, as I swung in, but it didn't stop me.
George Ryle swunghimself on to the very narrow ledge under the window, contriving to hold on by his hands and toes, and thus obtained a view of the room.
The moment he stopped to bale, the boat swunground or was driven backward.
In stupefied amazement I swung my head around, and my mouth fell ajar and my brows knit when I saw from whence these heavenly strains proceeded.
A hammock was swung across the center of the place, and on all sides except the entrance one were placed benches.
I can't imagine what there was in that innocent sentence to cause affront, but instantly the girl in the hammock swung her feet to the ground, arose, and picked up her bonnet and basket.
Dexterously the girl swung her prize within reach, skilfully removed the hook from its hold in a gill, and dropped her catch in a tin milk bucket at her other side.
He swung his club as he rushed, and it hissed above me.
At times hats were swung aloft and cheers rang out tumultuously, only to be hushed by the disappointing murmur, "Not yet.
From the side of the one that cheered the living room, swung a crane worthy of the great copper cheese kettle that hung on its arm.
The day he died, the flag swung lower on the staff.
At the head of those steps was a door; I had bade him leave it open, so that I might have plenty of air; when he had gone I had extinguished the lamp which swung from the roof.
It was a sort of cabin, rougher in accommodation than that in which I stood, fitted with bunks on three sides and furnished with a table in the center over which swung a lamp.
Came abruptly the grating of hastily drawn bolts; the heavy door swung in.
The fellow roughly swung the boy up under one arm.
Quesada cursed them angrily for the whelps of dogs; then swunground in the saddle, dug his heels into the horse's flanks, and headed full-tilt through the brush.
Quesada swung completely around in the saddle to face the sullen trio.
He grasped the Frenchman's elbow and swung him about-face.
Here the rope tautened with a jerk, arresting his flight, and back he swung in a breathless curve to the other end of his arc.
The sail swung over in the customary way; every movement of the figure at the helm was so familiar and natural that comfort began to steal into her heart.
The minister, with the agility which unbounded wrath gave him, caught the boy' and swung his cane.
Then he took his life in his hand, as it were, and swung himself up on the verandah; he moved like a cat, for he supposed that the stalwart Johns was within.
A firm step trampled the underbrush, the lantern was swung high, and the two runaways were discovered.
The boy swung himself from his pony, and handed over the leathern bag to his master.
As itswung up the slope, an old war-song of Umalikazi came volleying through the air to those here gathered: "Yaingahlabi Leyo'mkonzi!
That ought to bring it," answered the latter, as he swung himself into his saddle.
We swung along together for almost a half-hour, hardly talking.
I sat there for what seemed ten minutes, listening to the rush of the rain and the creaking of a door behind me In the darkness somewhere, that swungback and forth rustily in the draft from the broken windows.
The gate swung to behind me, and I could not see six inches from my nose.
Some one was fumbling at the shutters there, and as I looked they swung open.
He heard a policeman’s rattle, as the householder who had opened the window swung the loud-sounding contrivance with a vigorous arm.
But before he could get the nose of number forty-eight into the opening, the omnibus swungback into the middle of the road again.
Janus swung to the right, then to the left, and behold, the little hut stood darkly before them!
All at once Tommy swung in the foot that was free and thrust it straight up the slope.
In the morning we bade them all goodby (some of them for the last time), swung into our saddles, and moved on.
When the little old dwarf Giant Doubtful came out that day, Pilgrim Exactly swung a terrific cut with the sword straight at the dwarf's neck.
At this I swung at Bad Feelings with the trusty sword of the Spirit.
Two short, impatient blasts sounded up ahead and the Limited jerked into motion as Bob and the conductor swung back onto the train.
By the time he was back in the vestibule the Limited was grinding to a stop and Bob swung down behind the conductor, the two running ahead alongside the train as rapidly as they could in the darkness.
Just as Bob swung the weapon the trucks hit a sag in the track and the young federal agent was thrown partially off balance.
In the Pullmans the solid rows of green curtains swung to and fro as the train sped southward.
The flagman, his foot poised to kick the catch, saw Bob nod and the next second the trap door swung upward as unseen springs provided the momentum.
A red lantern was being swung at the junction platform and the minute the Limited drew to a halt beside the cinder platform Bob and the trainman started running forward.
Waldo Edgar swung around in his chair and turned to a large map of the United States which covered the entire wall behind his desk.
Bob had the borrowed revolver in one hand and as he swung up after the conductor one hand slipped on the wet handrail and he nearly fell.
The brakes went on sharply and the little train swung around a curve as the wheels shrieked a protest.
Sheriff McCurdy headed the boat toward the seaway, but before they reached it swung it sharply to the right and they chugged through a narrow passageway that twisted and turned interminably.
The air in the coach was stuffy and Bob found it pleasanter on the rear platform, watching the track wind away in the distance and they swung around curves and chugged their way up steep grades.
The engineer whistled a wheezy "high ball" and the conductor swung up on the back end as the accommodation started its daily run for the seacoast.
The driver of the car swung toward Bob, but before he could get into the scrap, Bob jerked the gun from its holster and clubbed him over the head with the barrel.
The startled conductor went to the edge of the trestle and swung his lantern over the side, but only the rush of dark waters could be seen.
It freed itself and glided away under her feet, leaving her clinging to the pole in the middle of the river, while her solid footing of a few moments ago swung into the current and floated off beyond her reach.
This door was also locked, but the key was in the lock and it turned readily under her hand and the door swung open.
South American gauchos, consisting of balls or stones strung together, swunground the head and hurled, usually so as to entangle the legs of an animal running.
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