It isn't likely that we will run into any of them, and if we should we would so outnumber them that they would establish some new records in high-tailing it home.
The only man in the squadron who ever had a good word for Siddons, and now he was going down in flames while Siddons, supposedly his friend, was high-tailing it for home.
How vexatious, too, are the tailing fish, boring their heads into the weeds and breaking the water with their broad tails--and their tails always look particularly broad at such times.
His role is to scan the water, to watch the duns and ascertain their identity, to spot at once the dimple of a rising fish, and to differentiate between such a rise and the swirl made by a tailing fish.
I detected unskilled dove-tailing of genuine and forged elements.
I know many boys, from the age of nine to sixteen years, tailing cattle.
And he knew every one of them and sang them all with thetailing of the bag-pipes in the sound.
That is, when anybody knows how to sing him--not concert singers with artfulness, but just a singer with the right quaver and the whine of catgut in the voice and the tailing of Scotch pipes for the swells.
Rotten cold it was, too, and me tailing on like a blamed chaperon!
I don't believe he knows yet who's tailing him, sir, but he looks as if he realized we had him coming and going.
She met him at the gates, and Vanner took the job there of tailing them, while I came on down to report to you.
I'll write him first and then wait a few days, and if anyone's tailing me in the meantime, they'll have a run for their money.
You could see the white-and-tan dots here and there where the limpers weretailing away.
One of the whips dropped back, however, as some of the hounds weretailing off, and that brought them down to five.
For some ten furlongs he had strong competition, but he was leading by several lengths when he crossed Yazoo Street, eight blocks away, with the field tailing out behind him for a matter of half a mile or so.
There is clearly a rude order in their distribution, the number of cases tailing away into nothingness, at the top and bottom of the column.
There is an awfultailing off now, the pace has told its tale; only eighteen or twenty are really in it.
There go the bombers to the center, and our place you said was on the left, tailing the whole bunch.
They were at the time back again in their appointed place, tailing the procession.
The first exhibition on the programme was to be the coleo de toros, which may be rendered in English as "tailing the bull.
That half-caste has been with him for years, tailing horses and so forth, for his tucker and rags.
But we were just in time to discern a Chinese patrol tailing the same beasts toward a larger detachment, which was moving in the direction taken by the earlier draft.
And over the corners of the angles of the eight sides the fabric must be bound together through its thickness by dove-tailing the stones, and its sides, likewise, must be girt round with oaken ties.
So that, by the time he finally got the straight of things into his head and they got back to St. Clair Hall, the lights were out and the stairs were dark and the last of the audience was tailing away.
Tailing trout are usually feeding upon caddis and other larvae.
Therefore the character tailing me was a hot papa with a burner charge labelled "Steve Hammond" in his needler.
I was tailing a gent who was playing games off the reservation.
