Berthon's crew as the floe tilted under the dog's weight.
Under the impulse of her propellers she tilted nose downwards, the while the disconcerting sound of the flexible wire grinding against her was growing more and more in volume.
So once again they tilted with their fullest force, and this time King Arthur's spear was shivered, but the knight's held whole, and drove so furiously against the king that both his horse and he were hurled to the ground.
Then they began the battle, and tilted at their hardest against each other, so that both knights and horses fell to the earth.
The gaunt hills, too, tilted and careened in heaped-up barriers of dilapidation to the distance where the autumn veiled them in a smoky purple.
Her hattilted back as he stooped to kiss her, but she did not appear to resent that disarrangement.
About the two tilted and careened the neglected tombstones of those who slept humbly but restfully here.
Illustration: Then they began the battle, and tilted at their hardest against each other.
If he could not see me from one place, he would try another--always with his head tilted a bit on one side.
The last was because Freddy had moved swiftly forward, unsnapped Dave's helmet strap andtilted the helmet down over his face.
As Freddy tilted it bottom side up, both boys saw the tiny slash in the canvas covering and the even smaller crack in the metal underneath.
At the right moment he hauled the throttle back, and tilted the nose downward.
The square section of stone floor was now tiltedto a rakish angle.
In time she found herself gazing down into the space beneath the tilted floor.
Moved by an invisible, silent force, it tilted more and more.
The mystery began when Ruth and Betty, along with other girls and boys of the island, swarmed up a rope ladder to the tilted deck of the beached schooner.
Not ten feet before her a square in the floor, some three feet across, tilted upward.
Between that broad arch of eroded sandstone and the quarry lie steeply tilted sedimentary rocks of various compositions and hues.
The masses of gray shale that seem to be carelessly piled against the tilted sandstone layers are bare of vegetation.
Above this long stretch of tile-capped wall rise the beautifultilted massive lines of grey-blue temple roofs against the sky.
Under a lofty open shed, with a tilted Chinese roof, the great bell is hung.
And the night is divine -still, clear, vaster than nights of Europe, with a big white moon flinging down queer shadows of tilted eaves and horned gables and delightful silhouettes of robed Japanese.
And here is the temple, with roof of blue-painted copper tiles, and tilted eaves and gargoyles and dragons, all weather-stained to one neutral tone.
And again begins the long panorama of mysterious shops and tilted eaves, and fantastic riddles written over everything.
The Moonship was tilted slightly askew, but it was patently unharmed.
It howled like a lost baby dragon, its flat undersidetilted up and up until it was almost vertical.
The landing rockets roared and roared, and Joe tilted the bow down a little farther, so that the streaming flood of clouds drew nearer.
His wife, a pretty and piquant little American, with a tip-tilted nose and the quaint sharpness of her countrywomen, amused Charles not a little.
The shield which he had always held before his heart had failed to protect him against the dancing eyes of a girl who could not even speak correct English--the tilted chin of a girl who would not flee from a mob.
As he spoke he tiltedback his chair, and thrust his hands deep into his pockets.
His hat was tilted down, the large peaks of his overcoat collar projected like wings.
Captain Seccombe removed his legs from the cabin-table, tilted his chair forward and half rose in his seat.
And as it dragged the car after it like a tilted pail, the four drenched and blinded aeronauts struggled through the spray and gripped the hoop, the netting--nay, dug their nails into the oiled silk.
We were weltering along in horrible forty-foot seas, over which our bulwarks tilted at times until from the companion hatchway I stared plumb into the grey sliding chasms, and felt like a fly on the wall.
When we were seven minutes out from the starting-point, we reached an altitude where the scene took a new aspect; an apparently limitless continent of gleaming snow was tilted heavenward before our faces.
These cars were nottilted back, but the seats were; this enables the passenger to sit level while going down a steep incline.
He said that men who had been cured by the other process were easily distinguished from the rest of mankind because they always tilted their heads back, between every two words, and swallowed a swig of imaginary whey.
By and by they came to an ice-coated ridge which was tilted up at a sharp angle, and had a precipice on one side of it.
The locomotive-boiler stood on end, and it and the whole locomotive were tilted sharply backward.
He tilted the corked bottle over his glass again, meantime searching around with his watery eye to see if anybody was watching him.
A girl in a rose-red motor-bonnet and a moleskin coat was standing up in the car, her eyes raised, her chin lifted like a flowertilted in its stem, intent on something which Vanno could not see.
Cahews laughed and sauntered toward the front, and old Wrinkle sat down in the chair just vacated and tilted it back against the door-jamb.
Puck sat there tilted like a cannon in position to be fired off, his head and breast thrust upward, the hind tip of his body resting on the leaf.
He stood gazing out upon the moon-washed landscape, his headtilted slightly forward, his chin propped on his hand.
The termite team settled down over the semi-liquid mess that had been the slug, and tilted back.
Who ever heard of an Injun with eyes like hers, and lips, yes, and a tip-tilted nose?
Camillo Bill studied the cards, tilted his hole card and glanced at its corner, and raised Brent two thousand.
Then all the family looked up, the boys suspended their digging, father tilted back his hat, the mother shyly smiled.
Just below her on the sand a happy family played-some babies, two little boys digging, the father smoking, his hat tilted over his eyes against the sun, the mother finding biscuits in a bag for the youngest infant.
