In a moment of enthusiasm one of our number who was interested in temperance and its allied reforms tipped Basilia a whole Mexican media-peseta.
While Katy was brushing her hair, the glass tipped a little so that she could not see.
Clover, while little Phil tipped the baskets upside down, as if to make sure there was nothing left that could possibly be eaten.
The latter drew the ladder up, with the help of the gardener, tipped it over to the other side, and quickly planted it outside the wall.
Show dahlias, large and double with flowers self-coloured or pale-coloured and edged or tipped with a darker colour.
Fancy dahlias, resembling the show but having the florets striped or tipped with a second tint.
He would ram every steel-tipped ideal to its black heart.
Then the Lion put his strong front legs against the tree and pushed with all his might, and slowly the big tree tipped and fell with a crash across the ditch, with its top branches on the other side.
After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle.
The Lion thought it might be as well to frighten the Wizard, so he gave a large, loud roar, which was so fierce and dreadful that Toto jumped away from him in alarm and tipped over the screen that stood in a corner.
He put his gloved hands on the sill, hoisted himself, tipped forward, and wriggled through the window into the dark and silent room.
Lacking the support of the rope that had circled his chest and the tree, he tipped forward and slid heavily to the ground.
First I hunted in all the bushes, and the Catbirds scolded me and the Brown Thrasher in the barberry bush was very mad and a Robin in the low crotch of the bell-pear tree nearly tipped his nest over, he flew away in such a hurry.
It was in the geraniums by the dining-room window, eating the seed I tipped out of my Canary's cage when I cleaned it," continued Dodo.
The vine must have swung down, for it hadn't tipped the nest over, and the mother bird was sitting on it still.
The moon, pale and hazy, tried to pierce the mist that still enveloped her as with a cold, blue mantle, and one by one tipped blackthorn and gorse with a cluster of shimmering diamonds.
One by one the myriads of rose-tipped clouds now put on their grey cloaks of evening.
There was magic in the vast stillness of the Moor; on each dew-tipped point of grey-green gorse, from every frond of emerald bracken, there glistened a tiny crystal.
Its leaves are long and thread-shaped, beset throughout with glutinous gland-tipped bristles, but wholly destitute of a blade.
The strap of her gown had fallen partly off, leaving one smooth, creamy shoulder bare, the golden wreath of laurel was tipped sidewise in her hair.
She tipped back her head again, shaking away some unpleasant idea.
The fairy stitching gleams On the sides, and in the seams, And reveals That the Pixies were the wags Who tipped these funny tags, And these heels.
First, I've got a hunch that it was Barney Palmer who tipped off the police about Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt, and then spread it among all the crooks that you were the stool and squealer.
And the indirect way he had tipped off the police about Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt and had then made his pals think Larry had squealed--that was sure playing the game, too!
So I tipped off Barlow to the game Red Hannigan and Jack Rosenfeldt were pulling and--" "Then Larry Brainard really didn't do that?
The Common Creeper is about five inches in length; its colour is tawny, the quills being tipped with white or light brown.
The upper part of the body is brown; the under part white; one of the pectoral fins is tipped with black, the sides are yellow, and the tail rounded at the extremity.
By habit only is the sportsman enabled to discover him, and his leading marks are the full eye and glossy silver white-tipped tail of the bird.
The tentacles are usually tipped with a pink or purple tint; they are constantly waving about in the water in search of prey; and instantly seize upon any creature that passes over them.
The yellowest bird is considerably the largest, and has its quill feathers and secondary feathers tipped with white, which the others have not.
This bird is of a bluish grey colour, with the feathers of the sides of the necktipped with white, forming several imperfect rings; the breed is common in Britain.
The tail is brown, black towards the end, andtipped with white.
But once they were stooking the barley in the glebe, and, the day being hot, Mona tipped back her white sun-bonnet, and it fell on to her shoulders.
Dan, and at that he lifted up the Archdeacon's silver-tipped walking-cane which lay on the table and brought it down again with a bang.
The door stood ajar, and the two candles in the two brass brackets at each side of the fireplace were tipped by their extinguishers.
Carts were tipped up in corners, and their stores of food and drink were guarded by a boy or a woman, who sat on the sternboard.
She wore a man's shirt with a red tie, a jacket and waistcoat of violet velvet, a velvet three-cornered hat gracefully tippedto one side over her curls.
Then he drew on white gloves and grasped a tall cane, emblem of dignity in the fraternity; a staff covered with green velvet and tipped with silver.
While I was at Hexham (I think I had been there two days) I had been to pray with a poor woman, and the Hexham man came and tipped me on the shoulder.
Governor Abbott tipped back his chair and looked at McGrath.
The Lieutenant-Governor sank slowly into his revolving chair, tipped back, swung round a half circle, and stared out disconsolately over the sloping lawns of the capitol grounds, mottled with thin patches of snow.
But he threw the pill-distributing doctor over his head into the bath, after which he was lathered very gingerly, and Cheetham having been in once, refused to shave him at all, so they tipped him in and wished they had never caught him.
Well, that's the number I'd tipped them to, but she called it before the dice stopped rolling.
