With those words she dabbed her hair in front of the cheap mirror over the mantelshelf, and then treading on tiptoe, went to the front door and let herself out.
The carriage was accordingly brought out, and in half an hour's time Richard and Edith were treading the deserted rooms, into which they let the warm sunlight by opening wide the windows, all save those of one chamber.
The batteries of the engine are directed toward him now, and they saturate his clothes with water, for the most fearful, most dangerous part is yet to come, the treading that single beam.
She wished to remonstrate with him, but he was already a few paces ahead of her, treading as lightly as if the deck were gravel that would roll about and betray him with its noise, and she did not dare call out to him.
Carefully treadingin their light moccasined feet, they gradually surrounded him and two, taking hold of him, while others loosened the bound brave, they drew him up from the slushy earth by the arms.
He could feel hands and feet gripping and treading on him, but they did not seem to be human, for there were too many of them.
He nodded backward along the path where a distant dark line of men came treading swiftly and steadily forward, tin pails glistening in their hands.
Frank was circling about Nelly, his eyes on hers, treading lightly, his tall body apparently weighing no more than thistle-down.
He replied by treading heavily upon my toe, which I interpreted as a signal of secret friendship.
He then led me away, and I was more concerned than ever to notice the strange smiles of those who saw the little procession which we made, he going first with his great staff, I treading behind.
The public approach is from Wilmslow, treading first the western margin of Lindow Common, then going through various lanes, and in front of "Dooley's farm.
The blueberry was but an inch or two high, and its fruit often rested on the ground, so that you did not suspect the presence of the bushes, even on those bare hills, until you were treading on them.
They're too soft and juicy to betreading under foot.
He was treading on my heels a little too much to please me.
A minute afterwards she opened the door, and treading lightly as she told me, I found myself in a parlour out of which led a bed-room, both well furnished.
Dogs fucking were pointed out to me; then cocks treading hens, and at last a fuller belief came.
The other side of the staircase was open to the cellar, and Armstrong was able to thrust his arm into the aperture below the step without treading on the flagstone.
They mounted the staircase, at first treading carefully, then with confident steps as they found that the creaking stairs were sound.
There was old Mrs. Aspinwall broke her hip only by treading on a pea, and falling down on her own floor.
Why, you can’t step, hardly, without treading on a hen or a duck!
And (it came to pass) that the gods saw Nala on the way treading on the earth.
Thou art, O king, the stake at which bulls are tied (in treading cord), and thou art competent to punish and reward!
The Squire came in, bringing with him a breath of the now frosty outer air, but treading Agag-like on complimentary slippers.
Squire, with the sensation of treading on very thin ice.
Eve followed, a pace behind his heels, treading almost in his tracks.
And then I glanced up, eastward, to the sun above the privet-hedge, and saw him coming across the flower beds, treading them down in wantonness.
I don't half like this sort of work, Sambo," observed Thorwald, speaking and treadingwith less caution as they left the settlement behind them.
This question he put gravely, and with the uncertain air of a man who feels that he is treadingon new and possibly dangerous ground.
She and Claudia hurried away as speedily as possible after four o'clock, and were soon tramping down the hill from The Gables and treading the narrow, quaint streets that led towards the sea.
Lorraine, with a feeling that she was treading on eggs, brought up the subject of discipline at the next committee meeting.
Then, suddenly, the sorcerer, treading the principal street of Kazounde, went toward the royal residence.
The young novice thought that, while letting his companions believe that they were treading on the soil of Bolivia, it would not do to hide from them the American's treason.
He slightly quickened his pace, and almost immediately beheld the shape of a man relieved against the night, and treading onward through the snow.
I disregarded the voice within me which warned me that I was treading a forbidden path.
Alexander's horse on his side, and treading Alexander and his horse both deep under the water as he passed over them and disappeared.
But that, I remembered in time, might be treading on rather thin ice, or, what would be even worse, might seem like snooping.
