Unfortunately, the violence of the blow caused him to overbalance himself, and, tripping over his prostrate antagonist, he came down heavily upon his face.
Hardly had the crowd begun to assemble next night before he appeared once more upon the barrel and began to read with the same monotonous vigour, tripping over words!
Many men do it for fear of pooping, but there is far less danger of pooping than there is tripping or being brought by-the-lee.
The tripping power of the wave is exhausted before the rail is brought down, and the boat not receiving a load of water on her lee deck rights so much quicker.
How the peasant maidens would come tripping on the scene and lure the men tenderly to the dance!
The reader cannot have failed to detect the limner tripping with regard to Musset, who occupied not many years but less than a year the post of cavaliere servente.
The tripping fairy steps which we find in bars 17-20 and in other places are a new feature in Chopin.
So the old man had to go and call her, and she came running down, tripping along, clad in mean attire, so blithe and fresh and fair.
Fairies trippingwith bells at their feet could hardly have made lighter or quicker music.
I should like to stay here a week," said I, tripping over a steel hawser.
So Aunt Dora was thwarted again and went back to the cottage to invent some other method of tripping the twins.
All the little boys and girls, With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls, Tripping and skipping, ran merrily after The wonderful music with shouting and laughter.
Next tripping came a courtly fair, John cried, enchanted with her air, "What lovely wench is that there here?
Hand in hand tripping to meet her Bird-like they carol their joy, Wedding soft Provencal numbers To a dulcet old strain of Savoy.
From out the mist comes tripping A Mermaiden full fair, Across the white sea skipping With locks of tawny hair.
He--well, he wouldn't quite relish the idea of tripping over me when he turns up with a bunch of flowers.
Now I can have a choice," she said, tripping gaily back and pirouetting twice on her left foot.
As Ida went tripping off, her little white ankles gleaming, Winona entered with two jars of chrysanthemums which she placed, one on the table and one on the mantel, slowly, frowning.
A pale moon came out behind him, and showed him tripping lightly over a bullock's broad back.
No chance now of meeting the light figure coming tripping along the level hill.
She flew down a winding flight of stairs to the level below, and her fairy feet went tripping over the pavement of a plebeian street.
Chester heard the laughter and chat as the young officers and their convoy of matrons and maids came tripping homeward after midnight.
Then she turned, and with quick, eager steps came tripping towards them.
A rhythmical SWISH of skirts, punctuated by the light PAT-PAT of a girl tripping downstairs, brought him to his feet.
The driver's crew laboured desperately, hoisting the piles into the carriage, tripping the heavy hammer, sending it aloft again, binding feverishly the clumps of piles together by means of cables.
At last a light rapid footstep came tripping across the hall, and Ellen Carley entered the room.
Miss Mapp quickened her steps to a little tripping run.
Immediately the birds from the two other corners advanced with the same airy grace, the same short, quick, and tripping steps, saluting and retreating as the others had done.
As he stepped forward to help the lady out of the carriage, Stubble saw what a pretty little hand she gave him, and what a sweet pretty little foot came tripping down the step.
