There was the scuffle and scamper of naked feet; the noise of tackle running, shot trundling along the deck, and the roll of guns.
Along it a tail of smugglers were trundling barrels gingerly.
It'll be a great nuisance," said Ethel afterwards to her sister when they were alone together, "to have to be always trundling this girl about.
If I had promised his chieftainship a glass of grog and an old hat, he would have come trundling up here with an alacrity that would surprise you.
Stopping only long enough to thank her benefactor, she and her companion, with the cart trundling after them, set out for the Fond de Givonne, obedient to the instructions that were again given them not to pass through Sedan.
Illustration: HOOPS] Trundling the hoop is a pastime of uncertain origin, but it has long contributed to the health and amusement of the youth of Great Britain.
She looked back, to see that she was being pursued by the young man who had formerly been trundling a wheelbarrow.
Ten minutes later, trundling it down a cinder path, his eye fell on an object lying beneath a gooseberry bush.
He had rosily visioned himself as pulling down some neat sum for his probable labors at sweeping hangars, trundling grease cans, blocking and unblocking plane wheels.
As soon as he could he ducked and escaped and followed in the direction of Maben, whom he had seen trundling the plane into seclusion behind the grandstand.
The trundling of the hoop will accomplish the same and other objects.
Have you ever observed what happens during the trundling of a mop?
They marched in scout order with "Old Nanc," laden with the wireless equipment trundling slowly behind them.
At this point the lads of the Owl Patrol reached the quarry hole trundling several empty wheelbarrows.
She scarcely more than caught the ethereal song before Burt and Alf came down the path, trundling immense wheelbarrow-loads of the prunings of the shrubbery around the house.
Then imagine the pain of shovelling coal and trundling a loaded wheelbarrow with two sprained wrists.
I worked at top speed, filling the iron wheelbarrow with coal, running it on the scales and weighing the load, then trundling it into the fire-room and dumping it on the plates before the fires.
This game of trundling along the ground at a two-foot wide wicket, and a man with a hockey-stick defending it, is really rather a travesty of the great and glorious game.
She was driven away in the very dust of the ambulance that was trundling one poor wounded fellow to hospital, the conductor lamenting that a woman so young and lovely should be thus afflicted.
His fears were abruptly heightened by a series of violent bumps on the steps outside, followed by a trundling sound in the vestibule as if a cannon were being unlimbered.
Mrs. Burbeck, propelled as usual by Mori, the Japanese, was just appearing at the side door; and this time there was no trundling to the center between two factions.
And so, as she rested for a little in the afternoon, on the steps she had scrubbed in the morning, it in truth much cheered her to see Mammy Leezer come trundling along, and to know she would hear the dulcet voice.
Cash, trundling a wheelbarrow of ore out to the tunnel's mouth, heard a howl and broke into a run with his load, bursting out into the sunlight with a clatter and upsetting the barrow ten feet short of the regular dumping place.
Cash was not trundling the empty barrow, which in itself was proof enough that something had happened, even if Cash had not been running.
Barrels and cases trundling ashore, people and mailbags, but still Isak lacked what he had come for.
Only Isak, trundling like a tub-wheel through the forest in winter-time carting some few heavy sticks down to the village, to bring back planks and boards for his building.
Off they go, trundling southward through the forest.
The shrill shriek of a Great Northern locomotive, trundling freight cars through the gloom, gave the death-stroke to the old boy-dream.
Before joining the navy he had lived in the depths of the country, and had spent most of his days trundling the local baker's hand-cart.
Each of them came staggering in, trundling a heavy machine.
Oscar is going to attend to the trundling act for me.
One was a glimpse of the Castle 'Cadia touring car trundling swiftly away to the eastward on the river road; and the other was a slight barrier of tree branches piled across the trail fairly under his horse's nose.
The same explanations of the Midsummer fires and of the custom of trundling a burning wheel on Midsummer Eve are given also by John Beleth, a writer of the twelfth century.
Every man and boy waved a blazing torch in the air, and took care to keep it alight so long as the wheel was trundling down the hill.
