Others might have been caused by dogs, such as pattering footsteps, jumping and pouncing as in play, the wagging of a dog's tail against the door, and the sound as of a dog throwing itself against the lower panels.
A piece of furniture prevented my seeing their meeting, and Spooks came back directly, wagging her tail.
Then Imma Spoelmann laughed, and, pouting and wagging her head from side to side, gave him a scientific explanation of the noises, just as she had done in connexion with the secrets of the barometer.
On what observations," she asked sharply, wagging her head from side to side, "did he base his conviction that she was approachable only or preferably by way of cheerful conversation?
He had not taken leave of the ladies after the first ride without suggesting another expedition, a suggestion to which Imma Spoelmann, pouting and wagging her head from side to side, had failed to bring any serious objection.
Instead of that, he came only half-way over the threshold, and stood there making those violent contortions which he believed to be wagging his tail.
Dame Marion, wagging her head when she observed Flora without hat or mantle.
A difficult operation, Poodles intimates, wagging his tail on the counterpane, but perfectly successful, as you see, dear sir!
They are little, stooping, blear-eyed old men of cheerful countenance, and they hobble up and down the court-yard wagging their chins and talking together quite gaily.
He was merrily wagging his tail on a boy's pillow when he made this modest appeal to me.
Well, it's quite a yarn," he said, wagging his head.
By a stroke of good luck she found the three dogs wandering about the refectory, and they were thus not startled into barking: they followed her with wagging tails as she made her way to the camel-shed outside.
Here, also, were the three yellow dogs, who, knowing her well, came now to her with the fawning attitudes and uncertainly wagging tails of the real pariah breed.
This, however, only served to incite him to livelier antics of licking everybody's face, wagging himself against the furniture, and dragging the various bombarding missiles between the legs of all the company.
For his part, Tintoretto thumped the house and the step and the miner's shins with the clumsy tail that was wagging his whole puppy body.
The waggingof an ass's ears, Although a wolfish case he wears.
Does not the dog show its pleasure by wagging its tail, and the cat by purring?
She watched him confidingly and without any fear, faintly wagging her tail.
She was devotedly attached to Gerasim, and was never a yard from his side; she always followed him aboutwagging her tail.
Gerasim dropped his eyes, then all of a sudden roused himself and pointed to Mumu, who was all the while standing beside him, innocently wagging her tail and pricking up her ears inquisitively.
I consider," said Denise Ryland, head wagging furiously again, "that the man is.
That 's it," he said, waggingappreciative grease-drops from the candle.
The bicycle too," he said, wagging humorous temporal greeting towards it with his left.
Reverence, raising his hand from the counter, and wagging a monitory loose forefinger at her.
It would wipe the whole rotten thing out at once, and stop the damned wagging tongues sooner than anything else.
It was as if the little animal understood, for he came out readily, wagging his stubby tail, and began to stand on his hind feet and lick his master's hands.
A case of the tail wagging the dog," presently whispered Payne to Eustace.
It is something of a concession to Mother Grundy, for even here that arch-hag can make her upas power felt, and I don't want to have all the tongues in the district wagging like the tails of a pack of foxhounds just unkennelled.
A general waggingof heads ensued in the cold, irksome silence which fell upon the room.
However, Majeste was again wagging his head, with the air of a good Christian saddened by the scandals of the time.
He remained there erect, his torso stiffened, and his head wagging slightly at each successive jolt.
Italy--" Narcisse paused and smiled at Monsignor Nani, who was wagging his head with the air of a man delighted at learning some extremely curious things of which he had previously had no idea.
The prelate, ever smiling and wagging his head without expressing either approval or disapproval, had begun to study on Pierre's face the effect of these curious stories.
Then he passed the certificates to the doctors present, who read them, wagging their heads the while.
But little Massot was wagging his head dubiously, for he regarded the subject as rather too serious a one for him to write upon.
Cherish, "wagging their tayles and seeming to cherish them," Turbervile, p.
Wagging his head to and fro, he added, with the heavy, concluding tremolo that decorated most of his vocal efforts, "Thrice accursed.
In the meanwhile Christopher drove merrily on with Joshua to the post-office, at the other end of the village, his tongue wagging at its usual nimble rate.
The reason that children are so restless is because they have not yet learned to soothe their nerves by wagging their tongues instead of their arms and legs.
And long before he had reached Malta she was back again in the vortex of Paris gaiety, setting the tongue of scandalwagging by her open flirtation with one lover after another.
All the time that he ran, now one way and now another on the track of the fox, he was silent, but kept his tail aloft, wagging it as a signal to the hounds behind.
He seized it and ran home, laying it at his master's feet, joyfully wagging his tail meanwhile.
I have no doubt his Majesty will be in a deep state of grief," says papa, wagging his head.
Caesar suddenly pricked up his ears, and sprang forward, wagging his tail.
Caesar listened to his master, staring at him with his large intelligent eyes and gently wagging his tail; he then laid himself quietly down at the feet of Rosario, licking her hand.
Followed by his dog Caesar, who looked at him, wagging his tail, he followed Trangoil-Lanec, who trod in the steps of Joan.
In his human state he was a wealthy maker of yarn,' replied the magpie, pleasantly wagging her tail.
Ye misbehaved rabble, let the strange gentleman alone,' cried a black and white magpie that came wagging her tail up to him, through the grass.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wagging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
