The prize was only a second-rate groom with plated buttons, who was waving cheery farewells to him with a dingy top hat; but the boatswain would have sooner had it than a silver tea-service.
She'll be on the quay, waving her handkerchief to him," said the mate.
In the midst of a puddle, which he brought with him, Private Smith was laid on the deck, and, waving his arms about, fought wildly for his breath.
Another man appeared upon the rock, waving a spear, and they fired at him.
Respect for the weaker, respect for the victims," called Pecson in a hollow voice, waving a chicken-bone in the air.
An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility.
Of the hills many may be called with Homer's Ida 'abundant in springs', but few can deserve the epithet which he bestows upon Pelion by 'waving their leaves.
On the right the limpid waters of Lough Ness were beating their bank, and waving their surface by a gentle agitation.
The dark branches above their heads could be seen waving wildly to and fro, the tops bending before the blast.
At that moment another of the waving trees came crashing down close behind them, cutting off all retreat had it been contemplated.
One of them is waving his handkerchief, or a bit of rag of some sort.
Ambrose was bowing from right to left, waving his hat in joyous circles of greeting, while the girl clung with one hand to an end of his coat and with the other clutched her paper-flower bouquet.
At the same instant, round the corner of the cottage, trotted Moses, waving his tail and wearing a smile of forgiveness.
Waving fields of golden grain, ripple in the simmering heat of a noon-day sun, or rustle and billow with each passing breeze, under the pale light of a harvest moon.
Again and again came the repeated roar of cheers, accompanied by the roll of the drums, and a circling cloud of waving handkerchiefs, hats and flags.
By pushing its way through the roof it became a huge flag pole, fifty feet from base to tip, with a beautiful banner proudly waving from its ball crowned summit.
Under the transforming influence of a generous water supply, forests shall spring up, and fields of waving grain shall flourish around the village homes of a happy, prosperous people!
The repeated cheers of welcome were intensified by the accompaniment of a fleecy cloud of waving handkerchiefs.
Instantly De Lacy dashed forward with waving axe; and beside him went Sir John de Bury, and at his shoulder were Dauvrey and Old Raynor Royk.
Going to his quarters and waving Dauvrey aside when he would have relieved him of his doublet, Aymer threw himself upon the bed.
Meanwhile the huge audience must not be conceived as sitting in quiet and restrained attention, but as roaring with laughter, applauding and stamping, shouting approval and encores, hissing and waving handkerchiefs.
Susan thought it rather cruel to deceive the Enemy in this manner, but she could not help watching curiously to see what it would do, as Sophia Jane popped a little stone into the midst of its soft waving petals.
Susan looked back when she reached the foot of the stair, and Mother smiled and nodded, waving her hand; then there was an impatient cry of "Mother!
As she passed through the entry, she caught a noise, like the rustle of drapery, but supposed it to be the waving of her dress in the wind.
He hands down his lady, decked with pearls that never grew in the shell of a British oyster, and her waving plume of ostrich-feathers certainly never formed the tail of a barn-door fowl.
This proved the signal for another burst of applause; and amid the shouting and groaning, screaming and waving of hats, I lost all presence of mind, and fell overcome into the arms of my nearest supporters.
He was lying at her feet once more in the long summer days, under the waving trees of her girlhood's home.
Another sunset, red and gorgeous, over swelling English meadows, waving trees, and grassy terrace, lighting up with its crimson radiance the gray forest of Thetford Towers.
It commanded a view of the lawn and a long wooded drive, and, cantering airily up under the waving trees, she saw the young lady of whom she had been thinking.
They had seen the flag of Castile wavingon the redoubt.
The admiral stood upon his quarter-deck, waving his handkerchief as a signal for his captains to come at once to his help.
He came flying back from a brook waving his garment bannerlike.
Once the youth saw a spray of light forms go in houndlike leaps toward the waving blue lines.
Spread over the grass and in among the tree trunks, he could see knots and waving lines of skirmishers who were running hither and thither and firing at the landscape.
He was unaware of the machinery of orders that started the charge, although from the corners of his eyes he saw an officer, who looked like a boy a-horseback, come galloping, waving his hat.
Moore, waving his guests to the most comfortable of the chairs.
Sheridan, waving his hand in greeting to the young nobleman.
I never drink," said the elder man, waving aside the idea of alcoholic indulgence with a gesture of fine contempt.
It is the foam on the wave of loveliness," declared the poet, waving his prize as though it were a pennant, but carefully keeping it out of Bessie's reach.
Waving his hat in farewell to Sir Percival, he walked quickly out of the attic and started downstairs as Moore slammed the door loudly after him.
Continue," growled the Prince, waving Moore back with an impatient gesture.
She held her hands high above her head, waving the spear; coming nearer to him and nearer.
And then, suddenly, he wrenched himself away remembering the House, the shouting, cheering, waving House.
Waving her hand in the direction of Banish and Featherleigh.
Blame her, woman of the great feet and dominating gait, and waving umbrella-handle!
Without waiting any time Dorothy seated herself upon the throne, and giving the signal to commence by waving a dainty little flag, the trumpeters took it up and blew a loud blast upon their instruments.
To his terror the figure rose up at the same time, and advancing towards him, frantically waving its arms, and repeating the words Edmund had just uttered.
Thady Gallagher broke suddenly from Doyle's control, and rushed forward waving his arms.
He's coming this way just a-smoking, and look how he's waving his arms.
As the car leaped and swayed across the prairie, the cowboy stood up, hanging to Cameron with one hand and waving the revolver with the other.
