Toward a sleek, fat bunch of zebra he wormed his stealthy way.
As Taglat struggled with the bonds which secured the ankles and wrists of his captive, the great lion that eyed the two from behind a nearby clump of bushes wormed closer to his intended prey.
And ere long he passed in a single stride from the glare of many lights and the tumult of a hundred tongues to the dark and the quiet hush of an alley that wormed a sinuous way through the hinterland of the bazaar.
A couple of billiard tables with a small mob of onlookers hindered him, but by main strength and diplomacy he wormed his way past and reached the rear of the room.
Then I got the new cook at Pennington to come to mawther and 'ave 'er fortin tould; then mawther an' me wormed out oal she knawed 'bout the things up to Pennington.
And before the restraining hand of Sawed-Off could stop him, Tug had somehow wormed himself through the barbed-wire fence and was off across the open; and they were sore put to it to catch up with him again.
Lying on my back, I wormed through the wire, butting into the men in front of me and getting kicked in the head by Mettayer.
Half-way through the trees we lay down flat on our stomachs, rifle in right hand, and slowly, very slowly, wormed our way past the trees into the opening between us and our goal.
He had been a thief and a scoundrel all his life, and had wormed himself into Lord George's confidence by flattery.
He drew the weapon Captain Wells had loaned him, and slowly but cautiously wormed his way between the rocks.
Tom wormed his way between the rocks and Sam followed.
In vain they streaked out to the left or right, wormed their way along folds in the ground or took cover in natural hollows and advanced from there when the fire ceased for a space.
Wire entanglements unbroken by shell-fire blocked the way of the soldiers of New South Wales, but undaunted, they sought for openings andwormed their way through.
Billy wormed himself under cover as the train approached, and bided his time.
Cautiously, cautiously they harked and peered; they gently parted the weeds and wormed in, closing the weeds behind them again.
He painfully shinned up trees, wormed out to the end of a branch, and dropped as far beyond his trail as he might, so as to break it.
She grasped his arm closer, and straightening her velveteen poke-bonnet so that the curls lay pat, together they wormed through the sidewalk crush; once or twice she coughed, with the hollow resonance of a chain drawn upward from a deep well.
That dangerous man Medina has wormed himself into the council of the revolutionists.
This scoundrel has wormedhimself into all the secrets of the revolution.
Evidently this was the picket-line, so Roy wormed his way forward till he saw the blacker blackness of the mine buildings, then drew himself dripping out from the bank.
Having completed his instructions, the proprietor went forward, and Cherry wormed her way towards the roulette-wheel.
He wormed a hand into one of his pockets and produced a small dark object which he handed to Aldous The other felt an uncanny chill as it touched his fingers.
Foot by foot he wormed his way back, until at last he had dragged the little animal ashore.
Shamelessly I wormed my way into friends by the dozen.
He wormed himself into the confidence of the Empress Catharine and Count Orloff; and was mixed up in the conspiracy against Peter III.
In the thick gloom the seven chosen men silentlywormed their way on to the bridge.
So he took Colebrooke on his back, and wormed his way across the open space on his stomach, getting him to the right half of the trench, where it was all plain sailing, and from which Colebrook was sent back to battalion headquarters.
On all fours, save when he clung to his spectacles, Beetle wormed into the gorse, and presently announced between grunts of pain that he had found a very fair fox-track.
I have long had my suspicions, and yesterday I wormed it all out from a disreputable looking fellow, who came here to ask for his friend Chupin.
Am I not driven to the exercise of my power by the menaces of a pack of villains who have wormed out the hidden secrets which have overshadowed my life from my youth upward?
A few guttural words were spoken, then, one by one, the natives wormed their way from the eminence.
Stanley having wormedout of his captives all the information he could of the surrounding country and the various tribes that inhabited it, set them free.
Panting for breath, the little army crawled and wormed itself through the interlacing branches, and when night came down were utterly disheartened.
Soon the U-boat had wormed its way safely out into the open sea and was skimming along under the heavy fire of the fleet that was being directed against the German coast fortifications.
Like an Indian on the trail he wormed his way forward until he came at last within ten feet of the windmill.
She wormed her hand loose and looked over the fields for a minute away from his stare of bewilderment.
By preaching, pastoral work, and the founding of numerous brotherhoods and sisterhoods they wrought upon the people, became advisers of the princes through the confessional, wormed their way into connections and into all secrets.
He crept out into "No Man's Land," wormed his way through the German wire entanglements, and reached the emplacement of the gun.
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