Everything depended upon their being carried out now without the slightest hitch.

Then he gave a little hitch to his red head covering, and sauntered away humming between his teeth.

Slippery hitch.

"Where have you been?" she said, with a queer little excited hitch in her voice.

"What a lot, and what a color!" Miss Wren with her usual expressive hitch, went on with her work.

With this and the unquestioning faith in his dream that was a part of him, Casey threw his favorite "packer's hitch" across the packed burros at dawn next morning, boarded his buckskin mule and set off hopefully across the barren valley, heading straight for the distant butte he called Two Peak.

Conrad Lagrange, himself, skillfully fixed the pack in placeadjusting the saddle with careful hand; accurately dividing the weight, with the blankets on top, and, over all, the canvas tarpaulin folded the proper size and neatly tucked in around the ends; and finally securing the whole with the, to the uninitiated, intricate and complicated diamond hitch.

" Except for an involuntary hitch of his eyelids, Mr. Lind looked as if he believed perfectly in Douglas's respect for his parental claims.

In most of them there is a marked hitch at the 12, and this repeats itself at the 120.

There had been a few minor hitches; for example, the food and the manner of serving it and the proper method of consuming it had furnished a bad moment or two; and once Monsignor had been obliged to feign sudden deafness on being asked a question on a subject of which he knew nothing by a priest whose name he had forgotten, until Father Jervis slid in adroitly and saved him.

On the whole the system worked admirably, though of course there were occasional hitches.

"Don't you see you're on the wrong division?" Callahan gave the throttle-bar another outward hitch, tipped his seat and took a hammer from the tool-box.

The cripple who lurked behind a pillar in the colonnade threw aside his coat with a practised hitch of his shoulder to reveal the sickeningly maimed arm that was his stock in trade.

"Where have you been?" she said, with a queer little excited hitch in her voice.

"There was the extraordinary, the remarkable hitch," continued the man in the corner, waxing more and more excited every moment.

When the fourth knock brought no response, his heart sank within him and he indulged in vain speculations as to the reasons for this unexpected hitch in the programme.

Not perhaps said in words, but expressed as clearly by the warlike angle of an arm, the contumelious hitch of a shoulder, or the scornful sweep of an adverse skirt.

Conrad Lagrange, himself, skillfully fixed the pack in placeadjusting the saddle with careful hand; accurately dividing the weight, with the blankets on top, and, over all, the canvas tarpaulin folded the proper size and neatly tucked in around the ends; and finally securing the whole with the, to the uninitiated, intricate and complicated diamond hitch.

'Thank you for nothing,' says he, and he opened his month like the entrance to a railroad tunnel, and blame me, if he hadn't taken a double hitch of the line around his eye tooth, while the hook hung harmless beside his jaw.

The engine of the boat kept up considerable of a racket as it steadily worked along without the dreaded hitch.