"A false move and we are discovered.

In about a half-hour there was a sudden move.

Then by one bold, sudden move he held the enemy at his mercy.

They did not make a hostile move until they saw a whole crowd of you attacking one midshipman.

In due course I was articled to my worthy uncle, the Clerk of the Peace, and, had I possessed my present experience, should have known that it was a diplomatic move of the most profound policy to enable me, if anything happened to him, to succeed to that important dignity.

Mr. Warrenhe was a bird with the women!" CHAPTER VIII CARROLL MAKES A MOVE No slightest move of Warren's erstwhile valetno twitching of facial muscles, no involuntary gesture of nervousness, however slightescaped Carroll's attention; but with all his watchfulness, the boyish-looking investigator was unostentatious, almost retiring in his manner.

The preliminary moves for the attack were made during the night.

It was rather an indication of honest fanaticism than of deliberate reasoningrather a sign of being solemnly "on the rampage" than of giving way to careful convictionand more symptomatic of a sharp virtuous rant, got up in a crack and to be played out in five minutes, than of a judicious move in the direction of permanent good.

Crewe was the only player of the twelve to win his game, and he did so by a masterly concealed ending in which he handled his pawns with consummate skill, proffering the sacrifice of a bishop with such art that Turgieff fell into the trap, and was mated in five subsequent moves.

Only suspicious moves he would resent with violence.

They moved in the water as reflected light moves along a wall, not really swimming at all, but flashing from spot to spot.

When I was speaking of Blackbeard being at Carisbrooke, he made a little quick move as though to speak, but did not, waiting till I had finished the tale.

* The Battery ate their Christmas dinner at San Martino, though the air had been thick with talk of an immediate move.

The trap had been unwittingly set by hands that made unexpected moves on the European chessboard, and the Bear's paw had this time been skilful enough to spring it at the proper moment.

But Rustem, midst his native bands, remained, And further rites of sacrifice maintained; A thousand horses bled at his command, And the torn drums were scattered o'er the sand; And now through Zábul's deep and bowery groves, In mournful pomp the sad procession moves.

The Texan claim was opposed by many American statesmen and publicists, and by some was denouncedas the annexation of Texas had beenas an aggressive move against Mexico.

The document was taken as a declaration of war against enlightenment, and the Vatican Council as the first strategic move of the hosts of darkness.

Awe struck the soldier stared where dawn hung red, And saw the Future's mighty curtain move.

"That was one brilliant move, at any rate," said Beth to herself, as she laid aside her hat and prepared to unstrap her small trunk.

"It is rather an extraordinary move of our friend's," Kelson observed with a laugh.

"When one remembers that Lord Haldane belonged to the inner circle of the Cabinet, and was therefore privy to all the secret moves of Sir Edward Grey, it is hard to believe in the sincerity of the sentiments expressed in this letter.

Why, you poor fishthere isn't any other man in the country who'd have had the common sense to do what you didto know that it would be a sensible move.

He has organised the whole population into a sort of constabulary to protect itself against any shrewd move we may contemplate.

This was an audacious move.

"In this later tract," he says, "Swift makes no attempt to cloak his enmity; and he boldly assumes the character of a Whig as the propounder of those atheistical absurdities, which he wished, as a useful political move, but without any scrupulous regard to fairness, to represent as part and parcel of the tenets of that party."