Oft trolling some merry stave or turning with some quip or jape upon his tongue, but with eyes quick to mark the rhythmic swing of broad, mail-clad shoulders, eyes critical, yet eyes of pride.

Weakened vitality follows close upon overwrought nerves, and every excess has its penaltythe pendulum swings as far this way as it does that.

She had a peculiar swing in her gait, caused by a long stride rarely natural to so slight a figure.

It passed, with a swift, steady swing to its highest altitude, and fell thence, Westward.

Again the Boy was delaying the upward swing of the gangway: the nun's trunk must come on board.

One of the tigers is out of his cage!" CHAPTER II A DANGEROUS SWING

He made up the Cowgate at a rapid swing; he had forgotten some engagement.

Mizzle was a particularly energetic man in his way, however, and frequently kicked with such goodwill that he missed the ball altogether, and the tremendous swing of his leg lifted him from the ice and laid him sprawling on his back.

But your left foot swings now forward and now outward, and you cannot rise.

Next grasp a round with both hands, give a slight swing of the body, let go, and grasp the round above, and so on upward; then the same, omitting one round, or more, if you can, and come down in the same way.

Quicker, and ever quicker, ran the flicker of day and night; and, suddenly it seemed, I was aware that the flicker had died out, and, instead, there reigned a comparatively steady light, which was shed upon all the world, from an eternal river of flame that swung up and down, North and South, in stupendous, mighty swings.

" "Dont, Marian!" cried Elinor, giving her chair a violent swing.

It passed, with a swift, steady swing to its highest altitude, and fell thence, Westward.

There is a splendid swing on iron hooks under a tree, at the house we are going to move into.

Yet he did not once attempt to strike a solid blow, nothing but that humiliating, open-handed slap, that dexterous swing of his foot that plunged Monohan headlong.

The giant swing.

she said, giving her lily stem the sauciest little swing, which set all the bells ringing.

A golden dragon swings over the door.

They were big, burly men, carrying themselves with a reckless swing, with trousers cut off midway between knee and ankle so that they reached just below the upper of their high-topped, heavy, laced boots.

The monotony of the landscape, the warmth of the sun, added to the gentle swing of my cart calmed my nerves and I fell back into a heavy sleep.

It is hardly to be doubted that hitherto, in America, public undertakings have been executed much more largely in periods of business prosperity, and have been diminished during "hard times," thus greatly accentuating the harmful swing of the labor-demand.

Desert street, and quiet mart; Silence is in the city's heart; And the social taper lighteth Each dear face that HOME uniteth; While the gate the town before Heavily swings with sullen roar!

Then again, for pleasaunce, my father used to put me to the cutting of light wood with an axe, not always laying it upon a block or hag-clog, but sometimes setting the billet upright and making me cut the top off with a horizontal swing of the axe.

The movement so begun and so prosecuted has gathered immense swing and impetus.

" "What for a reason is that?" demanded the irritated Swing.