So swift had death been dealt that all men fell back a pace and were yet staring down at this awful dead thing when forth from the brush an archer crawled painfully, his bow yet in his hand, and so lay, panting loud and hoarse.

So swift had death been dealt that all men fell back a pace and were yet staring down at this awful dead thing when forth from the brush an archer crawled painfully, his bow yet in his hand, and so lay, panting loud and hoarse.

Nor are these fears groundless, for the treacherous Indian crawls stealthily to the attack, and, without a moment's warning, two or three of a party may fall to the earth, pierced by rifle-balls, or rearing horses may throw the riders, and leave them at the mercy of these ruthless assassins.

Several times while the night held sway a figure would crawl noiselessly out of the crude brush shanty shelter, and place another lot of wood upon the dwindling fire, thus keeping it going for another spell of several hours.

Once or twice I got up and crawled a few yards backwards and forwards, but the little additional warmth this performance gave me did not last long.

The Caribees are directly in the sweep of the artillery, and the command comes to them by company to crawl backward, exposing themselves as little as may be.

It was one of those bad days when one sits in the pavilion, damp and depressed, while figures in mackintoshes, with discolored buckskin boots, crawl miserably about the field in couples.

She had crawled up silently and stealthily.

At about two o'clock she crawled faintly upstairs again, and had just fallen asleep with her head on the window-sill, when a wandering dog had to come directly under the window, and sit there and bark for half an hour at a rake-handle.

The morning I was to take his breakfast, he had ripped open his feather bed and crawled inside to get warm.

"I was so done up I could 'ardly crawl back, and my 'ead was all in a maze.

When they returned and reported their job complete, the working parties crawled cautiously out.

However, as by way of pastime she obstinately sought to count the crawfish, quite an affair ensued: some of them pinched her, and she dropped them with a little shriek; and, amid it all, the basket fell over and then the crawfish hurriedly crawled away.

Then they'll remember your existence; and if you write often enough you will gradually crawl out of obscurity into the limelight.

The request was granted, and after having some refreshments and rest, Nell yielded to the old man's fretful demand to travel on again, and they trudged forward for another mile, thankful for a lift given them by a kindly driver going their way, for they could scarcely crawl along.

The one, erect, royal, with her great steadfast eyes alight; the other, bent and worn, gray-haired and shallow and dumb, crawling feebly through the golden afternoon sunshine, as the ghost of a glorious life might crawl back to its grave.

" Jax crawled up very humbly and Susie stooped and patted his head.

She sprang to her feet, she jerked up her rifle and fired at the black bulk crawling upward in the pine.

The man flopped on the ground heavily, face downwards, and thengreatest horror of all!dragged himself to his hands and knees and began to crawl laboriously.

A stream, sometimes large as a river, crawling languidly through deep fissures in the red shale, protected the left flank of the column.

One of them dropped upon Jack's arm while he stood there and crawled aimlessly from the barren buckskin to his wrist.

In spite of the perpetual trade-wind, and the steepness of the hillsides, malaria hangs for ever at the mouth of each little mountain torrent, and crawls up inland to leeward to a considerable height above the sea.

But among them was a multitude of smaller-winged creatures, like great dragon-flies and moths and flying beetles, and across the greensward brilliantly-coloured gigantic ground-beetles crawled lazily to and fro.

But that morning Sahwah, lying awake waiting for the rising bugle to blow, saw a round-bellied, jolly-looking little bug crawling leisurely along the floor, dragging a tiny seed of grain with him, and looking for all the world like the father of a family bringing a loaf of bread home for breakfast.

Languid and spiritless, they lay supine, or crawled listlessly and aimlessly about.