The school-mistress arose, daintily flicking the crumbs from her white piqué skirt.

But now" he flicked contemptuously the stem of his glass"I am only allowed this uninspired stuff."

As it came buzzing like an angry bee, almost too quick for the eye to follow, Jorian flicked it deftly up into the air at exactly the right moment, and, without even taking his eye off it, he caught the knife by the handle as it fell.

Deliberately Landor removed the stogie from his lips, as deliberately flicked off the loose ash onto the floor at his side, inspected the burning tuck critically.

Isabelle flicked a wrist dismissively.

Just before the next dance began, another woman beckoned to her, Eastern fashion, all four fingers flicking downward.

Starling, when he thus discoursed, sat chiefly in the little office before the rusty stove, idly flicking his memory with a buggy whip from the rack above his head, where reposed a dozen choice whips soon to become mere museum pieces.

They stood beneath the dense shade of a splendid kurrajong, and lazily flicked the flies off themselves while Frank Hawden held the reins and waited for me.

Gloria flicked her horse lightly with her whip and galloped ahead; as King followed he turned in the saddle and looked back toward Honeycutt's cabin.

But merely flicking the ashes from his cigarette, he glanced round the room without offering the slightest recognition, and then disappeared.

Harry's eyes flicked nervously about the room.

"Señor Allen, would you like to see my birds?" invited Teresita wickedly, her glance flicking scornfully the reproachful face of José, as he turned it towards her, and dwelling with a smile upon Jack.

Alethea-Belle stood back, with a curious expression upon her white face; very swiftly she flicked open the lid of the basket.

He flicked the child's cheek teasingly, and then abruptly stooped and kissed it.

So by that I knew that Helene had done her work, and was now watching the burning beacon, as the flames flicked upward and clapped their fiery applausive palms.

He floated rather than galloped; his hoofs barely flicked the ground, and it seemed to Jim Perris a shameful thing to smash that mechanism.

" He flicked a thumb westward, and stared at Lanpher with bright eyes.