He hitched about in his chair uneasily for a moment.

Her son arose from his squatting posture, hitching up one side of his trousers, then the other, for he was suspenderless, and following at a distance, scratching his head and hitching his trousers alternately, he at last managed to say, "Ah, wellwhyif you can wait a few moments till I change my clothes, I'llI'll go with you right now.

It is true that the six grays could not be very conveniently hitched to a simple private carriage, but they had an imposing look attached to the gilded coach of state in which, a year later, the first consul made his solemn entry into the Tuileries.

" Pendleton discontentedly hitched forward in his chair.

Carroll hitched his chair forward eagerly.

" The Prince hitched about in his chair a little impatiently.

The tail-rope of each tackle ended in a noose that was hitched on a hook on the wall, and the falls of the two tackles were hitched lightly over two other hooks.

"It's them boots," he whispered to himself, softly; "they somehow don't seem 'xactly to trump or follow suit in this yer cabin; they don't hitch into anythin' but jist slosh round loose, and so to speak play it alone.

They crawled on with a slowness that was an agony to watch, crawled an inch at a time, lying dead and still when a light flared, hitching themselves and the dragging stretcher onwards as the dullness of hazed moonlight fell.

Not he!" Outside, our saddle-horses were hitched to the rail.

Praying for a steady balance, she swung herself astride of the branch, and holding on tightly with her hands began hitching herself slowly outward.

Mr. Tunstall promptly hitched himself into a corner and drifted deeper into slumber.

Sometimes I could hitch her repeatedly to any scene or subject that I chose by the mere exercise of my will; at others, the flighty waywardness of her spirit eluded and baffled me: she resistedshe disobeyed: otherwise I might have sent you, not four note-books, but twenty, or forty.

"If he were hitched up shorter and I had a snaffle-bit and a stout pair of reins," thought he, "I could soon bring him up.

Now Jacky jerked his nose up, hitched softly out a little farther till right over the fateful paper globe.

Unconsciously, as though he were alone, he hitched the corduroys up over his narrow hips, in the motion of one who has been riding.

Foot by foot he hitched himself upward to the rim of the crater's edge, and again lay and listened for thrilling long-drawn minute after minute.

The numerous ornaments, also, with which the hoops were bespread and decoratedthe festoonsthe tasselsthe rich embroideryall of a most catching and taking nature, every now and then affectionately hitched together in unpremeditated and close embrace.

"Shorty," said Lawlor, with a sort of hopeless sadness, "ain't you never been educated to sing no better songs than that?" "Why, you old, grey-headed" began Shorty, and then stopped short and hitched his trousers violently.