" Suddenly he began to giggle, and to hug his knees up tight.

Her hair fell in a thick shining braid over her shoulder, and she was hugging something tightly to her breast.

Like a child playing a game, she half shut the hat-box and hugged it lovingly.

Barney whispered, hugging Jack rapturously.

So great was my indignation against these men who had badgered the commander that I mentally hugged myself with delight because of their folly, not only in thus riding, but in moving the column without scouts ahead to learn the whereabouts of the enemy, or to ascertain what might be in front of, or on either side of them.

Billie's eyes were wet and she hugged him fondly.

She was quite unconscious, but by chafing her hands and giving her some spirits (which the young stranger had in his flask) we recovered her, and, indeed, I think she is none the worse for her experience," and Betty put both arms around her little sister and hugged her warmly, bursting into tears, which until now had been so carefully restrained.

And then forgetting his dignity, Roy flung his arms round Rob's neck and hugged him passionately.

"The wounded bear hugged the hunter ferociously.

"Do you mind?" "Did it ever strike you," said Jarvis, quickly, in Max's ear, "that this is Sally's land, and Alec's, and Bob's, quite as much as yours?" Mrs. Burnside came out to greet the party, and Sally tumbled into her welcoming arms, hugging her frantically, and pulling away from her again to look about her.

The newly ennobled parvenus were worse than the old boyars; they hugged the serf system more lovingly and the serfs more hatefully.

Instinctively the cub hugged the edge of the path, and in doing so slipped over the edge.

But an instant's quiet, and there was a mad rush of the populace toward Sutter's Fort; then again enthusiasm died, and the crowds ebbed back up J Street, which, some eight or ten feet higher than any other street in the city, extended straight as an arrow from the fort to where the bay steamer lightly hugged the water front, puffing and impatient to be off to San Francisco.

He therefore moved his Goorkhas in quarter distance column steadily along the road, which luckily hugged the precipitous hills on one side, so that the enemy could only avail themselves of the valley on the other side of the road to attack him, the mountains being so impracticable that while they attempted to climb them to turn his flank he had already gained so much ground as to be out of reach of even a "plunging" fire.

Thus madly hugging to himself sharp-pointed memories, which a sensible man would have speedily cast off and forgotten, the sour misanthrope passed a useless, cheerless, weary existence, to which death must have been a welcome relief.

Once there, however, I rolled over on the ground and metaphorically hugged myself.

It may be a thick and clumsy ear or a beautifully delicate one; long and narrow or short and broad, may have a neatly formed and distinct lobule, or one that is heavy, ungainly, and united to the cheek so as hardly to form a separate part of the auricle, may hug the head closely or flare outward so as to form almost two wings to the head.

But do you care much about plumbing when looking at"her pause before it might have been one of reverence"The Madonna of the Chair?" Katie treated herself to a particularly tender bit of lettuce and secretly hugged herself, Ann, and "Days in Florence."

His mother fell to swaying, softly hugging herself against shivering.

Come hether then, my joy, my chiefest hopes, My second selfe, my earthly happinesse, Lend me thy little prety cherry lip, To kisse me, cozen; lay thy little hand Upon my cheeke, and hug me tenderly.

"Of course," Mrs. Jordon warned them, as the girls were hugging each other triumphantly, "we aren't at all sure that Mrs. Gilligan will want to undertake such an expedition.

And then there were no mosquitoes, no alligators, no serpents uncomfortably hugging the trees, no miasmas lurking near; and blueberries always.

I wished with all my heart that I had not come, as I groped upwards hugging the wall.

She took to hugging herself violently against a sudden chill that rushed over her, rattling her frame.

And when he held it in his hands he loved it with a great passion of love, wherefore he hugged it to his bosom and kissed the pommel thereof.