Occasionally the car struck a bump and skidded dangerously.

I relieved the car of my weight and made an effort to push it from behind, but my feet held fast in the mud and the car cannoned into me when it skidded downhill.

More rocks skidded downward under the shove of the hind hoofs.

The wheels skidded round helplessly.

Around an elbow turn they went with one warning scream of the Klaxon, skidded horribly at the sharp angle of the curve, and missed by inches a car from the opposite direction.

The machine, after the manner of motor-cars, took the opportunity of his momentary relaxation of vigilance to skid rather alarmingly in a particularly slippery section of clay road.

A flash of yelping lightning caught the tail of Jay's eye, and she looked round to see her dignified dog, upside down, skid violently down a steep place into the gutter, and there disappear beneath the skirt of a female stranger who was poised upon the kerb.

THE WOMAN IN THE TAXI XVII BARKER ACCUSES XVIII "AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH" XIX LABYRINTH XX A CONFESSION XXI CARROLL DECIDES XXII THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED CHAPTER I OUT OF THE STORM Taxicab No. 92,381 skidded crazily on the icy pavement of Atlantic Avenue.