"M-m-m!"sitting on the chaise-longue and sucking inward.

He that by crafty significations of ill-will doth prompt the slanderer to vent his poison; he that by a willing audience and attention doth readily suck it up, or who greedily swalloweth it down by credulous approbation and assent; he that pleasingly relisheth and smacketh at it, or expresseth a delightful complacence therein: as he is a partner in the fact, so he is a sharer in the guilt.

Private Brown lay upon his pillows thoughtfully sucking the new pencil given him by his mate in the next bed.

He sucked his teeth, reflectively.

Presently it moved upward, stuck one of its fore-legs cautiously into the flame, burnt it of course and drew it back, eyed it, first from one angle, then from another, with deliberate investigation, and at length conveyed the injured member to its mouth and sucked it steadily, resuming its stare of blank scrutiny at my patient, who did not at all fancy the interest taken in him.

And the great blast of an icy wind swept upwards like something flying upon great wings, so tremendous was the force of it, whirling from the depths below, sucked upwards by the very warmth of the life above; so that the little Pilgrim herself caught at the rocks that she might not be swept again towards the top, or dashed against the stony pinnacles that stood up on every side.

When she put this to the puppy's mouth, he sucked it greedily.

He sees a tall, thin farmer, a brown face and neck, long restless sinewy hands, perpetually twiddling with a cigar or a gold pencil-casegenerally the cigar, or rather the extinct stump of it, which he every now and then sucks abstractedly, in total oblivion as to its condition.

She would sit there in the darkened auditorium of a Saturday afternoon, surveying the stage with a judicious and undeceived eye, as she sucked indefatigably at a lollipop extracted from the sticky bag clutched in one moist palm.

Annie snatched it up and sucked joyously.

Along the forms, another and another man forgot to plait his queue, or squirm, or suck laboriously at his pipe.

And when the wielder of the thunderbolt said, "He will suck me," the dwellers of heaven together with Indra christened the boy Mandhata, (literally, Me he shall suck).

The elder lawyer sucked meditatively on the fag end of his stogy before replying.

Much less should you lick your fingers, especially not suck them noisily.

Ah, 'tis past bearing, how with corpse-cold eyes Ye suck the life-blood from me pitilessly!

Hadji Daoud lifted his cup and drained it, sucking politely at the dregs.

Turning round to investigate the cause of the phenomenon he beheld a gentle milch privily sucking it up behind, his back.

Old men with the flat tone of coming senility in their voices will suck at their pipes and cackle reminiscently while they tell you of Casey's tumultuous youthwhen he drove the six fastest horses in Colorado on the stage out from Cripple Creek, and whooped past would-be holdups with a grin of derision on his face and bullets whining after him and passengers praying disjointed prayers and clinging white-knuckled to the seats.

" Pale and listless under the stifling boredom of the Mealey House routine, Undine secretly sucked lemons, nibbled slate-pencils and drank pints of bitter coffee to aggravate her look of ill-health; and when she learned that even Indiana Frusk was to go on a month's visit to Buffalo it needed no artificial aids to emphasize the ravages of envy.

He sat up for another look out of the rear window, sucked at his breath even more sharply than before, and snatching up the speaking-tube pronounced urgent words in Chinese.

And you shall have it by my faith, and handsomly: This old Cat will suck shrewdly: you have no Daughters?

Occasionally he opened them a little wider and glanced round the comfortable, well-furnished room, or stared with a cold gleam of hatred at Fletcher as he sat sucking stolidly at his brier pipe.

They sucked their hisses back down their frightened gullets so swiftly that the exertion well-nigh choked them, and shrank flat against the wall; and, for all the sound that came from them until he had holstered his hardware and trotted on, they might have been dead men and women.

" "Well, why don't you?" inquired Mr. Tasker, who was tenderly sucking the bulb of the thermometer after contact with the side of the oven.

What do you think of that, Aldous? Meassistant divisional engineer of the G.T.P.bounced in a blanket!" Peter Keller hopped from his chair and began pacing back and forth across the room again, sucking truculently on his pipe.