" The little spitfire in the seat beside her wriggled uneasily as if she, too, were not as comfortable as she would pretend.

And wriggling backward, inch by inch, feet foremost among the crowded bellies of the jars, he gained the further darkness.

Another of the dogs, however, a young one, waxing reckless, ventured too near the old bear, and was seized by the back, and hurled high into the air, through which it wriggled violently, and descended with a sounding whack upon the ice.

The men were wriggling nervously, and he ordered every second bale forward.

Back they wriggled breathlessly.

For, to wait meant to leave the choice and moment of attack to this other.... Cautiously, and very slowly, therefore, he wriggled to the edge of the bed and slid over, searching with his feet for slippers, but finding none, yet not daring to lower his eyes to look; then stood upright with a sudden rush, shading the candle from his eyes with one hand and peering over it.

So our position was substantially unchanged, and we were still wriggling chaotically when a hasty step was heard descending the stairs.

" "One for each year," said Kirk, wriggling comfortably.

Sharon wriggled self-consciously.

" "Oh, please don't mind me," said Mrs. Farron, settling back, and wriggling her hands contentedly into her muff.

It was a very awkward place, but being doubtful if return were possible, as I had been dropping from one ledge to another, I passed at length by lying across the slab, putting the shoulder stiffly against one side and the feet against the other, and gradually wriggling down, by first moving the legs and then the back.

" She wriggled out of it gratefully and he saw for the first time the round, slender pillar of her neck.

And to Billie" She paused for emphasis and Billie wriggled impatiently.

He was used not only to wriggle around the line inside of ends and to squirm through difficult outlets, but to charge the line as well, a feat of which his height and strong legs rendered him well capable.

" The same mail that brought Larry's letter brought one also to Ted from Madeline Taylor, a letter which made him wriggle a little internally, and pull his forelock, as was his habit when things were a bit perturbing.

The old man brought the keys and opened the door, lifting his elbows high the while, and needlessly wriggling his bodythen he stood on one side, and again bowed down to his girdle.

It separated two rock masses that were fully eighteen inches thick, and as we wriggled noiselessly toward it we saw that it gave us a glimpse of the interior of a huge cavern, the part of which that was just inside our point of observation being illuminated by a swinging ship's lamp which hung by a rope that dropped from the vaulted dome.

If you slapped a white man straight down a hundred foot on top of a pile of rocks he'd depart like a Christian, but my red friend and brother promptly wriggled off behind the boulders.

It took some time for his rapturous greetings to subside, but finally he dropped upon the couch beside her, pressed to her, temporarily exhausted, but still wriggling spasmodically whenever her hand moved upon him.

Now the artist who could paint the silver wash of the mist, the wriggling treacly reflection of the boat, and the raw red wrists of the man would be something of a workman.

Sylvia wriggled uncomfortably.

The lights had shown him a scanty few rows of barbed wire between him and the crater; he had reckoned roughly the number of steps to it and counted as he ran, then more cautiously pushed on, feeling for the wire, found it, threw himself down, and began to wriggle desperately underneath.

That done, they shook themselves vigorously and started landward, the shining white victim wriggling vainly in the clutch of the talons.

And it stretched two of the arms unto me; but I smote with the Diskos, and I smote thrice; and afterward they did wriggle upon the sand.

I couldn't help it; the fellow seemed suddenly to have become a nervous disease to me; I was mentally wriggling and quivering with him.