But in leaping aside he had jostled Harris, who, dodging a blow aimed by the second German, now was thrown off his balance.

I burst the back of my coat dodging the missile, which did not, however, interrupt the rapid utterance of my dreadful communication.

" "Certainly" She raised her head pleadingly: "You do believe me, don't you?" Carroll dodged the issue.

" "I am informed that a 2oz. glove is an evasion by which they dodge the law, and make it difficult for the police to interfere.

I did not answer, but ran around a corner of the house and jumped the parapet, thinking to double along the trench there and put him off the scentat least to dodge the bullet, if he fired.

Sandy could tell you better than I." "You are dodging my question, Mr. Ellis.

Suddenly, however, I heard Mr. Purdy's voice, with a new note in it: "Hulloo, hulloo" "What luck?" "Hulloo, hulloo" "I'm coming" and I turned and ran as rapidly as I could through the trees, jumping over logs and dodging low branches, wondering what new thing my friend had discovered.

The next day, as they were going to school, Ida saw the same boy dodging round the corner with his head bound up.

" "Men of America, for every one of you who tries to dodge his duty to his country there is a yellow streak somewhere underneath the hide of you.

"I keep fancying there's something dodging behind them currant bushes," pursued the unfortunate Mr. Benn, hoarsely.

" For a few moments or an hourno one will ever know how longwe ran round him, raising the dust, scattering the stones, breaking the branches, dodging his onslaughts.

"I've just been longing to talk to you all the morning, but there's no dodging Miss Fairbanks' eye; it's always upon you.

Can you dodge a knife in the night?

It just dodged the trees on the little island and then it plunged into the lake, first spilling Speedwell out.

Indian elopements, I repeat, are nothing but attempts to dodge payment for a bride, and therefore do not afford the least evidence of exalted sentiments, i.e., of romantic love, however romantic they may be as incidents.

I dodged the fall of the knife, and struck hard with my pistol butt at the uplifted arm.

He dodged round the knotty trunk from side to side, as nimbly as he could in his famished condition, only to find a sharp bill everywhere.

De Quincey tells us how the dalesmen of Lakeland a century ago used to dodge the postal charges.

There was something menacing and deadly in it, and one cannot dodge the death which comes with one of these little bullets.

It's no crime to dodge a detective.

This method of lumping together several different parts of speech under the notion of one, and calling the whole an "adverbial phrase," a "substantive phrase," or an "interjectional phrase," is but a forced put, by which some grammarians would dodge certain difficulties which they know not how to meet.

As he did so, he caught a movement among the undergrowth, and more from habit than anything else, dodged his head.

Pastor Drury had let fall a remark, a month before the Week, to the effect that any Christian who had a chum could dodge Win-My-Chum week, but he couldn't dodge his chum.

The two men who had dodged my steps on the previous night were doing so again, though the reason for their action was no more apparent.

You know I'm not lazy, so it ain't that I'm trying to dodge work.