At length Diggory dropped his hand.

Lounging forward, he dropped his head to one side as artistic folk do when they look at color.

She dropped her eyes so that she might no longer see that awful hand, and tottered on by the new-comer's side, striving to imagine that it was indeed only a harmless peasant woman who was walking by her and trying to remember that every step was bringing her nearer to Brussels and protection.

The sea was deep and bottomless, and there was no place where they could drop anchor and stop.

Repentant ones, drop to their memory a tear, even now!

Hill dropped his voice and looked down as he uttered the last two words.

He was afraid that the Zeppelin might drop a bomb on the ship; and from that moment until the end of the battle the Queen Mary did not pause.

" The major raised his eyebrows; Arthur whistled softly; Uncle John smiled; but with one accord they dropped the disagreeable subject.

The Boy, to create a diversion, had begun talking to a young hunter in the front row about "the Long Trail," and, seeing that several others craned and listened, he spoke louder, more slowly, dropping out all unnecessary or unusual words.

Certainly he had dropped no hint of his intention to follow Armand; but, I told myself, that might very well have been because he deemed such a hint unnecessary.

"No." "Then, Mr. Donnegan, leave The Corner!" The music, ending, left them face to face as he dropped his arm from about her.

Not to be too personal, and still to preserve the truthfulness of the history, he dropped a few letters from BOB PEEPER'S name, while, with a wonderful accuracy unknown to modern writers, he keeps to the subject of his verse, its misery, the remedy and result, and facetiously gives to the world the same cause for laughter and inspiration that he received so gratefully.

I heard a thud, and realized in a dull, half comprehending way that I had dropped my book.

But the furious arrival of the Sizer party had aroused every inhabitant of Millville and with one accord they dropped work and rushed to the printing office.

Miss Axtell had dropped the curtains of the bed.

"Perdosa," I repeated, "drop that knife.

"McCarthy, shall we dismount and fight, or run?" said I. He didn't wait to reply, but wheeling his horse, started at full speed down the creek, losing his hat and dropping his gun; away he went, never once looking back to see if he was being pursued.

"'No,' said I, 'I'll drop a line.'

Duncan dropped the piece of lead to the ground.

You almost dropped the thing on my foot.

gasped Polly, losing her presence of mind, and dropping the reins to cling to her brother, with a woman's instinctive faith in the stronger sex.

"Drop those papers," was the next command.

Though he dropped his glass, and let it shiver on the board, he himself says that he was desperately put out with her, and could only drown his mad emotions in drink.

At the conclusion of the story he dropped his face in his hands a moment, visibly shuddering.

The trim chambermaid dropped her best curtsey for his fee, and Gumbo, in the inn-kitchen, where the townsfolk drank their mug of ale by the great fire, bragged of his young master's splendid house in Virginia, and of the immense wealth to which he was heir.