59 collocations for edging

But all the time my other hand was behind my back, edging its way to the pistol.

Then he edged his chair nearer to the table at which Allerdyke sat.

" He edged his horse towards one of the rough stones laid on the outer edge of the road to mark its limit at night.

hissed Adam, edging a little nearer to him, "go easy, now,Nineteen!" "Come, come Gentlemen!"

All this is but to edge his appetite.

Driven by an intense curiosity, Robert edged his head a little farther forward, and was able to look into the room, where, to his intense amazement, he saw no robbers at all, but Willet and Master Hardy seated at a small table opposite each other, with a candle, account books and papers between.

As they ran, the herd kept constantly edging a little toward the riders, as if trying to cross in front of them.

Perhaps the falconry surpassed the pack; for the master of the castle, by paying great sums of money, had secured Caucasian hawks, Babylonian sakers, German gerfalcons, and pilgrim falcons captured on the cliffs edging the cold seas, in distant lands.

He grinned at Dr. Pettit, and we all swam back to shallower water, Dr. Pettit and Mr. Underwood gradually edging off some distance away from Dicky and me.

" His eyes followed mine to the green patch edging the entrance to the bay and then ran along the tree-lined avenue to the parked section extending almost from the center of the city to the Pacific Ocean.

At his feet the plain broke away sharply, in a series of steplike sandy benches, to where the Rio Grande bore quartering across the desert, turning to the Mexican sea; the Mesilla Valley here, a slender ribbon of mossy green, broidered with loops of flashing rivera ribbon six miles by forty, orchard, woodland, and green field, greener for the desolate gray desert beyond and the yellow hills of sand edging the valley floor.

And dying, with lungs and heart and bowels shot to shreds, he edged his stiff front feet toward me, he dragged his afterquarters, he slid, he flopped, he skittered convulsively at me.

He stuck his walking-sticka very nice Poona-Penang lawyer into the turf that edged the footpath, and commanded the dry wood to blossom.

It edged delicate ground, I felt.

A flip, and the riata curled in a half-hitch over Solano's nose; and Jack was edging slowly towards him, his hands moving along the taut riata like a sailor climbing a rope.

She saw more stretcher bearers in the smoke, stooping, edging their wayunarmed heroes of many a field who fell unnoted, died unrecorded on the rolls of glory.

Our less practised eye could not at first discern the faint blue strip edging the horizon, but it grew and grew upon our vision, and fatigue and all discomfort proportionably disappeared.

At the second command each man, with his shelter half smoothly spread on the ground with buttons up and triangular end to the front, folds his blanket once across its length and places it upon the shelter half, fold toward the bottom, edge one-half inch from the square end, the same amount of canvas uncovered at the top and bottom.

Then he discovered some manner of sorcerous power over matches in the wind, lighted a cigarette, and signalised his sense of refreshment by smoothly edging the indicator needle up toward the eighty notch, where he held it stationary until Lanyard and Liane with one accord begged him to consider their appetites.

'Tis all extravagance both in mode and fancy, my dear; I believe there's six thousand yards of edging in itthen such an enchanting slope from the elbowsomething

Anxious to get an offing, however, which would allow him to alter his course at night in more directions than one, he kept luffing, as the wind favored, so as sensibly to edge off the land.

And Yardley laughedan edged laugh that was inexpressibly cruel.

And there it had rested; and there, stretched on his sofa, he rested, the sneer still edging his lips, not for her but for himself.

yet she is perhaps blest in the absence of those ideas, which, while they add a zest to the few pleasures which fall to the lot of superior natures to enjoy, doubly edge the MAID Superior natures!

" Columbus smiled at him indulgently, and edged his nose onto his mistress's knee.

59 collocations for  edging