So, talking to himself, he came to where the dusty road turned sharply around the hedge, all tender with the green of the coming leaf, and there he saw before him a stout fellow sitting upon a stile, swinging his legs in idleness.

Dave, in the meantime, to keep himself from being chilled by the frosty air, was running lightly about, swinging his arms.

The big major walked stiffly and pompously along, swinging his silver-trimmed cane in one hand while Patricia clung to his other arm.

First came acolytes swinging censers, and next, others bearing divers symbolic flags and standards, and after these again, in goodly chair borne on the shoulders of brawny monks, a portly figure rode, bedight in full canonicals, a very solid cleric he, and mightily round; moreover his nose was bulbous and he had a drooping lip.

Look, for example, at those two well-dressed men who are coming across the sward there, swinging their sticks.

Nesbit, pert as a jockey, sat on the table swinging his feet furiously.

I know my arms became leaden from swinging my club; my eyes were full of sweat; my breath gasped.

" Again the Colonel had made a sound like "Sh!" and went on swinging his axe.

" "All right, there you go," said the good-natured janitor, swinging the door wide for them.

The bear charged to within a few feet of the two men; but, when he saw their determined stand, paused, and, swinging his head from side to side, watched them for some seconds, apparently undecided whether to charge home or leave them.

There was a deepened color in the roundness of her cheeks; she was a country maiden this afternoon, swinging an empty basket in her hand.

She pondered the matter for a dozen steps, swinging her hat at her side and looking away across the housetops to the mountains.

He arose to his feet, swinging his strapped up books to and fro airily, but there was a dismal catch in his voice as he turned to the teacher's desk, and said: "Mr. Darrow, I guess I would rather take the whipping.

With a sudden effort, I sprang to one side, and, swinging my gun by the barrel, brought it crashing down upon the foul creature's head.

She seated herself on a wooden bench by the open door, swinging her body back and forth in an agitated way, ever and anon jumping up and looking round in all directions.

To strike that swinging hand with a snap shot, when a miss meant a bullet fired at his own body at deadly short rangetruly it would take a credulous man to believe that Donnegan had coldly planned to disable his man without killing him.

Old Dinah saw, going down the path, a tall, brown girl, in a homespun frock, swinging a slat-bonnet in one hand and a splint basket in the other.

Oh, here comes Laura," and her face brightened as she saw the familiar figure of her chum swinging up the street.

As he sat there, tranquil, pondering, there came a shadowy figure, moving leisurely under the lighted windows of the hospital, directly toward hima man swinging a lantern low above the grassand halted beside him in a yellow shaft of light, "Berkley," he said pleasantly; then, to identify himself, lifted the lantern to a level with his face.

Only Muckluck in her chilly "Holy Cross clo'es" stood sorrowful and silent, swinging her medal slowly back and forth.

The soldiers you see swinging up Pera Hill or in from a practice march, dust-covered and sweating, and sending out through the dusty cedars a wailing sort of chant as they comethese are as splendid- looking fellows as you will see in any army in Europe.

Then Beltane came, minded to aid him with the woman, but the hairy man sprang before her, swinging his great staff and muttering in his beard; therefore Beltane, sick at heart, turned him away.

You see that, don't you?" She nodded silently, her frightened eyes on his face; and without another word he set off at that long, swinging pace which belongs to his people.

At night the whole is set on fire and boys and girls dance round it, swinging torches and singing rhymes in which the words "corn in the winnowing-basket, the plough in the earth" may be distinguished.

She had got on with him, perversely, much better than her mother had, and the bulging misfit of his duck waistcoat, with his trick of swinging his eye-glass, at the end of an extraordinarily long string, far over the scene, came back to her as positive features of the image of her remoter youth.