63 collocations for tilts

he cried, closing his hands softly about her throat and tilting her head backward again.

Off at the side, Mr. Jimmie Batch had already disposed of his hat and gray overcoat, and tilting the chair opposite him to indicate its reservation, shook open his evening paper, the waiter withholding the menu at this sign of rendezvous.

Once when an unusually bright beam of sunlight fell from between the clouds, he tilted up his hat to get the warmth and I thought him guilty of a skip and syncopation in the ringing of his bell, as if he too twitched pleasantly with the Spring and his old sap was stirred.

Gauzita took up a midget of an eyeglass which she had dangling from a thread of a gold chain, and she stuck it in her eye and tilted her impertinent little chin and looked him over.

" "What are they but playthings?" asked Beaumaroy, tilting his glass to his lips with a smile perhaps a little wry.

At Miss Selene Coblenz's engagement reception, an event properly festooned with smilax and properly jostled with the elbowing figures of waiters tilting their plates of dark-meat chicken salad, two olives, and a finger-roll in among the crowd, a stringed three-piece orchestra, faintly seen and still more faintly heard, played into the babel.

The only danger lies in your tilting your nose at their ways and ideas, and insisting upon your own.

"Oop-si-lah, lovey-dovey!" said Mr. Goldmark, tilting her elbow for the downward step.

The countess shook her head playfully, which had the effect of tilting her cap to one side.

" She said with a touch of colour: "I'll see you" and then changing quickly, she slipped inside his ready arms with a smile and tilted up her face.

The Sea-urchin can walk by moving its spines, tilting its body along from one place to another on the bed of the sea.

" Mr. Gibbs scowled and, tilting his mug, peered gloomily into the interior.

One knows from common observation how easy it is to tilt a nail with its point upwards by exerting a pressure in a more or less slanting direction upon its head.

Not here, as in small machines, could the pilot handle his own engines, tilt his planes, or manipulate his rudders by hand.

Cook carefully, drawing the cooked portion into the centre and tilting the pan to allow the liquid part to run over the bare pan.

Instead, they were turned aside through a rude gate leading into the flats, and thence drew the load to the mouth of the little cave, where, unseen by any one, Appleman tilted the barrels out and left them lying on the sward.

" CHAPTER XVIII THE SHOWDOWN Racey, walking suddenly round the corner of the Dale stable, came upon Mr. Dale tilting a bottle toward the sky.

A current coming from land caught them forward and tilted the craft.

Aw!" Mrs. Hassiebrock came then, limping around, tilting the contents of the steaming pot to a plate.

However, there's something about a hammer that cries out for nail-bashing, it has affordances that tilt its holder towards swinging it.

One has only to pierce the top of the green rind, and tilt the hole above one's mouth.

Though she hold herself against the shelf and tilt her hoops, it would not be possible to pass.

Slowly he tilted the jar toward the thirsty sands.

I put three pillows under my head, the better to watch them, when suddenly the yacht tilted Mrs. Jimmie and her chair over backward.

Their faces, tilted a little sideways, ears cocked and eyes bright, looked anxiously expectant.

63 collocations for  tilts