155 collocations for tucking

'T is twelve o'clock, and Thurtell is just now coming out upon the new drop, Jack Ketch alertly tucking up his greasy sleeves to do the last office of mortality; yet cannot I elicit a groan or a moral reflection.

Here he lighted a cigar, and, tucking his hands deep into the pockets of his fur coat, he proceeded to walk slowly through the bare and deserted public garden.

Now, you and I cannot go two ways at the same time while we join in these merry doings; so we will e'en let Little John follow his own path while we tuck up our skirts and trudge after Robin Hood.

" So jolly Robin gave him his sword again, which the Friar buckled to his side, and this time looked to it that it was more secure in its fastenings; then tucking up his robes once more, he took Robin Hood upon his back and without a word stepped into the water, and so waded on in silence while Robin sat laughing upon his back.

All was quiet in the "Orchard" that morning, except that, here, a starved-looking woman, with a bit of old shawl tucked round her head, and a pitcher in her hand, and there, a bare-footed lass, carrying a tin can, hurried across the sunny space towards the soup kitchen.

" Pansy came to the rescue, and just as the Elliott family came in at the front gate, Patty completely attired, but very flushed and breathless from her rapid exertionsflew downstairs and tucked her arm through her father's, as he stood in the hall.

The priest and he righted the sled, and Mac straddling it, tucked in a loosened end of fur.

Without the least compunction Racey tucked this letter into the breast pocket of his flannel shirt.

Together they tuck the rug closer about Leopoldine, and smile to see how soundly she can sleep.

He's never worried a sheep from that day to this, and if you offer him a bit of sheep's wool now, he tucks his tail between his legs, and runs for home.

I was positive that I had tucked these papers in that pocket.

A LETTER "It was all decided last night," said Betty, tucking her little feet carefully under her gown and clasping her knees with her hands to keep them warm, as she sat in Moppet's chair, which stood close by the fire, where a log burned and crackled in the big chimneya most unusual luxury for those days, and granted only to Moppet's youth and slight delicacy of constitution.

" Her father tucked the napkin under his chin then looked at her questioningly.

He took the corner seat opposite Jeremy, tucked his legs up under him, produced a cigarette and smiled offensively.

She asked the big strong man how he felt, and patted his cheek and tucked the bedclothes in about his feet and kissed him, and went away.

Then she arose cautiously, tucked the baby in the warm blankets and furs, put on her heavier garments, and went outside.

She always wore a black straw hat, summer and winter, always carried a faded green shopping bag, with a supply of yellow writing paper, and always had tucked under one arm the curious, heart-shaped bit of wood, with the pencil attached, which spiritualists call "planchette."

Our primrose is not the English primrose, any more than it was our robin who tucked up the babes in the wood; our cowslip is not the English cowslip, it is the English marsh-marigold,Tennyson's "wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray."

She pattered about in a pair of her husband's cotton-velvet slippers, and tucked all her little ones into bed again, very much as if they had been clothes in a boiler, which she was forcing down with a stick.

It's been my experience that when an office begins to look like a family tree, you'll find worms tucked away snug and cheerful in most of the apples.

" Stella tucked the weary girl into the bed, and went back to the kitchen, and sat down in the willow rocker.

Her clothing dried, but sitting in a small triangle of park in Grove Street, chill seized her again, and, faint for food, but with nausea for it, she tucked her now empty pint bottle beneath the bench.

No wonder she sang as she gave a last fond pat to the pretty dress and tucked a wandering little strand of hair into place.

Deeply religious, she could no more help whispering a fervent little prayer, as she tucked her boys in bed, that the Father above would watch over and protect them, than she could help breathing, her trust in God was so much a part of her nature.

She tucked the little girl in the narrow bed they were both to sleep in, and babbled softly to the drowsy child: "No place yet.

155 collocations for  tucking