" Pushing the lantern before him, he wormed his way until the light was blotted out.

"So, taking everything into consideration, I gave up my plan to marry this girl of Timnath; and I was afterward very glad I did so, for she proved a tricky creature, and entered into a conspiracy to deceive her husband, actually weeping before him seven days in order to worm out of him the secret of his strength.

We shall soon worm the truth out of Maini, and get plenty of eye-witnesses too.

" "Oh, I guess she will," said Racey, but he knew in his heart that worming information out of Marie would not be easy.

V. have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into. give entrance to &c (receive) 296; insert &c 300.

"If you think you're going to worm things out of me" "Don't be foolish," he interrupted, a little wearily.

He never laid upon a poor finite worm the staggering load of following out into infinity the complex results of his actions.

He wormed his long corpse into "Mon Repos" and sat on Albert Edward's bed laughing like a tickled hyena.

He plunged off that bare ledge, slid flat on his back, and wormed feet first under manzanita, and gaining open slope got up to run and jump into another thicket.

He wormed a hand into one of his pockets and produced a small dark object which he handed to Aldous

" "I am not going to have Mr. Ware's story published in every newspaper in New York," Elizabeth said firmly, "and the newspaper man who worms the history of Mr. Ware's misfortunes out of him, and then makes use of it, will be no friend of mine.

But fear not, thou worm Jacob!

She knew that he had had a love affair with Champmêlé, the actress, and when she began to obtain an ascendency over his mind, she wormed out of him all the letters he had ever received from the comedienne.

Peire inveighs against the disgraces of particular orders; the Preaching Friars or Jacobin monks who discuss the relative merits of special wines after their feasts, whose lives are spent in disputes and who declare all who differ from them to be Vaudois heretics, who worm men's private affairs out of them, that they may make themselves feared: some of his charges against the monastic orders are quite unprintable.

zounds, soldiers, follow my discipline, say your prayers, you are all dead men, all dust and ashes, all wormes meat.

By the first of June they had wormed their way over five hundred miles of plain to the trading post of Fort Laramie.

"Then he wormed his plan for making you rich.

"One thing I had to do was worm the plants.

He had kept the patient under the closest possible observation for fifteen months yet had not been able to learn anything from him, or worm out of him a single reply to his questions that was of the slightest value.

Capt. Hugon, commanding the French frigate L'Armide, about three o'clock, seeing the unequal, but unflinching combat we were maintaining, wormed his ship coolly and deliberately through the Turkish inner line, in such a gallant, masterly style, as never for one moment to obstruct the fire of our ship upon our opponents.

It was clever of him to worm out the storyif, indeed, he did not invent it.

It compelled a certain measure of her difficult respect, especially when she beheld him worm his truck through crowded River Street with a supreme disregard for the imminent catastrophewhich somehow never ensued.

In 1525 William Tyndal printed at Cologne and Worms his version of the New Testament from the Greek.

And then a cry comes down, and she nods; Axel, maybe, or maybe the hill-folk, devilsanyway, something to sniff and scent and findto worm out the meaning of it all, the wisdom of the Almighty with the dark and the forest in the hollow of His handand He would never harm Oline, that was not worthy to unloose the latchet of His shoes....

" Piggy wormed his arm under the hay around the Perkins boy's neck, as he asked, "What you goin' to do to-night, Bud?" "I dunno.