32 collocations for wriggling

He advances inch by inch, and on being encouraged with comfortable words of invitation the parasite wriggles his lean body (it is trained to look leanactually it is well padded with stolen food from officers' kitchens) up to your feet, and, selecting a puddle in token of his deep humility, rolls upon his back and smiles tearfully up at you from between his grimy fore-paws.

The cercariae soon wriggle their way out of the body of the snail, and then complications arise: for it is the habit of this particular snail to leave the water occasionally and take a stroll in the fields.

He wriggled his shoulders and considered going back, after all, and having his splash.

"Will you take this to Jim Perris for me?" A gulp, a grin, a nod, he was down from the wagon in a flash and using his leanness to wriggle snakelike through the crowd.

It was possible, by wriggling up a mud valley and crawling over a few scattered remnants of houses and bygone trenches to reach the Colonel's headquarter dug-out in daytime.

But it took a gypsy craft like Gadabout to wriggle up the little back-country creek and to land among the chickens and the geese andbulls perhaps; but then all explorers must take chances.

And laughing, she wriggled her own dusty toes, strong, free, and perfect in modeling.

Presently, he wriggles a little in the water, as though vexed at the slackness of offers; then he drops one of the hands and leaves the other outstretched.

From the estaminet of the "Rising Sun" to the village of Bailleul-aux-Hondains the road wriggles down-hill in two sharp hair-pin bends.

The Americans in the river, held their rifles and ammunition-belts high, and wriggled their hips against the butting force of the stream.

"The king could no longer wriggle off the hook," and surrendered.

The master found himself staring down at a red smashed thing on the ground that, in spite of partial obliteration, could still wriggle unavailing legs.

If I am to wake at 7 A.M. he flings himself flat on his face outside my dug-out at 6 A.M. and wriggles snake-like towards my boots.

D'ye 'ear?' "The gal wriggled 'er shoulders agin and went on reading, but she gave the cook a look out of 'er innercent baby eyes that nearly made 'im drop the mop.

" As the little boy grew old enough to creep, he moved just like a fish, with a sort of wriggling motion.

Why didn't you think of it, Columbus?" Columbus couldn't say really, but he wriggled his nose into the caressing hand and gave her to understand that lunch really didn't matter.

" "It's very plain," declared the officer wriggling his nasal organ which, I was vastly relieved to observe, retained its original hue.

" She wriggled the rest of her body in round the doorway.

I wriggled the shoe, and a paw was slightly extended.

he demanded of the now wriggling Rack Slimson.

But while he was counting, the cat kept wriggling her tail, and sticking up her back.

She would join him in fishing from the rotting pier, but with no certainty which was a cunner and which was a sculpin, when she caught it, and with an equal horror of both the nasty, wriggling things.

When she takes the air she rides in a carriage that has a sheltering hood, and she is veiled up to the eyes, and she must never lean out to wriggle her little finger-tips at men lolling in front of the cafés.

Only, while we were away he had managed to wriggle his watch out of the fob, and it lay beside him on the turf, tied to him with a black silk riband.

How swept the Bird so low that it should dare, That Worm, to wriggle midst its plumes full grown, And with the Air's sole monarch thus dispute the crown?

32 collocations for  wriggling