" She canted her head a little to one side; such an encounter of personal quips was a seventh heaven to her.

As the work had been set up in a hurry, it was found necessary to place wedges between the lower end of the prop and the rock, in order to force the leaf properly into its groove, without which it might have been canted to one side, and of course easily overturned by the exercise of sufficient force from without.

The other's head was canted back so that, as we passed, we looked right into his face.

She felt him try to turn the sledge, but they were going too fast; the light frame canted and turned over, and they rolled off into the snow.

Mr. Cornell grasped the handles of the plough, and, watching an opportunity, canted it so as to catch the point of a rock, and broke it to pieces while Professor Morse stood looking on.

By the time they had canted the water out of the swamped boat, Bill and his partner appeared on the scene.

He smiled down on her out of his long sad black eyes, glad of her because she saw straight and never canted, impatient of her because her ideals were commercial, loving her because she was gray-eyed and white-skinned and desirable, seeing her much as Nancy Sharpe, who lived for music, saw Johnny Potter, only with ardour instead of nonchalance; such ardour, indeed, that his thoughts of her only intermittently achieved exactitude.

Yet he rode the spiritless chestnut with both hands, his body canted forward a little, his whole attitude one of desperate alertness.

Then he canted his head and listened.

It placed her on the open road where she fled away at a swift gallop, only looking back, as she reached the top of the first hill, to see McGuire still seated on the stump, but now his head was canted far to one side, and she had no doubt that he must be asleep in very fact.

One ear he canted back to the pain-roughened voice which spoke at his ear.

CHRISTOPHER NORTH I care not one single curse for all the criticism that ever was canted or decanted, or recanted.

" A round tower is mentioned, called the "Canted Tower," with a staircase of one hundred and twenty-four steps.

The external wall of the Dyers' Chapel (now the Baptistery) is canted so as not to block the Lane, St. Mary Hall having been already built.

The masts had fallen towards the reef, the ship having fortunately canted in that direction, and the boat was thereby protected in some measure from the surf.

The hold, however, was very slight, and by getting two of the anchors to the cat-heads, the vessel was canted sufficiently to admit, of her passing.

" Marco had observed, all the morning, that when the coach canted to one side or the other, on account of the unevenness of the road, the sailor always started and looked anxious, as if afraid it was going to be upset.

In abundant instances, the sins changed places,Cavaliers canted, and Puritans plundered.

There was a dancing breeze when they turned homeward that afternoon; the boat canted saucily, and little feathers of spray kept tickling Dodo's nose.

I became aware merely that that side of the machine canted downward and refused to rise again in response to the lever.

"No, sir, he has only canted.

I saw a great heap of frozen snow fallen on its edge and partly canted over, half covering a deep red stain which was turning black and horrid in the daylight.

He had to hold the rail with one hand, for now the metal plates of the observation gallery were sharply canted.

And on, on drifted Nissr, askew, up-canted, with the pitiless sunlight of approaching evening in every detail revealingas it slanted in, almost level, over the far-heaving infinitudes of the Atlanticthe ravages wrought by flame.

The air-liner had, however, settled down a good deal in the sand, and had canted at a sharp angle to port.