With the practised pen of a lawyer Henshaw quickly wrote down a short declaration, signing it with a flourish and then flicking it across the table to Gifford.

" "If the case is as you say," replied Mr. Tutt, replacing the bottle and tumbler within the lower drawer and flicking a stogy ash from his waistcoat, "the honorable justice who handed it to us is no friend of ours.

The othersmall, quick, mercurial, with blue-black, curling beard and hair, a fly-switch for ever flicking in his left handwas Scott, of the Courier, who had come through more dangers and brought off more brilliant coups than any man in the profession, save the eminent Chandler, now no longer in a condition to take the field.

"I dunno nothin' 'bout that," he grunted, flicking his whip.

"I did it, sir," said Psmith, stopping and flicking a piece of fluff off his knee.

A priest passes us, bows deeply to us, and in an instant is gone round a jog in the street, the skirts of his black robe flicking behind him.

Firio, restless, worried, his eyes flicking covert glances, was frequently in and out of the living-room on one excuse or another.

But while Pretty was flicking the dirt at the end of his toe with his walking-stick, and wondering if he really cared to go any farther, the tramps moved toward him quickly. Enid, being a girl, was frightened, and did not try to conceal it, but said: "Oh, Pretty, let's go home at once!

Two or three of our excursionistsmen, perhaps, whose minds indulged in dear memories of a brook that babbles by a millhad fishing-rods with them, and made great ado with scientific lunges and casts, producing much discord, indeed, by flicking away wildly outside their proper sea-limits.

She made a curious little gesture of flicking something from her hand and whistled a romping little tune.

"The negro," observed the general, daintily flicking the ash from his cigar, "is all right in his place and very useful to the community.

She crossed over to the other side of the bed, first flicking off the glaring top lights, sat down beside the shaken woman on the pillows, and laid a cool, light hand on her shoulder.

He was walking quickly, impatiently, flicking to and fro with a stick as he came.

Starling, when he thus discoursed, sat chiefly in the little office before the rusty stove, idly flicking his memory with a buggy whip from the rack above his head, where reposed a dozen choice whips soon to become mere museum pieces.

It took but the time of the flicking of the horse's tail, and yet something had happened, a barrier had gone down somewhere, and I was leading a wider and a wiser life.

The flashes came like the flicking of heliographs signalling messages by a Morse code of death.

"I hope," he said, flicking a thread from her shoulder, "that you're game....

Some think he is called the Flicker because he has a way of flicking his wings, and the Yellow Hammer because he hammers on trees with the beak and has fine golden wing-linings.

" He was flicking the ashes from the end of his cigar as he spoke, and I saw that he didn't meet Godfrey's eyes.

"Hullo!" exclaimed Nevin aggressively, "what have you been up to?" "Oh," I replied, flicking over a page on weed-killers, "Margery and I thought we had better find the remainder of the tennis-court while you were having a rest.

Just before the next dance began, another woman beckoned to her, Eastern fashion, all four fingers flicking downward.

"Señor Allen, would you like to see my birds?" invited Teresita wickedly, her glance flicking scornfully the reproachful face of José, as he turned it towards her, and dwelling with a smile upon Jack.

"Of course," said Dr. von Shierbrand, flicking his mustache, "this isn't true, Miss Barrington.

He saw stupendous propeller-blades, their varnished surfaces flicking out high-lights as the incandescents struck them.

His eyes were far ahead, where the war-party was beginning to debouch on the white sands along the shorefull three hundred fighting-men, or more, well armed, as the tiny sparkles of sunlight flicking from weapons proved.