He swallowed their tall stories without a gulp; they pulled one leg and he offered the other; he fell headlong into every silly trap they set for him.

It put out a massive arm to the left, licked down five hundred trees at a gulp, and then, smashing its fist into a hillside, flung back into the valley floor, tossing the great trees in its top and poured straight at him.

The slipper swallowed the same quantity at a gulp, bowed and passed along.

"What can I do for you?" He took a gulp of the spirit raw, and shivered in spite of the suffocating heat.

He drained this off at a gulp, and put down both the glass and the bottle.

There is no feeling in the way of freedom quite so fine as scudding along in a small ship with a good breeze behind you; and after being cooped up for three years in a prison cell I drank in the sensation like a man who has been almost dying of thirst might gulp down his first draught of water.

' He swallowed the rest of his tea at a gulp, set the cup on the table, and folded his hands loosely together, his elbows resting on his knees; in this attitude he leaned forward and looked at the burning coals.

"II really don't know," confessed Peggy, with a gulp; "everything's mixed up.

In a burlesque rage, he seized the glass, drained it at a gulp, and jokingly begged the guests not to tell his wife.

It expands again to its former bulk on the return of the pump piston, and prevents the water from entering until there is such an accumulation of pressure in the condenser as forces the water into the pump, when the air being expelled by the water, causes a good vacuum to be momentarily formed in the pump when it gorges itself by taking a sudden gulp of water.

I had never tasted eau de vie des prunes,a native brew, stronger than brandy, and far more dangerous,and my Irishman had pulled off a full champagne glass at a gulp, and never winked.

He stopped, and poured out some of the soda, and drank it down in a gulp, and then continued turning the empty glass between the tips of his fingers.

A hungry wolf ran thither, and swallowed the whole stomach at one gulp.

It reaches the Mississippi, but to be swallowed up and engulfed by that turbid and rapid stream, which, like some gaping, gigantic monster, running wild from the Rocky Mountains and the Itasca summit, stands ready to gulp it down.

Joe thought I had eaten it in one gulp, which greatly distressed him, and I was borne off and dosed with tar water.

The gentlemen exchanged compliments and imbibedMcBane at a gulp, Carteret with more deliberation, leaving about half the contents of his glass.

'Thank you, sir,' he said with a gulp, and saluting again turned away.

We are not speaking of seeming irregularities, of lines broken up by rapid dialogue or cut short by the gulp of voiceless passion, nor do we forget that Shakspeare wrote for the tongue and not the eye, but we do not believe he ever left an unmusical period.

As illuminate by lightning Maudelain saw the many factions of his barons squabbling for gross pleasures, like wolves over a corpse, and blindly dealing death to one another to secure at least one more delicious gulp before that inevitable mangling by the teeth of some burlier colleague.

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"I love His Majesty, sir," Clinch observed, after giving a gulp, "and I never lay anything that goes hard with myself to his account.

" While these preliminaries were being arranged, Polton silently slipped out of the room, and when our visitor had fortified himself with a gulp of the uncommonly stiff mixture, the examination began.

He drank a quart of water apparently in one gulp.

Placing it in the bottom of the sleigh, where such of the public as were stirring in that vicinity could not see the operation, he half filled the tin dipper, and, raising it suddenly to his mouth, drank the contents with a double gulp.