He took advantage of the lurching of the train, and every time the car jerked he forced the door to roll a little, so that it might seem for all the world as though the motion of the train alone were operating it.

A wolfgray, gaunt, sneaking, and lurching in his gaittrotted into the clearing and stood listening with evil lips drawn back.

" In another five seconds the whole line was up and jogging forward at a lurching double.

It brought Bull lurching to his feet, and the stove jingled as his weight struck the yielding center boards of the floor.

A doubt as to how he would land rose in her mind, and she swung Rupert round; and as she did so, she saw the hunter crash through the hedge, stumble at the ditch, and fall, lurching forward, on its edge.

He sent his memory lurching back into far places and old times, but he had no nerve for reminiscence.

Then the lurching hull steadied and the clang of engines resumed its measured beat.

" The throb of engines quickened, the gurgle of water got louder at the bows, and the Rio Negro, lurching sharply, went shorewards with tide and swell.

They plunged in and one called out hoarsely when he stumbled and the lurching coffin struck his head.

For the next creeping, lurching mile, Sheila found that every muscle in her body had its use in keeping her on that seat.

Each man followed suit, and the whole party, kicking back their chairs, revolved with lurching steps round the débris of empty bottles and cigar ashes.

he asked, trying to get his legs out of the puppy's lurching reach.

Judith was fired contagiously with the spirit about her, set her teeth, thrust out her elbows, shoved, pushed, grunted, fought, all with a fresh zest in the performance which gave her an immense advantage over the fatigued city-dwellers, who assaulted their fellow-citizens with only a preoccupied desire for an approach to a breathing space, and, that attained, subsided into lurching, strap-hanging quiescence.

You might slip off, the way she's lurching.

His clinging pose, his smile of disgust, his whole air, as he stood crouching and lurching there, I can shut my eyes, and see now.

" We stepped aside while two military trucks in their gray war-paint went lurching by.

"Don't you know, I saw that same fellow, or his double, lurching across the avenue as we came out of Alameda Square, and I wondered what he was doing out in that region.

Two gasps and a heart-beat decide it; and before the man in the vestibule can level his weapon and fire, the one-car train has shot around the station, heaving and lurching over the uneven rails of the siding, and grinding shrilly over the points of the safety switch to race on the down grade to Megilp.

" Of course I went, with a very clear vision of the future of Dagmar, Lady Cooper, to occupy my thoughts during that lurching drive through the slippery streets.

Wait till I give the word,' said Ken, with his eyes fixed upon the long gray gun which came jogging slowly onwards, its grim muzzle swaying and lurching as the wheels took the ruts in the road.

Four or five, however, were afloat, and lurching heavily alongside the pier, whither the tide had not long reached; the wind rattling amongst the masts, shrouds, and half-bent sails of some craft which had just run in for shelter from the impending storm.

The cake of ice, lurching and tipping, began floating out to sea.

Down town flew the cab, swaying around icy corners, bumping over car tracks, lurching, rattling, jouncing, while its silent occupants, huddled in separate corners, brooded moodily at their respective windows.

" They departed, and climbing in beside my patient, who writhed in agony, now lurching from one side, now rolling to the other, I tried to make him as comfortable as possible.

The manhe had obviously been drinkingpaid no attention to either; or, rather, he seemed (since he could not disregard it) to take the dog's salutation for granted, and came lurching on, fencing back 'Dolph's affectionate leaps.