By this manoeuver we had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

Here are some of them: manual, manoeuver, mandate, manacle, manicure, manciple, emancipate, manage, manner, manipulate, manufacture, manumission, manuscript, amanuensis.

Artifice, ruse, trick, dodge, manoeuver, wile, stratagem, subterfuge, finesse.

The impression grew upon him that he was being handled with tongs, along back-alley routes; that he and his race were something to be kept out of sight as much as possible, as careful housekeepers manoeuver their slops.

" "'Yet one moment more,' I said to the colonel, for I have need of all my coolness to carry into execution the fearful manoeuver which I am about to commence.

This done, I let the poor, trembling brute, who obeyed me in spite of his terror, repose for a few moments, and then recommenced the same manoeuver.

With breathless and painful anxiety we saw them execute this dangerous manoeuver.

When he appeared again above the surface of the water, it was evident that he had milled while down, by which manoeuver he gained on us nearly a mile.

While the new lieutenant was waiting the result of his manoeuver, an arrow whizzed from the same quarter as before.

The tower being open, we could see the manoeuver from the windows, and, as strangers, went there to look on.

He was the sort of man to appreciate the manoeuver.

Growing desperate, he adopted what might be called not an unfair but a mean method of attack: he would manoeuver, leap in and strike swiftly, and then, ducking forward, fall to the ground at Joe's feet.

This manoeuver had turned French Pete's bunk from the lee to the weather side, and rolled him out on the cabin floor, where he lay in a drunken stupor.

"Let go the jib-halyards and come in on the downhaul!" Joe had seen the manoeuver performed the previous night, and so was able to carry it out with fair success.

Red Nelson, seeing that the manoeuver had miscarried, instantly instituted another.

But he clung on, working inboard every time he emerged, till he dropped into the cockpit as Red Nelson squared off to run down to leeward and repeat the manoeuver.

It was another instance of how betrayed she constantly was, in any manoeuver in the actual world, by the fatuous idealism which had so colored her youthshe vented her emotion in despising that idealism and thinking of hard names to call it.

It was an enforced manoeuver with which the past weeks had made her wearily familiar.

" If she had under this pseudo-philosophical question a veiled purpose analogous to that of the less subtle charmer whose avowed expedient is to get "a man to talk about himself" the manoeuver was eminently successful.

I never have to manoeuver the child, never have to coax or charm her to do what I want.

He effected the manoeuver noiselessly.

Bedient did not at once penetrate the entire manoeuver, but his nerve and will tightened with a premonition of unpleasantness.

" Forester knew nothing about managing a boat's crew until that day, but he had observed very attentively all the orders which Marco had given, and noticed their meaning, and thus he was prepared to manoeuver the boat as far as Marco had gone in giving his orders.

He ordered them to back water first, by which manoeuver the boat was backed off from the land into deep water.

The boys then, by a peculiar manoeuver which they had learned by much practice, brought back their oars into the row-locks, and raised the blades out of the water, so as to get them into a position for rowing.