And she heard him move at her feet and grope over the rock with his hands; but it was smooth as snow with no holding, and slippery as ice.

The captain halts the line, takes his bearings, divides the little army into two bodies, orders one to move at a double-quick directly across the open; the rest are stretched out as skirmishers.

"And he made no move at you?"

" "No; for I did not move at once.

Their lack of expanse was compensated by a rapidity of motion such that they seemed to the eye not to move at all, presenting the appearance of an uniform disc reflecting the rays of the Sun, which was now almost immediately above us.

It is said that he appears in the field at the head of fifty thousand elephants, and commonly marches in the rainy season, because his elephants cannot move at any other time, as they are unable to bear thirst.

[Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling &c v.; knight's move at chess.

For reasons unknown to the present writer, the force directed by Lee to be held in readiness, and to move at once to Gordon's support, did not go forward; the brave commander and his men were left to breast the whole weight of the Federal onslaught which ensued; and disaster followed the first great success.

Langdon made a threatening move at the Congressman.

The silence and unexplainable mystery of the place made me anxious to catch up with them before the darkness came down, while hunger and revenge made Kaipi move at a speed that was most unusual.

The wheeling lines move at each chief's command, With chariots in front; On either hand Extend the lines of spears and cavalry, A wingèd storm-cloud waiting for its prey: And see!

The buzz became so noisy that it reached the alert ears of the father in Salzburg, and he wrote demanding that Wolfgang should move at once.

I was going to advise you to move at once.

Motion is so very accidental, and super-added to the nature of bodies, that we do not find in this nature of bodies any primitive or immutable law by which they ought to move at all, much less to move according to certain rules.

By now the things that floated motionless on the sea were beyond numbering, for I could hardly lower my eyes ten minutes and lift them, without seeing yet another there: so that soon after dusk I, too, had to lie still among them all, till morning: for they lay dark, and to move at any pace would have been to drown the already dead.

She resolved to move at once into some cheap lodging, and to live economically until she could ascertain the true state of her affairs, or until she could obtain some employment, to support her.

The task of getting a wide cook into a narrow canvas tube proved quite unexpectedly difficult; and, when it was accomplished, so far from sticking out her elbows as brakes, she had to press them close to her sides in order to move at all.

" "It will receive orders to move at seven to-morrow morning!"

However, the Camp Villeré regiment had not got off, but would move at midnight.

And she liked that and didn't move at all; so then I wiped the snow off her back, and she seemed real comfortable.

They can barely move at all on land, and spend all their lives on the water, excepting in the nesting season, when they make curious floating nests of dead herbage in reedy marshes.

Once I noticed the needle did not move at all, and he won.

She didn't move at all; her head rested on her hand and her eyes watched me.

These shift and move at first in chaos; then they take the form as of a fiery city.

But if the animal should find himself unable to move at all, his long, sharp teeth would be put to immediate use, and he would hobble off on three feet, leaving the other in the trap.