"Well, their jaws work sidewise, instead of up and down, and grasshoppers' jaws work the same way, and therefore I think they are the same species.

I used to peek in at them, never so softly, in Dona Ina's living-room; Raphael-eyed little imps, going sidewise on their knees to rest them from the bare floor, candles lit on the mantel to give a religious air, and a great sheaf of wild bloom before the Holy Family.

There were two doors in addition to the one that opened on the porch; the old slave pointed to the smaller one and Sextus, stooping and turning sidewise because of the narrowness between the posts, went down a step and entered without knocking.

"Oh, but I am," she insisted, raising her eyes and tilting sidewise her charming head.

Incontinently he slid sidewise from the saddle and clasped Racey round the neck.

Racey turned his tousled head sidewise and whispered from a corner of his mouth, "Help me out to Tom Kane's stable.

"Yep," said Luke, sitting sidewise in the chair, "stubbed my toe against a cordwood stick in front of Tom Kane's barn and hit my head on a rock.

The motion disturbed her balance and she careened over sidewise; Mary put out her hand to steady her, lost her balance, and went with a splash into the basin.

It had turned over sidewise and fallen into a tiny ravine, and as she had gone straight down the hill searching for it she had missed it.

The approach of Peters was something like the sidewise waddle of a very aged crab.

" "Very well," said the big fellow, standing up very straight and rather sidewise, as he held his bow at his left arm's length, slowly drew the arrow to the head, and then as Robin gazed in the direction of the indistinctly seen hat hanging on the tree-trunk Twang!

"Didn't I tell yer I'd wait, and you was to bring me back a lot to eat?" Young Robin waited for no more, but in his agony of spirit he gave himself a wrench sidewise, dislodging his rider, and made an effort to struggle up again.

The danger spot was drifting past on his left when a squeal of fear from the wild grey far in the rear made Alcatraz leap sidewise with catlike suddenness.

He landed on stiff legs, checked his forward impetus and flung sidewise.

He stood there for a long moment, raising and lowering his head, and then turning a little sidewise so that the wind would cut into his nostrilswhich was a trick the grey had taught him.

The proportion of the first and the last observed sidewise movements is 4.2, and that of the two most extreme of the calculated numbers is 4.4.

The lieutenant, standing sidewise, had drawn his sword.

He is a negro, about sixty years old, rather short and stout, with a mincing, noiseless gait, broad African features, beautiful teeth, and small, round, twinkling eyes, the movements of which are accompanied by little abrupt, sidewise turns of the head, like a bird.

I was sitting sidewise to the street door, and hearing it open, turned my head just as four men sprang upon the two officers and bore them to the floor.

Later Winona, after many sidewise perkings of her brown head, discovered Merle and Patricia Whipple at a neighbouring table.

" Sharon glanced shrewdly at him sidewise.

The cut was a natural stronghold, opening sidewise on the face of the shore, so as to be invisible from the open water.

They will go a distance from a fence, take a run, and leap through the rails, three or four feet from the ground, turning themselves sidewise.

She had a sensation of moving sidewise out of her own person; and then she saw the chief Pontiac standing on the edge of the cliff.

Quick as thought Joe ran sidewise and down to the bulge of rock, and yelled for help.