Oh! CHARLEY, CHARLEY, give us a grip of your knob, old hunk"and I slewed over towards him for to shake hands when he suddenly drawed back, kinder gloomy like, putting down his pen and chewing his gums sort of swagewise.

I had a glimpse of his face, white against the night, and I saw him tug furiously at his bitan unfortunate matter, so it happened, for the footing beneath the marsh grass was bad, and his horse slewed and fell on top of him.

Liane slewed round to talk over the back of the seat.

The impetus of the limousine broke it, but not before it had slewed the car off toward the ditch, wrenching the wheel out of the driver's hands.

Stern faced and intent upon the road, he slews his big ship into a better bit of road by hauling at the steering wheel.

wilt thou slay me as thou slewest that other day an Egyptian?

"Do you mind telling me why he doesn't use that name, if it's his?" "See here, Princess Sofia"Karslake slewed round to face her squarely with his most earnest and persuasive manner"I am merely Prince Victor's secretary, I'm not supposed to know all his secrets, and those I do know I'm supposed not to talk about.

By getting him slewed in jail.

At this news, we ran all of us from the tent to the edge of the hill, and found it to be indeed as the man had said, and now I understood the reason of that sudden slackening of the rope; for, after withstanding the stress upon it for some hours, the vessel had at last yielded, and slewed its stern towards us, moving also to some extent bodily in our direction.

"But, my dear fellow," he slewed himself in his chair for a look around the hall,"pray moderate your tones.

Then suddenly he rose; stood upright; and, by a sudden strain upon the reins, raising his horse's forefeet from the ground, he slewed him round on the pivot of his hind legs, so as to plant the little equipage in a position nearly at right angles to ours.

We grasped at anything we could, and so brought up bruised and half-drowned in the fore-chains; but as the wheel ran free, another sea struck her and slewed her round.

Pawing and snorting at the noise, he suddenly slewed round and headed down the steep bank, through the undergrowth, straight for the crowd as he had been wont to do after many a mob of weaners on his native plains.

If sufferedest, woundedest, and killedest, are words more regular than sufferedst, woundedst, killedst, then are heardest, knewest, slewest, sawest, rannest, metest, swammest, and

The men slewed her round by the tail, while mother and I fixed the dog-leg and adjusted the ropes.

LORD CHANCELLOR slewed round on Woolsack to see what was going on behind him.

Her pale eyes, half sullen, half afraid, slewed round to the door of the study on her right.

Her eyes slewed sidelong toward him.

He hesitated a moment after the other stopped speaking, then slewed round on his slippery chair and faced him.

It was called the Ridge Road because it followed the knolls and hog-backs, and thus, as far as might be, kept out of the slews.

I only knew that I had been told that the Ridge Road would take me to Monterey County, if the weather wasn't too wet, and I didn't get drowned in a freshet at a ferry or slewed down and permanently stuck fast somewhere with all my goods.

He would begin to discuss my cows, the principles of farming, the sky, the birds of passage, the flowers, the sucking in of the Dutchmanwhich I told him all about before we had gone five milesthe mire-holes in the slews, anything at alland rising from a joke or a flighty notion which he earnestly advocated, he would lower his voice and elevate his language and utter a little gem of an oration.

Nissr sagged drunkenly, lost headway and slewed off her course, turning slowly in the thin, cold air.

The old woman by the fire slewed her head painfully round and stared at him, then at Naomi.

The rear wheel of the big truck slewed into the farmer's buggy, smashing it to smithereens and sending the farmer sprawling into the gutter.