"Well, if it's a ghost," announced Mrs. Maria Gilligan in a loud voice, "I never did hear one that sounded so much like a suitcase sliding off a trunk.

Marshall McMahon McNutt, familiarly known as "Peggy" McNuttbecause he had once lost a foot in a mowing machineand who was alleged to be a real estate agent, horse doctor, fancy poultry breeder and palmist, and who also dabbled in the sale of subscription books, life insurance, liniment and watermelons, quickly slid off his front porch across the way and sauntered into Cotting's to participate in the excitement.

They slid off the ground, with forked tongues darting out in impotent malice.

Shush-h-h!" Uncle Jake slid off the verandah, but he retiredso we discovered laterno farther than the water-butt behind it.

The darned little cuss set there a minute thinking, then slid off his horse, stripped him of riding gear, flung saddle, blanket and bridle over the bars into the corral.

She slid off the veranda step and wandered back into the garden.

And with this last reminder of my future identity echoing in my ears, we slid off down the drive.

But having swung up, the great problem was to obtain sufficient purchase for his knee to keep from sliding off before he had a chance to steady himself.

As soon as they fell on it, they slid off again, and were removed from its side by long poles and forks.

Part of the cliff had slid off into the river and the breach thus made in the road had been repaired by means of a frail-looking rustic bridge built on a bracket composed of rough logs, branches, and reeds, tied together and surmounted by a few inches of earth and pebbles to make it seem sufficiently safe to the cautious cargo mules who picked their way gingerly across it.

The nearer the ends of the ribs the hands are placed without sliding off the better.

A newspaper which Mr. Grimm had placed on the end of the table when he sat down, rattled a little as a breeze from the open window caught it, then the top sheet slid off and fell to the floor.

Remember that the broader the surface that propels the ball the greater will be the accuracythat is, the ball has less chance of sliding off to one side when the striking surface is large.

B.J. and Reddy were prepared for it; but Heady, before he knew what was the matter, had slid off the boat on to the ice and on a long tangent into the crack they had just passed.

Sandy placed the Wash Lady's sack at the top of the slide, and before the children could so much as wink, it had slid off into the darkness and disappeared from sight.

She was of a spare and straight shape, this young lady, insomuch that her garments appeared to be in constant danger of sliding off those sharp pegs, her shoulders, on which they were loosely hung.

The slain of higher condition, "embalmed" and iron-cased, were sliding off on the railways to their far homes; the dead of the rank-and-file were being gathered up and committed hastily to the earth; the gravely wounded were cared for hard by the scene of conflict, or pushed a little way along to the neighboring villages; while those who could walk were meeting us, as I have said, at every step in the road.

This was soon done; but the spars were no sooner clear, than, impelled by a wave that nearly drowned the mate, the end of the foremast slid off the forecastle into the sea, leaving the ship virtually clear of the wreck, but my mate adrift on the last; I say virtually clear, for the lee fore-top-sail-brace still remained fast to the ship, by some oversight in clearing away the smaller ropes.

Well, she was a small boat; and, as she took it into her mind to roll over on her side before she went to sleep, the master's mate in charge, and three others, slid off her decks to the bottom of the sea, as I have always had reason to believe, never having heard any thing to the contrary.

Sliding off on the lower side I guided my horse with my hand and he took the current of the stream like a steamboat.

Just as the party started out to kill it, it slid off into the waterit had evidently finished its sleepbut it is encouraging to have had a chance to capture a seal so close to the hut.

The flanges therefore finally bent upward where they rested upon the rollers, through the action of the weight which they had to support, and the entire superstructure slid off into space.

Another wooden ship charged, hit squarely a tearing blow, yet slid off, lay for a moment touching sides with the ironclad, while they lacerated each other like lion and tiger, and then dropped away.

"Were you going to play with some one in particular?" "Nojust the first gazabo I could rope and lead up to the table," Billy told him, sliding off the counter where he had been perched.

Like a flash I slid off my horse and jerked out my rifle.