The practice of squeezing the small Hours into scraps of time (e.g., in the intervals between hearing confessions in the confessional, at a session) is fatal to careful and pious reading.

Rosa seized Dick's hand and began a convulsive squeezing.

Mrs. Panel had hold of my arm, and was squeezing it hard.

"God bless you, Joyce," said the captain, squeezing the Serjeant's hand as he was on the point of descending.

Squeezing into one he discovered a German officer in bed.

They are soft, flexible, and elastic, readily squeezing through openings and passages narrower than their own diameter, then at once resuming their own shape.

Never a brother spoke; eye-squeezing and thumb-turning, and deep introspection followed; and in the end the minister rose, took his text from three or four parts of the Bible, and gave a lengthy discourse, relieved at intervals with genuine outbursts of eloquence, relative to Christian action and general duty.

a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!

" Verty, in an absent way, took Miss Redbud's hand, and was guilty of the bad taste of squeezing it.

Do you see that you are putting yourself in straits, you are squeezing yourself?

Then down we sat to table, Moll at one end and her husband beside her; Don Sanchez and I at t'other; and all the rest packed as close as sprats in a barrel; but every lad squeezing closer to his lass to make room for his neighbour, we found room for all and not a sour look anywhere.

Let this bag soak in the bath, squeezing it until the water is milky.

He knew that his father had been severely censured for squeezing out that money, which by right belonged to him.

"Hold the bottleis what I'll hold," Amber said, squeezing her.

To the spectators they seemed hardly to move, but under their skins their muscles were crowding and shoving like a gang of slaves, and fairly squeezing streams of sweat out of them as if their gleaming hides were sponges.

cried Polly, squeezing her friend's arm, and beaming on her right-hand neighbor.

Polly squeezing her companion's arm with little chuckles of delight.

she told Miss Sterling, squeezing her arm.

Room to sit there was none; but, at the blast of the tube, the rattle over the pitty pavement soon shook the obnoxious animal down between us, squeezing the poisonous exhalation out of him at each successive jolt.

He flung down and flattened himself to the trench bottom again, squeezing himself close to the earth, submerged and drowned in a sweeping wave of panic fear.

We've thridded the Elbe and Rhone, The Tiber and blood dyed Seine, And we've been where the blue Garonne Goes laughing to meet the main!" All that night did we endure squeezing and suffocation, and no morn was ever more welcome than that which revealed to us Paris.

We hired a monstrous voiture which had seats inside for four, and on top, with squeezing, seats for three, besides the driver's seat; had five black horses, and dashed forth in all our splendor, ten precious souls and all agog.

" "Or through their squeezing powers, like that big constrictor we saw at the Zoo." "I suppose it is fair for them to have a defence," admitted Ethel Blue, "but I don't like them, just the same, and I wish this graceful flower had some other name.

"You're so good to me," she whispered, squeezing the hand she held and looking up at Sahwah with wide-open, candid eyes.

During the whole time Lavretsky was talking with the mistress of the house, with Panshine and with Marfa Timofeevna, that old gentleman had been sitting in his corner, squeezing up his eyes and shooting out his lips, while he listened with the curiosity of a child to all that was being said.