Along the forms, another and another man forgot to plait his queue, or squirm, or suck laboriously at his pipe.

" He sighed, still smarting at the memory of a gibe; then he recited the following in an effective monotone: "Oh! scorn not the humble worm, proud bird, As you sing i' the top o' the tree; Though doomed to squirm i' the ground, unheard.

And I could see that the answer made her squirm.

He quietly ducks them overhead; they submit to the process without a murmur; they neither bubble, nor scream, nor squirm; and the elders look on solemnly, though impressed with thoughts that, excellent as the ceremony may be, it is a rather shivering sort of business after all.

"I do not want to fly," said he, "I only want to squirm!"

A plunge well-aimed, a backward tug, A well-resisted squirm, Then calm indifference as before.

"I tell you, Thomas," said he, "that" "William!" exclaimed Buller, with a sudden squirm in his seat, "what is that I hear?

The boy's hands grasped the unknown's collar, but at the same instant, with an eel-like squirm, the figure dived and twisted.

If you have never been in Russia you know nothing of hospitality; you only squirm around the fringe of the subject.

I whispered frantically as he attempted to squirm out of my grasp.

" "Well, after the teacher put her in the seat next to me she began to wriggle and squirm and I asked her if anything was biting her, because if there was, I did not want it to get on me.

[Discussing the unruliness of modern children, a correspondent in the Press suggests that parents might exchange offspring for educational purposes.] Hector, one thought alone forbade Your stout progenitor to squirm Through all the months the Huns essayed To pink his epiderm The thought that you, through what he'd done, Might find a better world, my son.

The reason for it I cannot assign,did not pretend to investigate; but the fact I had ascertained: x, y, z, so touched, squirm, contract, and expand their articulations, and exude from their pores a certain slimy sweat, of agony it may be,anyhow, a slimy exudation comes from them, and, simultaneously, and just as much in kind, degree, quality, everything, snails a, b, c repeat the process.

Then their skin turns a queer, dead, ashy color, and grows somehow straight and tight, and they only squirm a little in a feeble way now and then, and grow stiffer and stiffer till they can't squirm at all, and then they're mummies, and that's the end of it till the butterflies are born.

Then their skin turns a queer, dead, ashy color, and grows somehow straight and tight, and they only squirm a little in a feeble way now and then, and grow stiffer and stiffer till they can't squirm at all, and then they're mummies, and that's the end of it till the butterflies are born.

If I were to write down his thought as he walked, it would be with phrase and distinction peculiar to himself and to the boy-mind,"It's the real thing with her; it don't make a fellow squirm like a pin put out at a caterpillar.

But he liked the honesty that would not pretend to anything it did not feel, and he liked even better the spirit that had kept the lad true to his pledge of honest work without a squirm or grumble through all these weeks of grilling summer weather when sustained effort of any sort, particularly mental effort, was undoubtedly a weariness and abomination to flesh and soul, to his restless, volatile, ease-addicted, liberty loving young ward.

But with advancing years she had lost in some measure the faculty of nice discrimination,it was pleasant to see her victims squirm, whether they were fools or friends.

He did not squirm round as Amélie said kittens usually did.

The guard winds his horn, and after a preliminary squirm of the plump tyres on the soft road, the vehicle and its company goes tumbling down the road as if it were descending into a pit.

It began to kick and squirm with determined energy.

Had Mordaunt got up and given these feckless brethren a sound hiding I should have been relieved, but he preferred to make them squirm by using his steely eyes.

And every one will say, As you squirm your wormy way, "If this young man expresses himself in terms that stagger me, What a very singularly smart young man this smart young man must be!" You may be a flabby fellow, and lymphatically yellow, that will matter not a mite.

You can squirm, and glose, and hiss on, and awake that nouveau frisson which is Art's best gift to life.

So the milliners now I pass by; Though dearly they pleased me of yore; If a girl musn't gush, squirm, and sigh, Even shopping becomes quite a bore.