Suddenly, with a small catch of breath that was audible in her throat, Miss Slayback stepped out of that doorway, squirming her way across the tight congestion of the sidewalk to its curb, then in and out, brushing this elbow and that shoulder, worming her way in an absolutely supreme anxiety to keep in view a brown derby hat bobbing right briskly along with the crowd, a greenish-black bit of feather upright in its band.

I played up to him nobly, squirming as if in an agony of terror.

Dick, fascinated and inert, watched the snaky mass, squirming in hideous folds almost on the recumbent body.

But others, squirming through the water, wriggled up; and the boy, maddened by the danger, stood his ground, torch in hand, defending the sleeper.

But the man objected to being carried, and, squirming vigorously, slipped out of Fred's arms, and once more declared his intention of sleeping in the snow.

"Wow! did you see that?" gasped Steve, staring upwards at the dangling "dummy" as though he could easily imagine it a kicking, squirming human figure.

There was nothing more for me to do except to drink my cup of after-dinner coffee, and smoke my cigarette, and quit, and I was patting myself on the back at my success and squirming around in the chair, 'cause the pin in my tail hurt my back

Those girl friends in San Francisco who had met him at her birthday-party would be fairly squirming with excited curiosity to know everything.

"See," Bert said, "what did I tell you?" It seemed funny to be squirming our way along where a creek used to flow before it changed its mind and decided to flow into Bowl Valley.

p the baby from squirming on to the floor, the plate from upsetting, and to feed the hungry urchins who stood in a row with open mouths, like young birds, was past my comprehension.

I looked at a party of shrieking girls Piled on a table that whirls and whirls, And saw them thrown in a tangled heap, Sprawling and squirming and several deep.

"Ah-ugh!" guggled Molly, squirming on the ground, for she had struck the pit of her stomach on a round rock the size of a football and the wind was knocked out of her.

I was all right, but when I began sinking as low as my waist and had to drag myself out by squirming and catching hold of bushes and things, then I lost my nerveI have to admit it.

came something through the window into the lamp, and down squirming into the ink-bottle.

I watched her putting the children to bed; they made her a great deal of bother, squirming off of her lap and running round barefoot.

Every creature in the stream seemed to be hurrying down to the sea, and Tom, being the only water-baby among all the squirming eels and the scores of different things, big and little, he had many strange adventures before he came to the sea.

Of all the wriggling and squirming, the begging and the pleading that ever you saw or heard!

And he held on more tightly to Brighteyes, for she was wiggling and squirming, trying to get away.

Approaching Ann, then backing around, he let one squirming pair of legs rest on her lap, freed his arm, and Ann had the puppy.

It was written all over his thin, squirming little yellow body that he was Nobody's dogwritten just as plainly as the name of Somebody's dog would be written on a name-plate on a collar.

She filled hot water bags automatically, like a machinewater half-way to the top, then one hand clutching the bag's slippery middle while the other, with a deft twist, ejected the air within; a quick twirl of the metal stopper, the bag released, squirming, and, finally, its plump and rufous cheeks wiped dry.

Bedient's last look at the stage brought him the impression of squirming chaos.

At length you slowly raise, pulling hand over hand, some homed pout squeaking and squirming to the upper air.

In the course of my squirming, however, I rolled over upon a heap of clam-shellsthe remains, evidently, of some yachting party's clam-bake.

Looking down on their squirming bodies, with the coachman almost standing on his tiptoes driving them, was so different from Jone's buggy and our tall gray horse, which in general we look up to, that for a good while I paid no attention to anything but the danger of falling out on top of them.