She found the switch, pressed it.

After that my uncle brushed me with a switch bundle, and not lightly, for his arm is strong.

"Find me a little stick or switch, will you?" Andy went outside to hunt for the required article.

He could turn from lace-buyer to floor-walker with the quickness of the swing of an electric switch.

With the switch from desert to city life homesickness has crept over you.

His haggardness suggested that for once the pushbutton to the switch of oblivion had failed him.

He was about to rise when, suddenly, with no other noise than that of the sharp click of the switch, the electric lights in the room blazed up brilliantly.

The folds of her evening dress fell away from her, and one bare, white arm was extended, as her hand still rested on the switch.

" The switch snapped.

At length he looked up indolently, listlessly, and the switch snapped.

"Find the switch!" He heard the rustle of her skirts as she moved away, and stepped out into the hall, feeling with both his hands along the wall.

If he could only find the switch!

"But I can't find the switch.

And then she found the switch; the lights flared up.

The darkness which made this possible was due to the fact that while you were looking for the switch, and I was apparently aiding, I was holding my hand over it all the time to keep you from turning on the light.

George reached for the wiper switch.

"I don't see you two swappin' canteens any, Nick, but it ain't for me to bust into your game; and I guess if you sling him a roll o' your good greenbacks, I'll contrive to switch some o' 'em off the line into my pocket.

No, you'll have to switch off, doc; and after to-night you can go your way

He had the never-failing predilection for showy switch-tailed horses that step high, and sidle about, and act as if they were going to do something fearful the next minute, in the face of awed and admiring multitudes gathered at mighty musters or imposing cattle-shows.

Jonas drove up to the stump, and Rollo clambered up behind him, with a switch in his hand.

"Now, Jonas," said he, "whenever you want him to go any faster, you just speak to me, and I will touch him up with my switch.

" So Rollo applied his switch, and the horse trotted on fast.

We paid quite freely for our brief monopoly of the railroad to the superintendent, engineer, stoker, poker, switch-tender, brakeman, baggage-master, and every other official in one.

My father stripped and tied him, and took him into the orchard, where switches were plenty, and directed me to whip him; when one switch wore out he supplied me with others.

and trying to rouse the exhausted nags with a switch, he showed him that they did not move.