Expecting this, and knowing that the gallows lay behind him, the fugitive had adopted every expedient for baffling his pursuers: he had walked long distances upon tiptoe; had scrambled along walls; had walked backwards, crawled, doubled, leaped; but all in vain!

Instinctively Flack walked on tiptoe to his chief.

his black and rolling eye-ball hurls Afar, his tail he closes and unfurls; On tiptoe reared, he strains his clarion throat, Threatened by faintly-answering farms remote: Again with his shrill voice the mountain rings, 155 While, flapped with conscious pride, resound his wings!

The tall Sun, tiptoe ... 1820.]

By keeping them forever on tiptoe we are in danger of producing an army of conventional little prigs, who know much more than they should about matters which are profitless even to their elders.

Scarcely knowing what she did she mounted on tiptoe to the second floor, listening.

" The drawing-room door was cautiously opened, and Peter's aunts came into the hall on tiptoe, followed by the canon.

When I should be inclined to love, overwhelm me with it; when to be serious or solitary, if apprehensive of intrusion, retiring at a nod; approaching me only if I smiled encouragement: steal into my presence with silence; out of it, if not noticed, on tiptoe.

The two old crones who had come to "lay out" the body crept about on tiptoe, their usual garrulity quenched by the sad and beautiful spectacle.

His spirit had a fashion of standing away, tiptoe, on wings.

There was a feeling of stealth, of mysterythat tiptoe breathless expectation of Pan pipes....

So the said town waits all the day on tiptoe, ready to worship, till out of the soft brown haze the stately Waterwitch comes sliding in, like a white ghost, to fold her wings in Aberalva bay.

And together on tiptoe they crept to the nursery and looked down at their sleeping children.

Both physically and mentally he moved on tiptoe.

I flutter on tiptoe, eager for his chair.

The news that Smike had been caught and brought back in triumph, ran like wild-fire through the hungry community, and expectation was on tiptoe all the morning.

On tiptoe it was destined to remain, however, until afternoon; when Squeers called the school together, and dragged Smike by the collar to the front of the room before them all.

"Tall, white as a ghost, with big black eyes," was Janet's answer; and, with his curiosity awakened, Henry Warner started for the parlor, Rose following on tiptoe, and listening through the half-closed door to what their visitor might say.

Hubert waited till her breathing grew deeper; then he laid the hand he held in his by her side, and stole on tiptoe from the room.

Grimes advanced on tiptoe with his finger to his lip.

The Rev. George stood on tiptoe as he spoke, and flourished his low-crowned soft felt hat.

The only English appellatives that are established in oe, are the following fourteen: seven monosyllables, doe, foe, roe, shoe, sloe, soe, toe; and seven longer words, rockdoe, aloe, felloe, canoe, misletoe, tiptoe, diploe.

Sometimes, when excited, the old male of the great kangaroo stands on tiptoe and on his tail, and is then of prodigious height.

As I walked stealthily through the house, and on tiptoe, fearful of disturbing one beloved inmate even by a breathI passed the incumbent's study.

" "Tis the proper shpot f'r to ambuscade us," observed Murphy, craning his neck and standing on tiptoe to see ahead.