She had adjusted a prodigious silken train, which swept and swirled in many bewildering folds as she slowly turned, courtesied, tripped forward and retreated, with such bending and twisting as would turn a ballet-master mad with envy.

I tripped him and we fell together, and then I felt a hand on my collar.

After the sportsmen had separated, each to gain his prearranged position in the forest, he had tripped over his rifle, seriously injuring the delicate sighting mechanism.

Dorn tripped him heavily, and he had scarcely struck the ground when that steel transfixed his bulging throat.

Green pastures she views [A] in the midst of the dale, Down which she so often has tripped with her pail; 10 And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's, The one only dwelling on earth that she loves.

My boy beside me tripped, so slim 25 And graceful in his rustic dress!

He tripped me, of course, but I think he really acted on an unconscious impulse and without intention.

Marjorie did not study astronomy by starlight, but she awoke very early and tripped with bare feet over the carpet into Miss Prudence's chamber.

"You tripped me, you skunk, and Jack Hood ain't old enough to take that from no man!" Bull Hunter cast out deprecatory hands.

I may have tripped him which I didn't mean to.

But not knowing that I tripped him, I got to say that I can't call myself a liar.

And Charlotte, hearing her, immediately rose and tripped across the salon to take the little one into a neighboring room.

West stood silent and scowling, but as the girl tripped away she saw him raise his eyes and glance slyly toward the cupboard, for they were in the right wing room.

Both tripped up and rolled to the front entry.

"Yestreen I met a winsome lass, a bonny lass was she, As ever climbed the mountain-side, or tripped aboon the lea; She wore nae gold, nae jewels bright, nor silk nor satin rare, But just the plaidie that a queen might well be proud to wear.

The going here was difficult, for the thick moss was full of short, stiff brush that caught the webbed shoes and tripped the traveler.

Mrs. Marlow, who looked daintier, prettier, more charming than ever, paid her driver, gave him a smiling nod, and tripped into New Court, a bundle of papers in her well-gloved hand.

"After we got through telling the court what he reminded us of and what he looked like, we tripped out to the machine and climbed on board and started out again.

He is often tripped, seldom foiled, and, if sometimes foiled, never vanquished.

Then she tripped lightly away, and left her alone with the minister.

They banged him about till he could scarcely stand, and then, of a sudden, there was a great hush, while a terrible voice croaked: "Bring forth the guillotine!" There was a bustle, and then the bandage was stripped from Frank's eyes, he was tripped up, and a second later found himself lying helpless with his neck in the socket of a mock guillotine.

I did not make notes in my early days, and now in my later years I may make little mistakes; but I do not think I have tripped very much.

When I tripped and fell, there in the hall, I broke the bone short offit was only nicked at first.

Some writers say that he never tripped the light fantastic after the Revolution and that one of his last participations was at the Fredericksburg ball after the capture of Cornwallis when he "went down some dozen couple in the contra dance."

" Both girls carried out these directions, the fat one falling down a couple of times, tripped by the long grass and getting up shaking with laughter.