The boundaries of the platform began to wriggle.

I know you, remember, and I know what is meant when the tip of your nose begins to wriggle.

" Then she laughed till the tears came into her eyes; and La Couteau, on her side highly amused, began to wriggle with a savage delight.

Had these foul Orders admitted of no loophole through which my honour might with difficulty wriggle, I should have taken the only course possible to me.

The curious convulsive wriggle of one of his arms, which always showed when he was excited, gradually died away, and after looking for some time at the papers of de Menevalwho had written away like an automaton during all this uproarhe came across to the fire with a smile upon his lips, and a brow from which the shadow had departed.

" The constable tried to laugh and wriggle away, but the cashier's gimlet eyes kept boring him, and eventually he fished out a five-dollar bill and handed it in.

And it stretched two of the arms unto me; but I smote with the Diskos, and I smote thrice; and afterward they did wriggle upon the sand.

He can no more wriggle himself free of the psychic gravitations that invest him than the earth can shake herself loose of the sun, or he of the omnipotences that rivet him to the universe.

One cannot make out their coats, but their red trousers show as they wriggle forward on their faces.

I lay quiet for a minute, and then began to wriggle through the brush to get a glimpse of them, and, in case it proved to be the camp, learn what might be the most advantageous method for our attack.

" "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.

I am not thinking of the fellow who is pulled up in court in an action for breach of promise of marriage, and who in one letter makes vows of unalterable affection, and in another letter, written a few weeks or months later, tries to wriggle out of his engagement.

In early life she had been accustomed to impale fools on epigrams, like flies on pins, to see them wriggle.

With her great bare arms folded across her ample person she waddled towards the triumphant young man, and there was a look in her eye that made him wriggle uneasily upon his chair.

Rachel Wiletzky, standing by his desk, did not cough or wriggle or rustle her skirts or sag on one hip.

Ray Willets, standing by his desk, did not cough or wriggle or rustle her skirts or sag on one hip.

The next time Jim should fall asleep he would crawl back through the aperture in the conduit wall, pry up the boards over the opening into the prison yard, wriggle out, and take his chances in getting over the wall somehow!

Watson was too proud to ask his client to keep the deadly secret, or to apply the famous wriggle of Hippolytus: "My tongue hath sworn, but my heart remains unsworn.

[Being a Republican's apology for the recent anti-British agitation in the States.] Oh, never let it mar the mutual love, That now unites us eye to eye, If, superficially, we seem to shove Our fingers in your Irish pie An action which, if you should so behave, Would make old MONROE wriggle in his grave.

When the multitudes had dispersed and I was alone, by superhuman efforts I contrived to wriggle on my stomach to the foot of the ascending stairway, but not having sufficient strength to wriggle off on arrival at the top, my long-dreaded horror of being sucked under the barrier, where moving stairways disappear, was realised.

When the multitudes had dispersed and I was alone, by superhuman efforts I contrived to wriggle on my stomach to the foot of the ascending stairway, but not having sufficient strength to wriggle off on arrival at the top, my long-dreaded horror of being sucked under the barrier, where moving stairways disappear, was realised.

During the early portion of the meal, the mussurama put a stop to this writhing and struggling by resting its own body on that of its prey; but toward the last the part of the body that remained outside was left free to wriggle as it wished.

Louis seemed to think that if he looked at no one and addressed nobody, when he spoke, he might the more easily wriggle out of his obligations later on.

And every man will say, As you wriggle on your way, "If 'emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of Art,' dear me!

She's bediamonded superbly, and shines like a constellation, You scarce can see her fingers for the multitude of rings; She's just a shade too conscious, so it seems, of admiration, With irritating tendencies to wriggle when she sings.