I startled her, she tripped over the sill and down she come; the dish flew one way, the pie flopped into her lap, the juice spatterin' my boots and her clean gown.

Suddenly Miss Slayback adjusted her tam-o'-shanter to its flop over her right ear, and, drawing off a pair of dark-blue silk gloves from over immaculately new white ones, entered Ceiner's Café Hungarian.

The man flopped on the ground heavily, face downwards, and thengreatest horror of all!dragged himself to his hands and knees and began to crawl laboriously.

Being a little tired, he found the change from the surging waves to the gentle chuck and flop of the deep water, most delightful.

The sea-lion, with its stouter limbs, can lift its forepart, raise its head and look about it, and even flop about the ice-fields at a respectable rate.

He was not much of a rider, and he went bouncing up and down, with his swallow-tails flopping in the air.

So Ivra shook her head until her funny little pigtails flopped from side to side.

"You fool, you'll do a flop out the door in about a minute!" He even reached out to steady the toppling figure, but Donnegan pitched straight out into the night.

You see, my dear Agraféna Kondrátyevna, they wanted to try me for that very thingI went immediately to our general, and flopped at his feet!

Again he flopped to his back at the interested approach of the other dog, held four limp paws aloft, and simpered at the stranger.

Anthony's overcoat was off before he had fairly entered his room and his coat and vest flopped through the air as Peters shut the door.

Finally an old cow flopped by in a panic.

" He was no longer the play cavalier in overornamented chaparejos and cart-wheel spurs, but a lame fellow in overalls, who was hitching toward her on crutches, his cowpuncher hat held by the brim and flopping with every step.

Her short shirt of a plaid gingham flopped above her thin, bony legs as she ran, and she grasped a wide-brimmed straw hat in one hand.

Then one day when your door was open, and I was coming up the stairway, and it was dark in the entry, something big and soft flopped across the carpet, andit being exceedingly common to screamI didn't, but managed to get past it, and" her violet eyes widened with horror"do you know what that soft, floppy thing was?

A body, khaki-clad, rolled down beside him, convulsively flopped against him.

The body, however, had been flopping around spasmodically several seconds upon the floor before he realized that the oath had not been administered, and his voice suddenly rose above the pandemonium in an excited brogue.

When the pony presently broke into a soft lope it caused the elbows of the little man to flop like wings.

Did you ever" "Well, yes, I've saw a fish flop toward the water once or twicet before now.

Through the smoke I saw a horse with its pack undone and flopping under its belly, trotting round with the wild aimlessness of horses in the bull-ring after they have been gored.

and I heard a thing coming flop-flop up the stairs like an eel, and squealing.