Yet Elzevir made no bones of it, nor spoke a single word; only he went very slow, and I felt him scuffle with his foot as he set it forward, to make sure he was putting it down firm.

As he knocked at the door the noise suddenly ceased, there was a moment's silence, and then a murmur in a low tone, followed by a scuffling of feet and the overturning of a chair.

The miller, and my brother Grim the collier Appointed here to scuffle for her love.

No, my girl, that is the mark of an English cutlass in a scuffle on board a slaver.

In the corridor an angry rumour of voices, alarmed calls and cries, with thumps and scuffles of hasty feet, in the bedchamber the shrieks persisting without the least hint of failing: as a damned soul might bawl upon its bed of coals ... "Sofia, I implore you!"

It was a desperate scuffle in the dark.

"Not here," he said hastily, "what good can it do herea vulgar scuffle between two gentlemen?" "Go," I cried, "murderer and coward.

The stone threshold of his cottage is worn away with his hob-nailed footsteps, scuffling over it from the reign of the first Plantagenet to that of Victoria.

" "It occurred to me," went on the O.C., "that there was some sound of scuffling in this room.

This manoeuvre dislodged the group of infantry soldiers who had taken shelter there, and, on all fours, they began crawling and worming and scuffling about among the dead leaves, seeking another shelter from the pelting hail of lead.

By this time Albert Ward, being close by, and hearing the fuss, came up to the assistance of the Colonel, when a scuffle amongst all hands ensued.

She is nothing more" There was a light scuffle at the window.

There was a short scuffle during the early part of July among the Athletics, Senators and White Sox for the possession of the position next to Boston.

So Mr. Bargrave ventured one morning to ask if she felt quite well; but the snappish manner in which his inquiries were met, as though they masked a load of hidden sarcasm and insult, caused the old gentleman to scuffle into his office with unusual activity, much disturbed and humiliated, while resolved never so to commit himself again.

" The Chinaman stood looking stupidly about for a minute before placing his basket on the floor, then dropped it with a jar which rattled the few dishes within and scuffled out of the door.

The children did not scuffle through the banks of leaves, or jump and run and burst into play as they were used to doing.

She could have kissed her hand to the loud-voiced woman who came scuffling to the window to scold them, clutching a dirty kimono together over a Hogarth-like expanse of bosom.

Presently I heard a scuffle behind me, and there was Joe, throwing an old shoe after me.

Even though here and there the line is brightened by the attractive appearance of the schoolgirls of the Escuela Municipal, with their sashes across their shoulders and their books in their hands, followed by their servants, yet scarcely a laugh resounds or a joke can be heardnothing of song or jest, at best a few heavy jokes or scuffles among the smaller boys.

" A clash against the door was heard, a struggle of bodies that were pushing each other, the friction of a scuffle against the wood.

But, Gloria" They both started to a sudden sound outside, a scuffling on the porch.

Then more and more desperate scuffling with muttering.