"What was the cipher?""How did they find it out?" these and a hundred other questions were continually being dinned in their ears, coupled with slaps on the back, ejaculations of "Well done!""You're a precious sharp lot!" and many other expressions of approval.

I did not start at once, and he gave me a slap in the face with the back of his hand,knocking me off an ox-yoke on which I was sitting, and sending me sprawling on the ground.

I do relish the smart sayins, the odd ways of furrin parts, and the sarcastic slaps at folkses weak spots.

There he confided the joke to the tall pine-trees, with many slaps of his leg, contortions of his face, and the usual profanity.

There was no talking, only the growl of an occasional oath, the slapping of the hawser on deck, and the sharp orders of Haines.

So I jumped to the ground, and gave him a hard slap with the butt of one of my revolvers, which started him on down the valley, while I scrambled up the mountain side.

" He released his grasp of Andy's hand momentarily, to slap into his palm a banknote.

There goes a wave slap over her bows.

" We could hear the waves slapping against the vessel's sides, and the orders from the deck above us.

Ye should niver go slap through a badger country like that, boy; always keep i' the bottoms, where the grass is short.

The leaky little boat was plunging and dancing in swift ecstasy of movement; all about them the little waves ran glittering in the sunlight, plashing and slapping against the boat's low side, tossing tiny crests to the following wind, showing rifts of white here and there, blowing handfuls of foam and spray.

If they got a slap from his paws, over they'd go.

It was some time after the Flying Dutchman parted her one insufficient mooring-rope before Kirk realized that the sound of the water about her had changed from a slap to a gliding ripple.

A minute later she emerged from the house to which she had retreated, seemingly ready to swap slaps for kisses some more.

It was a perfect mess; a score of ropes flying at once; the men rolling about and holding on; the sails slapping like mad, and ends of rigging streaming off to leeward.

Raul had barely opened the door when we heard the sonics of a resounding slap across the face.

We waited and quartered the ground back and forth for a long hour, while the rain fell and the seas slapped along our sides, and the steam fluttered drearily through the escapes.

" Then the door slapped behind him, and Ashton-Kirk heard him bounding down the stairs.

someone slaps down the lid, and you are staring at a flat piece of wood.

Father Oliver imagined the waves slapping in his face, and then he imagined them slapping about the face of a corpse drifting towards the Joycetown shore.

But Moll was afflicted with no such qualms, her spirit being very combative and high, and her conscience (such as it was) being hardened by our late discussion to resist sharper slaps than this.

" They sat slapping at the mosquitoes till a whistle screamed on the Lower River.