The slither of a started rock behind him made him turn his head with a jerk.

On his heels came another with his hand clapped to his side, and he moaned as he slithered past me.

Now I could distinctly hear a sound of whispering, and something slithered over the panels, with a rasping, scratchy noise.

The thin soap slips And slithers like a shark under the ships.

Brass rings slithered on a pole supporting the portières at the back of the room.

" I awoke next morning in very fine spirits, and slithering out of my bed with alacrity, revelledliterally wallowedin the appointments of my room.

The fixed ration is one slither per chute per person.

" The play began at six o'clock, for the camp lights are out at nine, and it was in the dusk of another one of Berlin's rainy days, after slithering through the Tiergarten and past the endless concrete apartment-houses of Charlottenburg, that our taxicab swung to the right, lurched down the lane of mud, and stopped at the gate of Ruhleben.

The rider slithered to the ground, patted the animal's neck, and turned forthwith towards the hut.

She was close to the second trap when the sound of webs slithering along the snow brought her up short.

Watch it, and you see something that seems to uncurl and expand like a feather with exultation and delight and joy, to contract and stiffen into a billiard ball with fear and pride, shrewd caution and vigilant malevolence, to rear back and spark fire like lightning with anger and temper, and to crawl and slither with abjection and smirking slyness, when it needs to.

We left the cars and, slithering in sticky mud, made our way up a hillock on which one of these innumerable windmills stood distinct.

After a close examination of events, after the bitter feeling of war had passed, in his speech of December 23, 1920, Lloyd George said justly that the War broke out without any Government having really desired it; all, in one way or another, slithered into it, stumbling and tripping.