The Alexandrians called him Cæsarion, and she never swerved from asserting for him royal privileges.

While they were still headed straight for the hole, the Boy had gathered himself for a clear jump to the right, but the sled's sudden swerve to the left broke his angle sharply.

I was offered instead a work in two volumes on the notorious highwaymen of history, and for a moment my plot swerved in that direction.

" The horse seemed inclined to swerve at a sight of the fiery hoop.

For example, we have been speaking ironically and suddenly swerve into serious utterance; or we have been speaking seriously and then incongruously adopt an ironic tone.

He did not swerve for the useless words "I am sorry."

But he found his feet again, and swerved like a hunted hare in one desperate bound.

I beckoned to a passing taxi, and waving his arm in response the driver swerved across the street and drew up at the kerb.

" She hung, listening, with a backward swerve of figure, and regarding him in the dim light of the swinging hall-lamp, for the moment half-petrified.

Whether by reason of the swerving of his destrier, I cannot tell, but Frollo failed of his stroke Arthur, on his side, smote the boss of his adversary's shield so fairly, that he bore him over his horse's buttock, as long as the ash staff held Arthur drew forth his sword, and hastened to Frollo to bring the battle to an end.

" They swerved around her, grinning good-naturedly.

'Twas like As when an eagle swoops to strike, But swerves with flutt'ring wings, as nigh Its head a javelin gleams ...

They swerved before the meeting, their wings fluttered, they lighted on branches of the same tree and shyly eyed each other.

But the lithe shadow swerved as a leaf whirls from a beating hand and again their bodies crashed together.

The occupants had had an escape from total wreck, as one of the ponies had swerved over the khud, but the other saved the situation by lying down in the mud!

But though Morgan made a valiant effort the roan easily swerved past him and went racing down the road.

In these directions of the Lord there is no countenance of the slightest swerving from the truth by Samuel; nor is there an authorized concealment of any fact that those to whom Samuel was sent had any claim to know.

Then two would swerve toward shore, or perhaps it was all three, and again it was Jennie who kept the farthest from land, or perhaps a fancy led her to skim so close that some of the overhanging limbs brushed her face.

Shepherd's Boy The path climbed up and up and threatened to carry me over the highest point of the downs till it faltered before a sudden outcrop of chalk and swerved round the hill on the level.

On the instant of the accompanying blow-out the grey car shied like a frightened horse and swerved off the road, hurtling headlong into a clump of trees.

The span, dragging the long pole, swerved on the turn, and swung the pole, which was so long that it caught on the bank.

He saw Gwenda Cartaret swerve out of their way.