He knew the strength of oak and ash; the swing of oar, the curve of prow, the dash of wave, and the curling breaker's sweep.

It passed, with a swift, steady swing to its highest altitude, and fell thence, Westward.

The tracks had been bird tracks, but the creature that swung in the air next day was a baby hare.

Until the Giants made their last visit to Pittsburgh in the month of August the western team threatened to come through with a finish, which would give them a chance to swing into first place during the month of September, but the series between New York and Pittsburgh turned the scale against the latter.

A brace of Colt's revolvers swung from his belt, the tatters of his blood-stained garments hung about him.

"As I was saying, the Female Samson would swing on this bar, and then she would take the Dwarf's belt in her teeth and hold him in that way for five minutes.

Five times Treadwell swung at his smaller opponent, but each time Dave was somewhere else.

The boat was cast loose as soon as we got aboard, backed out into the busy river, her whistle shrieking shrilly, then swung about and headed down stream.

A golden dragon swings over the door.

"I done told you," said Swing with dignity.

It seemed almost as though the entire fleet had been swung out of its course by pressure on an electric button.

I crossed back over Broadway, at last, and turned down Twenty-third Street in the direction of the Marathon, when, just at the corner, I came face to face with three men as they swung around the corner in the same direction, and, with a little start, I recognised Grady and Simmonds, with M. Pigot between them.

You, Masters, you'd have swung for killing the McKay brothers.

The guide took a lower seat, and his dirty tin cup, swung across his breast, looked like an ornament as the light struck it; his swarthy face was bright, and I wondered what our friends at home would give for a picture.

On my journey back to London, as the train swung through Peterborough and out across the rich level lands towards Hitchin, I recollected Jack Durnford's words when I had mentioned the Lola.

In the throng was a holy man whose upraised arm had been held aloft until it had atrophied, and would never more swing by his side.

In the hut on the hill, Donnegan put George quickly to work, and with a door and some bedding, a litter was hastily constructed and swung between the two horses.

The Major said to me, as they swung past us, that that Battalion could be trusted to fight to the end.

The sun had all but set when, with a grunt of satisfaction, he swung round the tiller and headed shorewards.

We felt the strong suction under our keel, and staggered under the jerk of the ship's cable as she swung toward the beach.

Instantly the Quarter Circle KT cowboy's forty-four was jerked from its holster and the blue-steel barrel swung against the side of the bartender's head.

Baffled in his effort to get a death-hold on Broken Tooth, Kazan swung like a flash to the right.

" She swung towards the door.

Why do we hide so many pretty talents under a bushel, when the church-door swings behind us?

All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily.