He liked the music, and the good fellowship, and the swing and the zip of it all.

An orchestra was playing something with a good deal of zip to it, and under happier conditions I dare say my feet would have started twitching in time to the melody.

Each time we did this half a dozen bullets went zipping through the canvas or just past overhead.

He looked up to Zip with a countenance marked with anguish and pleaded, "I can't do it.

The shadow that had lain over Zip for two days had been lifted.

" "Joe! Mark!" called Zip from the front of the procession.

I don't really need a tarpon, or want a tarpon, and I don't know what I could do with a tarpon if I hooked one, except to yell at him to go away; but I need a burned neck and a peeled nose, a little more zest for my food, and a little more zip about my work, if the interests of the American hog are going to be safe in my hands this spring.

"Magnificent!" He and Mark had followed Zip into the hangar.

He learned to shoot the hills at a breathless rate, climbing up swiftly to the top; then, with feet apart, but even, zipping like an express-train down the steep incline and far along the level below.

He squeezed past Zip in the crowded little workplace, passed through a narrow door on the other side of the room, and through a passageway.

He was more afraid of that than the occasional bullets which zipped across.

They stopped cold, however, as a number of quick shots rang out and bullets whistled and zipped around them.

"Try the doors," said Zip at last, and walked to the nearest elevator.