I recognized him just as I was making an instinctive dive for Savaroff's revolver, under the unpleasant impression that Hoffman and the other German had returned from the post-office.

But immediately he realized that Tom was only executing his pet drop, the nose-dive.

I could swim like a duck, you know, and though it was filthy water I took a long dive.

Dull as he might have found Dives, yet I am sure the Conquering Hero would have preferred returning to Paris, to risking the discomfort of the crossing.

"Got t' dive," said D'ri, "an' swim fer daylight.

He mapped out a dive under her bed if steps came up the stairs.

That is why it is possible to drink your morning coffee without nausea for it, over the head-lines of forty thousand casualties at Ypres, but to push back abruptly at a three-line notice of little Tony's, your corner bootblack's, fatal dive before a street-car.

"I'm all in a position to do itsee?" "Time's up," replied Tiny inexorably, and Bengal reluctantly relinquished her dive and climbed down from the tower.

I remember the dive for life.

" In Captain DESMOND COKE'S extravaganza a group of philanthropists adopt the time-honoured procedure of ROBIN HOOD and his Greenwood Company, robbing Dives on system to pay Lazarus.

He came to the scattering edges and saw a man dive at him.

It gave a little undertow of funk to the mood of lively curiosity with which I got aboard the waterplane this morningthat sort of faint, thin funk that so readily invades one on the verge of any new experience; when one tries one's first dive, for example, or pushes off for the first time down an ice run.

It was too late to check his dive.

You have witnessed the death-defying dives of the Demon Discobolus; you have laughed with the comical clowns; you have thrilled with the hurrying horses; and you have gasped at the ponderous pachyderms.

The Benares Brothers went on with their performance, They cut out "the dive for life," but they made up for it by some dazzling aerial evolutions that thrilled the spectators, and everybody seemed satisfied.

Thou hast a large stake in the Winkelried, and art at this moment thinking what punishment is good enough for an impudent soothsayer who dares dive so unceremoniously into the secrets of so warm a citizen, while all around thee wish thy cheeses had never left the dairy, to the discomfort of our limbs and to the great detriment of the bark's speed.