I did not start at once, and he gave me a slap in the face with the back of his hand,knocking me off an ox-yoke on which I was sitting, and sending me sprawling on the ground.

" Goldberger swallowed hard, as though he had received a slap in the face.

I saw him run out from cover some hundred yards away, aiming his long-gun: but no report followed: and in half a minute he was under her fore-paws, she striking out slaps at the barking, shrinking dogs.

If they got a slap from his paws, over they'd go.

There goes a wave slap over her bows.

The war had come this way; and, coming so, had dealt it a side-slap.

So I was headin' for Lathrop by a trail I'd run across that took around the mountain, and meanin' to keep on as long as I could durin' the night, when all at once something flew up and hit me ker-slap!

Well, there I fainted dead away, and might have been cut shorter, But Providence was kind, and brought me to with scalding water I first looks round for Mrs. Round, and sees her at a distance, As stiff as starch, and looked as dead as any thing in existence; All scorched and grimed, and more than that, I sees the copper slap Right on her head, for all the world like a percussion copper cap.

He had heard the ringing slap through the ramshackle walls of the house, and for all that he favored Ray as his daughter's suitor, the independence and spirit behind the action had delighted him to the core.

Placido was proceeding along the Paseo de Magallanes toward the breachformerly the gateof Santo Domingo, when he suddenly felt a slap on the shoulder, which made him turn quickly in ill humor.

Ken flung up his captured rifle, and fired slap at the first.

You'd hardly think it, but she was downright extravagant, and always having slaps at me.

he broke out impetuously, making a furious slap at his face; "the poet doesn't say that the Lotus Eaters were eaten up themselves by such cursed mosquitoes as these, and they're sufficient evidence that we're in Kamchatkathey don't grow as big as bumblebees in any other country!"

But Moll was afflicted with no such qualms, her spirit being very combative and high, and her conscience (such as it was) being hardened by our late discussion to resist sharper slaps than this.

Antonio More, the celebrated painter, was highly favoured by Philip of Spain, whose familiarity with him placed his life in danger; for More ventured to return a slap on the shoulder which the king in a playful moment gave him, by rubbing some carmine on his majesty's hand.

I ran slap into the arms of a young policeman wot was passing.

He acted the words as he read, modulating his voice to suit the various characters, stamping and storming, and to adjust his black skullcapit would tumble off at the pathetic partsdealing himself a succession of sounding slaps on the crown of his head.

A minute later she emerged from the house to which she had retreated, seemingly ready to swap slaps for kisses some more.

Why, wut's to hender, pray? Must I go huntin' round to find a chap To tell me when my face hez hed a slap? THE MONIMENT.

"He served you rightly, naughty boy!" observed his mother administering a sharp slap which sent the child off bellowing loudly.

They do say that Black Ben, the poacher, have riz, and what's more, walked slap through all the squire's steel traps, without springing on 'em.

Morey, who had taken him because he could find no other, blazed up into a man of fine discernment; and Jo nearly killed him with approving slaps on his feeble back.

When he began with his responses that morning, a loud slap, and a smothered yell disturbed the governorbut he only paused, and went on.

Thinking this, I try to bear its blows and buffetsits slaps on the faceits boxes on the earwith greater patience.

The story was of four professors who, having examined him, had each, in turn, he said, administered upon his [Delsarte's] cheeks smart slaps to the colleagues by whose advice he had profited in previous lessons.