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...ll. “Ready?” she mouthed. They nodded and caught their breath, waiting. Whisking the scarf from Daniel’s eyes, she pushed him over the threshold....

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... of that looking up into the sky like a dreamy baboon. Just watch the waves whisking us around." As she felt the undulations, she forgot about the ...

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...ged by Nicholas Tulrumble expressly for the occa sion. There was the horse, whisking his tail about, balanc ing himself on his hind legs, and flouri... ...f a pony with one clearly defined and distinct organ of vision, winking and whisking at the same moment. ‘MR. Q. J. SNUFFLETOFFLE had heard of a pony... ...J. SNUFFLETOFFLE had heard of a pony winking his eye, and likewise of a pony whisking his tail, but whether they were two ponies or the same pony he c... ... was acquainted with no authenticated instance of a simultaneous winking and whisking, and he really could not but doubt the existence of such a marve...

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... feelings were not of the sweetest. Nor was this the worst of it. Had the whisking been divided equally among ten, he might have forgiven it; but the...

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...folks at a country gathering descried this well known crest at a dis tance, whisking about among a squad of hard riders, they always stood by for a s...

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...e with half a smile, differently from the simple observation of those cows whisking the flies from their flanks at the edge of the shorn meadow and it...

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...were heavily laden; and Lucy herself,—where was she? Going very fast? Yes, whisking over the snow with all her might and main, and muffled up in cloak...

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...kers carefully combed, and a forest of black hair in some disorder. He was whisking a riding whip with an air of ease and freedom which suited his sel...

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...o your highest hopes,—in one word, if you have never felt the devil’s tail whisking over the world, the opera of Robert le Diable must be to you, what...

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...et away definitely from Almayer; and a very small pony tied up forward and whisking its tail inside the galley, to the great embarrassment of our Chin... ...tion to the pony. Tied up on the other side of the fore-deck they had been whisking their tails into the other door of the galley. These cows were not...

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... away definitely from Almayer; and a very small pony tied up for- ward and whisking its tail inside the galley, to the great embarrassment of our Chin... ...tion to the pony. Tied up on the other side of the fore deck they had been whisking their tails into the other door of the galley. These cows were not...

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...s and try.’ So the Elephant’s Child went home across Af- rica frisking and whisking his trunk. When he wanted fruit to eat he pulled fruit down from a...

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...ng with a grey fat friar, Hither, thither, to and fro, Breathing mists and whisking lamps, Plashing in the shiny swamps; While my cousin Lantern Jack,... ...und eyes! What a joy O ho! Sits upon him in the swamps Breathing mists and whisking lamps! What a joy O ho! Such a lad is Lantern Jack, When he rides ...

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...ing the stool on the wrong side, and partly because, taking offence at the whisking of their tails, we were in the habit of holding these natural fly ...

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...k pail, and sometimes kick it over. But still the brindled cow trudged on, whisking her tail to keep the flies away, and taking as little notice of Ca...

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...ow light; the cat sat in the window-seat, winking at the sun, and sleepily whisking her tail for the amusement of her kitten, which was darting to and...

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...ng sprites. Come, in due time, organist and bellows-boy, peeping down from the red curtains in the loft, fearlessly flapping dust from books up at tha...

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...s he thought, an absurd ribbon in his lapel, and full of smart persiflage, whisking about to the admiration of as many as were disposed to admire. Gre...

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...like the coal of a cigar. Then a superincumbent bundle rolled down, with a whisking noise; flames elongated, and bent themselves about with a quiet roa...

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... confusion of tongues, a clattering of crockery, a rattling of tin mugs, a whisking of brooms, and an expenditure of water, all in excess, while the s...