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She watched the blackbird throw up his head stiffly, and peck to right and left, dangling the worm on each side his orange beak.
"That's the ground," said I, as the other canoe bumped over the pebbles; and I stopped paddling and dangled my hand in the water.
Across the barrow, legs and head dangling over the sides, lay an unconscious heap that when sober answered to the name of Dan Sullivan.
Yet he had not moved from his careless attitude of ease on the fountain-rim; the little conical golden weapon dangled untouched at his belt.
Headquarters bugles began to sound as she crossed the hall, jacket dangling over her arm, and pushed open the door of a darkened room.
Pieces of reindeer hide, dried flesh, bags of fat, and other articles, hung from the frame and dangled against our heads as we entered.
Said another voice, and the second head produced a hand and arm which proceeded calmly to rap the knuckles of the one who dangled.
Around his shoulders were strung a compass, binoculars and map case, and at his belt dangled a small ax and a prospector's hammer pick.
She moved away from him, relaxing rather limply in the corner of the couch, with a hand dangling over the farther edge of it.
Irritated and nervous, Peter felt for the couch and sank down in the blackness, with the revolver dangling idly across one knee.
I came so near to seeing the hanging that I did see the ends of the wagon tongues in the air and the rope dangling therefrom.
Lambert put her pistol back into the holster which dangled on her thigh from the cartridge-studded belt round her pliant, slender waist.
A lonely clerk with a blonde mustache and a red necktie raised a languid hand to his brow and brushed back a dangling lock.
A sign dangling above the door proclaimed that it was the foundry and machine shop of one Seth McGuire, maker of bells and clocks.
Her face was averted and her arms were outstretched toward the dangling form that swung and twisted from the grim, gaunt arm.
The shock stunned me for a moment; then I snatched at knife and hatchet only to find an empty belt dangling to my ankles.
All this time you've been dangling it before my eyes, and all the time it's been a will-o'-the-wisp, leading me deeper and deeper into the mire.
Their long chains dangled behind them, or whirled from side to side, catching in wayside obstructions, but in no wise hindering their mad rush.
"Yes-yes-yes, well-well-well," exclaimed the doctor, sitting sideways, with his paunch dangling in front of him, "we're getting old, we're getting old ..."
In this band he wore a brilliant dagger; from it also dangled a tassel of pearl, which he continually kept in his hand as a plaything.
Reflected Minks, dangling the keys, accustomed to these abrupt interruptions, and knowing that his message had been understood and therefore duly delivered.
Basil looked round and saw on the side rail of his bedstead, above his head, a fourth old man, who was dangling his legs.
The little group was seated right on the forefoot or "over-hang" of the polar ship, their legs dangling over the bow above the water.
The dangling, waving motion of this strange appendage, as the wearer moves along, reminded me of the common fly-puzzler sometimes attached to horses' head-stalls.
White as a virgin canvas, Julien staggered forward to receive her, a pair of trousers, which he was too agitated to remember, dangling under his arm.
He touched the palm of his hand with the blade, and then, lifting it, showed her a thin shaving of scarf-skin dangling therefrom.
You always see him with a cane dangling at his button, his breast open, no gloves, one eye tuck'd under his hat, and a toothpick.
At this two young girls, wearing white feathers and white weasel pelts dangling from shoulders to knees, entered the ring from opposite ends.
The Prince scurried behind a big rock and reappeared at once with a willow branch from the end of which dangled a piece of thread.
And, as they cantered along the side opposite to the cave, one of them caught sight of the length of rope dangling down the precipice.
Comfort pulled off her mittens, thrust her hand in her pocket dangling against her blue woolen petticoat, and drew out the gold ring.
Three strokes with the community comb, dangling from a bit of string, and jerking his neck-handkerchief into place, he lurched toward the table.
These dangling little rings that shake and twinkle with every movement are fascinating little ornaments, and are far prettier than more elaborate designs.
It looked like the torso of a man, but the head was a shapeless blob and the arms were nothing more than boneless dangling flaps.
Burl and Russ lifted Boulton's unconscious body from the jeep and, between them, managed to hoist him awkwardly up the dangling rope ladder.
A young deer just slain dangled from its shoulders, and the warm blood was trickling down over the clothes of this grotesque being.
He clattered clumsily about on his heavy wooden shoes, with long straws from the stable dangling from his clothes and littering the floor.
Casting off as he spoke his outer garment, he disclosed to the astonished assembly a military coat underneath, and a sword dangling at his heels.
However, his valise had more tools in it, for he drew out a short iron handle, from which dangled a length of stout chain links.
I cut swiftly upward with supple hand, and his dangled bleeding at the wrist, and his sword fell; it tinkled on the ground.
On this bench sit the principal personages of the tribe, their feet dangling and not infrequently kicking those below them in the face.
My bunk was immediately over his, and when I slid out in the morning my feet had to dangle in front of his venomous face.
The background of all this was a veil of dark gauze at the horizon-line, its foil a golden, virgin moon, dangling a single brilliant star.
His back stooped, his hands dangled down between his knees, his head subsided almost upon his chest, and he sighed at brief intervals.
Morgan drew him under the swooping dome of the tree, plucked something that shone from her bosom, and dangled it before his eyes.
Flora was on her knees, her yellowed silk blouse dangling from her tight belt, as her arm rotated the mop over the floor.
In his left hand he held a stick of dynamite with fuse attached; in his right he held a match close to the dangling fuse.
"And see," he said to them, "that your service is good, if you do not wish to dangle over the moat at the end of a rope."
Casting off as he spoke his outer garment, he disclosed to the astonished assembly a military coat underneath and a sword dangling at his heels.
Some idiotic joker on patrol hung a helmet on the foot, and all the next day that helmet dangled and swung in the breeze.
It will be high time to brush up for a speech when you are in the dock, and pleading with the halter dangling in your eyes.
A brass compass dangled around his neck on a piece of twine as if, being so small, he was in danger of getting lost any minute.
He felt his legs dangle into space and his hands found a curving loop in the vine trunk that sagged slightly under his weight.
The Indian rolled over and pushed himself up on his hands and knees, a long string of blood and spittle dangling from his mouth.
She fumbled at her throat a moment and drew from the bosom of her gown a leather shoe-lacing, from which dangled an iron key.
He used to dress in very good clothes, and wore a profusion of gold rings, and had a large bunch of seals dangling at his fob.
A beautiful butterfly, of a species quite new to me, attracted my attention on the side of the crater-wall over which my legs were carelessly dangling.
Picking up a chameleon he dangled it over the flame; he did not drop it in the fire, but looked round again with a malignant grin.
In leaf and fruit and bark-shedding habit, it is easily recognized as a sycamore, though in this species more than one ball dangles from each stem.
Now at noon you may come there, troubling no living drapery, and dangle your feet over the moss into the dimpling coolness of that mountain pool.
He whimpered a little, under his breath; and lifted his head toward Baby's dangling hand for a caress that might help make things easier.
Another pair of feet dangled from the sycamore limb, another line dipped into the water, and unbroken silence reigned again along the shady river.
Then she draped a bedspread about her shoulders, queen fashion, and two of her classmates caught up the dangling ends that formed a train.
Once, when I saw her rise up suddenly near me, there were elder bush tops with red berries dangling from them in her mouth.
He is "some" smart, and, judging by the crested seal and gold watch-chain dangling from his waistcoat pocket, must be a sahib at home.
His left hand dangled helplessly before his breast, an idiot gesture, and his right shook and wavered as he supported himself with a stick.
One of the hunters, a prying little man with a single lock dangling over one eye, put his head in at the top of the lodge.
Fastened to arms, legs, and bodies are strings, from which dangle ornaments that quiver in the air, as the bodies sway in time to the music.
His torn trousers, split at the seam, looked like the wings of a cold, stricken bird; two strings of cloth dangled from his waist.
He turned, chuckling, to the little girl, who stood on one leg in the middle of the narrow room, pouting and dangling her Pierrot.
Then it slacked up, and I saw Ted clinging with both hands to the trapeze, but his legs were dangling frightfully in the air.
Her lower lip was slit, and had a long wooden peg inserted in it so curiously, that the end thereof dangled upon her breast.
For three months past she had been keeping him dangling after her while she affected conventionality in order the further to inflame him.
Giles was marching about in the garden with that astonishing infant lying flat on his arm, and with its long robes dangling down.
It came to him now, the truth of all this coquetry, this fast and loose, this dangling of promises: the vengeance of a woman's vanity.
I wish I had a nose as flat as a buckwheat cake, and lips three inches thick, with huge brass rings dangling from them both!
The noose seemed really rather near, and in his frightened fancy, as he lay sleepless beside his snoring wife, the rope dangled over his head.
Slowly, very slowly, the children rose, for the Dodo was rather heavy after all, as he dangled down clumsily and uncomfortably between them.
The two sat side by side, dangling their feet over the stern, the poles slanting down toward the dark water, silent and intent.
Around the tubular container wrapped the snake-like trunk, plucking the wheelchair and its occupant from the floor and dangling them high in air.
The yellow placard dangled by one fastening; a bit of the veil was visible, nothing else, to tell me of the character of the inmate.
There the gray wolf dangled, kicking and yelping, until the tendon of the ham gave way, and both fell heavily to the ground.
He ran across it, turned on the dangling incandescent over the rickety table, and running to the street door made sure that it was locked.
He is temporarily laid down in the shelter of a wall, his left shoulder being pounded away, the arm dangling by a shred of flesh.
His sleeves were rolled over his fat forearms, and the two flaps of his unbuttoned vest dangled as he bent to bail out the boat.
Carney knew that the horse, not hampered by a dangling rein to catch in his legs or be seized by a man, would protect himself.
He carried a horn lantern which hung upon a swivel, and wheeling as it dangled marked grotesque shapes upon the shadier part of the walls.
She went over to an old dresser and took from a drawer a belt, beaded richly, with elk teeth dangling in short fringes from it.
Very quickly a rope was dangling near me, and after some effort, my limbs being so cramped, I succeeded in securing it round my waist.
She sat with slumped shoulders, arms dangling limply at her side, and head sunk so far that her chin rested against her chest.
His sleeves were rolled over his fat forearms, and the two flaps of his unbuttoned vest dangled as he bent to bail out the boat.
It was noon by this time, the sun high overhead, and his horse, with dangling rein, still nibbling daintily at the short grass.
One was in a rough garb of frieze, with his head muffled in bear-skin, and a bell dangling behind him, that jingled at every movement.
She had every bachelor and widower hereabouts visiting her, dangling about her, competing for her smiles, showering gifts on her, soliciting her favor!
He passed over to me two pint bottles filled, corked, and dangling from his fingers by a stout double twine on the neck of each.
A tail dangled to his ankles behind him, and in one hand he carried a zebra's tail while the other clutched a bunch of small arrows.
Comforting myself with these reflections I reached the wharf, where I saw Morgan sitting with his feet dangling over the water, smoking a pipe.
He asked, with a gesture offering to take the tiny printed card of dance engagements that dangled from her fingers by its silken thong.
This contrivance will enable you to roast the veal by dangling it before your fire; the exact time for cooking it must depend upon its weight.
With what a rattling noise the drop went down, and how suddenly they changed, from strong and vigorous men to dangling heaps of clothes!