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And there were steps upon the cross-roads at last; they were those of one advancing with lumbering gait and of another stepping nimbly backward.
Sandy accepted a long and strong cigar, tilted his hat, and unconsciously caught Ricks's slouching gait as they went down the street.
To know that Catiline walked with an agitated and uncertain gait is, by no mean judge of human nature, deemed important as an indication of character.
At the same moment, the horses suddenly quickened their gait, and the pursuer, keeping his hold, was jerked flat upon his face.
These tumors give rise to a stiff, straddling gait, and may be felt as hard masses in the groin connected above with the cord.
However listless the limbs may have been when sustaining a too heavy heart, here they are braced, and the lagging gait becomes buoyant again.
And because his looks and his gait showed him to be a suppliant, he was received as a friend, and desired to be of good cheer.
Right under the tree upon which the crows were perched Pete drew rein and sat listening to the shuffling gait of the oncoming horse.
He had his tail on again, and he was skating with a high-stepping gait, rather more suggestive of trotting than was compatible with safety.
How firm his tread on the crisp and dazzling snow, how square his shoulders, how springy and lithe his gait and movement!
And thus he departed, with his heavy gait, leaving the mother to her grief, aggravated by the stern hopelessness of his words.
The English generally possess a clear and transparent skin, chestnut hair, tall and slender figures, a stiff gait, and a cold physiognomy.
Bows head on right arm of sofa and remains in that position; Pete advances slowly, imitating the Deacon's shuffling gait and clearing of throat.
Here is a level, firm, and rapid hand, in which the exigencies of a copious correspondence seem to have softened the stiffness of a military gait.
After many halts and hitches, unless we happened to be at the head of the column, we finally swung into the regular marching gait.
Our muscles relaxed in the hot, unmoving air, until we struck the gait which becomes a mechanical swing with scarcely a sense of effort.
She thought of him unhurt, walking with his usual gait as though he were marching to a band, and this thought left her neutral.
A woman meets a man of fine figure, noble gait and manner, broad chest, and elevated head, furnished with a luxuriant growth of hair.
His arms were abnormally long, and his legs short, while his gait, from long walking upon greasy decks, was a bear-like shuffle.
Annoyed, the strangers quickened their speed to a rapid gait, which forced the sandal-wearers into a run in order to keep pace with them.
We managed to get down to a walk in the course of half a mile or so; and at last approached Brandon at a quite decorous gait.
They gave him a petticoat which reached to the ground, and he practiced his sister's gait, at which she laughed until she cried.
He found his interlocutor's somewhat abrupt and lordly manner at once annoying and impressive, as were his commanding height and rather ruffling gait.
Dale observed their decent costume, their sober deportment, and leisurely gait, observed also a striking similarity in the expression of all the faces.
A few women were in the crowd, most carrying infants, and followed, at a lounging, listless gait, by their rustic lords and masters.
Then, as to "surely" instead of surly, I venture to think that "surely" is the true reading: "In gait and countenance surely like a father."
After she was blindfolded and turned round, she took the stick and with little mincing steps, imitated exactly the gait of Josie Holmes.
As daylight waned the fugitives realized from the shuffling gait of their mounts, from drooping heads and dull eyes that rest was imperative.
The dazed sentry scrambled to his feet, and, with a curious crouching gait, suggestive of the ring, followed the intruder into the drive.
He went home at a steady gait with the reins hanging loose on his back, except when Eliza shook them to dislodge an annoying fly.
The scouts practiced that night, and had many a good laugh at the awkward steps they took when first trying the Indian gait.
The beast possesses a gait peculiarly its own, and at every lurch of its shoulders the two women jolted violently in the crate.
My footsteps startled him, and, raising his head quickly, he walked erect with his usual gait, apparently being desirous of concealing his melancholy.
He stretched his legs, too, to take as long steps as she, which was not so difficult, because his sister minced her gait a little.
And, with a glance towards the hall, she scurried hastily upstairs, with the shuffling gait of a woman surprised, to her own bedroom.
There is something extremely amusing in the soft tread, the awkward gait, the large innocent eyes, and the inquisitive ears of the llama.
The ordinary gait is a purposeful trot with the head held erect, the ears pricked up, and the legs moving smoothly and effortlessly.
After entering the lane leading upward to his home, he dropped the reins and allowed the panting horse to choose his own gait.
Then he moved slowly forward with pricked ears and nervous gait along the track that had dwindled to a narrow hardly perceptible path.
His arms dropped paralyzed to his sides, he received the baseball full in his stomach, and started after Possum at his best gait.
His fastest gait was a leisurely walk, and often he stood still and nibbled the buds of the vegetation not yet fully developed.
The gait, the very figure, of each man seemed changed; the slouch of idleness had given place to the keen manner of the hunter.
They walked with the gait of an affected snail, and they spoke at the longest intervals, dropping a sentence at about every sixth lamp-post.
Soon, however, I descended to details, and regarded with minute interest the innumerable varieties of figure, dress, air, gait, visage, and expression of countenance.
And she wandered about the streets at night, with the furtive, stealthy gait of wild beasts prowling in the shadow in quest of food.
After the third generation his birds lost the elegant carriage of the wild species, and began to acquire the gait of the common duck.
Her gait resembled that of a sprightly old horse who makes a great to-do with his feet on the road but somehow gets nowhere.
Then he roped a wild-looking stallion and rode off at a mad gait, without any apparent object, toward a peacefully feeding bunch of cattle.
He was a tall, thin, stooping gentleman, slow in gait because feeble in health, with a benign dignity of manner and an unvarying amiability of countenance.
Again came the glimpse of the shrouded figure, more easily seen this time, and the watcher nodded grimly as she recognized the trotting gait.
Schubert was barely five feet one and walked with a strange shuffling gait; his eyesight was so defective that he slept in his spectacles.
Turning in the stalls was, in each case, accomplished with difficulty; and the straddling gait remarkable in both, indicating the seat of the affection.
At the moment when her niece, pale and unsteady in gait, as usual, was about to retire to rest, the old mercer detained her an instant.
Almost all of them moved with a rheumatic gait, two or three stumped on wooden legs, and here and there an arm was missing.
The captain graphically rubbed a thumb over two fingers, donned his cap, buttoned up his tunic, and strode forth with an impressive gait.
Besides our albatross, the dogs caught some small birds, about the size of our partridge, but their gait was something like that of the penguin.
Her hands and feet are faultless, and her walk is extremely graceful, resembling more the gait of a French-woman than that of an English girl.
Sure enough, the seals, though their progress could not be called "running" were retreating with their hitching, lumbering gait, away from the adventurers.
These have become accustomed to an upright gait in their climbing; hence the feet are used for supporting the body and the hands for grasping.
They drew a neat little rig, capable of accommodating two, at a persistent rapid patter that somehow got over the road at a great gait.
Twenty-four hours later, when duty summoned him once more at the hour of tea, his eye was dim, and he staggered slightly in his gait.
His wavering glances, the listless motion of his hands, and his slow, unsteady gait, all seem to me to indicate a weak and sluggish disposition.
Tall and of imposing figure, he walked with a curiously quick, mincing gait, as well as had a habit of hitching one of his shoulders.
The gait of all bears is a sort of shuffle; but this one goes at such a rate, that its pace is equal to a horse's gallop.
This couple, who had the path to themselves, moved at an uneven pace, as though adapting their gait to a conversation marked by meditative intervals.
She met him, at night, with an attempt at a smile, deliberately ignoring his unsteady gait, his sodden face, his hot, rank breath.
Their gait was rolling and pompous, but they occasionally relieved the monotony of their progress by prodding one another playfully with their horns.
A little later they heard a series of strange grunts, and a huge wart hog moved in a slow, awkward gait toward the water hole.
The current was swift, and we went down at a gait so rapid that it was almost alarming, but we soon grew accustomed to it.
A characteristic gait or a typical complexion tint, or even a certain lack of hair luster, could tell him things that ground physicians might miss.
I met loads of hay on the road, which the oxen draw indifferently, swaggering in their gait, as if it were not fodder for them.
Her gait was no square march like her uncle's, but a sort of sidelong propulsion, rendered more laborious by the thick grass of the meadow.
A trot is odious to them, and they express the utmost astonishment at a person who can like that uneasy gait, as they call it.
The youth made a tremendous bound and struck a gait which rendered it unnecessary to look behind him, for no pursuer could equal his speed.
The lumbering, rolling gait of the buffaloes was not a very rapid one, and the boy found himself speedily overhauling them without difficulty.
She went away weeping audibly, and he felt a pang of sorrow shoot through him at sight of her heavy body and uncouth gait.
Dick, thus delegated to the duty of skipper, rolled down the float with the gait of an old sailor, and got aboard the Clio.
The one who appeared to be their spokesman was a gaunt fellow, with a subtle gait, a whispering voice, and a sinister roll of the eye.
He was a reverend old man; his furrowed cheeks, white locks, weeping eyes, bent shoulders, and feeble gait, were characteristic of the aged pilgrim.
It cannot fly, but sticks its little bob-tail up and down whenever it walks, and has a curious Paul-Pry-like gait, which is rather amusing.
Already one of the dogs had far outrun the others, and with wolfish gait and savage sounds, was pressing towards their place of observation.
Then William rose to depart, but something in his face, or in his lagging gait, or a casual word, caused the weaver to interrogate the boy.
The stranger was very singularly dressed; his whole appearance, and particularly his gait, striking the young knight as something odd and unaccountable.
There was something of the despot about him, and an indescribable suggestion of the security of strength in his gait, bearing, and slightest movements.
Mark glanced up, noting that the Duke's feet were flat and turned out at an absurd angle, giving him a shuffling and awkward gait.
He had a quick, light step at variance with his sturdy build, and very different from the heavy, slouching gait of the work-weary farmer.
In another moment the door opened and the young man came in, paler than before, and with the slight halt in his gait exaggerated.
Drunk, they presume to impose their reeling gait upon Americans to whom freedom has been a pure and refreshing fountain for a century and a half.
The absence of the ovaries leads to the development of a colorless, neuter creature of angular form, strident voice, striding gait, and even of bearded chin.
Instead of continuing your old indolent, strolling gait on the dead level of life, you have left the beaten track and faced the mountain of achievement.
He found one of the long alleys between the lumber piles in the yard and sprinted down the sawdust trail at a lively gait.
Drunk, they presume to impose their reeling gait upon Americans to whom freedom has been a pure and refreshing fountain for a century and a half.
When she recovered the limousine was still rattling forward at a brisk gait but bumping over ruts in a manner that indicated a country road.
The fourth and fifth sketches show, by means of dotted lines, how the "back-view" can be altered by change of clothing and gait.
Walk with bent shoulders and heavy gait, as the aged country folks do, and I warrant none will guess who you are or molest you.
His wavering glances, the listless motions of his hands, and his slow, unsteady gait, all seem to me to indicate a weak and sluggish disposition.
In such cases there is weakness and a staggering gait; the sheep or goats do not appear to see, and will consequently run against obstacles.
He taught the English seat, the English rise, the English gait, and his horses were all docked and hogged in the English fashion.
Nay, even his indolent, rolling gait had disappeared, and in his step there was more firmness, more assurance, than had ever before been the case.
The horse, toward the last, reels or staggers in his gait and falls backward in a fainting fit, during one of which he finally succumbs.