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When the bond markets finally reopened on Wednesday, Treasury's thirty-year issue had scooted up four full interest points.
At which alarming statement Kitty promptly scooted, stopping only long enough at the windmill pump for a cool, refreshing drink.
Almost every day after Thanksgiving there were crowds of boys and girls from the schools scooting about like water skippers.
It seemed as though the destroyer herself had been blown up, but she quickly settled and scooted ahead at a furious rate.
To port and to starboard her destroyer escort scooted and twisted about like little smoke-belching water bugs having a field day.
She scooted her hips forward, cupping both hands around her bourbon carefully as if she were settling in for a serious talk.
Our boys are in and out amongst the horses, scooting, howling, criticizing, or jeering, when an officer rides up and gives an order.
The townspeople were just rubbing their eyes before leaving their beds when he muffled his engine and scooted across the little city.
Between the rows of tall poles crowds of lads were scooting down the hill on their sleds, or laboriously hauling them up again.
All of you youngsters, you scoot home as fast as you can and get your mothers and grandmothers to come and listen to the doctrine!
You bet this is the true trail, and that the hares only scooted along the main road a bit farther, on purpose to mislead.
When he waved his flag at Tim, the flying reporter opened up his throttle and sent the Good News scooting down the field.
A little farther on two little schoolboys paused in their walk, stared hard at him and then scooted away, saying something about a "burglary."
Luckily I blundered into one of his men, and scooting across a mile of heavy plow, I arrived breathless at the bridge, but just in time.
Then Raggedy Andy climbed into the gutter himself and, taking a few steps, spread out his feet and went scooting down the shiny tin.
It spun him round and round on his back like an overturned beetle, and then scooted him across the lake's surface flat as a floor.
"Here's where we throw in the high-speed clutch and scoot," said Matt, settling into the driver's seat with a glad feeling tingling along his nerves.
Imagine their disgust when they discovered the ruse and saw me in the distance scooting far away up the deserted street with a good long lead.
He saw the noose spinning down toward his head, and, before he knew it, he had scooted out of the circle and up the sandy beach.
He scooted back on the bed, trying to untangle the sheet, which was still secured at the foot of the bed and all along one side.
Monsieur J., the other son, with a friend of his, was carrying messages from one fort to another in his auto, miraculously scooting between the shots.
They saw no signs of animal life, beyond a few turtles basking on the coral sands, and an occasional lizard scooting for shelter under the trees.
"You get on, Toby, an' then I'll scoot jest as soon as you get hold of the halter," said Bob, happy at this prospect of being relieved.
If I once get to that platform, I can scoot to the other side of it, drop down behind and hide till all the hubbub blows over.
When I saw Papa was going toward the barn instead of coming back to the porch, I scooted down the bare, windy hall to the kitchen.
The flag waved again and Ace, pushing his throttle ahead hard, flipped the tail of his ship up and went scooting after the leisurely soaring Tommy.
"Carrying some grenades, I'd like to wager, which they can use in kicking up a big row, under cover of which they'll scoot off," Harry went on.
You may be able to overhaul them, for this wind is mussing up the lake something fierce, and they'll lose a couple of hours scooting around the west end.
The brute, with his two inches of tail aimed skyward, was scooting around the corner of the building as fast as his bowed legs could carry him.
I kept up my end of the stare, wondering whether to advance or retreat, and it wasn't until that coyote turned tail and scooted that my courage came back.
Leaving this room, they had gone scooting along a narrow passageway, to drop on their knees and crawl through a circular opening into a room some twenty feet square.
"Sometimes a naughty story is justifiable; or, well, if you can't conscientiously do it, let me know if he threatens to come up here, and I'll scoot off somewhere else."
"Oh, it's scooting along like a sled down an icy slope," he answered, hoping that it had escaped the hungry maw of the great whirlpool off Clay Point.
I always guessed it was those two, because they'd been showing us their squirts and 'baptizing' us, as they called it, in the gym till we all scooted off.
The idea of getting to be an old gay man like a crumbled old leaf scooting around aimlessly in the breezes was a thought hideous enough to trigger off random suicidal aspirations.
Observing that second base was left practically unguarded, Barker scooted down from first, and he got there ahead of the shortstop, who made an effort to cover the sack.
We all boo'd and shoo'd first, thinking that if it were a beast of any sort it would scoot at the noise; but it didn't stir an inch or make a sound.
Freddy had the decency to look slightly embarrassed, and he slunk away to the very end of the row of seats, scooting from chair to chair on his narrow butt.
He clambered up the logs with the vivacity of a monkey, scooted over the wall, dropped to the ground and then made off at the highest bent of his speed.
She jabbed a flurry of pokes and prods at him while he scooted back on his butt, then dug her clawed hands into his tummy and tickled him viciously.
He scooted for home, with a shrapnel wound in his shoulder, and made a bad landing three miles back of the lines, and broke his leg and whacked his head.
I scooted off and began hollering for George, and pretty soon he hollered back, and when he was sure it was me he came out, and I told him what had happened.
Well, we had a glorious little run for our money, and I sent down one Hun, and crippled another chap's machine so that he had to turn tail and scoot for home.
The little hen girl and rooster boy scooted under the bushes, and only just in time, for the boy threw many more stones, and one struck Charlie on the comb.
Next thing anybody knew, the launch was scooting for blue water like a streak of what she was named for, and the hunting chaplain was churning up foam like a mill wheel.
This is about eight hundred miles away, an impractical trip by helicopter, so they would return to the platform, climb to a few hundred thousand feet, and scoot over in a few minutes.
Thirty-fourth Street was open, and so was Fifth Avenue all of its length, so we scooted down Fifth, crossed over, got under the Elevated Highway and whined along uptown toward the Fifties.
I went to the door and saw scooting across my fields, as it seemed skimming the surface of the earth, flock after flock of the birds, one coming close upon the heels of another.
One of his mates was just behind him and, quick as lightning, he caught the ball on the bound, tucked it under his arm and scooted down the field toward our goal line.
Then the car, with its forty or fifty tons of coal, scoots skyward, and when forty feet above the deck of the ship great steel arms reach out and turn it upside down.
Like a jack rabbit, he scooted beneath the ponderous wagons on which rested the electric light plant of the circus, and, at last, dodging through the mess tent, succeeded in eluding his pursuer.
And there's a chute from the upstairs to the basement, to scoot the wash down to the electric machine to rub them, and a little gas stove with two burners to boil them, and the iron I told you of.
I imagine, though, that he was on his way to Havana, to break the blockade there, when he heard that Admiral Sampson was coming for him one way and our commodore the other, and he concluded that the best thing he could do would be to scoot into the bay yonder and save himself and possibly Santiago.