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The boatswain's pipe whistled, and the big ship was already sliding in the water as I leaped into my pungy, which Hugo was holding to the ladder. [9]
The huge round waves of ice were slippery and difficult to climb, and the chances of tripping and sliding down them and darting into a crevice were too many to be comfortable. [5]
The work of undoing the great twist of logs was exciting, and they fell on each other with a great sound as they were pried off, and went sliding, grinding, into the water. [11]
Instead of taking to classical learning like her father, or sliding quietly into household duties like her mother, she broke out early in efforts that pointed in the direction of Art. [6]
We hunted for the spring everywhere, traversing the full length of the island (two or three miles), and crossing it twice--climbing ash-hills patiently, and then sliding down the other side in a sitting posture, plowing up smothering volumes of gray dust. [5]
I had just that desperate feeling of being lost, and with it went an acute sense of an imminent danger; the ground, no longer firm under my feet, had become a sliding shale sloping toward an unseen precipice. [9]
During the first ten days following the mailing of the letter Tracy's spirits had no idle time; they were always climbing up into the clouds or sliding down into the earth as deep as the law of gravitation reached. [5]
Dead people might talk, maybe, but they don't come sliding around in a shroud, when you ain't noticing, and peep over your shoulder all of a sudden and grit their teeth, the way a ghost does. [5]
She had not struck it full on, or she would have crumpled up, but had struck and glanced, mounting the berg, and sliding away with a small gaping wound in her side, broken internally where she had been weakest. [11]
But though he strained his ears to follow the crawling or sliding of the fugitive he heard nothing save the footsteps and voices of the warders. [10]
Horse-hair chairs, horse-hair sofa which keeps sliding from under you. [5]
She heard a sliding of weathered rock, a hoarse shout of warning, a yell of alarm, again the clear, sharp crack of the rifle, and another cry that was a cry of death. [13]
There is a sledge drawn by one poor horse, and on the front of it is a cask of water pierced with holes, so that the water squirts out and wets the stones, making it easier sliding for the runners. [4]
It is very significant that the criminal class adapted itself readily to the parole system with its sliding scale. [4]
Then he heard shouts, and the hard scrape of sliding hoofs, and saw horses rear and plunge back with up-flung heads and flying manes. [13]
Venters seemed to see the expanse before him as a vast, sheeted, purple plain sliding under him. [13]
For a few seconds we saw our unfortunate companions sliding downward on their backs, and spreading out their hands, endeavoring to save themselves. [5]
At last it resumed its flight southward, sliding down the mountains like a winged star. [11]
The pyramid is only the cone in which Nature arranges her heaped and sliding fragments; the cone with flattened Surfaces, as it is prefigured in certain well-known crystalline forms. [6]
A sliding scale of reduction of 10 per cent a year has a sort of plausible look, and I am willing to try that if three other powers will join. [5]
Now the sound of falling stones and the crash of earth sliding after echoed loudly through the still night air. [10]
Another experience was of a different sort, and illustrates the Italian love of bargaining, and their notion of a sliding scale of prices. [4]
Just below it leaned a tottering crag that would have toppled, starting an avalanche on an acclivity where no sliding mass could stop. [13]
Sledding or coasting is also slow fun compared to the "bareback" sliding down a steep hill over a hard, glistening crust. [4]
About this time I mighty near stepped on a good-sized snake, and it went sliding off through the grass and flowers, and I after it, trying to get a shot at it. [5]
But Clement told his story calmly through to the end, sliding gently over its later incidents, for Myrtle's heart was throbbing violently, and her breath a little catching and sighing, as when she had first lived with the new life his breath had given her. [6]
Beside him, holding his hand she slipped down the shelf, ran down the long, steep slant of sliding stones, out of the cloud of dust, and likewise out of the pale gloom. [13]
The look on his face, and the tone of his cold speech, had instantly swept them all away, like a tea-set sliding in a single crash from a slippery tray. [6]
She looked at him a moment, and, sliding in through the open window and through the study, sought her own apartment, where she locked herself in, and began to sob and moan like those that weep. [6]
We knew the hills and the woods as well as the birds knew them; for we were always roaming them when we had leisure--at least, when we were not swimming or boating or fishing, or playing on the ice or sliding down hill. [5]
Well, before long here comes the wreck, dim and dusky, sliding along down! [5]
The palisades that held its earthenwork were rotten and crumbling, and the mighty bastions of its corners sliding away. [9]
Slipping onto their haunches and sliding, the horses descended with their riders into the ravine. [2]
A sliding away from beneath them of the floor on which they stood, as the drop fails under the feet of a felon. [6]
And yet enough for him, for the day, is the wading in the snowdrifts, or the sliding on the diamond-sparkling crust. [4]
How gently it falls through the soft air, always tending downwards, but sliding softly, from side to side, wavering, hesitating, balancing, until it settles as noiselessly as a snow-flake upon the all-receiving bosom of the earth! [6]
We crossed it by a long, diagonal ford, slipping and sliding about on the round stones, and began the ascent of a steep hill. [4]
Solway, and the brigantine sliding smoothly along in the lee of the Galloway Rhinns. [9]
Below, on the big stairway, the echo of my footsteps sounded again from the empty rooms, so that I was taken with a panic and fled downward, sliding and falling, until I reached the hall. [9]
The sighing wind and the twittering quail and the singing birds, even the rare and seldom-occurring hollow crack of a sliding weathered stone, only thickened and deepened that insulated silence. [13]
Choked by briers and grapevines, blocked by sliding stones and earth, it rose and rose through the heat and burden of the day until it lost itself in the open heights. [9]
On the road again the next morning, over the ferry, into the cars with sliding panels and fixed windows, so that in summer the whole side of the car maybe made transparent. [6]
It was neither a walk, nor a trot, nor a run, but a sort of sliding amble, such as is executed in nightmares. [9]
Then up rolled a heavy crash, a long roar of sliding rocks dying away in distant echo, then silence unbroken. [13]

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