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Farnum saw something dark, unwieldy, rising through the water. It appeared to be coming up fairly under the stern of the shore boat, threatening to overturn the little craft and plunge them all into the icy water. Hal shot just out of the danger zone, though. Then a round little tower bobbed up out of the water.
It bobbed about as before, but still obstinately refused to ascend. At length, with patience exhausted and hopes completely crushed, the engineer turned away from the machine which he had taken so much pains in constructing. For a moment he stood irresolute. Then heaving a sigh at the recollection of his wasted labour, with sad, slow step he departed from the spot.
In an apparently occult way the excitement instantly permeated everywhere. The one-legged boy who worked on the other side of Johnny bobbed swiftly across the floor to a bin truck that stood empty. Into this he dived out of sight, crutch and all. The superintendent of the mill was coming along, accompanied by a young man.
"My God, how they obey men!" he said, with awe. "They could be led right peasants who obey like that!" Peter was torn with the agony of the field, yet thrilling with happiness as if there was liberation somewhere within. He turned to the crawling one who inspired him: "We're all hurt, but we're going back to bed. Come on you're doing famously " The back bobbed to greater effort.
Sperry departed Margaret had a confused impression that the course was to deal with the influence of the First Crusade on the development of European architecture but the sentient part of her knew only that Dawnish had not come. He "bobbed in," as he would have put it, after dinner having, it appeared, run across Ransom early in the day, and learned that the latter would be absent till evening.
David had a long wait in the dark, stuffy chariot. Finally the door was opened and Braddock looked in. Directly behind the proprietor was the dirty sidewall of a tent. David blinked afresh in the light of day, although, alas, the sun was not shining. "Hello," said Braddock shortly. His cigar bobbed up and down with the movement of his lips. "Come out. You can duck under the canvas right here.
He returned her many soft kisses with one very vigorous osculation that landed near one eyebrow as she bobbed up and down beside him, and which was immediately rubbed off with the back of Arethusa's glove. "You're always so awfully rough. But.... Oh, Timothy!"
In the village were three cottages, their backs to the forest; their rugged noses seemed to scowl from beneath the pine-trees, and their dim, tear-dribbling window-eyes looked wolfish. Their grey timbers lay on them like wrinkles, their reddish-yellow thatch, like bobbed hair, hung to the ground. Behind them was the forest; in front, pasture, thickets, forest again, and sky.
Faces appeared at cottage windows, women sauntered to doors, men in the taproom of the Clock Inn left beer mugs to cast an eye on her; children pushed open gates and stared as they bobbed their curtsies; the young woman who kept the shop left her counter and came out upon her door step to pick up her straying baby and glance over its shoulder at the face with the red mouth, and the mass of black hair rolled upward under a rough blue straw hat.
I was coming through all the time. "As the bouncing ball went behind Mitchell it bobbed up right in front of me. I probably broke all rules of football by picking it up, but the chances looked good and I took advantage of them.
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