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The flash revealed another rebel fumbling for a cap. Shorty's gun came down, and the rebel fell, shot through the shoulder. The rebel leader, a long haired, lathy man, with the quickness of a wildcat, sprang at Si with his bayonet fixed. Heavy-footed and deliberate as Si usually was, when the electricity of a fight was in him there was no lack of celerity.
She danced about like an Amphitrite. "Who would be afraid of the water with a dandy swimmer like you?" "This ain't nothin'," said Mr. Arnheim. "You ought to see me in still water. At Arverne last summer I was the talk of the place." They emerged from the water, dripping and heavy-footed. She wrung out her brief little skirts and stamped her feet on the sand. Mr.
There was the faintest shade of almost shell-like pink underneath the creamy-white of her cheeks. Her lips were trembling a little, her eyes were misty. With a sudden passionate little impulse, her arms were around his neck, her lips sought his of their own accord. "Let me forget," she sobbed. "Kiss me let me forget!" Francis' servant was both heavy-footed and discreet.
Once that so considerable mass had received its impetus it wouldn't, it couldn't pull up. It represented a heavy-footed person, incapable of further agility. Adela recognised too how well it might have come over her that there were too many children.
But now, an it be so thy will, take this my dagger and slay me here and now yet shall Red Pertolepe bear my mark upon him when I am dead." Awhile stood Beltane in frowning thought, then pointed to the green. "Go," said he, "the others wait thee!" So Walkyn, obeying, turned and plunged into the green, while Beltane followed after, slow and heavy-footed.
Q coming over the crest. They whirled their horses around, and started back on a sharp trot, while the boys were reloading. "Go ahead. Sergeant," shouted Capt. McGillicuddy, from the rear. "Follow them up. We're right behind you. Push them back on their reserves." "All right, Cap. Back they go," shouted Si, leading forward his squad in a heavy-footed run down the road.
Her horse was sure, if heavy-footed and slow, and though a draught animal, was easy-paced; had it been otherwise, she was not a woman who could have ventured to ride over such a bit of country with a half-dead arm.
He pushed it with his foot to the side of the road and was down into the cutting before the heavy-footed neighbours came up. Julie was ranging up and down the narrow pathway, searching the depths with a face like a hawk, hanging on to the rough sides of the pinnacles, and bending over in a way that elicited warning cries from the others as they came streaming down.
Often I have watched them come up the aisle upon a Sunday, first the square, thick-set man, and then the little, worn, anxious-eyed woman, and last this glorious lad with his clear-cut face, his black curls, and his step so springy and light that it seemed as if he were bound to earth by some lesser tie than the heavy-footed villagers round him.
Laboriously he hoisted himself out of his chair, regretfully he knocked the glowing tobacco out of his pipe, heavy-footed he betook him to the telephone. "Hullo!" "Oh!" said a woman's voice. "Is that you?" "Yes. Who do you want?" "Mr. Rivington Cecil Mordaunt Rivington." The syllables came with great distinctness. They seemed to have an anxious ring. "Yes, I'm here," said the owner of the name.
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