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He kept engaging and releasing his clutch until he was able to impart a slight rocking movement to the car. And again the big motor roared and churned up the mud and again Paddy took to prancing and pirouetting like a two-year-old.
Their progress was slow and sedate, although the driver handled the reins as though it were with difficulty that he restrained them from prancing and cavorting as they neared the mansion. Old Billy's every line, from his dented top hat to his well-nigh soleless boots, expressed dignity and superiority.
He had been so inflated that he had not noticed that Paterson had definitely shied into the dry ditch as they came to the point of ordinary contact. Afterwards, as he went a lonely way, he burst out again in song and pantomimic celebration of his estate. His feet moved in prancing steps.
Finally everything was in readiness, the wagon, drawn by the prancing horses, rattled up, and into it piled the children, sitting down in the soft, clean straw. "Where's Dinah?" called Flossie. "Heah I is, honey lamb," answered the colored cook, as she came out with a big basket of good things to eat. "Oh, I'm going to sit next to Dinah!" cried Bert with a laugh.
"In good sooth, I hate long faces and sad looks," said Ricarda, accepting Agatha's offered kiss of friendship. "You be not an ill-matched pair," added Amphillis, laughing. "Only, I pray you, upset not the quirle by over much prancing." Still used in its original sense of uncomfortable. The Dutch were then known as High Dutch, the Germans as Low Dutch. Agreeable and ready in conversation.
By the selfsame impulse the tailor plied his needle, the blacksmith's hammer descended upon the anvil and the dancers whirled away on feathery tiptoes; the company of soldiers broke into platoons, retreated from the stage, and were succeeded by a troop of horse, who came prancing onward with such a sound of trumpets and trampling of hoofs as might have startled Don Quixote himself; while an old toper of inveterate ill-habits uplifted his black bottle and took off a hearty swig.
"I live here now," Mac said gravely; "me and my mamma and everybody, only papa." "I thought you lived in Helena." "Not now. We like it better here; it's so funny to sit in ve sand and build pies. Can you build pies?" "Yes, and forts." Mac fell to prancing delightedly, quite regardless of the havoc his small shoes were creating among the bare toes of his companion. "Oh, can you? Truly, no joking?
A herd of soldiers with their pots and pans and parcels, and all their deadly things tied on to them, prancing about in time to a tune, makes me think always of the White Knight that Alice met in Wonderland.
They listened to his revilings in silence, gave way before him, and made a way for his prancing steed. Halil was not there, had he but been there the Kapudan Pasha would not have waited twice for an answer. So here also Abdi succeeded in trotting through the ranks of the rioters, and so at last directed his way towards the Etmeidan.
Around the corner of the yard fence a negro appeared leading a prancing iron-gray horse, the front doors opened, a tall girl in a black riding-habit came swiftly down the walk, and a moment later the iron-gray was bearing her at a swift gallop toward the turnpike gate. As she disappeared over a green summit, his heart stood quite still.
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