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Nothin' improves a man's manners like an election. 'The dancin' master's abroad then; nothin' gives the paces equal to that, it makes them as squirmy as an eel, they cross hands and back agin, set to their partners and right and left in great style, and slick it off at the eend, with a real complete bow, and a smile for all the world as sweet as a cat makes at a pan of new milk.
No amount of persuasion had ever induced them to play on a table. "Don't talk about snakes, dearie," pleaded Aunt Trudy, shuddering over her knitting. "They are such ugly, horrid squirmy things." "Oh, no they're not Aunt Trudy," said Sarah earnestly. "That's because you're not used to them. Let me show you the one I've got in my pocket "
Riding the sky in the Thunder Bird was tame to the point of boredom, compared with riding up and over and down and around a squirmy black line with the pound of the Pacific in his ears and the steady beat of the motor blending somehow with it, and the tingle of uncertainty as to whether they would make the next sharp curve on two wheels as successfully as they had made the last.
They had been out with the boys on Lake Luna both in summer and winter and every one of them knew how to put a worm on a hook. Lil squealed at the thought of "using one of the squirmy things." "Aw, you give me a pain!" said Bobby. "Don't act as though you were made of something different from the rest of us. A worm never bit me yet, and I've been fishing thousands of times, I guess."
They don't allow you to smoke when you're trying for the football team or anything like that." Tom sighed his relief. "It makes me horribly squirmy," he said. "I thought, though, that if all the fellows did it, you know, I'd better, too. In all the stories about boarding schools I've ever read, the fellows smoke on the sly and get found out. Don't see much fun in that, though, do you?" "No."
"But I should punch your head the same as I should any other fellow's the same as I often have before." "Yes, in a most cowardly way, because you were stronger and had learned more how to use those nasty old boxing-gloves, you coward!" "Ah, well, I can't help that, you know," said Glyn coolly. "I have always felt squirmy when I have had to fight some chap for bullying you.
Freckles broke into an unrestrained laugh, for the bird-lover was keen about his courting, while evidently his mate was diffident. When he approached too boisterously, she relieved him of a goodly tuft of feathers and sent him backward in a series of squirmy little jumps that gave the boy an idea of what had happened up-sky to send the falling feather across his pathway. "Score one for the lady!
The sight of him batting there made me feel another squirmy sensation at the thought that he was my especial friend. He had given, I recall, his grey hat to the umpire to hold, and the wind was playing with his hair. His shirt-sleeves were rolled up, showing arms smooth and round like a woman's. Just then, however, my attention was attracted by a new arrival.
Miss Edith says just helping Gussie carry the dishes away nights, or buttoning Marie's dress when she is cross and in a hurry, or getting grandpa's slippers ready for him when he comes home from the University all cold and tired, or holding that squirmy yarn for you when you knit those ugly shawls, or talking nice to Jud when he makes me mad, is being a missionary.
There were stuffed birds, arrowheads, old bits of pottery, and many Indian baskets. "And look at that snake skin! Ugh, Tommy, how could you bear to touch the wriggling thing?" exclaimed Joy with a shudder of disgust. "It had stopped wriggling when I touched it," returned Tommy. "Can't say as I like them squirmy, myself." "And what is this, Tommy?" called Enid.
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