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They took David into the parlor and the cat wriggled from its owner's arms, jumped upon the table, knocked the case containing the chessmen to the floor, and not only broke the glass but decapitated one of the white knights. Even the mild Mr. Hamilton was incensed when Isaiah told the news at supper time.
Barnes could not recall drawing a single breath from the instant the man left his side until the faintly luminous square above his head was obliterated by the black of his body as it wriggled over the ledge. He was never to forget the almost interminable age that he spent, flattened against the vines, waiting for a signal from aloft.
On the sofa Mr Verloc wriggled his shoulders into perfect comfort, and from the fulness of his heart emitted a wish which was certainly as pious as anything likely to come from such a source. “I wish to goodness,” he growled huskily, “I had never seen Greenwich Park or anything belonging to it.”
Dropping to the floor, she crept softly under the cot, from there to the next and the next. Her course was straight to the door through which the physician had entered, and by the time he was halfway across the room she had wriggled herself clear of the last cot, and was over the sill and in the corridor, the twilight aiding her escape.
As he made haste to close it before questioning the frightened Slavonian, he found the way blocked by three shadowy figures who sprang upon him. "You are under arrest, Mr. Rock." Silvanus Rock wriggled vainly in the arms of the men who forced him back into the tank. In the struggle the light fell full upon the open vest of one of the strangers. Then Rock collapsed.
Just as he got below high-water mark, out darted from the crevice of a rock a huge crab, and seized him by the nape of the neck. The snake wriggled, and twisted, and tried to free himself in vain. Mr Crab held tight hold of him, and seemed resolved to eat him up.
"So Poppy and I just nipped in here instead of going straight back to the Colony." Poppy wriggled her body about in her clothes in an agony of desire to disassociate herself from him, from the situation. "That was good of you," said Richard. "And now" the whistling tone came back in his speech "I want to tell mother!" "You can't do that. She isn't in." "What, weren't you all out together?
The monster immediately tumbled over, twisted, kicked, and wriggled so that the scandalised Perseus exclaimed: "But Jock- monster, I mean- you're turned into stone- "
And there were no other furnishings save the mat on which he rested. Over him was a light cover netted of fibers resembling yarn, with feathers knotted into it to provide a downy upper surface. His clothing was gone, but the single covering was too warm and he pushed it away from his shoulders and chest as he wriggled up to see the view beyond the window. His torn arm came into full view.
I peeped over and saw a fish that looked like a gold fish with stripes was coming up swimming to right and left. It was interesting. On taking it out of the water, it wriggled and jumped, and covered my face with water. After some effort, I had it and tried to detach the hook, but it would not come out easily. My hands became greasy and the sense was anything but pleasing.
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