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Updated: June 4, 2025
In the evening there was more music, and the peasants danced in the square, the women quietly and rather heavily, but the men with amazing agility, slapping the soles of their shoes with their hands, or turning cartwheels in front of their partners.
She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: 'Where's the other ladder? Why, I hadn't to bring but one; Bill's got the other Bill! fetch it here, lad!
I've got to eat and I have offered to earn my meal. What do you want me to do?" "Kin you do a flip?" Phil threw himself into a succession of cartwheels along the edge of the railroad tracks, ending in a backward somersault. "And you ride a hoss without any saddle, standing up on his back you do that, too?" "Why, yes," laughed Phil, his face red from his exertion. "Then, come along.
Sydney followed, and lifted her mount so cleverly that he had leaped his first hurdle before he knew what he was doing. The watchers on the knoll could see Bob, sitting on his horse at one side, clap his hands in approval, while the pickaninnies turned cartwheels in the grass. "She does r-ride most beautifully, Miss Sydney.
Another group of restless middies had sauntered up. Pennington, after a swift look at the pacing officer in charge here, and discovering that the officer's back was turned, executed a series of swift cartwheels. "Look out, Pen!" called Midshipman Dwight, in a low, though sharp voice. Just too late the warning came.
This frog was two inches long, and allied to the Rana tinctoria, the blood of which, it is asserted, introduced into the skin of a parrot, in places where the feathers have been plucked out, occasions the growth of frizzled feathers of a yellow or red colour. The Indians showed us on the way, what is no doubt very curious in that country, traces of cartwheels in the rock.
They sang songs and told stories, while the acrobats hurled themselves into a mad whirl of somersaults, cartwheels and Wild Dervish throws. Thus far the boys were too amazed to speak. All at once some of the performers began to form a pyramid, one standing on the other's shoulders.
Thence my good Irishman took me round the workshops, where brothers bake bread, and make cartwheels, and take photographs; where one superintends a collection of curiosities, and another a gallery of rabbits. For in a Trappist monastery each monk has an occupation of his own choice, apart from his religious duties and the general labours of the house.
They waltzed, boxed, wrestled, threw each other about the deck, turned handsprings and cartwheels, those not too weak, buffeted, kicked, and clubbed the suffering Mr. Becker, reviled and cursed the unconscious captain and chief officer, and when tired of this, as children and dogs of play, they turned to their captives for amusement.
He backed the horse and heavy cart, turned both, half blinded by the rifle-smoke, and started up the incline. Two bullets, speeding over the clover like singing bees, rang loudly on the iron-bound cartwheels; the horse plunged and swerved, dragging Jack with him, and the dead figure, kneeling in the cart, tumbled over the tail-board with a grotesque wave of its stiffening limbs.
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