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The ice, however, was buried under several feet of fine snow. Through this the sled-trail ran, a narrow ribbon of packed footing barely two feet in width. On either side one sank to his knees and deeper in the snow. The stampeders they overtook were reluctant to give way, and often Smoke and Shorty had to plunge into the deep snow and by supreme efforts flounder past.
Then, recovering herself a little, or drawn by some instinct, she returned, hid herself in a clump of lilac bushes and watched. Presently she saw the Flounder, after glancing about to make sure that she was alone, enter the chapel, carrying the child, and heard her bolt the door after her.
"In the handling of almost every sale there is a point beyond which the customer begins to flounder and show indecision. "The weak salesman leads him on and on with no stopping point no place to close and the prospective sale fades to a 'just looking today' excuse. "This is a universal fault among retail clerks. "The test of salesmanship is in closing a sale. "Be a closer!
It acts very much in the same way as do flat-fish in the bottom of the sea, sinking itself under the sand, allowing the sand to lie over its back and cover it, like a flounder, only leaving its sharp eyes out of cover, and sometimes the spines on its back.
If he makes a misstep, he is precipitated ludicrously into feathery depths through which he must flounder to the nearest timber horse before he can remount. In summer, as has been said, it resembles nothing so much as a thick one-rail fence of considerable height, around which a fringe of light brush has grown.
You red-headed, iron-jawed, cold-blooded wind-chaser! You've done it now, haven't you? I Oh " Worry began to flounder helplessly. "They said a few more things," went on Reddy. "Peg is barred, Raymond is barred, I am barred. I told them about my baseball career out West. The directors said some pretty plain things about you, Worry, I'm sorry to tell. You're a rotten coach.
His wife, too, always has a first-rate sealskin jacket, made in one piece, and he hasn't to pay for it. He can always run down to the seaside when so disposed, although the run is a waddle and a flounder; and if he has no tail to speak of well, he can't have it frozen off.
"Well, if you don't mind," he began to flounder, "I'll " Storch gave him a contemptuous shove. "Go on ... go on!" he cried, almost impatiently, and the next moment Fred Starratt found himself at Ginger's side... For an instant she stood transfixed as she lifted her eyes to his. "Don't scream!" he commanded between his locked lips. "I don't want that man to know that "
I take to English when the worst comes to the worst, and they flounder in after me. It is the funniest thing, their hostility to England, and the queer, reluctant, and yet passionate admiration that goes With it. It is like some girl who can't get a man she admires very much to notice her.
They had taken one such plunge together; they both preferred to avoid another, if they could, and yet better to flounder through the ice than to keep away from it entirely. Therefore Olive's tone was nonchalant, as she reported, "I met her in the street, the day after you came home, and she begged me to tell you "
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