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But the rapids became wilder. A great wave struck the bow of the canoe and the tow-line snapped in mid-air. The terrified men looking over the edge of the precipice saw their craft sidle as if to swamp; but, on the instant, another mighty wave flung her ashore, and they were able to haul her out of danger. Mackay went ahead to see how far the rapids extended.
We pulled up, and the two horses began to sidle and prance, and throw up their heads so that we could not indulge in a bit of conversation. "Brute!" said Harry Lothrop, "if I were sure of getting on again, I would dismount and thrash you awfully." "Remember Pickwick," I said; "don't do it." I had hardly spoken, when the strap of his cap broke, and it fell from his head to the ground.
It can be appreciated only in the marsh: here in the silence, the secrecy, the withdrawing, where even the formidable-looking fiddler-crabs shy and sidle into their holes as you pass; here, where the sparrows may perch upon the rim of a great hawk's nest, twist their necks, ogle you out of countenance, and demand what business brought you to the marsh.
Eddy picked up a stone, and threw it at a thrush. "It's bigger than Dr Grayson's," said Dexter, after a pause. Eddy picked a flower, gave a chew at the stalk; then picked it to pieces, and threw it away. Then he began to sidle along again in and out among the trees, and on and on, never once looking at his companion till they were at the bottom of the garden.
One cunning old camel called Cocky, a huge beast, whose hump was over seven feet from the ground, with his head high up in the air, and pretending not to notice anything of the kind, would sidle slowly up towards any people who were eating, and swooping his long neck down, with his soft tumid lips would take the food out of their mouths or hands to their utter astonishment and dismay.
But if the ground suited him, he would lay low 'n' keep dark till the first pan was washed, 'n' then he would sidle up 'n' take a look, an' if there was about six or seven grains of gold he was satisfied he didn't want no better prospect 'n' that 'n' then he would lay down on our coats and snore like a steamboat till we'd struck the pocket, an' then get up 'n' superintend.
I'm trying to live up to traditions, anyway." "You'll admit it is a tradition," said Saulisbury, glad of a chance to sidle away. The Major dismissed Saulisbury with a move of the hand. "Now get into my cart, Mr. Ramsey, and we'll go out to the farm and look things over," he said; and Arthur clambered in. "I can't blame you very much," the Major continued, after they were well settled.
The young fellows were wild about her, and if they tried to sidle up to her in the hope that they might lead her horse or get to hold her foot when she mounted, they always saw when they reached her, that she wasn't there. But she was here! I had seen her only a few times, but this was the Pryor girl, just as sure as I would have known if it had been Sally.
I couldn't imagine what he came for; I had my doubts about the propriety of offering him a chair; and he was so much bigger than I expected that I was afraid he might fly away with me, as the roc did with Sindbad: so I did nothing but sidle to the door, ready to whisk out, if my strange guest appeared to be peckishly inclined.
Then the fleet would sidle towards the island and there would be the fresh, spring odor of damp, uncovered mold, with a vague suggestiveness of violets and May-flowers and ferns bursting with a rush through the black clods.
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