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For Marielihou was a mighty hunter, and her long black body could be seen about the cliffs at any time of night or day, creeping and worming along, then, of a sudden, pointing and stiffening, and flashing on to her prey like the black death she was.
"This, all this, was in the olden time, long ago." The Glengaber burn is about twenty miles from any railway station, but, on the last occasion when I visited it, three louts were worming their way up it, within twenty yards of each other, each lout, with his huge rod, showing himself wholly to any trout that might be left in the water. Thirty years ago the burns that feed St.
One after another he picked out the steady breathing of the sleepers. Then he began feeling his way around the wall of his room until he came to a place where the snow was very soft. "An air-drift," he whispered to Peter, close at his shoulder. "We'll fool 'em, boy. And we'll fight if we have to." He began worming his head and shoulders and body into the air-drift like a gimlet.
Observing that Helena looked much displeased, she broke off her speech, hoping that what she had said would operate in due time, and that she should thus excite the young lady to get the secret from Marriott, which she had no doubt afterward of worming from Miss Delacour. In all this she calculated ill; for what she had said only made Helena distrust and dislike her.
Thus was he worming his way behind the guard when the latter straightened up, opened his cavernous mouth in a wide yawn, and stretched his arms above his head. Korak stood rigid as stone. Another step and he would be within the hut. The black lowered his arms and relaxed. Behind him was the frame work of the doorway.
It was a fitting sequel to the picaresque adventure and he anticipated much entertainment from meeting her, saw himself, with stealthy adroitness, worming his way toward her guilty secrets. A florist's window, a bower of blossoms under the gush of electric lights, attracted him and he turned into the shop.
'Yes, and about the dog-whip. 'Skilly! Sounds as if it might be what she hit the policeman with. Mrs. Fox-Moore was again pausing to look back. 'That gyrating female is more what I expected them all to be. 'Yes; but just listen to that. 'To what? 'Why, the way they're applauding her. 'Yes, they positively revel in the creature! It was a long, tiresome business this worming their way out.
That limousine utterly routed the tiny little qualm which had been furtively worming into Arlee's thrill of adventure. Nothing very strange or out-of-the-way, she thought, could be connected with such a modern car; it presented every symptom of effete civilization.
I delight in it, as in my early morning walks at Lugano, when I went threading the streets and by the lake away to "the heavenly mount," like a dim idea worming upward in a sleepy head to bright wakefulness. 'My anonymous critic, of whom I told you, is intoxicating with eulogy. The signature "Apollonius" appears to be of literary-middle indication. He marks passages approved by you.
He was a handy chap though, and not to be outdone. Dressing himself as a clumsy lout, he found little difficulty in worming the transactions of the night before out of one of the guard off duty. A drink or two together at the sign of the "Yellow Flagon" fetched this information. Jerome was much wearied through his long watching and anxiety when he returned to the Austrian Arms.
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