He started to creep towards one end, but snapped a dead twig, and the quick ears of Boxer heard it.
A twig snapped under Boxer's feet.
The fact was that the ivory hook of the parasol had caught in the chain gear, and when the first attempt at drawing water was made, the little offering of a contrite heart was jerked up, bent, its strong ribs jammed into the well side, and entangled with a twig root.
Every time a twig snapped, Whitefoot's heart seemed to jump right up in his throat.
" Paddy crept out on the bank and chewed a little twig of poplar thoughtfully.
Its little leaves were hanging tremulously, not yet so fully blown as to hide its development of bough and twig, making poetry against the spiritual tints of a spring sunset.
A slender shapely young aspen rose up before them against the fine maize and emerald and paling rose of the western sky, which brought out every leaf and twig in dark, tremulous, elfin loveliness.
The snapping of the smallest twig, a footstep on the dry leaves, the gliding of a body among the grass, would have been heard without difficulty.
The sailor then struck a light and set fire to a twig.
" "Yes; but cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good," sighed Anne, setting a particularly well-balsamed twig afloat.
Every twig and spray was outlined in snow.
He took another step back, with the same elaboration and the same risks; then another and another, and—a twig snapped under his foot!
A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors in a rapture of enjoyment; then a shrill jay swept down, a flash of blue flame, and stopped on a twig almost within the boy's reach, cocked his head to one side and eyed the strangers with a consuming curiosity; a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox" kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen
Every day, it flew to and fro between the mountain and the sea, carrying in a twig or a pebble from the mountain and dropping it into the sea.
I'm fenced off on both sides and the only way forward is being blocked by 200 pounds of muscle that can break me like a twig.
And just as Ole spoke these words, that which Trufa had feared all these months happened－a wind came up and tore Ole loose from the twig.
He longed to be the wind and blow through your rustling branches, to be your shadow and lengthen with the day on the water, to be a bird and perch on your top-most twig, and to float like those ducks among the weeds and shadows.
CHILD, how happy you are sitting in the dust, playing with a broken twig all the morning.
After leaving the twig I'm incited once again by a petal of ironical smile How disdainful!
On the tip of a tree which had lost all its other leaves, two still remained hanging from one twig: Ole and Trufa.
