Word: crawls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the tree fell the small and peaceful deity made Metabel crawl into the bruised tangle of branches so that when Joseph found her there he would think the top part of the tree had fallen on her. There was a thunder storm that night, and Musket, who was an old dog and had just had a somewhat exhausting love affair, was annoyed at having to sniff about the damp slippery woods all night. In the morning Joseph found Metabel and promised that he would not cut down any more ash trees. He even kissed...
Colonel Roosevelt led a typical attack on Tammany graft and Governor Smith as the leader of Tammany, who had allowed "the Red Light District to crawl to the very steps of the State Capital." His charges were almost wholly unfounded, but that is to be expected in any political utterance of the kind. Its relative lack of truth was not what caused Republican leaders hastily to wipe their hands of the whole affair...
...Belmont Park, N. Y. Last week, he escaped death because he wore a metal and fibre helmet. He was riding the capricious two-year-old colt, Silenus, which bolted through a temporary fence and crashed in a heap against a permanent fence at Belmont Park. While struggling to crawl out from under Silenus, Jockey McAtee received a swift kick in the helmet, was knocked unconscious. At Roosevelt Hospital, his brain was pronounced unharmed, but he suffered many bruises and fractured a femur, will be unable to ride again for several weeks...
...deer stole out to drink, and ripples along the faster water began to weave their fantastic patterns of black velvet shot with silver. A whippoorwill, the first I remember hearing as far north as this, is calling from the birches behind the tents. The thermometer registers 43, and we crawl into our sleeping bags and listen for a few happy minutes to the roar of the river--and the next thing I knew, a golden-coated three-year-old buck is pawing and snorting just outside the tent, in the broad morning sunshine. We have come home...
...Presently the mother can vary the procedure by letting him crawl about on the bed first until he nears the edge, whereupon she should turn him face down and help him with his backward slide. He will soon learn to get into the proper position by himself when he sees the edge near...