"Sprawling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had already disappeared below. Peter picked up his splendid guitar and, sprawling upon the transom, gave himself up to soft humming and, presently, to the work of composition. Soon, after some little painstaking effort, he produced the following, to be rendered to the ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... with a harum-scarum devil of a half-bred, making his way at all risks, at a full gallop, as unmanageable in his career as his driver had been in his speculations; dust flying, women sprawling, men bawling, dogs barking, and the multitude continually increasing. Scouts, Scamps, Lords, Loungers and Lacqueys—Coster-mongers from—To the Hill Fields—and The Bloods from Bermondsey, completely lined the road as far as the eye could reach, both before ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... some seconds, reappeared carrying a lantern. Bonivon now saw for the first time the face of his conductor—it was that of a werwolf. With a shriek of terror Bonivon turned to run, but, catching his foot on a mat, fell sprawling on the floor. ...
— Werwolves • Elliott O'Donnell
... brought him some folio sheets covered with great pathetically sprawling letters, and when she had ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... up a chair awkwardly, and sat opposite her, tilting back to accommodate his sprawling length. Then ...
— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim
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