1 Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place.
2 The tilt of his head was full of character; his drawl was admirably vicious.
3 "I never tilt against beauty," he said, with a wave of his hand.
4 "Miss Ellen Robillard," said Gerald, trying to speak casually, for the slightly tilting dark eyes of Ellen Robillard had taken more than his eye.
5 She laughed in soft excitement and spun about on her toes, her arms extended, her hoops tilting up to show her lace trimmed pantalets.
6 Selden stretched himself on the grass at her feet, tilting his hat against the level sun-rays, and clasping his hands behind his head, which rested against the side of the rock.
7 Run tilting at it, and you but run through it.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. 8 I saw by his tilting of the bottle that there was no great quantity left in it.
9 He swallowed slowly, tilting up the bottle by little and little, and now he looked at me no more.
10 The bottle was emptying perceptibly and rising still higher and his head tilting yet further back.
11 Another company, a lucky one for not all the companies had vodka, crowded round a pockmarked, broad-shouldered sergeant major who, tilting a keg, filled one after another the canteen lids held out to him.
12 The robin kept singing and twittering away and tilting his head on one side, as if he were as excited as she was.
13 She laughed with pleasure, her head tilted back, the lamplight sparkling on her lips and teeth.
14 Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.
15 She tilted the dipper, drew a deep breath and drank swiftly.