"Drop behind" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Anna failed to complete this amount, or seemed to drop behind in the course of the day, the forewoman blamed her, and threatened to ...
— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
... quietly together that she did not hear their words. But she noted the regretful air with which John Courteney shook his head to the Westwood's clerk and then to the passenger, and the Westwood began again to drop behind. Hugh came near, paused, ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable
... indignation, the girl speedily lost her confident superiority, and felt humiliated. She did not know exactly what to do. She could not continue to walk humbly beside the cart. The situation was profoundly altered by the mere fact that the young man was riding. She tried to drop behind; but the team had an infinite capacity for loitering. At last, with head high in the air, she darted ahead of the team, and walked as fast as she could. Although she heard no orders given by their driver, she knew at once ...
— Earth's Enigmas - A Volume of Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... of Cobbens's horse was just in a line with Emmet's shoulder as they passed the goal. The mayor turned while the other began to drop behind and shouted a derisive farewell, with a parting flourish of the whip. The victory was as sweet to his heart as the taste of honey to the lips. The race had changed his mood completely, filling him with a joyous truculence. ...
— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins
... little girl's hand, for there was no telling what she might undertake otherwise, and the less independent Lippo held his mother's other hand, so that the two older brothers were obliged to accommodate their steps to the rest. But Kurt, simply bursting with impatience, dashed ahead once, only to drop behind again; later on he would appear from behind a hedge. Lippo simply could not stand such disorder, and to even up the pairs he took Bruno's hand. When they reached the familiar iron-grated door at last, to their surprise both wings ...
— Maezli - A Story of the Swiss Valleys • Johanna Spyri |
