Pierre took his feet
off the table, stood up, and lay down on a bed that had been got ready for him, glancing now and then at the newcomer, who, with a gloomy and tired face, was wearily taking off his wraps with the aid of his servant, and not looking at Pierre.
War and Peace
He looked so dangerous that we all three leaped to our feet, and Hollis, with the back of his hand, sent the kriss flying off the table. I believe we shouted together.
Charm." He slipped off the table and left the cuddy without a look at us.
Tales of Unrest
He got briskly
off the table on which he was sitting (for the only chair was allotted to Sir Walter) and ran rapidly up the ladder to the platform above.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Instead of keeping still, so I could eat him comfortably, he trembled so with fear that he fell
off the table into a big vase that was standing on the floor.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
The cousin took a sheet of paper
off the table, and handed it to Mrs.
Law and the Lady
One morning, a week after I had come
off the table, I lay on my hospital bed, weak and weary.
John Barleycorn
There were always two nurses with her, or else one mother and one nurse, and for a long time she was a pattern-child who always coughed
off the table and said, "How do you do?" to the other Figs, and the only game she played at was flinging a ball gracefully and letting the nurse bring it back to her.
The Little White Bird
Now do try, there's a dear!' And Alice got the Red Queen
off the table, and set it up before the kitten as a model for it to imitate: however, the thing didn't succeed, principally, Alice said, because the kitten wouldn't fold its arms properly.
Through the Looking Glass
The fairies sit round on mushrooms, and at first they are very well-behaved and always cough
off the table, and so on, but after a bit they are not so well-behaved and stick their fingers into the butter, which is got from the roots of old trees, and the really horrid ones crawl over the table-cloth chasing sugar or other delicacies with their tongues.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Mac and Steve, you cut away and bring up the rest of the straw; and you small chaps, clear
off the table, if you have stuffed all you can.
Eight Cousins
"Run, Beth, and help Hannah clear half the things
off the table. It will be too absurd to put a luncheon for twelve before a single girl," cried Jo, hurrying away to the lower regions, too excited to stop even for a laugh.
Little Women
You stood very seriously all together, although it was difficult enough; but I laughed to myself, and then I fell
off the table, and got a bump, which I have still--for it was not right of me to laugh.
Andersens Fairy Tales
He's sure to fetch the Professor, and we couldn't take him in, you know!" And in another minute the disguises were stowed away in the cupboard, the door unbolted, and the two Conspirators seated lovingly side-by-side on the sofa, earnestly discussing a book the Vice-Warden had hastily snatched
off the table, which proved to be the City-Directory of the capital of Outland.
Sylvie and Bruno
On this occasion, for example, while the old lady was laughing heartily over the boyish manner in which we tumbled into the parlour, Sarah was perturbedly picking up the broken pieces of a teacup, which the Professor had knocked
off the table in his precipitate advance to meet me at the door.
The Woman in White