The man came a-
pawing along in the dark, and when Packard got to my stateroom, he says:
And all the while the old man stood there a-quaking and his eyes a-burning, and not looking at his wife and daughter, which was clinging to him and begging him to keep still, but
pawing them off with his hands and saying he WOULD clear his black soul from crime, he WOULD heave off this load that was more than he could bear, and he WOULDN'T bear it another hour
Lo, Miss Pross, in harness of string, awakening the echoes, as an unruly charger, whip-corrected, snorting and
pawing the earth under the plane-tree in the garden!
The air was so clear and pleasant, and the horse seemed to like the idea of the ride so much himself, as he stood snorting and
pawing at the garden-gate, that I had a great desire to go.