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Usage examples of hide-and-seek.

They had lived with this comet, in a manner of speaking, for 16 months, watched it split, the pieces, enshrouded by clouds of dust, playing hide-and-seek and spreading out in their orbits.

At the end of summer the work was slackened somewhat, so there was more time for sport: spell-boat races down in the harbor, feats of illusion in the courts of the Great House, and in the long evenings, in the groves, wild games of hide-and-seek where hiders and seeker were both invisible and only voices moved laughing and calling among the trees, following and dodging the quick, faint werelights.

There was always some of both going on here, a lot of hide-and-seek, some people hiding, some seekingwith El Supremo looking down benignly on it all, raking in his cut.

Still, with all these heavy odds against them, the various little columns continued month after month to play hide-and-seek with the commandos, and the game was by no means always on the one side.

It was that thick gray chilly rain that sometimes grips the northeast in August and sends the children of summer colonies and beach towns into sporadic fits of Monopoly, bowling, Old Maid, hide-and-seek in the closets and the basements of houses pungent with damp, sends them finally to driving their parents crazy, until their mothers let them play in the rain as one last desperate diversion.

Secha, looking around with all the furtive nonsensicalness of a child playing at hide-and-seek.

Princess Ning in her disguise that if a word of this hide-and-seek business gets about, the whole lot of them will lose their heads.

I could not look at the dancing brown eyes, at the quaint dimples of lurking fun that played hide-and-seek under the firm-set mouth, without feeling my heart cheered and delighted, like one brought out of a murky chamber into the open day.

Some children were playing hide-and-seek near the iron grating, popping out from behind the cagelike structure, which enclosed a statue of someone in a bishop's miter, to throw pieces of wood at his Buick.

For a while they played hacker hide-and-seek, trying to block each other, till Jeremy finally did some sort of end run and persuaded MAPHIS that Leo's domain was now empty, so any instructions coming out of it were system errors and should be ignored.

After dinner, too, the young folks would play at blindman's-buff and hide-and-seek, and it was amusing to see them tangled among the briers, and to hear a fine romping girl now and then squeak from among the bushes.

We've been playing hide-and-seek with the Chinks for four long days, and now we're ready to do some real fighting.

Then he returned to his chair towatch Annabella and Magpie play hide-and-seek around the table.

To dissipate my grief she immediately led me to the grove where the young girls of the harem were playing at hide-and-seek amid the golden aviaries of which the place was full.

And yet I had been months in the town and thought I knew all about confidence tricksters, how they came slinking out of side streets by night to meet us with outstretched hands like tavernkeepers, how they haunted the advertisement pillars we stood beside, sliding around them as if playing hide-and-seek and spying on us with at least one eye, how they suddenly appeared on the curb of the pavement at cross-streets when we were hesitating!