Restaurant patron's act

Usage examples of tipping.

Mary tipping over the rail, clinging on to Toby Argyll, and the two of them plunging down into the icy river.

He rolled over, and tipping his head back, Cowan looked around the cabin of the plane.

He was dandily dressed, as usual, this time in a suit of blue, and he stood smiling down at her, tipping his flat straw hat.

Petyr, Salas, Peaen, Emme, and others seized more of the heavy drums of lamp oil and began tipping and pouring them.

The futchels creaked and squealed as the vehicle swung round another corner, tipping on to two wheels and hurling gobbets of mud into the osiers blurring past on both sides.

The Assistant Adjutant, Jammy Giles, was there, of course, tipping back in his chair until it nearly fell over, laughing noisily and joking with a group of flyers in the front row.

Out over the pond a strange gloom had descended and the wide lawn slipped into the water as though it were flooding, not a cloud in the sky to fault for the sudden change in the light where the far bank was gone abruptly in a dull strip of grey and the middle distance seemed to advance and recede, the whole pond to heave as it ebbed from the foot of the lawn in a rising swell toward the other side like some grand seiche coming over it rocked by a catastrophe in the underworld, wavering as the swell returned, retreating in a massive unbroken rhythm like the tipping from side to side of a giant bowl as she clung with a hand to the sill swept by a wave of vertigo suddenly gathering her blouse to her throat to turn away gasping for breath in the cloud of smoke curling toward her from the fireplace.

For the terror had not faded with the silhouette, and in a fearsome instant of deeper darkness the watchers saw wriggling at that tree top height a thousand tiny points of faint and unhallowed radiance, tipping each bough like the fire of St.

He buried his childlike face deep into the overfull mug of wine, greedily tipping it back with two hands until the drink streamed down his chin.

The sharply-slanted fifty-foot segment of pitted steel offered no level terrain on which to land, and the shifting wind from the ocean struck the paravane like a heavy fist, tipping the craft at dangerous angles.

Jacko said, tipping forward with a slight thump and leaning his prosthetic arm on the table.

Stepping into the car, Sark sat down, all the while handling his package very carefully, without tipping it more than a few inches.

Instead, after discussing our plans with our allies and securing their consent and cooperation, we would start the buildup at low levels months in advance, moving over as many forces as we could without tipping our hand.

That would be the most effective method for the Romulans to influence events on Selva without tipping their hand.

A gentle tipping went uncorrected, and the boat slid sideways into the ground.