The knifepoint pricked infinitesimally harder, but otherwise Randall stood motionless as Jamie slowly crossed the few feet to the table, stooping carefully on the way to pick up the twine-wrapped mallet.

She stooped carefully, eyes glued to the movement in the corridor, and lifted the half-brick wedging the door, keeping it open with her hand.

He frowned, not understanding, then, stooping carefully, watching her all the while, he set the glasses down.

Carefully stooping, he found the shattered remains of a thin glass pipette.

He stooped and carefully placed his fingers upon the sheet of stationery that still rested in Tolwig's grasp.

Raksha stepped forward, stooping carefully to pick up the phaser that lay beside Spock's bleeding hand.

He stooped carefully and picked up a large fragment of chocolate, on which could just be made out the shape of a smiling duck in yellow icing.

He stooped carefully to pick it up, for his knees remained bad, able to bend only to right angles before pain began.

For about two minutes they there, staring downhill and listening intently, suddenly Andrea nodded, stooped and carefully his cigar in a sheltered dried patch of ground behind the bole of the pine.

Stooping carefully behind an ornamental clump of bushes, he put down with precaution a small child he had been carrying on his shoulder--his own and Leonarda's last born.