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Sentences starting with chin

Chin a little lower, please--there, very good. [5]

Sentences ending with chin

Carry it just under your chin. [5]
He had a thin-lipped mouth and a round chin. [9]
In the Pacific the Fijian's beard is "profuse and bushy, and is his greatest pride"; whilst the inhabitants of the adjacent archipelagoes of Tonga and Samoa are "beardless, and abhor a rough chin. [1]
The eyebrows were straight, the brown eyes looked at the world with an almost scornful sense of humor, and I marked that there was determination in the chin. [9]
A napkin was still beneath his greasy chin. [11]
She wore a robe of violet-blue, embroidered with silver, and over her snow-white hair lay a long veil of delicate lace, woven in Egypt, the ends of which were wound round her neck and tied in a large bow beneath her chin. [10]
When one looks me in the eye I always feel as if some of his superabundance overflowed into me, and irresistibly I draw myself up and think how fine it would be if one day I might reach as high as that man's chin. [10]
Ye put me in mind of a wizened old man that sat all day makin' shoes in Killarney,--all savin' the fringe he had on his chin. [9]
He must think I haven't anything to do but chin. [9]
The abbe shook his head musingly at Perrot, took the violin, and gathered it to his chin. [11]

Short sentences using chin

By the chin. [5]

Sentences containing chin two or more times

Her features were regular, her eyes of a greyish violet, her chin strong, yet not too strong--the chin of a singer; her hands had that charming quiet certainty of movement possessed by so few; and her colour was of the most delightful health. [11]
Impulse was written in every feature, in the passionate eagerness of her body; yet the line from the forehead to the chin, and the firm shapeliness of the chin itself, gave promise of great strength of will. [11]

More example sentences with the word chin in them

Please walk thirty yards, so that I can get a perspective on the thing.... Now, then--your head's right, speed's right, shoulders right, eyes right, chin right, gait, carriage, general style right--everything's right! [5]
The skin was wrinkled, but shone, the hair spread white, the nose almost met the chin, the mouth was all malice. [11]
Often Mr. Carvel would run across one which seemed to bring some incident to his mind; for he would drop it absently on his desk, his hand seeking his chin, and remain for half an hour lost in thought. [9]
It was a world of unbridled will, this, where the soul of Jethro Fawe had its origin; and to it his senses fled involuntarily when he put Sarasate's fiddle to his chin this Autumn evening. [11]
You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position. [5]
The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
The heavy-jowled man with shallow cerebrum has only to incline his head so that the lying instrument can select a favorable focus, to appear in the picture with the brow of a sage and the chin of a poet. [4]
She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
He sat long with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands, meditating. [5]
There he sat with his elbows on his knees and his chin in his hands when Burlingame entered the room. [11]
Richards, sitting there with his chair tilted back against the wall and his chin between his knees, heard something fall. [5]
The wizened Elder, with eyes upon the ceiling and his long white chin like ivory on his great collar, began to pray, sitting where he was, his hands upon his knees. [11]
The long mustache, which usually curled so arrogantly upwards, now drooped damp and limp over his mouth and chin, and his long reddish hair fell in dishevelled locks around his bloated face. [10]
The old lady waved her fan faster, and her projecting chin trembled. [10]
The moment Joan was seated on the platform she closed her eyes and allowed her chin to fall; and so sat, with her hands nestling in her lap, indifferent to everything, caring for nothing but rest. [5]
The young countess was challenging his attention still more boldly, tossing her head back so impetuously that the turban-like roll on her hair, spite of the broad ribbon that fastened it under her chin, almost fell on the floor. [10]
Indeed, the effect was almost comical when he lifted it and scratched his head and then rubbed his chin with it; it made him look part bumpkin and part sailor. [11]
Now, as the visitors came near, she did not turn towards them, but still sat, her chin on her hand, looking out across the hills, in resolute abstraction. [11]
But he presently uplifted Ann's chin, gazed her in the face, and said: "To be sure, to be sure! [10]
Bucklaw's tiger ran up to stroke his chin with the old grotesque gesture. [11]
His hand went up to his chin a little awkwardly. [11]
He could look up at the gallery without turning his head, and sometimes he caught her momentary glance, and again, with her chin in her hand, she was watching Mr. Crewe with a little smile creasing the corners of her eyes. [9]
It was not until they were seated at dinner in the hotel, Ephraim with his napkin tucked under his chin, that Jethro gave them the key to the characters in this story. [9]
Crozier bowed and turned, again grasping the rail of the witness-box with one hand, while with an air of cogitation and suspense he stroked his chin with the long fingers of the other hand. [11]
For himself, he took his station on a rugged mat before the furnace-door, and resting his chin upon his hands, watched the flame as it shone through the iron chinks, and the white ashes as they fell into their bright hot grave below. [12]
Every house seems to wince as you go by, and button itself up to the chin for fear you should find out it had no shirt on--so to speak. [5]
Its rider, muffled to the chin, was knocking, and at the same time pulling his cap down closely over his head. [11]
Then he fell to stirring up his lather and regarding himself in the glass, stopping now and then to get close and examine his chin critically or inspect a pimple. [5]
I am sorry to say that he had a red face, a shaven chin, and long side-whiskers. [4]
Seeing him talking to Patty, my aunt rose abruptly from her loo and made toward us, all paint and powder and patches, her chin in the air, which barely enabled her to look over Miss Swain's head. [9]
Well, they froze to me for two hours; and at last, when my chin was so tired it couldn't hardly go any more, I had told them more about my family--I mean the Sawyer family--than ever happened to any six Sawyer families. [5]
As he said to himself, he had had enough; he had been filled up to the chin by the Mazarine business; and his impulsive youth wanted to end it by some smashing act which would be sensational and decisive. [11]
She lifted it to her chin, at which it pecked tenderly. [11]
Pierre had watched this scene intently, his chin in his hands, his elbows on his knees. [11]
On the forehead there is a crest of hair, and on the chin a yellow beard. [1]
I put on the sun-bonnet and tied it under my chin, and then for a body to look in and see my face was like looking down a joint of stove-pipe. [5]
For an instant the sorrowful face lighted, the square chin trembled, and the hands thrust out towards Lawless, but suddenly dropped. [11]
Els then entered the sick-chamber, but Biberli put his hand under his sweetheart's chin, bent her head back gently, and said: "Now you see how Biberli and other clever people manage. [10]
Obliquely down swept the sabre, and drove through the cheek and chin of one foe; another sweep, and the bayonet of the other was struck aside; and another, which was turned aside as Gabord's horse came down, bayoneted by the fallen grenadier. [11]
The chin of the little man with beardless face and hollow cheeks had even begun to tremble, and this was usually the precursor of an outburst of sudden wrath which sometimes overpowered him to such a degree that he committed acts which he afterwards regretted. [10]
The priest took the handsome lad by the chin, bent his head back, looked Adam also in the face, and exclaimed: "His mouth, nose and eyes he has inherited from your wife, but the shape of the brow and head is exactly like yours. [10]
Darius pulled at the hair on his chin reflectively. [11]
Then he walked the floor with long, deliberate strides, his chin in his hand, and still the audience waited. [5]
In five minutes the boat was level full, and we was setting on the lockers buried up to the chin in sand, and only our heads out and could hardly breathe. [5]
And so with the beards: some shaved from the chin, like the Turks; some cut short, like the beard of the Marquis Otto; some made round, like a rubbing-brush; some peaked, others grown long. [4]
And figure you that he takes Daniel, him opens the mouth by force and with a teaspoon him fills with shot of the hunt, even him fills just to the chin, then he him puts by the earth. [5]
A sensitive chill swept all over him, making his flesh creep, and a flush sped over his face from chin to brow. [11]
The old Seigneur stroked his chin as he looked at her. [11]
From where she stood she could only see his side-face as he came down the steps, and indeed it was not ill-favored; brow, nose, and chin were finely and nobly formed; his beard was thin, and a mustache curled over his lips. [10]
Thereupon a young sprig, from the East, blustered like a Shanghai rooster, and began to sass the conductor with his chin music. [5]
A flush crept slowly up Iberville's face from his chin to his hair, then he sighed, and presently, out of all reason, laughed. [11]
They were to shut the door of the cell, recline the beard and chin on the breast, and contemplate the abdominal centre. [6]
The Judge was shaven, save for a shaggy fringe of gray beard around his chin, and the size of his nose was apparent even in the full face. [9]
Honora stopped, and seized his chin and tilted his face upward. [9]
She wheeled to see M. Savary dit Detricand leaning with both elbows on the little counter, his chin in his hand, grinning provokingly, "Oh, it's you! [11]
Here, then, he sat, one leg cocked carelessly over the other, his chin resting on the palm of his hand, his head turned a little on one side, and his ugly features twisted into a complacent grimace. [12]
The elder Dryfoos said, with his chin on the top of his stick, "I reckon those Little Neck clams will keep. [8]
In a word, Republican Simplicity found Europe with one shirt on her back, so to speak, as far as real luxuries, conveniences, and the comforts of life go, and has clothed her to the chin with the latter. [5]
She did not reply at once, but put her hat on, and tied the ribbons loosely under her chin, looking thoughtfully into the distance. [11]
His full face, rather young-looking, with its prominent chin, wore a gracious and majestic expression of imperial welcome. [2]
With a marvellous quickness she had tied the napkin beneath my chin, not so much as looking at the knot. [9]
He came back quickly to the table, put down the candle, took his seat, stroked his chin with his hook, and chuckled. [11]
For her his profile was in silhouette, and the bold nose and chin belonged to but one man she knew. [9]
She had a pretty straw hat, tied under her chin with a pink ribbon, and looked like some little woodland nymph, just turned out by spring and fine weather. [4]
She curtseyed very prettily, with her chin tilted back and her cheeks red, and asked me how I did. [9]
By the other pillar stood Antinous; he had placed his right foot on the low window-sill, and with his chin resting on his hand and his elbow on his knee, his figure was well within the room. [10]
Who shall have perfect self-control with a giant bib under the chin, tipped back on a chair that cannot be regulated, with a face covered by lather, and two plantation fingers holding the nose? [11]
There was no other light in the room Her chin was in her hand, and her lips were pursed. [9]
The chin rested on the hand, an intellectual hand,--and the portrait brought to her mind that of a young English statesman she had seen in the National Gallery in London. [9]
She sat down on the flagstone with her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and looked at him thoughtfully. [9]
The close-shaven beard on the cheeks and chin rested closely upon the white ruff, which seemed to have just come from under the laundresses' smoothing-iron. [10]
Tom's chin dropped on his breast, and 'stead of being mad, as I reckoned he'd be, to hear me scoff at his tale that way, he seemed to be only sad; and he says: "Some people can see, and some can't--just as that man said. [5]
His chin dropped on his breast, and for a time he was motionless and shrunken; but still there was a strange little curl of pride--or disdain--on his lips. [11]
His chin dropped on his breast, and a cloud like a fog on the coast of Gaspe settled round him. [11]
If you cut off Mathurin at de chin, all de way up, you will say de top of him it is a priest. [11]
He was sitting now in the high-backed chair, his mouth and chin in his hand, his elbow resting on the chair-arm. [11]
He did not notice that she kept her hands under her chin as he drew her to him, that she did not, as had been her wont, put them on his shoulders. [11]
The mouth was neither small nor sensuous, the chin was strong without being coarse, the figure was not suggestive. [11]
Yesterday I met neighbour Fairley, and another little old Elder who keeps his chin in his collar and his eyes on the sky. [11]
When he came near to the vortex of fight he raised his violin to his chin, and instantly a piercingly sweet call penetrated the wild uproar. [11]
Presently I drew my chin down to my shoulder, and let myself drift out of painful consciousness almost as easily as a sort of woman can call up tears at will. [11]
After that, you must expect soon to find yourself alone, if you are still floating, with only a life-preserver to keep your old white-bearded chin above the water. [6]
His pale and mud-stained face--fair and young, with a dimple in the chin and light-blue eyes--was not an enemy's face at all suited to a battlefield, but a most ordinary, homelike face. [2]
With a convulsive motion he drew up the coverlet to his chin, to hide the red stream, and said gaspingly: "Pardon, madame. [11]
Gaston saw the mark of his hand on his uncle's chin, and he forbore ironical reply. [11]
I've got to make some great plunge, or in a few years more I'll be a middle-aged peeress with nothing left but a double chin, a tongue for gossip, and a string of pearls. [11]
It is her living image; and how her chin projects and moves up and down, as though she were chewing leather! [10]
He was a little man in an ill-fitting coat, his wizened face clean-shaven save for the broom-shaped beard under his chin, which he now held in his hand. [9]
In this same letter he exclaims: "With all my exertions, I seem always to keep about up to my chin in troubled water, while the world, I suppose, thinks I am sailing smoothly, with wind and tide in my favor. [4]
He was now leaning with bowed head against the wall, both hands clasped under his beardless chin, and might have been taken for a monk repeating his prayers. [10]
Then the dog lay down and watched his master until he drew the blankets to his chin, and sleep drew oblivion over a fighting soul. [11]
The Celebrity's chin is a little more square, and his nose straighter, and there are other little differences. [9]
Then, like an inquisitor who has succeeded in convicting the person accused, he leaned back in his chair with a satisfied, long-drawn "So-o," wiped his moist chin, and began: "You have showed me your state of mind plainly enough, my young Herr Doctor. [10]
His chin was in the air, and to a casual observer he looked to be minutely interested in a flock of gulls passing over us. [9]
He was dressed in skins, his arms were folded across his breast, his chin bent low, and he gazed up and out from deep eyes shadowed by strong brows. [11]
He sat down in a chair, faced the candle, again dropped his chin upon his hand, and kept his eyes musingly on the light. [11]
About this time I was amusing myself trying to guess where he would be most likely to cut me this time, but he got ahead of me, and sliced me on the end of the chin before I had got my mind made up. [5]
By and by I heard the king and the duke come up; so I rolled off my pallet and laid with my chin at the top of my ladder, and waited to see if anything was going to happen. [5]
They chucked the housewife and her daughters under the chin whilst receiving the food from their hands, and made coarse jests about them, accompanied with insulting epithets and bursts of horse-laughter. [5]
Deacon Lysander, with his white band of whiskers that goes around his neck like a sixteenth-century ruff under his chin, will soon be a memory. [9]

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