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Sentences starting with head

Head of Common wild boar, in prime of life (from Brehm). [1]
Head of Cebus vellerosus. [1]
Head of Semnopithecus rubicundus. [1]
Head of Ateles marginatus. [1]
Head bent forward, he shuffled away with Michael Clones along the stony street. [11]
Head and heart have nothing to do with his wordy operations, and they go on like an ox treading out corn. [10]
Head of Semnopithecus comatus. [1]
Head of Cebus capucinus. [1]
Head of Abel! [11]

Sentences ending with head

It has turned your head. [13]
Such thoughts in your head! [11]
Only, hold up your head! [10]
I say that you took your hat off your head, and you prove me a liar by putting it on your head. [7]
Yet her mind would linger at the Serapeum, where her lover, too, still rested his fevered head. [10]
That Mr. Cooke would appear at the cotillon never entered any one's head. [9]
Humiliation, in Mr. Worthington's eyes, had an element of publicity in it, and this episode had had none of that element; and Jethro Bass, moreover, was a highwayman who had held a pistol to his head. [9]
How must the world look to a man in a basket, riding about on his wife's head? [4]
The eleven years' work had cost $55,000, and the first gold found was a grain the size of a pin's head. [5]
But, Bess, the Withersteen herd, the red herd-- twenty-five hundred head! [13]

Short sentences using head

Her head was turned away. [11]
How my head throbbed! [9]
Let them have their head. [6]
Tarah----A veil for the head. [11]
A knock on the head. [10]
I had missed the head! [9]
His head throbbed sorely. [11]
My head aches so. [11]
My head is so confused. [10]
My head went round. [11]

Sentences containing head two or more times

One man, whom your correspondent spoke to, said that he had had one hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred head of hogs. [5]
Once more he whirled the lasso round and round over his head, and then shot it forth, as the rattlesnake shoots his head from the loops against which it rests. [6]
One of them was "disfigured with a great skin, his head hung around with little skins of weasels and other vermin, with a crownlet of feathers on his head, painted as ugly as the devil. [4]
But if he wants to deceive me, he had better remember that where the head of a son of Cyrus is about to fall, a Greek head has but very little chance. [10]
The Moa stood thirteen feet high, and could step over an ordinary man's head or kick his hat off; and his head, too, for that matter. [5]
The traveller examined the wounds in the shoulder and the head, and said: "The head is all right. [11]
The student of the seventeenth century opened his Licetus and saw figures of a lion with the head of a woman, and a man with the head of an elephant. [3]
I went down the pilot-house guy, head first--not feet first but head first--slid down--before I struck the deck, the captain said we must leave there. [5]
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]
He was taller than his master by a head and a half, and he was ever to be seen in a hood, on which an owl's head with its beak and ears was set. [10]

More example sentences with the word head in them

If the young Zouave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late in the season. [6]
Smedley the artist; Zorn the artist; Zogbaum the artist; Reinhart the artist; Metcalf the artist; Ancona, head tenor at the Opera; Oh, a great lot of others. [5]
Ulrich yonder, at your head, can bear his nickname of Lowing with honor. [10]
You may shake your head, but I would take your place quickly and with joyous courage. [10]
So hold up your head, and whatever liking you may have in your heart for the traitor, tear it out and trample on it. [10]
But how hot your head is! [10]
The hole in your head is hotter than it need be--keep it properly cool with fresh water. [10]
You can hold your head high enough and look cool enough. [10]
Do you want your head blown off? [5]
Then lift up your head again, and look at me. [10]
Just think of your having had our head translator for a model. [8]
You shall have your Buonespoir, good Rozel; but if he plays pirate any more--tell him this from his Queen--upon an English ship, I will have his head, if I must needs send Drake of Devon to overhaul him. [11]
They are still young...." She bent her head and continued in a whisper: "Has he performed his final duty, Prince? [2]
She beheld herself, young, fresh-cheeked, with life beating high and all the impulses of youth panting to use, sitting at the head of the seigneury table. [11]
Numbers of the young men took the paint and painted themselves, and one of the party took the head by the hair and said-- 'Look, you ugly thing, and see your paints on the faces of warriors. [5]
One of their young men had stayed away, and, in endeavoring to overtake them, came to the place where the head was hung up. [5]
A self-sufficient, doughty young man, with the round head that withstands many blows, taking by nature to competition and buccaneering in general. [9]
There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
Most of the young demoiselles are robed in a cloud of white from head to foot, though many trick themselves out more elaborately. [5]
Well, sah, if you'll b'lieve me, he jes' shuck his head, dat painter did, en went on a-dobbin'. [5]
But I loved you--" She shook her head, and with a smile of pitying disdain--he could so little see the real truth, his real misdemeanour--she said: "Oh no, never--never! [11]
And what do you think of a Pallas with short woolly hair; of the Charities with broad, flat Ethiopian feet; and an Egyptian, with his shaven head mirroring the sun, as Phoebus Apollo? [10]
The head tells you pretty promptly whether the food is satisfactory or not; and everybody hears, and thinks the whole man has spoken. [5]
Didn't I take you out of poverty, and make you head of all this, with people to wait on you and all the rest of it? [11]
I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
Then--need I assure you of it?--my blood boiled with righteous indignation; but instead of being ashamed of the outrage, he raised his hand to my head and pulled the veil. [10]
Here or anywhere you must scour your head every two or three days or it is full of grit. [5]
Your head, if you let the jade and her brothers escape! [10]
The one thing you have--" He broke off, nodding his head in amusement. [11]
And do not you believe that his name thus compulsorily placed at the head of the Independent column would work absolutely certain defeat to Blain and save the country's honor? [5]
If we had yielded to his views, and if our head man Obedianus had not supported me, we should not have had a single picture in the church, and it would have looked like a barn rather than a house of prayer. [10]
There is enough yet before us requiring all loyal men and patriots to perform their share of the labor and follow the example of the modest General at the head of our armies, and sink all personal consideration for the sake of the country. [7]
He was not yet at the head of the locomotive works, he hastened to add, for fear that Cynthia might think that Mr. [9]
If in seven years after marriage a man could buy a mattress and a sack of chaff to rest his head on, he thought himself as well lodged as a lord. [4]
And yet I yearned to go back, and looked forward eagerly to the time when I should have stored enough in my head to gain admission to the bar. [9]
In the Palace yard a thousand men stood at attention, and at their head was Cushnan Di with fifty hillsmen. [11]
He and Cloud-in-the-Sky wrapped themselves in their blankets like mummies, covering the head completely, and under the arctic sky they slept alone in an austere and tenantless world. [11]
The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more. [5]
He had been wounded in the head and leg by bullets. [2]
Occasionally an Arab would throw back his head and cry: "Allahu Akbar! [11]
A gray mist would tangle the head of the oldest man that ever lived. [5]
Her pious heart would run her little head against the wall if matters came to that and, like the noble Moorish steeds, she would drop dead in her tracks rather than stop. [10]
And when I would rise from table silent and with drooping head, the Magister would full often beg leave to follow me to my chamber, and comfort me after his own guise. [10]
Yet no, it would not go, but stayed there, tipping its gold-brown head at me as though it would invite me to guess why it came. [11]
No one else would have found it so easy to forge the steel coat of mail with the Medusa head in the centre. [10]
Such a woman would have attracted Harry at any time, but only a woman with a cool brain and exquisite art could have made him lose his head in this way; for Harry thought himself a man of the world. [5]
I said it would go right to my head, and confuse me so that I would be in a helpless tangle in ten minutes. [5]
I reckoned Tom would fly at his aunt and hug her head off; but if you believe me he set there like a rock, and never said a word. [5]
And thus he would die--out in the cold world, with no shelter over his homeless head, no friendly hand to wipe the death-damps from his brow, no loving face to bend pityingly over him when the great agony came. [5]
Perhaps the visions would come back, perhaps my head would come off. [9]
And suddenly there would be a shout, and Mammy's turban go flying from her woolly head, or Mammy herself would be dragged down from behind and sat upon. [9]
Seeing that it would be a mistake to arrest Marchand at that moment, he raised the struggling figure of the wrecker above his head and, with Herculean effort, threw him up over the heads of the Frenchmen in front of him. [11]
Of the numerous works which Hermon completed in the service of the first three art-loving rulers of the new Pergamenian kingdom, Philetaerus, Eumenes, and Attalus, nothing was preserved except the head of a Gaul. [10]
I had hard work to keep my head above water, and I struggled desperately to escape from my toils; for if the boat were to go down I should be dragged down with her. [6]
But before the words were well out of his mouth, his cap flew off and a fierce blow jerked his head to one side. [2]
But not a word of the sovereign had escaped her, and, though she still lacked the power of speech, she found courage to smile and shake her head in denial. [10]
It consisted of wood and stones, and was covered with a thick layer of moss, raised at the head in a slanting direction. [10]
It is small wonder that Mrs. Short was looked upon as the head of the outraged party. [9]
Can't marry a woman now-a-days till you're so deaf you have to cock your head like a parrot to hear what she says, and so longsighted you can't see what she looks like nearer than arm's-length. [6]
But his father, without turning his head, replies, "No, they don't need salting any more 'n you do! [4]
A half-mad woman, without memory, knew again whence she came and whither she was going; and bewildered and happy, with a hungering tenderness, moved her hand over the head of her poor dwarf, as though she would know if he were truly her own son. [11]
He rose and without any word of command from his master, he silently and carefully placed on the high-priest's bare head a long and thick curled wig, [Egyptians belonging to the higher classes wore wigs on their shaven heads. [10]
A solitary song-sparrow, without a note of joy, hops along the snow to the dining-room window, and, turning his little head aside, looks up. [4]
Had one stood within "the Hunter's Room," as it was called, a little while before, one would have seen a man's head bowed before a woman, and her hand smoothing back the hair from the handsome brow where dissipation had drawn some deep lines. [11]
Harris will be with you, head up and tail up, for Nebraska. [7]
Come, nephew, off with you, and head the minuet with Miss Dolly! [9]
Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
The huntsmen assembled with their booty and their stories, and all came to look at the wolf, which, with her broad-browed head hanging down and the bitten stick between her jaws, gazed with great glassy eyes at this crowd of dogs and men surrounding her. [2]
The snow-white bird, with the yellow head, scratched seventeen times before Xanthe, and, on reaching Mopsus, twenty-three times, which was perfectly correct. [10]
That Egyptian headdress with the vulture's head which the king likes best to see me in, the young Greek Lysias and the Roman too, call barbaric, and so every one must call it who is not interested in the Egyptians. [10]
The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
Side by side with the marble sarcophagus, or those of coarser stone, were wooden coffins and mummy-cases, with a place at the head for the portrait of the deceased. [10]
Andreas followed her, with the leech, a man of middle height, whose shrewd and well-formed head, bald but for a little hair at the sides, was set on a somewhat ungainly body. [10]
Rumour reported that, with the huge sword he wielded, he had dealt from his powerful charger blows as terrible as those inflicted five-and-twenty years before when, not far from the same spot, he struck Archelaus on the head. [10]
Both were familiar with the house, and, while the servants bore Wolf up the narrow stairs, the proud Spanish grandee lighted their way with the lantern, supporting the wounded man's injured head, with his free hand. [10]
The frame corresponded with the head. [4]
The gold coins with the head of Alexander the Great are some of them so fresh one might think they were newer than much of the silver currency we were lately handling. [6]
On the veld, with the first delicate glow, the head of a meerkat, or a springbok, is raised above the gray-brown grass; herds of cattle move uneasily. [11]
Next to her, with the bald head, is Freddy Maitland. [9]
He was seized with terror, and, in a kind of convulsion, hurled what he thought had become a living head against the wall. [10]
This head smiles with sweet fascination, and the countenance of the goddess that rules the actions even of the immortals, should be stern and grave. [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]
He found that with regard to the Grosvenor Green apartment he had not allowed for his wife's willingness to get any sort of roof over her head again after the removal from their old home, or for the alleviations that grow up through mere custom. [8]
Jim was sitting with Nancy on his knee, her head against his shoulder, Sally at his side, her face alight with some inner joy. [11]
And I recalled, with mingled bitterness and tenderness, the turn of her head, the down on her neck, the half-revealed curve of her arm.... [9]
Withered laurel-wreaths, tied with long ribbons, fluttered over the mantel-piece; one had fallen, dropped over the bald head of Julius Caesar, and rested on the breast. [10]
He was seated with legs crossed in Oriental fashion and with head slightly bowed. [11]
His pipe lay with its scattered ashes on the boards, and his head was bent forward, as though listening. [9]
There it stands, with its head in the clouds! [5]
His broad head with its bold features and glittering eyes was resting on his hand. [2]
His eyes dilating with hunger, he watched her preparations for his supper; and when at last--and she had been but a moment--it was placed before him, his head swam, and he turned faint with the stress of his longing. [11]
He remained there, with his head unconsciously bent forward, drinking in the melody, stirring neither hand nor foot, hardly breathing. [5]
At the table, with his head sunk in his arms, sat Dyck Calhoun, snoring stertorously, his drawn sword by his side. [11]
Parpon, however, sat with his head in his hands. [11]
So he walked with his head high and his heart full of pride, and it confirmed his courage when one of Zminis's men, whom they passed in the brightly illuminated Kanopic street, and who had helped to secure Philip, looked at him without recognizing him. [10]
Here he remained, with his head bowed upon his breast for some time, and then suddenly raising it, said, 'Once, and once for all, have you brought me any money? [12]
He was sitting, with his head bowed on his hands, opposite to the large portrait of her dead mother in her bridal robes. [10]
He hurried on with his head bent, as though under a heavy burthen, and clasped his hand to his forehead with a gesture of despair. [10]
Emperor Sigismund signs with his hand, and the two heralds who head the train uplift their trumpets with rich embroidered banners. [10]
This being sat with his great hand clasped to the side of his head. [11]

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