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Sentences ending with arms

Now up gets your General Sherman in the middle of the night,--midnight,--and marches up and down between the counters, and waves his arms. [9]
The other day young Princess Irina Vasilevna came to see me; she was an awful sight--looked as if she had put two barrels on her arms. [2]
I can take you there, and he will meet you with open arms. [10]
I'm not throwing you into his arms. [9]
I have often wondered how I should have felt on that five-hour journey back to the city if she had fallen into my arms! [9]
Delilah returned presently, with the heavy quarto in her arms. [6]
Margaret was welcomed with open arms. [4]
In his off-hand way he was getting out some flour, dried fruit and preserves for the cook, who stood near as he loaded up her arms. [11]
The heavy board was still in his arms. [11]
The first night was spent at "Warraskogack," the king of which warned Smith that while Powhatan would receive him kindly he was only seeking an opportunity to cut their throats and seize their arms. [4]

Short sentences using arms

The tuba sounded to arms. [10]
They began waving their arms. [2]
She died in my arms. [5]
With shaking arms Jane complied. [13]
Home is in his arms. [11]
She held out her arms. [9]
His arms are bound. [10]
Hodder dropped his arms. [9]
Come to my arms! [5]
The arms moving? [4]

Sentences containing arms two or more times

If we were to arm them, I fear that in a few weeks the arms would be in the hands of the rebels; and, indeed, thus far we have not had arms enough to equip our white troops. [7]
Far over under the trees a man sat upon the ground, his head upon his arms, and his arms upon his knees, in a misery unmeasurable. [11]
But Coolin of the Commissariat did not answer; his head was on his arms, and his arms were on his knees. [11]
He longed for the arms of a woman round his neck--it was five years since any woman's arms had been there, since he had kissed any woman's lips. [11]
This shortness of the arms is apparently due to their greater use, and is an unexpected result: but sailors chiefly use their arms in pulling, and not in supporting weights. [1]
Her legs and feet are bare, and so are her arms, except for her fanciful bunches of loose silver rings on her ankles and on her arms. [5]
The arms and equipments now belonging to the General Government will be needed for the troops called out for the national armies, so that arms can only be furnished for the quota of militia furnished by the draft of nine months' men, heretofore ordered. [7]
The Maid was doing in her chair in my room, when she sprang up and cried out, 'French blood is flowing!--my arms, give me my arms! [5]

More example sentences with the word arms in them

There, put out your arms to her, and I'll put out mine, and see which she'll take. [11]
Thank you, my young friend--you have strong arms, and you may lift me a little higher yet. [10]
A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
The arms which yesterday--only yesterday--had clasped her passionately and hungrily to his breast now hung inert at his side. [11]
The Kentucky Legislature would not budge till that proclamation was modified; and General Anderson telegraphed me that on the news of General Fremont having actually issued deeds of manumission, a whole company of our volunteers threw down their arms and disbanded. [7]
I think she would have opened her arms to Barine, had she believed that she was necessary to my happiness. [10]
I suppose he would have called up his family, waked the drum-corps, sent for the Prefect of Police, put on the alert the 'sergents de ville,' ordered under arms a regiment of the Imperial Guards, and made it unpleasant for the Man. [4]
If not, it would be the turn next of those whom she herself had pushed into the arms of the fell monster: First Heliodora, and then her mother! [10]
The man who worships in the temple of knowledge must carry his arms with him as our Puritan fathers had to do when they gathered in their first rude meeting-houses. [6]
It is a work of art, the art of the arms and feet. [10]
Brydon saw a woman standing at a window of the House waving her arms, and there floated up the river the words, "Father! [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]
I saw you with your arms round the Baas' vrouw. [11]
They strode along, with their arms projecting straight out from their bodies; they did not hold them out themselves, but fellow-students walked beside them and gave the needed support. [5]
Smith upbraided him with neglect of his promise to supply them with corn, and told him, in reply to his demand for weapons, that he had no arms to spare. [4]
He soon reappeared with Nebsecht in his arms, whose robe was already scorched by the flames. [10]
And he walked with me till mornin', carryin' the fiddle under his arm, but wrapped in a beautiful velvet cloth, havin' on it grand figures like the arms of a king or queen. [11]
Only Pierre sat with masterful stillness, his eyes never moving from the face of the player; his arms folded; his feet firmly wedded to the floor. [11]
The Government Arsenal, with its stores of arms and ammunition, was the prize. [9]
Being left along with his wife, who sat trembling in a corner with her eyes fixed upon the ground, the little man planted himself before her, and folding his arms looked steadily at her for a long time without speaking. [12]
At the table, with his head sunk in his arms, sat Dyck Calhoun, snoring stertorously, his drawn sword by his side. [11]
Squire Asa Northcutt, with his arms fanning like a windmill from the edge of the platform, at length shouts down everybody else--down to a hum. [9]
So it was with Cynthia leaning against the entry wall, her arms full length in front of her, and her hands clasped as she prayed for strength to withstand the temptation. [9]
She was familiar with both, and had seen them garlanded, adorned with flags and coats of arms, and even witnessed the erection of the stage in the hall and the stretching of the canopy above it. [10]
Then, approaching him with both arms extended joyfully, she exclaimed: "Thus you ought to speak and feel, and therein is the answer to the question which has agitated my soul since yesterday. [10]
His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. [2]
Ursula started homeward, with Agnes in her arms, and I said I wished I had her privilege of seeing Marget. [5]
Delilah took the wisdom of the seventeenth century in her arms, and departed on her errand. [6]
The man at whose bidding this merrymaking was held stood in a corner watching with folded arms, and none to look at him might know that he was playing for a stake. [9]
They could go whither they pleased, but must not take arms against France again under ten days. [5]
She wore a white robe with wide, open sleeves, and her arms shone in the dim light as white as her garment. [10]
And all the while one nun after another glided through the chamber in silence, and with bowed head, her arms folded, and never so much as lifting an eye to look at me. [10]
It was still while he was only a bundle of bones that one Sunday morning, Parpon, without a word, lifted him up in his arms and carried him out of the house. [11]
No; her arms which she had thrown up as if to fly, fell by her side it was all in vain. [10]
The highroad on which he had come out was thronged with caleches, carriages of all sorts, and Russian and Austrian soldiers of all arms, some wounded and some not. [2]
I doubt if, when you lay in your mother's arms, you turned to her with love. [11]
The next day when I saw Ingolby hand you out to the crowd from his arms, I got nasty--I have fits like that sometimes, when I've had a little too much liquor. [11]
Then, though they were yet far asunder, his eyes met hers, and hers met his, and they uplifted their arms, as though some invisible power had moved them both, and flew to meet each other. [10]
Dishes of butter were distributed along the table within reach of people's arms, if they had long ones, but there were no private butter plates. [5]
But both arms were clasped round his neck now. [4]
When the arms were bound, I felt the straps on my own; when the cap come down, I gasp for breath; when the bolt is shot, I feel the wrench and the choke, and shudder go through myself--feel the world jerk out in the dark. [11]
Mrs. Falchion's arms went out suddenly, and she caught the wrist that held the dagger. [11]
As the inquest went on, he had again and again looked at the hands and arms of Orlando, and it had seemed impossible that, strong as he was, his fingers had the particular strength which could have done this thing. [11]
When Prince Andrew went in the two princesses, who had only met once before for a short time at his wedding, were in each other's arms warmly pressing their lips to whatever place they happened to touch. [2]
It is not well to starve on the chance of help coming, and then die fighting with weak arms and broken spirit. [11]
My arms were well fastened down, and I was tied about till I must have looked like a bale of living goods of no great value. [11]
His sinewy arms --weather-burned, too--were bare above the elbows. [9]
The king gave way to the most immoderate grief; he tore the flesh of his arms, rent his clothes and strewed ashes on his head, and on his couch. [10]
That is the way it had been; and it was as though the firmament had been rolled up before his eyes, exposing the everlasting mysteries, when he saw his wife in the arms of the master-carpenter. [11]
I made my way cautiously through the streets towards the cathedral, for I owed a duty to the poor soldier who had died in my arms, through whose death I had been able to enter the town. [11]
In the dense wavering smoke some of the French threw down their arms and ran out of the bushes to meet the Cossacks, while others ran down the hill toward the pond. [2]
And through the watches of that sleepless night Jane Withersteen, in fear and sorrow and doubt, came finally to believe that if she must throw herself into Lassiter's arms to make him abide by "Thou shalt not kill! [13]
Philippus, quite undaunted, was trying to adjust the bandage over his wound, when Rustem suddenly flung his arms round his body and tried with all his might, and with foaming lips, to drag him down. [10]
But the German was the son of a chief, and had followed arms from his earliest youth. [10]
This old sanctuary was sacred to all--even to rebels in arms and invading armies. [5]
Her lover henceforth was no longer her enemy; and as the tumult of the struggle by the breach fell on her ear, she could think with joy of his victorious arms. [10]
Chubby little Dokhturov was listening attentively with eyebrows raised and arms folded on his stomach. [2]
The old physician was holding the gasping woman in his arms, and Eva knelt beside the high bedstead sobbing, as she covered the dry, burning hand with kisses. [10]
The large room was full of light, and through the half-dozen windows burst upon her the enchanting scene of the Bay, Henderson sat at his table, which was covered with neatly arranged legal documents, but bowed over it, his head resting upon his arms. [4]
But while he was feeling the ropes on the prisoner's arms, the glare of the burning torch, which lighted him, fell on the fugitive's rude, deserted couch. [10]
While the count was being turned over, one of his arms fell back helplessly and he made a fruitless effort to pull it forward. [2]
In Paris there was at first no lack of pleasures of every description, especially as they met among the king's mercenaries many a dissolute Swiss knight and man at arms. [10]
Quite true!--And it was all to please Dame Neforis that you put your arms round me, under the acacias, and called me your own, your all, your darling, your rose-bud? [10]
Suddenly, as Oshondonto was about to speak, Silver Tassel sprang to his feet, seized in his arms a lad of twelve who was standing near, and running to the bank, dropped him into the swift current. [11]
Before the door was a sleigh of a pattern new to him, with a seat high above the backs of two long-bodied, deep-chested horses, their heads held with difficulty by a little footman with his arms above him. [9]
Now that she was a long distance from Ingolby, the fact that a man had held her in his arms left no shadow on her face. [11]
She used to wander off and spend whole days in the country, and come back after sunset with her arms full. [9]
She seemed to wake, and then all her affection carried her into his arms, and she dried her eyes upon his breast. [11]
When the slow voice ceased, and the room became still, she lay quiet for a moment, letting the new thing find secure lodgment in her thought; then, suddenly, she raised herself and threw her arms round her mother in a passion of affection. [11]
The Colonel took Virginia in his arms, and she sobbed against his shoulder, as of old. [9]
I remarked one very stout woman, a half-caste, who was severely wounded in both arms, who entreated to be killed. [5]
She passed the valet, the snuff fell from the candle wick, and she saw Prince Andrew clearly with his arms outside the quilt, and such as she had always seen him. [2]
Smith's patent to use this charge, which he produced from Sigismund, was dated 1603, but the certificate appended to it by the Garter King at Arms, certifying that it was recorded in the register and office of the heralds, is dated 1625. [4]
So they conveyed us to the Grand Hotel for a short time, and then saw us safely off to the station to take the train for Chester, where we arrived in due season, and soon found ourselves comfortably established at the Grosvenor Arms Hotel. [6]
Gering, his arms upon the side of the canoe, was looking into the water idly. [11]
New horror seized upon him; with arms flung upward to bid the specters avaunt he muttered the exorcism against the wiles of evil spirits. [10]
His eyes fell upon her rich, firm, stately body; it lingered for a moment on the brown fulness of her hair; then her look was gathered to his, and they fell into each other's arms. [11]
He raised himself up, leaning on the arms of the great chair, so high that we were filled with amazement, and he gazed about him with his glassy eyes and then said, still holding himself up: "That, that. [10]
When I wake up, he still sit there, but his head lie in his arms. [11]
Lavrushka, however, ran up to Karp and seized him by the arms from behind. [2]
He worked himself up slowly and gradually into a sort of frenzy, and got to thrashing around with his arms like the sails of a windmill. [5]
He caught her up in his arms, bore her to the house, laid her on a sofa, and, having spent his strength in this last effort, reeled and fell, and lay as one over whom have just been whispered the words, "He is gone. [6]
The Prussians are up in arms now. [2]
And now surged up a dryad-like memory which had troubled him many a wakeful night, of startled, appealing eyes that sought his in vain, and of the son she had left him flinging himself into his arms in the face of chastisement. [9]
As she lingered unobserved, her eye rested on the touching picture of the two young things clasped in each other's arms, and she overheard the last words of the gentle little creature who had done her such cruel wrong. [10]
Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. [2]
Koshal stabbed him under the arms and in the throat, and we flung the body into a running stream. [5]
Anxiety and care ultimately throw her into the arms of the haggard and grim monster death. [5]
But now for two months, she had had rheumatism in her arms, and was obliged to let the washtub alone. [5]
He had buried two companions in arms whom he had loved in that way which only those know who face danger on the plain, by the river, in the mountain, or on the open road together. [11]
At last he turned, and, seeing me intent, stooped, caught me by the arms, and lifted me upon the wall. [11]
That done, she turned to the old man with a lovely smile upon her face--such, they said, as they had never seen, and never could forget--and clung with both her arms about his neck. [12]
The whole garrison turned out under arms and assumed a threatening attitude--yet still we did not fear. [5]
It pierced the tumult of waters, found the ambushed rocks, and guided the lithe brown arms and hands, so that the swift paddle drove the canoe straight onward, as a fish drives itself through a flume of dragon's teeth beneath the flood. [11]
And now the tumult and clang of arms grew louder and louder, and the rattle of drums and blare of trumpets began to mingle with the sound. [10]
His trousers were tucked into his boots, and his gnarled and powerful hands, ingrained with dirt, clutched the arms of the seat as he leaned forward. [9]
Old Damia's instructions troubled her; they took much of the charm from her dream of being loved by Marcus, clasped in his arms, and driven through the city in his chariot. [10]
It was, however, tried sorely when Fleda came to consciousness again in his arms and realized that a man's face was nearer to hers than any man's had ever been except that of her own father. [11]
There was one trembling instant when he would have taken her hungrily into his arms, but as if some evil spirit interposed with malign purpose, there came the sound of feet on the gravel outside, and the figure of a man darkened the doorway. [11]
At last Frau Traut had been unable to resist her entreaties, and allowed her to see her son and hold him a short time in her arms. [10]

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