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Sentences ending with awry

Trafford was alone with the woman through whom his life had been turned awry. [11]
It was Stephen who lifted her, and helped her to the coping, where she sat with her bandanna awry. [9]
For the moment, the delusion that his power was still limitless prevailed, and her faith whole again, so many times had he mended a world all awry. [9]
He was ludicrously tall and ludicrously thin, his hands were in his trousers pockets, and the skirts of his Sunday broadcloth coat hung down behind him awry. [9]
At the end of the room sat General Sherman, his uniform, as always, a trifle awry. [9]
He was conscious of the perfume from Jasmine's cloak searching his senses, even in this hour when these things that mattered--the things of Fate--were so enormously awry. [11]
If it be in your thought that I am set against a marriage which shall serve the nation, purge yourselves, friends, of that sort of heresy, for the belief is awry. [11]
Most of those I see are of very moderate dimensions, feathered all the way up their long slender trunks, with a lop-sided mop of leaves at the top, like a wig which has slipped awry. [6]
He took me by the arm and led me into the house, into a bare room that was all awry. [9]

Sentences containing awry two or more times

They are all standing awry, so much awry that the chalets and cottages of the peasants seem to be tumbling down. [5]

More example sentences with the word awry in them

A grizzled cut wig sat somewhat awry under his bearskin hat. [9]
He felt there was more awry in his life than he cared to put into thought or speech. [11]
The pride of these folk is not diminished because Hamlet's wig gets awry, or a Roman has trouble with his foolish garters. [11]
Tom walked ahead, rifle on shoulder, then Polly Ann; and lastly I drove the two shaggy ponies, the instruments of husbandry we had been able to gather awry on their packs,--a scythe, a spade, and a hoe. [9]
He was lying on his back propped up high, and his small bony hands with their knotted purple veins were lying on the quilt; his left eye gazed straight before him, his right eye was awry, and his brows and lips motionless. [2]
His clothes, usually neat, were awry, and his arms were full of various things, not the least conspicuous of which was a magnificent bronze clock. [9]
So Virginia chose Mammy Easter, whose red and yellow turban was awry from fear lest she be left behind and Ned was instructed to drive the rest with all haste to Bellegarde. [9]
You should see him as he rides through the army, an erect figure, with his clothes all angular and awry, and an expanse of white sock showing above his low shoes. [9]
Behind his long, harsh face and sullen eyes a devil was raging, because of all his plans that had gone awry, and because the man he had sought to kill still served the Effendina, putting a blight upon Egypt. [11]
The faultlessly cut garment was pushed awry on his powerful limbs and soiled on the breast with wine stains. [10]
The regimental commander, flushing, ran to his horse, seized the stirrup with trembling hands, threw his body across the saddle, righted himself, drew his saber, and with a happy and resolute countenance, opening his mouth awry, prepared to shout. [2]
Her brow might flush with shame of the mad deed that turned her life awry, and of the degradation of her present surroundings; but her eyes looked straight into those of Shorland without wavering, with the pride of strength if not of goodness. [11]
So she clung, desperately, to her sister's hand until at last Lise roused herself, her hair awry, her face puckered and wet with tears and perspiration. [9]
He now saw clearly the figure of a red-haired gunner with his shako knocked awry, pulling one end of a mop while a French soldier tugged at the other. [2]
He had a broad, peasant face, his mouth was awry, and his thick yellowish-red hair, which in many places looked washed out or faded, hung so low over his narrow forehead, that it wholly concealed it, and touched his bushy, snow-white brows. [10]
His wig was awry, and his face was flushed. [9]

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