Use bare in a sentence
Sentences starting with bare
- Bare of the usual comforts as the room was, it had a sort of refinement also, joined to an inexpressible loneliness; you could scarce have told how or why. [11]
- Bare and bleached now, and exposed to a cruel view, but once caressed by loving hands, was the last of those whose devotion to the house of Stuart had brought from their homes to Temple Bar. [9]
Sentences ending with bare
- The walls are whitewashed, the wooden floor bare. [9]
- The fowlers discover these spots by the turf being trampled somewhat bare. [1]
- Every now and then one comes across a friar of orders gray, with shaven head, long, coarse robe, rope girdle and beads, and with feet cased in sandals or entirely bare. [5]
- The morning after she had spoken with heart laid bare. [11]
- The feet of one--an Arab--had on a pair of red slippers, the feet of the other were bare. [11]
- But it is not so; his eyes are ears are protected, but the rest of his face and head are bare. [5]
- He had a nightcap on his head and his feet were bare. [2]
- The sleeve of his coat kept slipping down and he always carefully rolled it up again with his left hand, as if it were most important that the sinewy white arm he was flourishing should be bare. [2]
- The men who brought them offered to put down the carpet, but by Virginia's orders the rolls were stood up in the corner, and the floor left bare. [9]
- His feet were bare. [2]
Short sentences using bare
- These are the bare facts. [9]
Sentences containing bare two or more times
- I remember where she stood, and how she looked; and I can still see her bare feet, her bare head, her brown face, and her short tow-linen frock. [5]
- I moved on, purposing to dismiss him from my thoughts, but his bare legs and bare feet kept him there. [5]
- Natasha did not move, though her little bare foot, thrust out from under the quilt, was growing cold on the bare floor. [2]
- How I--O little dwarf of conscience sieve My soul; bare all before her bare indeed! [11]
- Then one after another the men come up from the bath in their pyjamas, and walk the decks an hour or two with bare legs and bare feet. [5]
More example sentences with the word bare in them
- At last, two young men of good height and bone threw arrows at his bare breast. [11]
- The social law you sketch when reduced to its bare elements, is remorseless. [11]
- With what tender yet pitiless hand had she laid bare the lives of her husband and her son! [11]
- Spring had as yet lured no leaves from the boughs, but there were many objects to be seen in the bare top of the tree. [10]
- Priests in their yellow robes and with bare shoulders went by, oblivious of all things. [11]
- Once inside, Honora would look helplessly about her in the darkness while her escort would raise the shades, admitting a gloomy light on bare interiors or shrouded furniture. [9]
- The former is wonderfully strong; a confined bird will at the proper season beat her breast against the wires of her cage, until it is bare and bloody. [1]
- 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]
- Even a corpse with its back bare of flesh to the bone has received the last lashes of a sentence, and was then buried in the mud of the shore with no religious ceremony. [11]
- He advanced hesitatingly, with head bowed and bare, and dropped upon one knee in front of Tom. [5]
- It was supplied with bare necessaries, and with a counter, behind which were cups and a few bottles. [11]
- The ground was white with snow, and all the trees were bare except for a few frozen oak-leaves here and there, which shivered in the wind and somehow added to the desolation. [4]
- The summer-house of which Mr Quilp had spoken was a rugged wooden box, rotten and bare to see, which overhung the river's mud, and threatened to slide down into it. [12]
- He and Virginia were shown into the bare military room of the commanding officer, and thither presently came Captain Lyon himself. [9]
- The further we went the hotter the sun got, and the more rocky and bare, repulsive and dreary the landscape became. [5]
- His previous testimony went rag by rag to ruin under her ingenious hands, until at last he stood bare, so to speak, he that had come so richly clothed in fraud and falsehood. [5]
- His sinewy arms --weather-burned, too--were bare above the elbows. [9]
- The wings would wear out before they got half-way; even the pin-feathers would be gone; the wing frames would be as bare as kite sticks before the paper is pasted on. [5]
- The next morning we wandered back up the green valley, leisurely, with the curving walls of those bare and stupendous precipices rising into the clouds before us. [5]
- Just how far we shall lay bare the unseemly roots themselves is a matter of discretion and taste, and which none of us are infallible. [6]
- The whole stem was now bare but the white blossom at the end was untouched, and still beautiful. [10]
- Behind the crowd was a row of old-fashioned brick houses, on the walls of which were patterned, by the cold electric light, the branches of the bare elms ranged along the sidewalk. [9]
- Or had mice wandered to this barren place, where hard brown blades of grass grew between the crusts of salt and the bare spots, and were gnawing the prisoners' hard bread? [10]
- It had bare walls, a plain table and chairs, and a crucifix in the corner. [9]
- Then the widow waded out to a bare rock in the river, and everybody went away but her sons and other relations. [5]
- In an extinct variety of the turkey, the top-knot consisted of bare quills surmounted with plumes of down, so that they somewhat resembled the racket- shaped feathers above described. [1]
- As we looked upon it that day, John Paul and I, and it lay low against the bright water with its bare oaks and chestnuts against the dark pines, 'twas perhaps as well that the future was sealed to us. [9]
- Its outside had undergone great changes, but its bare interior was little altered. [6]
- Has he, through trials, close following in dread march through his household, sweeping the hearthstone bare of life and love, still striven hard for strength to say, "It is the Lord! [14]
- It was almost too much for the poor geranium on which it fell, and it looked at one minute as if the roots would be laid bare, and perhaps the whole plant be washed out of the soil in which it was planted. [6]
- One doesn't choose to worry, I think, any more than one chooses to lay bare a nerve. [11]
- We were bidden to wait outside a room, well lighted but bare, as I could see through the open door. [11]
- Writing of himself to the Chevalier on one occasion, he laid bare with a merciless honesty his nature and his career. [11]
- As we have to tell, not what Myrtle Hazard ought to have done, and why she should have done it, but what she did do, our task is a simpler one than it would be to lay bare all the springs of her action. [6]
- You ask me to lay bare my past, to prove my identity. [11]
- Also she bare to hym my brethren Herdegen and Kunz Schopper. [10]
- This, however, seemed to her so impossible and painful, so humiliating and shocking, that she sprang from her bed and for a long time paced with bare feet the sleeping-room, which was but dimly lighted by the lamp. [10]
- You ask me to bare my inmost soul. [11]
- He has little time for the poetry of haying, as he struggles along, filling the air with the wet mass which he shakes over his head, and picking his way with short legs and bare feet amid the short and freshly cut stubble. [4]
- It had led through the midst of the bare rocky landscape, and their eyes, accustomed to distant horizons and luxuriant green foliage, met narrow boundaries and a barren wilderness. [10]
- But the bare thought of having so soon lost the power to bind him to her aroused a storm of feeling in her passionate soul, and when it subsided bitter thoughts followed, and a series of plans which, on closer examination, proved impracticable. [10]
- At the bare thought a torturing dread overwhelmed her. [10]
- I only ask those who read them to consider her life,--which has been openly laid bare before them,--and to say how it could be otherwise. [14]
- These were by this time deserted by their inhabitants, who were busy in the field, the house, or the quarries; they consisted of a few ill-lighted rooms with bare, unfinished walls. [10]
- Like the others this fifth man seemed calm; he wrapped his loose cloak closer and rubbed one bare foot with the other. [2]
- People stared as they walked along, for his dress was curious and his head was bare, and his hair like the coat of a young lion. [11]
- As I said these things we were walking the decks, and, because eyes were on both of us, I tried to show nothing more unusual in manner than the bare tragedy might account for. [11]
- As I stood there on the great steps, I chanced to look along the plain, bare front of the palace to an annex at the end, and standing in a doorway opening on a pair of steps was Voban. [11]
- For not stripping them bare by sudden and arbitrary tax levies, and bringing famine upon them; 3. [5]
- Miriam listened to them as they scampered away, and then, with her head sunk, she led her flock home, feeling her way in the darkness with her bare feet. [10]
- That is what the Young Doctor had; but he knew it was not easy to forget those scenes in which man carved the body of fellow-man, laying bare the very vitals of existence, seeing "the wheels go round. [11]
- This very day the unworthy son of the great Rameses had covered his face and trembled like a timid fawn at the bare mention of the sorcerer's name, and to-morrow he might curse him and pronounce a death sentence upon him. [10]
- He drove home the truth with bare unvarnished power--the wrong to Guida, the wrong to the Countess, the wrong to the Dukedom of Bercy, to that honour which should belong to those in high estate. [11]
- They rested near the town of Alus, and then went forward again between bare walls of greyish-green and red porphyry. [10]
- She thought of the tilled fields in Goshen which, after having borne an abundant harvest, remained arid and bare till the moisture of the river came to soften the soil and quicken the seed which it had received. [10]
- They went up the stairs, and reverently they walked over the bare floors, their footfalls echoing through the silent house. [9]
- He looked round the small room, bare, unfurnished, severe-terribly severe; he looked at the blank walls and the barred window, high up; he looked at the floor--it was discoloured and damp. [11]
- They laid bare the secrets of dead ages. [5]
- The bare trees, the sand, the bricks and roofs of the houses, the green church spire, and the corners of the white house in the distance, all stood out in the transparent air in most delicate outline and with unnatural clearness. [2]
- That was what the room conveyed to her--the spirit of the soldier, bare, clean, strong, sparse: a workshop and a chamber of sleep in one, like the tent of an officer on the march. [11]
- You could see the rise and fall of their bare, strenuous chests. [11]
- The practitioners of the Pseudo-sciences know that common minds, after they have been baited with a real fact or two, will jump at the merest rag of a lie, or even at the bare hook. [6]
- From a distance the prevailing colour of the steep slope is ochre; it gives the effect of having been scraped bare in preparation for some gigantic enterprise. [9]
- A pool served the office of refrigerator, and Mr. Cooke had devised an ingenious but complicated arrangement of strings and labels which enabled him to extract any bottle or set of bottles without having to bare his arm and pull out the lot. [9]
- That man is the mortal foe of the Egyptians, the bare thought of him stirs my gall. [10]
- You see where the little feet went bare upon the ground. [12]
- To spare him the last turn of the wheel of torture, to give him the one bare honour left him yet a little while, I have given up my work of life to comfort him. [11]
- The mirrors on the landing reflected ladies in white, pale-blue, and pink dresses, with diamonds and pearls on their bare necks and arms. [2]
- The fowlers discover the hillocks where the ruffs congregate by the grass being trampled bare, and this shews that the same spot is long frequented. [1]
- Once inside, in the half light of a narrow hallway, a variety of noises greeted our ears,--laughter from above and below, interspersed with oaths; the click of billiard balls, and the occasional hammering of a pack of cards on a bare table before the shuffle. [9]
- Athabasca picked up the epaulettes, and hurried away, breathing hard, and hugging them to his bare red-stained breast. [11]
- When he gained the cover of cedars he paused to rest and look, and it was then he saw how the trees sprang from holes in the bare rock. [13]
- But at last the bough is bare Where the coupons one by one Through their ripening days have run, And the bond, a beggar now, Seeks investment anyhow, Anywhere! [6]
- It crawled about the bare sandy or open grassy plains of La Plata under a scorching sun, and could not fail to catch the eye of every passing creature. [1]
- When he entered the bare room, Barine was making a net and telling the fisherman's daughter Dione the story of the wanderings of Ulysses. [10]
- In other cases the barbs disappear, leaving the shafts bare from end to end; and these in the tail of the Paradisea apoda attain a length of thirty-four inches (71. [1]
- A sound broke the afternoon stillness,--the pattering of small, bare feet on the puncheons. [9]
- The bare summit that day was swept by a fierce, cold wind, and lost in an occasional chilling cloud. [4]
- All at once that bare, glacial fact of having sent her fifty pounds acted as an ironical illumination of his real position. [11]
- He bade them thank that Great Spirit who had cleared the sky and opened their ears and hearts that they might receive the truth,--who had laid bare to their understanding the lies of the English. [9]
- The man had taken off his boots and stockings, and his bare feet seemed to grip the floor; also the sleeves of his jacket were rolled up a little. [11]
- They still are sweet, And have been lovely in their beauteous prime, While the bare frond seems ever to repeat, "For us no bud, no blossom, wakes to greet The joyous flowering time! [6]
- The bare branches swaying in the wind outside should belong to the trees in Freshwater Lane. [9]
- The sun had sunk to rest behind the pyramids, the Necropolis, and the Libyan hills; the eastern sky, and the bare limestone rock of Babylon on the opposite shore were shining with hues of indescribable diversity and beauty. [10]
- Never had the sun sent sharper arrows upon the travellers, and pitiless was their fall upon bare heads and shoulders. [10]
- She wanted to strip her soul bare before him; but she caught the look of home in his eyes, she was at his knees at peace, and what he thought of her meant so much just now--in this one hour, for this one hour. [11]
- This was a strange animal, no larger than a calf, as thin as a goat, and in some places woolly, in others as bare as a scraped poodle. [10]
- She had really stopped because a pebble had got into her shoe, and as she took it out she looked at her bare heel and remarked ruefully:--"Those twenty-five cent stockings aren't worth buying! [9]
- Scrawled mounds of stone, like mountain waves, seemed to roll up to steep bare slopes and towers. [13]
- The dirty maidservant stepped from behind the trunk, put up her plait, sighed, and went on her short, bare feet along the path. [2]
- Mounting the stair, Stephen found a room bare enough, save for a few chairs and law books, and not a soul in attendance. [9]
- The trees are stakes; the grass is of no color; and the bare soil is not brown with a healthful brown; life has gone out of it. [4]
- As for Ian Stafford, he had left her stripped bare of one single garment of self-respect. [11]
- Motives of personal spite and of personal gain were laid bare, and even the barter and sale of offices of trust took place before my very eyes. [9]
- Instead of the spider, a slender, lank woman, with long, outstretched bare arms, and fingers spread wide apart, fluttering hair, and wandering eyes again stood before Ledscha. [10]
- Ingolby murmured a soft, unintelligible word, and, in his bare feet, passed out on to the veranda, and from there to the garden and towards the gate at the front of the house. [11]
- How wonderful that so many millions who had loved had come and gone, and yet of all they felt they had spoken no word that laid bare the exact feeling to her or to any other. [11]
- Halfway lay some snow-covered piles of firewood and across and along them a network of shadows from the bare old lime trees fell on the snow and on the path. [2]
- The roaring and shouting reverberated in mighty echoes from the bare northern cliffs, but were subdued by the densely wooded southern shore. [10]
- I missed the sharp outlines, the delicate artistic sky lines, sharply defined in uplifted bare granite peaks and ridges, with the purple and violet color of the northern mountains, and which it seems to me that limestone and granite formations give. [4]
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