Use bearing in a sentence
Sentences starting with bearing
- Bearing this in mind, and seeing that sectionalism has since arisen upon this same subject, is that warning a weapon in your hands against us, or in our hands against you? [7]
- Bearing upon this last point, I must tell you that I have some painful intimations that some of your corps and division commanders are not giving you their entire confidence. [7]
- Bearing Washington Hawkins and his fortunes, the stage-coach tore out of Swansea at a fearful gait, with horn tooting gaily and half the town admiring from doors and windows. [5]
Sentences ending with bearing
- Ah, yes, she was happy, more than happy, and yet not entirely so, for happiness must be bright, and a dark, harassing shadow fell again and again over the sunny enthusiasm which irradiated her nature and lent her a haughtier bearing. [10]
- It was surprising to find in the desolate wilds of our country a man so thoroughly acquainted with everything useful to know in his line of life, and yet of such inferior rank and unpretentious bearing. [5]
- Esaul Lovayski the Third was a tall man as straight as an arrow, pale-faced, fair-haired, with narrow light eyes and with calm self-satisfaction in his face and bearing. [2]
- Upon these occasions the old man's eyes dropped tears in an apathetic quiet, which tortured Bickersteth beyond bearing. [11]
- Wilhelm had seen the British soldiers, their commander, Colonel Chester, and Captain Gensfort, and praised their superb equipments and stately bearing. [10]
- He was very tall for his age, with dark hair and a pale dry face, and of distinguished bearing. [11]
- I put my surplus affections into stocks and shares, and bulling and bearing. [11]
- Mr. Meeker's cringing soul responded, and in a month Honora was the leading spirit of the class, led the marches, and was pointed out by the little dancing master as all that a lady should be in deportment and bearing. [9]
- Countess Bezukhova turned smiling to the newcomer, and Natasha, following the direction of that look, saw an exceptionally handsome adjutant approaching their box with a self-assured yet courteous bearing. [2]
- There they were, six officers of wide renown, handsome men in beautiful armor, but the Lord High Admiral of France was the handsomest of them all and had the most gallant bearing. [5]
Short sentences using bearing
- She's bearing this way. [11]
- A haughty, almost repellent bearing. [10]
- Memorandum book bearing no name. [5]
More example sentences with the word bearing in them
- Ah, wilt thou yet return, Bearing thy rose-hued torch, and bid thine altar burn? [6]
- How noble and yet how easy was the bearing of the dignitary, who was still less than thirty years old! [10]
- He rode, as ye know, through peril to Pango Dooni, bearing the call for help, and he hath helped to save the whole land from the Red Plague. [11]
- She was a woman of distinguished bearing, though small, with a wan, sad look in her eyes always, but with a cheerful smile. [11]
- No one walks with that bearing who is on the eve of renouncing the world. [10]
- Dozens of men with necks swathed in napkins, rushed from barber-shops, lathered to the eyes or with one cheek clean shaved and the other still bearing a hairy stubble. [5]
- He was furnished with a fresh horse, and he left, bearing a message from Lepage. [11]
- Mr. Paul Pardriff, who had a guilty conscience about the clipping, and vividly bearing in mind Mr. Blodgett's mishap, alone avoided young Mr. Vane; and escaped through the type-setting room and down an outside stairway in the rear when that gentleman called. [9]
- They were those who cherished in their minds an ideal of statesmanship and of personal bearing in high office with which, in their opinion, Lincoln's individuality was much out of accord. [7]
- Michael Clones--in his white jean waistcoat, white neckcloth and trousers, and blue coat--is coming up the drive in hot haste, bearing a letter. [11]
- Though the materials which she selected were not the most costly, her aristocratic bearing made them appear valuable. [10]
- I'm very comfortable where I am; that is, I know just where the pinch comes, and if it comes harder, why, I've got used to bearing that kind of pinch. [8]
- It was as when several grafts, bearing fruit that ripens at different times, are growing upon the same stock. [6]
- About ten o'clock we stopped somewhere, and a large Englishman of official military bearing stepped in. [5]
- In the Virginia waters he had left a cluster of islands bearing his name also. [4]
- At his side was the Sire d'Albret, proxy for the Constable of France, bearing the Sword of State. [5]
- But Joan's dignity was not ruffled, her bearing was not discomposed. [5]
- Farnese's bold assault was kindly rebuked by the commander-in-chief, and when the former praised Navarrete's heroic aid before Don Juan, the general gave the bold warrior and gallant trooper, the honorable commission of bearing tidings of the victory to the king. [10]
- His unconstrained bearing was instantly transformed into one of unapproachable, icy dignity. [10]
- The crooked Carson was full to the brim, and its waters were raging and foaming in the wildest way--sweeping around the sharp bends at a furious speed, and bearing on their surface a chaos of logs, brush and all sorts of rubbish. [5]
- After breakfast he was conducted, with regal ceremony, attended by his great officers and his guard of fifty Gentlemen Pensioners bearing gilt battle-axes, to the throne-room, where he proceeded to transact business of state. [5]
- But now--now something was brought home to her of the magnificent certainty with which they must first have been spoken, of the tone and bearing and authority of him who had uttered them. [9]
- Behind the fountain was a sort of cupboard--suggestive of the Arabian Nights, which Janet had never read--from which, occasionally, the fat proprietor emerged bearing Turkish coffee or long Turkish pipes. [9]
- Down this space walked the Archbishop and his canons, and after them followed those five stately figures in splendid harness, each bearing his feudal banner--and riding! [5]
- The stool, which usually stood on a wooden trestle opposite to it, now occupied a place before the table bearing the flagon of wine, and was intended for Barbara. [10]
- Naked swordsmen, with upright and shining blades, were followed by men on camels bearing kettle-drums. [11]
- His smoothly shaven upper lip and brown whiskers, his erect bearing and energetic manner, reminded one of an English parliamentary leader, but his words sounded almost menacing. [10]
- When we drew up to shift horses, Jack would come to the door to inquire if there was aught she wanted, and to know how I was bearing up. [9]
- Tarboe did not understand, but now his blood was up, and as another volley sent bullets dropping around the two he gave the Ninety-Nine to the wind, and she came bearing down smartly to them. [11]
- They wear green twigs in their helmets, and the Eletto is marching in the van, bearing the standard. [10]
- She had been troubled and tried beyond bearing, and her impulsive nature revolted at his silence. [11]
- Before the bacchanalian train which accompanied him, and behind the musicians who followed, moved two elephants bearing between them, as a light burden, some unrecognizable object covered with a purple cloth. [10]
- As Fleda came towards him, under the same trees which had shielded her from the sun months ago--now nearly naked and bare--something in her look and bearing sharply caught his interest. [11]
- She was surprised, too, to note the aristocratic bearing whose possession no one could deny the artist's daughter. [10]
- He sails up to you bearing your own flag, and when he gets aboard he shows the skull and cross-bones. [4]
- I am disposed to wait for future developments, bearing in mind, of course, the very singular case you have unearthed. [6]
- Curiosity drew both to the spot, and as Miriam's stately bearing made the throng move respectfully aside, they soon saw the mournful contents of a large travelling-chariot, which had lost its wheels. [10]
- By bearing away to the left into another path, and making a detour, she could reach the Meeting-house through a narrow lane leading past a now disused mill and a small, strong stream flowing from the hill above. [11]
- They're signalling us to stop, and they're bearing down. [11]
- When Philip went to sleep at night--he was in the front chamber reserved for guests--the loud murmur of the Deerfield was in his ears, like a current bearing him away into sweet sleep and dreams in a land of pleasant adventures. [4]
- A steward came to him officiously, and patronisingly too,--which is the bearing of servants to shabbily-dressed people,--but he shook his head, caught his bag smartly away from the steward's fingers, and moved towards the after part of the ship, reserved for intermediate passengers. [11]
- Dion was right to give this warning; for Gorgias's bearing and the very tone of his voice changed as he eagerly declared that the frightful events had been followed by more than happy ones for the city, his friend, and Barine. [10]
- She was beginning to feel that she had lived two lives, and that this life had no direct or vital bearing upon her previous existence, in which David had moved. [11]
- She really deserves to be punished for bearing false witness, and her punishment cannot, at any rate, be so heavy as yours. [10]
- I took it to be a fleet from France bearing re-enforcements and supplies--as indeed afterwards I found was so; but the re-enforcements were so small and the supplies so limited that it is said Montcalm, when he knew, cried out, "Now is all lost! [11]
- Ferrol was going to answer her, when he saw, coming along the road, the Cure in his robes, bearing the host. [11]
- Even as he thought, a figure in scarlet with a noble face and a high pride of bearing stood before them, not far away. [11]
- The more I thought of what the old man had said, and of his looks and bearing, the less I could account for what I had seen and heard. [12]
- Not one of those events had gone for nothing; each was bearing fruit after its kind. [11]
- I will condense this account, as follows: On the 12th of August, 1861, at the hour of the close of mass, a guide arrived out of breath at the mairie of Chamonix, and bearing on his shoulders a very lugubrious burden. [5]
- I mention these things as bearing on the story of my life, with which I must get on. [9]
- In a moment they sighted this wild pair bearing down upon them with a terrible swiftness. [11]
- Instead of swords they carried axes, and they were followed by sappers bearing tall ladders which, by Constantine's orders, they leaned up against the niche. [10]
- The lives of these people hung in truth upon a slender thing--the bearing of one man. [9]
- At that moment there came a knocking at the door, then it was thrown open, and there stepped inside the Earl of Leicester, preceded by a page bearing a torch. [11]
- The British contented themselves with holding their position till Walley returned bearing the admiral's orders to embark again for the fleet. [11]
- Mr. Tooting copied them; and some, which would have gone into the waste-basket, he laid carefully aside, bearing in mind the adage about little scraps of paper--if there is one. [9]
- I will uphold thee-- I thy father am he who now is thy succor, Bearing thee in my hands. [10]
- Adrian ran to the workshops and told the men, Peter went to the town-hall with a more upright bearing, and Maria, who was obliged to go out, undertook to tell Wilhelm's mother of the good results produced by her son's gift. [10]
- These also saw the White Hands bearing upon the Fort, and hurried forward. [11]
- She was on the verge of tears as she looked helplessly about her for a defender; but she had not long to wait, for Orion instantly gave orders that Perpetua should be imprisoned for bearing false witness. [10]
- They retired to the upper end of the "Meadows," resumed civilized apparel, washed off their paint, and then, heavily armed, drove down in wagons to the beleaguered emigrants, bearing a flag of truce! [5]
- Try to feel the true bearing of my words, and then you will gladly join in the pathetic appeal to the sublime god to return. [10]
- Miss Virginia crossed the street with a dignity and bearing which drew even the eyes of the body-guard to one side. [9]
- The beak of the ship bearing the statue of Hygieia, carved in wood, began to move. [10]
- A letter bearing the same date as the above went back to Howells, we find, in reference to still another incident, which perhaps should come first. [5]
- As bearing on the question of your coming home, I do not think the raid into Pennsylvania amounts to anything at all. [7]
- But bearing on the question of whether the delegates were fairly elected, a speech of his, made something more than twelve months ago, from this stand, becomes important. [7]
- He could see the procession form, with priests and mourners, and move solemnly away, bearing the secret with them. [5]
- The escutcheon of the noble family from which Rosalinde, Herr Casper's wife, had descended rested against the shield bearing the birds. [10]
- The evening of the next day but one the Proserpina was bearing Hermon away from the city of weavers toward home. [10]
- I cannot describe the majesty of his bearing or the benignity of his appearance. [4]
- The next day the King with Joan at his side and the Paladin bearing her banner entered the town in state at the head of the army. [5]
- And last of the goodly procession came Miss Monflathers, bearing herself a parasol of lilac silk, and supported by two smiling teachers, each mortally envious of the other, and devoted unto Miss Monflathers. [12]
- Next came Plutus, the god of Wealth, followed by Freiberg miners bearing large specimens of silver ore in buckets and baskets; and, lastly, Mars, the god of War, leading by a long chain two camels on which rode captive and fettered Turks. [10]
- Have you beheld the flame leaping up to its parent the sun, and bearing with it, in the rising column of smoke, our prayers to the radiant Creator? [10]
- With respect to the evidence bearing upon that question of fact, I readily agree that Judge Douglas and the Republicans had the right on their side, and that the Administration was wrong. [7]
- Five steamers carrying the Egyptian flag were bearing around the point where the river curved below the town, and converging upon David's small fleet. [11]
- The procession passed the doorway: men bearing banners with sacred texts, acolytes swinging censers, a figure of the Saviour carved in wood borne aloft, the Cure under a silk canopy, and a long line of habitants following with sacred song. [11]
- The spectacle of the day was the procession bearing the silver image of the saint through the streets. [4]
- It had reached the city too late, but on Saturday evening Janus Dousa and Captain Van der Laen were actively engaged, summoning every one capable of bearing arms to appear early Sunday morning. [10]
- The face and the bearing that indicate a surly spirit and a bad heart seemed to me to be so rare among Indians--so nearly non-existent, in fact--that I sometimes wondered if Thuggee wasn't a dream, and not a reality. [5]
- And so came the Abbot, in his sacerdotal panoply, bearing the vial, with his people following after. [5]
- I barely suggest that you, or any of the friends there, on the party account, look it over, and exclude what you may think would embarrass the party bearing in mind, at all times, that I authorize nothing--will be responsible for nothing. [7]
- Once she believed that she had certainly recognised him, for a tall young man of knightly bearing appeared, not mounted, but on foot, and stopped opposite to the Ortlieb house. [10]
- Why was it that no one of them had the look and bearing of that young man she had seen but a moment the other evening? [6]
- I could see that he was bearing something in one arm, and assisting himself with the other. [5]
- He assured me that he had not the slightest objection whatever to my plan, that he wished me every success, and that, if there were any books in his library bearing on my subject that I liked to use, they were entirely at my service. [6]
- And let me tell you, I am the leech in Montfort, and unless death is near, and the chaplain accompanies me bearing the sacrament, I often go alone with the manservant, the maid, or the pages who carry my medicines. [10]
- Mr. Wading had telephoned to the office for me to bring them some papers bearing on the case. [9]
- Whatever bearing this telegram may have had upon his plans, he made up his mind that he would contrive an opportunity somehow that very evening to propose himself as a suitor to Myrtle Hazard. [6]
- Next, they will take you to the scaffold, with great eclat, at the head of an imposing procession composed of clergymen, officials, citizens generally, and young ladies walking pensively two and two, and bearing bouquets and immortelles. [5]
- Flanking the sidewalks, symbolizing and completing the heterogeneous and bewildering effect of the street were long rows of heavy hemlock trunks, unpainted and stripped of bark, with crosstrees bearing webs of wires. [9]
- At last the supreme moment came, and with head erect and the bearing of an empress she swept through the door and stood upon the stage. [5]
- At the second story a bracket, bearing an image of the Madonna, had been built out on one side, and on the other the bow window from which old Countess Rotterbach had looked down into the street. [10]
- And as he stood apart there, receiving this homage in rags, I thought to myself, well, really there is something peculiarly grand about the gait and bearing of a king, after all. [5]
- His courage, his stone-cold strength, the disdain which was coming into his voice, impressed them, apart from his argument or its bearing on the previous debate. [11]
- Whilst I was still searching, the door opened, the voices fell calm, and Dorothy came in bearing a candle in each hand. [9]
- What made it still more a long martyrdom was the necessity for bearing his cross in utter loneliness. [6]
- These are life-size statues of old-time emperors, electors, and similar grandees, clad in mail and bearing ponderous swords. [5]
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