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Sentences ending with bearings

For days he wandered in lonely places, thinking, thinking, thinking --trying to get his bearings. [5]
Just long enough to get my bearings. [9]
He gave the signal to lay-to, and himself took the bearings. [11]
Of the superb physical coolness and intrepid mind with which he had sprung upon the stage of Covent Garden Opera House to rescue Al'mah nothing seemed left; or, if it did remain, it was shocked out of its bearings. [11]
Lord Berkeley sprang out of bed and moved with all possible speed toward the clothes-press in the darkness and the gathering smoke, but fell over a chair and lost his bearings. [5]
He took a level tumblerful of whisky every morning before he put his clothes on--"to sweeten his bilgewater," he said.--He took another after he got the most of his clothes on, "to settle his mind and give him his bearings. [5]
Presently, with the help of a kind stranger on my right, who was occasionally making shorthand notes, I got a few bearings. [9]
I didn't really get my bearings. [5]
It was hard for us to get our bearings. [5]
Please take your electric light and go to--but never mind, it is not for me to suggest; you will probably find the way; and any way you can reasonably count on divine assistance if you lose your bearings. [5]

More example sentences with the word bearings in them

But really, madam, when I come to examine the matter in all its bearings, I find that the correctness of your assertion does not assert itself in all cases. [5]
So then I took the bearings of a woody island that was down the river a piece, and as soon as it was fairly dark I crept out with my raft and went for it, and hid it there, and then turned in. [5]
This ass with the unpronounceable name was probably more insane than usual this week or two back, and may get back upon his bearings by and by, but he was over the sanity-border when he shot the President. [5]
I had lost the bearings of that bed. [5]
She did not seek to find her bearings, or to realize in what country of the senses and the emotions she was travelling. [11]
Prince Andrew, without replying, asked the prince's permission to ride round the position to see the disposition of the forces, so as to know his bearings should he be sent to execute an order. [2]
I could not quite get the bearings of the thing. [5]
Life was a queer thing, and he had not yet got his bearings in it. [11]
The cry of 'quarter twain' did not really take his mind from his talk, but his trained faculties instantly photographed the bearings, noted the change of depth, and laid up the important details for future reference without requiring any assistance from him in the matter. [5]
Soon afterwards, when it was reported back, there was a discussion over it, and perhaps Trumbull in reading it hastily in the altered form did not perceive all the bearings of the alterations. [7]
These naval folk have had so much of the world, have got the bearings of so many seas, that they lose all littleness, and form their own minds. [11]
What Tipton might have done when he swung to his new bearings is mere conjecture, for Colonel Sevier himself stepped up on the porch, laid his hand on Temple's arm, and spoke to him in a low tone. [9]
Of course we frequently manned the poles and shoved earnestly for a second or so, but every time one of those spurts of dust and debris shot aloft every man dropped his pole and looked up to get the bearings of his share of it. [5]
His standard was borne by his trusty squire, Cornelius Van Vorst; consisting of a huge oyster recumbent upon a sea-green field; being the armorial bearings of his favorite metropolis, Communipaw. [4]
I drew back, and for a moment paused to get my bearings. [11]
He declined soup and fish, which had just been served, because he wished for time to get his bearings. [11]
He had been all excitement, all fury, as he jumped from his horse; and now, as he looked at me, he seemed to lose his bearings, to be all bewilderment. [9]
He groped desperately about on his hands, and presently struck his head against the table and was deeply grateful, for it gave him his bearings again, since it stood close by the door. [5]
The bride fetched a swoop with her fingers from one end of the keyboard to the other, just to get her bearings, as it were, and you could see the congregation set their teeth with the agony of it. [5]
Approaching Vancouver through a narrow and difficult passage densely befogged with smoke from the forest fires, he had had the ill-luck to lose his bearings and get his ship on the rocks. [5]

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