Use below in a sentence
Sentences starting with below
- Below is a wine-shop, with a little side booth, in which some German travelers sit drinking their wine, and sputtering away in harsh gutturals. [4]
- Below the mound where the tuneful youth loitered was a path, leading down through the fields and into the highway. [11]
- Below stairs nought was stirring. [10]
- Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. [7]
- Below me, on the slope, the spaced orange trees were heavy with golden fruit. [9]
- Below the village the road crossed the river by a bridge and, winding down and up, rose higher and higher to the village of Valuevo visible about four miles away, where Napoleon was then stationed. [2]
- Below him, in the pews, were the rich. [9]
- Below us, on the one hand, a rocky bluff reached out into the river, and on the far side was a timber-clad point round which the Mississippi doubled and flowed back on itself. [9]
- Below her, down the mountain slope, were other clearings, broken by patches of woods. [4]
- Below these are the laborers and men who work at trades, who have no voice in the commonwealth, and crowds of young serving-men who become old beggars, highway-robbers, idle fellows, and spreaders of all vices. [4]
Sentences ending with below
- Ten feet more would have taken me in one gigantic leaps of eight hundred feet on to the glacier below. [5]
- They set to work with their hatchets, and were soon creeping, insectlike, up its surface, with their heels projecting over the thinnest kind of nothingness, thickened up a little with a few wandering shreds and films of cloud moving in a lazy procession far below. [5]
- Plenty of skylights without rooms enough and space enough below. [6]
- Lienhard was toying with the little elf below. [10]
- The Emperor Charles wished to place her in safe quarters up here, while he himself had taken lodgings in the modest house of a Schwaiger--a small farmer who tilled his own garden and land in the valley below. [10]
- Nova a furious wind began to rush out from behind the waterfall, which seemed determined to sweep us from the bridge, and scatter us on the rocks and among the torrents below. [5]
- If you are willing to aid and abet a countryman (and Gilder thinks you are,) please find the signature and address of your petitioner below. [5]
- What a view was spread out below! [5]
- And sometimes they walked together through wooded paths that led them to beetling shores, and sat listening to the waves crashing far below. [9]
- Some old forgotten volcanic eruption sent its broad river of fire down the mountain side here, and it poured down in a great torrent from an overhanging bluff some fifty feet high to the ground below. [5]
Short sentences using below
- Down below all was quiet. [10]
- Toward ten I started below. [5]
- I landed 5 miles below. [5]
- In Hookerville, seven mile below. [5]
- And the tumult below? [10]
- The bell rang below. [11]
- Gorgo remained alone below. [10]
- Here below! [10]
Sentences containing below two or more times
- Some were below us, some on our level; they were all in well-defined, distinct masses, molten silver on deck, below trailing rain, and attended on earth by gigantic shadows that moved with them. [4]
- Below these are the gally-hose of silk, velvet, satin, and damask, reaching below the knees. [4]
- In looking over the fuller list of twenty-eight districts, I find that the quotas for sixteen of them are above 2000 and below 2700, while, of the rest, six are above 2700 and six are below 2000. [7]
- Below her yawned the dizzy gulf of space, and the air was filled with a rain of sceptres, crowns, and golden chains of honour falling upon ermine and purple robes on the ground below. [10]
- On reaching the rock, We-no-na ran to its summit and standing on its edge upbraided her parents who were below, for their cruelty, and then singing a death-dirge, threw herself from the precipice and dashed them in pieces on the rock below. [5]
- The open forest road, with the murmur of the stream below, was delightfully exhilarating, and as we rose the prospect opened,--the lovely valley below, Bald Mountains behind us, and the Butt Mountains rising as we came over the ridge. [4]
- Accordingly, a little below the middle of page twelve in the message last referred to, he enters upon that task; forming an issue and introducing testimony, extending the whole to a little below the middle of page fourteen. [7]
- Yet in these, as in all qualities, man is immeasurably further below me than is the wee spider below the elephant. [5]
- Below it is a garden, below that foliage, and farther down the town with its old speckled roofs, spires, and queer little squares. [4]
More example sentences with the word below in them
- My thoughts gave zest to my actions, and I was climbing the steep, pine-clad slope with rapidity when I heard Miss Trevor below me calling out to wait for her. [9]
- But as to yourself: Those who were born in high places rarely suit us, who have dragged ourselves up from below to a better position. [10]
- Never fall below your ideals--that is what I heard a speaker say at the Town and Country Club, and that is my notion. [4]
- In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
- Only five hundred yards below the bridge was the second cataract, and she would never have waked if she had been carried into it. [11]
- Far below them wound the Blue into its vale of sapphire shadows, with its hillsides of the mystic fabric of the backgrounds of the masters of the Renaissance. [9]
- But the boat would float on, and the boulder descend again, and then we could see that when we had been exactly above it, it must still have been twenty or thirty feet below the surface. [5]
- As the morning wore on, they saw upon a crag of ice below the sloping glacier two men looking upwards towards the flag. [11]
- I wrote 4000 words to-day and I touch 3000 and upwards pretty often, and don't fall below 1600 any working day. [5]
- Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
- Kit's mother, poor woman, is waiting at the grate below stairs, accompanied by Barbara's mother (who, honest soul! [12]
- The dead silence with which the people in the court below had listened to him, was now broken by shrieks of rage and cries for vengeance. [10]
- Demetrius was delighted with her eager enjoyment; presently, nudging the singer, she whispered to him with much satisfaction: "Look how the people down below are craning their necks to look at us! [10]
- With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
- Then upon call, Wilson went to the window, made his examination, and said: "This is Count Luigi's right hand; this one, three signatures below, is his left. [5]
- There was a wild outbreak of anger below, and the mob swarmed in from all around, and there we were treed, and prisoners. [5]
- The man to whom her heart clung, the Emperor, the countless multitude below, were all at this time subject to her in heart and mind. [10]
- All the blood which had seemed congested somewhere below his throat rushed to his face and eyes. [2]
- The saloon below, where we had our tea, was lighted indeed, but sealed so tight as to be insupportable; and the cabin above, stifling too, was dark as a pocket. [9]
- Night fell, and when they reached the Silliston road the lights of Hampton shone below them in the darkness. [9]
- The second time, when Holgate came below to his engine, Dicky was there playing with a Farshoot dog. [11]
- His cheeks, which were so flabby that they looked heavier below, were twitching violently; but he wore the air of a man little concerned in what the two ladies were saying. [2]
- All the flags were sent aloft except half a dozen that were needed to decorate portions of the ship below, and in a short time the vessel assumed a holiday appearance. [5]
- When her eyes were not thus busy, they were searching the lee of the hillside round for yellow lilies, and the valley below for the campion, the daffodil, and the thousand pretty ferns growing in profusion there. [11]
- These twin toilers were left below, with Rudyard Byng forcing his way to the place where they had worked. [11]
- After dinner I went below and took a seat in the stone-paved court, where the customary lemon-trees stand in the customary tubs, and said to myself, "Now this is comfort, comfort and repose, and nobody to disturb it; I do not know anybody in Milan. [5]
- Lady Alice.--Mayhap 'twill weaken when ye hair sprouts below ye navel. [5]
- Thus the glimpses we had of the grand panorama below were only fitful and unsatisfactory. [5]
- Perhaps, like the wayfarer, my fears were the sharper for the memory of the beauty of the morning on that same mountain, when, filled with vigour, I had gazed on it from the plain below and beheld the sun breaking through the mists.... [9]
- Here they could watch unseen the tumult in the square below, for it was surrounded by dense laurel bushes. [10]
- It was my watch below till twelve, but I wouldn't a turned in anyway if I'd had a bed, because a body don't see such a storm as that every day in the week, not by a long sight. [5]
- Beyond and below was the spring-house, and there was the place where the brook dived under the ruined wall,--where Dorothy had wound into her hair the lilies of the valley before she sailed for London. [9]
- If her plan was successful, she would have accomplished something unprecedented; if she failed--if, while turning, she lost her balance--her scanty stock of pleasure here below would be over, and also her great grief and insatiable yearning. [10]
- The Mississippi below was practically closed. [9]
- The farmer's beard was overgrown, and the eyes looked up at him as from caverns of suffering below the bandage. [9]
- To the right was Mars Hill, where the Areopagus sat in ancient times and where St. Paul defined his position, and below was the market-place where he "disputed daily" with the gossip-loving Athenians. [5]
- But presently there was loud murmuring and shuffling of feet outside again, and Rosalie left the room hurriedly and went below to stop it. [11]
- When the sun was falling below Little Red Hill, Macavoy came to Wonta's tent. [11]
- But the mystery was explained when we got under way again; for these people were evidently bound for a large town which lay shut in behind a tow-head (i.e., new island) a couple of miles below this landing. [5]
- The long table was divided into upper and lower messes by a huge salt-cellar; and the consequence of the guests was marked by their seats above or below the salt. [4]
- The fog that was dispersing on the hill lay still more densely below, where they were descending. [2]
- The street below was becoming less crowded. [10]
- In one place was a hilarious picture of a student of the green cap corps with a bottle of champagne in each hand; and below was the legend: "These make an evil fate endurable. [5]
- Inside it was warm and bright and home-like; outside it was twenty degrees below zero, and like some vast tomb where life itself was congealed, and only the white stars, low, twinkling, and quizzical, lived-a life of sharp corrosion, not of fire. [11]
- I have long wanted a good chance for getting acquainted with the social sphere several grades below that to which I am accustomed, and I have no doubt that I shall find matter for half a dozen new stories among those connections of mine. [6]
- Even then sleep visited us not, and that which had been doing below was as great a distress to me as my fears for my lover. [10]
- That feature was very troublesome: if made prominent, it was calculated to excite Pete's suspicion; if modified below the suspicion-point it was flat and meaningless. [5]
- Down, down, down Venters strode, more and more feeling the weight of his burden as he descended, and still the valley lay below him. [13]
- Above the bed various costly weapons and whips were elegantly displayed, and below them the seven arrows over which Setchem had read the words "Death to Mena. [10]
- From their lofty vantage-ground the giants Gog and Magog, the ancient guardians of the city, contemplated the spectacle below them with eyes grown familiar to it in forgotten generations. [5]
- Here the author used to sit for hours, weaving histories out of the casual incidents passing under his eye, and the occupations of the busy mortals below. [4]
- The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of the river, and not show a light till we got a long ways below the town. [5]
- I'll send him up to you, but he must first tell me below what his tidings are. [10]
- Samuel Clemens, coming up the river on the A. T. Lacey, two days behind the Pennsylvania, heard a voice shout as they approached the Greenville, Mississippi, landing: "The Pennsylvania is blown up just below Memphis, at Ship Island! [5]
- Then I took up the pig and held him to my breast with my jacket (so he couldn't drip) till I got a good piece below the house and then dumped him into the river. [5]
- A road slanted up the little limestone bluff, and above and below us stone houses could be seen nestling into the hill, houses higher on the river side, and with galleries there. [9]
- Low whines came up from below. [13]
- I lugged wood up from below for some little time, and then turned in and fell to snoring as only a man can whose strength is all gone and whose soul is worn out. [5]
- There she lay, until the last laugh and sound of rattling glass had died away below, and her aunt's guests had left the house. [10]
- On it went, under the wide spans of the old wooden, covered bridge, swirling around the great rocks on which the piers stood, spreading away below in shallows, and taking the shadows of a row of maples that lined the green shore. [4]
- The fog lay unbroken like a sea down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon stood with his marshals around him, it was quite light. [2]
- We visited the two long, covered wooden bridges which span the green and brilliant Reuss just below where it goes plunging and hurrahing out of the lake. [5]
- The young man turned hastily, noticed that he was in the room overlooking the court-yard, and said, eagerly: I was down below just before twilight, to look at my new quarters, and heard singing from this room, and such singing! [10]
- They swung, like trained warriors, the brazen sickle-shaped sword, the curved shield of heavy wood, or the lance decked below its point with a bunch of camel's hair. [10]
- Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up. [5]
- At the very top a crucifix was sketched with an unsteady hand, and below it the words: "Pray for us! [10]
- For himself, he took his station on a rugged mat before the furnace-door, and resting his chin upon his hands, watched the flame as it shone through the iron chinks, and the white ashes as they fell into their bright hot grave below. [12]
- I am able to view your inspirations dispassionately and judicially, now, and say "This one or that one or the other one is not up to your average flight, or is above it, or below it. [5]
- But at last, to their great joy, it led downwards in a steep descent, with overhanging banks over which the footpaths led; and the clustered houses of the village peeped from the woody hollow below. [12]
- I started across to the town from a little below the ferry-landing, and the drift of the current fetched me in at the bottom of the town. [5]
- The distinction extended to the fare, for wine frequently circulated only above the salt, and below it the food was of coarser quality. [4]
- His plan was to slip down to his uncle's private sitting room below, pass into the bedroom, steal the safe key from the old gentleman's clothes, and then go back and rob the safe. [5]
- It frightened him to see how the huge masses of rock and old forest-growths hung over the home below. [6]
- He was about to open the window, when he heard a door shut below, and the thud of heavy steps outside the house. [11]
- Here he ventured to look below, expecting to see Carterette, but there was only the white sand, and no sound save the long wash of the gulf. [11]
- He kept mumbling to himself: "Ho, ho, Farette is below there with the gun, rubbing and rubbing at the rust! [11]
- Then she turned to her window, breathing in the perfumes, gazing out through the horse-chestnut leaves at the green, shadow-dappled lawn below. [9]
- Smith's ship happening to go aground half a league below, they sent off to him, and were glad to submit on any terms to his mercy. [4]
- But I helped to fish them out of the river, down below the bridge, and then described it to them as well as I could. [5]
- Nothing had happened to cause him grave anxiety, yet he had been below par for several hours. [11]
- One sees it to better effect from below, or he must ascend it to the Jardin to know that it has deep crevasses, and is as treacherous as it is grand. [4]
- I took it to be rain, but it turned out to be only the murmur of the restless Neckar, tumbling over her dikes and dams far below, in the gorge. [5]
- But Clark himself, tireless, stood with folded arms gazing at the scene below, and the sunlight on his face illumined him (to the lad standing at his side) as the servant of destiny. [9]
- For by that time all eyes here and above and below will have become adjusted to the change and in love with it, and the present clumsy and ragged forms will be grotesque to the eye and revolting to the soul. [5]
- She had seen thousands of youths march in, and there they stood in close ranks in the arena below her. [10]
- The watch had thought that Iberville had gone below, and he had again relaxed, but presently a little maggot of wonder got into his brain. [11]
- Whoever knows that thought and feeling end with life will not fear death; for, no matter how many dear and precious things the dead have left here below, their yearning for them has ceased with life. [10]
- The words were those of Master Walther von der Vogelweirde, and were as follows: "True love is neither man nor maid, No body hath nor yet a soul, Nor any semblance here below, Its name we hear, itself unknown. [10]
- Not this hatred, this thirst for revenge, this blood, this persecution, and, as their hideous fruit, this terror, these horrible, cruel fears--" Here she was interrupted by the clatter of arms and rapping of hammers which came up from below. [10]
- Bennigsen loudly criticized this mistake, saying that it was madness to leave a height which commanded the country around unoccupied and to place troops below it. [2]
- When I measured this in 1837, it was twenty-four feet eight inches in circumference at five feet from the ground; growing larger above and below. [6]
- In Charley's day this gate had been often used, for it gave upon four steep wooden steps leading to a narrow shelf of rock below. [11]
- At length, when they were come to some Indian mounds, they found a picket of three, companies of the force which had reached the flat the day before, and had been sent down to prevent the enemy from obstructing further the stream below the fleet. [9]
- Down and down they were buffeted by the rushing waters, over the falls and through the tunnels, with time to think only of that which would save them from immediate death, until they emerged into the sunlight of the plain below. [9]
- He awoke from these memories to gaze down through the criss-cross of a trestle to the twisted, turbid waters of the river far below. [9]
- At that moment there was a noise below in the hall. [11]
- What a noise there is in the street below! [10]
- With respect to the zigzagged antennae mentioned below, see Fritz Muller, 'Facts and Arguments for Darwin,' 1869, p. 40, foot- note. [1]
- The skipper of the yacht and a couple of hands rushed below. [4]
- The death of the woman below had moved her deeply, for the wonderful charm of Florette's manner had won her also. [10]
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