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Sentences starting with bent

Bent and panting, they made their way along. [10]

Sentences ending with bent

Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent. [2]
This excited no remark, attracted no attention--for it was his "natural bent. [5]
He had but one serviceable joint in his body, which was at the bottom of the backbone, and that creaked and grated whenever he bent. [4]
It is a holiday harbor, all these seas are holiday seas--the yachts, the sail vessels, the puffing steamers, moving swiftly from one headland to another, or loafing about the blue, smiling sea, are all on pleasure bent. [4]
But she corrected herself swiftly, perceiving his bent. [9]
Jethro Bass, who had supped with the storekeeper, sat in the wooden armchair silent, with his head bent. [9]
There was no doubt nor pause; and I plainly perceived that they were borne along as flowers are in a raging torrent; albeit she, or ever she reached him; was overcome by maiden shamefacedness, and her arms fell and her head was bent. [10]
Women had a bit of colour in their hats or at their throats, and the men had on clean white collars and suits of "store-clothes"--a sign of being on pleasure bent. [11]
He had an artistic bent. [11]
The wrist straight, and now your left foot behind, and your knee bent! [10]

Short sentences using bent

Honora bent over the crib. [9]
He bent over her. [9]
It bent beneath her. [11]
Pierre bent his head. [2]
It bent outward a foot! [5]
Weldon bent over. [9]

Sentences containing bent two or more times

Each time the commander started and bent forward, the hussar started and bent forward in exactly the same manner. [2]

More example sentences with the word bent in them

They are still young...." She bent her head and continued in a whisper: "Has he performed his final duty, Prince? [2]
There sat the young King, under a canopy of state, five steps away, with his head bent down and aside, speaking with a sort of human bird of paradise--a duke, maybe. [5]
When, after long years of effort, he succeeded in getting the rate established, he at once bent his energies in the direction of cheap cable service and a letter from him came one day to Stormfield concerning his new plans. [5]
At first he wore the surplice, stole, and hood, took the eastward position, and intoned the service, and no man said him nay, but watched him curiously and was sorrowful--he was so youthful, clear of eye, and bent on doing heroical things. [11]
His eyes filled with tears, and he bent as tenderly as a father might over the pale face, and pressed a gentle kiss on the bloodless lips of the senseless youth. [10]
His pipe lay with its scattered ashes on the boards, and his head was bent forward, as though listening. [9]
He remained there, with his head unconsciously bent forward, drinking in the melody, stirring neither hand nor foot, hardly breathing. [5]
He hurried on with his head bent, as though under a heavy burthen, and clasped his hand to his forehead with a gesture of despair. [10]
This was coincident with his failure at the ash-factory, where he mismanaged and even robbed Jean Jacques right and left; and she had firmly insisted on Jean Jacques evicting him, on the ground that it was not Sebastian Dolores' bent to manage a business. [11]
He crossed himself with an accustomed movement, bent till he touched the ground with his hand, and bowed his white head with a deep sigh. [2]
Philip shuddered, and with a supreme effort bent to the table again, and wrote on. [11]
The clay Eros, who with bent knee was aiming at a victim visible to himself alone, was also his work. [10]
The son; however, who was not of age, was more unworldly and sanctimonious than his father; he always addressed his parent as "Brother Plum," and bore himself, altogether in such a superior manner that Ruth longed to put bent pins in his chair. [5]
Those lean Egyptians, who pushed past in silence and haranging their heads, were no doubt bent on carrying offerings to Osiris and Anubis--for the festival of the gods of death and resurrection coincided with the Nekysia--and on winning their favors by magical formulas and spells. [10]
The hearth, over which Semestre now bent, to fan the glimmering embers with a goose-wing, was made of yellow marble. [10]
The church-tower on which it had once stood erect had been struck by a German shell, but its steel rod had bent and not broken. [9]
The patched tablecloths which he spread over the tops were coarse and much worn; the dishes carried after him by the two assistants, whose knees bent under the burden, were made of tin, and marred by many a dent. [10]
At such moments, when he was bent on refusing a request, he seemed physically to acquire massiveness,--and he had a dogged way of chewing his cigar. [9]
What reverent and what worshiping looks they bent upon that dread, mysterious power, the Doctor! [5]
Here, as it were, round the bent and broken sides of a bowl, war raged, and the centre was like some caldron out of which imps of ships sprang and sailed to hand up fires of hell to the battalions on the ledges. [11]
The dark spruces were tipped with glimmering lights; the aspens bent low in the winds, as waves in a tempest at sea; the forest of oaks tossed wildly and shone with gleams of fire. [13]
All his energies were bent toward the successful execution of the Bradlaugh order, which had to be completed on the first of February. [9]
At last she went on, her face turned away from the great kindly blue eyes bent upon her, from the face flushed with honourable human sympathy. [11]
That's just the way you bent your head at the wedding in Delft, the way you raised your hands, lowered your eyes--you blushed too, just as prettily. [10]
We bent our way towards one of the sandy streets where the great houses were. [9]
All this process was watched by the three spectators with absorbing interest, their heads bent together over Luigi's palm, and nobody disturbing the stillness with a word. [5]
The great braggart was no better now than a wisp of grass in the wind, and it was more than homage that bent him to his knees as the Queen looked him full in the eyes. [11]
He saw what was coming, and bent his head sideways, and put up his left arm to shield it. [5]
Her snowy-white head was bent upon his, her tears running fast, and her lips moving in silent prayer to Him who giveth and taketh away. [9]
His fresh cheek was bent to the brown, delicate wood, and he was playing to his sister the air of the undying chanson, "Je vais mourir pour ma belle reine. [11]
But if Gering was bent on trouble, why, there was the last resource of the peace-lover. [11]
At first she was bent on making Melissa rest; for she would yet require all her strength. [10]
You bent that wall back like a piece of steel, and broke it. [11]
There was something very like a smile on her face,--although it wasn't really a smile--as she bent over and kissed her mother-in-law on the cheek. [9]
He came down upon us sideways, his legs all in a tangle, and his right arm, bent and twisted, going round and round, as if in vain efforts to get into his pocket, his fingers spread out in impotent desire to clutch something. [4]
He was bent upon a higher duty. [11]
Venters, sighing, gathered up an armful of pottery, such pieces as he thought strong enough and suitable for his own use, and bent his steps toward camp. [13]
Save for this untimely and unreasonable revolt he was bent on stamping out, for Ditmar the world to-day was precisely the same world it had been the day before. [9]
It was delightful until I bent to kiss her; then the swan I rode melted into mist, and I plunged headlong down, falling, falling, until I woke. [10]
I never rightly understood until just now,--and that because I was always looking up, while you'd be looking down, and seeing nothing but the bent backs of them. [9]
The big river-driver turned on the grizzled old man beside the bar- counter with bent shoulders and lazy, drawling speech. [11]
He did not turn round, but his head bent forward, as though he would take a blow from behind, and his eyes almost closed. [11]
They are as transparent as plate glass, and their coloring would shame the richest sky that ever bent over Italy. [5]
He bent down towards her face. [4]
Then he called to them to return, but Jenny only bent a little lower and paddled on, guiding the canoe towards the safe channel through the first small rapids leading to the great Dog Nose Rapids. [11]
Roscoe immediately bent to the oars, I threw an arm around Justine, and in a moment Roscoe had towed us into safer quarters. [11]
She went up to the mischievous Irene and grasping her arms from behind, bent them until she cried for mercy. [9]
He stepped quickly to the bedside, and bent over it. [9]
They all seemed to tell; the swords always bent over the opponents' heads, from the forehead back over the crown, and seemed to touch, all the way; but it was not so--a protecting blade, invisible to me, was always interposed between. [5]
You would like to put a bent pin in their chair when they are about calmly to sit down. [4]
Impulse urged her to kiss the sufferer, but as she bent over the mourner the copper dish slipped from her knees and fell rattling on the floor. [10]
Angele's heart fluttered to her mouth, but the soft, simple music helped her, and she began with eyes bent upon the ground, her linked fingers clasping and unclasping slowly. [11]
She had risen to her feet with the first question; and there she stood, with her pretty face bent floorward whilst I inquired, but always with her honest eyes looking me in the face when it came her turn to answer. [5]
It was strange to hear in that lonely waste, a handful of men, bent on a deadly task, singing a low chant of penitence--a Kyrie eleison. [11]
Some were whittled to a sharp point, and slightly bent at the upper end, like a lady's finger; one monster sugar-loaf resembled a bishop's hat; it was too steep to hold snow on its sides, but had some in the division. [5]
What a contrast to "Steeltown" with its smells and sickening summer heat, to the shanty where Mrs. Scherer took boarders and bent over the wash-tub! [9]
For a long time David stood looking into the sparkling night before him, speechless and unmoving, his hands clasped behind him, his head bent forward, as though in a dream. [11]
She bent forward till she saw one figure get down and, waving a hand to the party on the coach as it moved on, disappear into the gateway of the Cloistered House. [11]
At once she thought only of my danger, and bent and whispered in my hear: "Up!--do not peril yourself, good heart. [5]
Whatever may be thought of my books, they represent nothing except my own bent of mind, my own wilful expression of myself, and the setting forth of that which seized my imagination. [11]
In fact, however, though now much farther off than before, the Rostovs all saw Pierre--or someone extraordinarily like him--in a coachman's coat, going down the street with head bent and a serious face beside a small, beardless old man who looked like a footman. [2]
But as if this angered him, he bent his head quite low and muttered: "Why should we agree? [2]
In a moment, they came tottering in; he, bent and withered and bald; she blooming with wholesome old age. [5]
He bent over them to examine the numerals, printed on pasteboard, they wore on their breasts. [9]
People fell upon their knees in the street as the procession passed, and the Cure's face was bent here and there, his hand raised in blessing. [11]
The initiated bowed their heads till they touched the pavement, and the priests and scholars bent their faces down to the earth, when they beheld their haughty master so filled with humility and devotion. [10]
Both stood straining their eyes and ears to pierce the darkness; but instead of gazing upward the star-reader's eye was bent upon the city, the distant sea, and the level plain. [10]
The watch of the Valiant, waking suddenly, sprang up and ran forward, making no outcry, dazed but bent on fighting. [11]
Stepping silently between the tree trunks, his eyes bent on the leafy loam, he found a footprint here and another there, and suddenly he went into the cane with a sign to us to remain. [9]
He towers into the sky like a colossal wedge, with the upper third of its blade bent a little to the left. [5]
The figure of the singing-woman bent over her protectingly, as it might almost seem, and her hands were caught in a warm clasp. [11]
Els then entered the sick-chamber, but Biberli put his hand under his sweetheart's chin, bent her head back gently, and said: "Now you see how Biberli and other clever people manage. [10]
The connections of the several sections of the raft are slack and pliant, so that the raft may be readily bent into any sort of curve required by the shape of the river. [5]
Then I fixed the piece of log back into its place, and put two rocks under it and one against it to hold it there, for it was bent up at that place and didn't quite touch ground. [5]
We bent to the oars, and the boat shot through the water. [11]
He spurred to the King's side, bent low in his saddle, uncovered, and said-- "My liege, it is an ill time for dreaming. [5]
She bent over the jasmines again. [9]
The priest took the handsome lad by the chin, bent his head back, looked Adam also in the face, and exclaimed: "His mouth, nose and eyes he has inherited from your wife, but the shape of the brow and head is exactly like yours. [10]
As she entered the gate, drooping with exhaustion, there was that creature Loyseleur at her side with his head bent to her ear. [5]
He walked through the garden with his head bent, and looking neither to the right hand nor the left. [10]
Presently Ingolby felt the floor of the bridge under his feet; and now he hastened on, with outstretched arms and head bent forward, listening intently, the dog trotting beside, with what knowledge working in him Heaven alone knew. [11]
This is what the father of Minnette, looking out of the window upon the wide waste of snow, and the evergreens bent to the ground with the weight of it, says, "It looks like the depths of spring. [4]
Presently, after feeling the edge himself, he bent over the stone again, and she went on turning the wheel still singing softly. [11]
White-robed warriors of the desert, with lances, bent their brows upon us as they rode away towards the endless sands, and vagabonds of Egypt begged for alms. [11]
She bent over the calm river, and saw them shining in the same majestic order as when the dove beheld them gleaming through the swollen waters, upon the mountain tops down far below, and dead mankind, a million fathoms deep. [12]
The knees of the big man bent,--Foyle had not taken lessons of Ogami, the Jap, for nothing--they bent, and the cattleman squealed, so intense was the pain. [11]
Ever alive to the bent of the popular mind, she had chosen a perfect occasion to take them into her confidence--however little or much she would abide by her words, or intended the union of which she spoke. [11]
The general with the bandaged head bent forward as though running away from some danger, and, making long, quick strides with his thin legs, went up to Kutuzov. [2]
This person said that the crystal had got bent, and that the mainspring was not straight. [5]
We all thought that Margaret's natural bent was for some useful and self-sacrificing work in the world, and never could have imagined that under any circumstances she would develop into a woman of fashion. [4]
That is--" "Yes, that is love," Kitty answered, her head bent over the pail and stirring the potatoes hard. [11]
Chartersea hissed out that he would not move a step until he had finished me, and as I bent over the body his point popped through my coat, and the pain shot under my shoulder. [9]
Then she conjectured that he might have told Miss Vance of her acquaintance with the Marches, and she bent forward and nodded to Mrs. March across Conrad, Mela, and Mr. March. [8]
With stern severity that boded evil, she gazed down upon her left forearm, bent at the elbow, which corresponds with the ell, the just measure. [10]
Then it was that a face bent over him for a minute, a fair face, with little lines contracting the ripe lips, which were redder than usual, with eyes full of a fevered brightness. [11]
The extremity is tendinous and contains no vertebrae; this is succeeded by five rudimentary ones, so minute that together they are only one line and a half in length, and these are permanently bent to one side in the shape of a hook. [1]
The old man's tall figure was not bent, his snowy hair flowed in abundance round his proud head, and a white beard fell in soft waves far down his breast. [10]
But he stood tall and straight, his wide shoulders flung back, with the muscles of his bound arms rippling and a blue flame of defiance in the gaze he bent on Tull. [13]
Marquis Paulucci was talking to him with particular warmth and the Emperor, with his head bent to the left, was listening with a dissatisfied air. [2]
Venters bent forward swinging with the horse, and gripped his rifle. [13]

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