Use blown in a sentence
Sentences ending with blown
- Yes, we knew we must lose him,--though friendship may claim To blend her green leaves with the laurels of fame; Though fondly, at parting, we call him our own, 'Tis the whisper of love when the bugle has blown. [6]
- Presently Ruth Devlin said: "Would it not be better to wait till to- night, when the place is lighted, before the whistle is blown? [11]
More example sentences with the word blown in them
- Do you want your head blown off? [5]
- True a flatboat will float faster than an egg shell and the egg shell might be blown away by the wind, but if under the same influence they would go the same way. [7]
- A blue-faced man, who had nothing to offer except that he had been blown up in a mine, would be regarded as a rank impostor, and a mere damaged soldier on crutches would never make a cent. [5]
- The enemy's guns were in his fancy not guns but pipes from which occasional puffs were blown by an invisible smoker. [2]
- And then, when we had cautiously rounded a hummock at the top, my steel helmet was blown off--not by a shrapnel, but by the wind! [9]
- The curtain of water covering this entrance was blown back and forth by the wind, now leaving the platform dry and now deluging it. [4]
- Beaten their cause was, and hunted down, Like to a moose in the chase full blown, Panting they stood; and a Judas sold Their hiding-place for a piece of gold. [11]
- For example, he was very tall and very slim, with red hair blown every which way over a high and towering forehead that seemed as long as the face under it. [9]
- But as I was thanking my stars that the matter had blown over with Bolingbroke's rejection, there occurred a most singular thing. [9]
- And when it was done, and the whole thing had blown over, who cared? [4]
- The storm of war has blown to your house the young madcap, with whom you spent such happy hours at your sister's wedding. [10]
- Three of the verses I give here: "The 'Lovely Jane' went sailing down To anchor at the Spicy Isles; And the wind was fair as ever was blown, For the matter of a thousand miles. [11]
- The torch-bearers who usually headed the procession this time were obliged to close its ranks, for the storm raging from the northeast would have blown the smoke into the people's faces. [10]
- Hospitably he drew us out of the wind and rain into his little hut, and sat us down beside the stove, cheerfully informing us that, only the night before, the gale had blown his door in, and his roof had started for the German lines. [9]
- 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]
- It was not until then I realized that we had been blown clear across the pond! [9]
- I had another uncle, on an entirely different Fourth of July, who was blown up that way, and really it trimmed him as it would a tree. [5]
- Many times the two turned to see, and he was there, looking after them; his forehead bared to the clear inspiring wind, his grey hair blown back, his hands clasped. [11]
- Soon they came trooping out, and the steward called out as soon as he saw him: "The storm has blown down the masts at the great gate! [10]
- How many a time have her rosy lips blown up your feathers, and cried, 'Well done, little fellow! [10]
- Two sides of this place were guarded by railings, to keep people from being blown over the precipices. [5]
- Of some of these the plaster between the carved beams had been shot away, the roofs blown off, and the tiny hewn rafters were bared to the sky. [9]
- The spell broke, then, and the men made a rush for the door, saying: "Something's blown up! [5]
- You see, the theater is empty, and hundreds of the audience are a good way off in the feeding-house; the first bugle-call is blown about a quarter of an hour before time for the curtain to rise. [5]
- He thought of the present, and he wrote: "Wave walls to seaward, Storm-clouds to leeward, Beaten and blown by the winds of the West; Sail we encumbered Past isles unnumbered, But never to greet the green island of Rest. [11]
- He stopped in the foretop, repeatedly, and was as often blown away by the wind. [5]
- The fountains of the deep had been broken up, and Sybil Eglington's repressed emotions, undeveloped passions, tortured by mortal sufferings, and refined and vitalised by the atmosphere blown in upon her last hours from the Hereafter, were set free, given voice and power at last. [11]
- It is possible that this is not true, but Judge Douglas knows it is asserted to be true in letters, newspapers, and public speeches, and borne by every mail and blown by every breeze to the eyes and ears of the world. [7]
- And when the storm has blown out of your path the poor dust, which to-day lives and breathes, loves and despairs, grant it a place in your memory. [10]
- He would not spoil the development of the drama, of which he now held the fluttering prologue, by any blunt treatment; he would touch this and that nerve gently to see what past connection there was between: "These dim blown birds beneath an alien sky. [11]
- At last we reached an open place in a safe region, and sat down, blown and hot, to cool off and nurse our scratches and bruises. [5]
- People were shot, probed, dismembered, blown up, thrown out of the window. [5]
- The Emperor lay on a couch near the right wall, which was blown in and bulged by the wind; his bloodless lips were tightly set, his arms crossed over his breast, and his eyes half closed. [10]
- Why, the second night of the strike your new bridge over the river was to be blown up. [11]
- Arrived at the Monocacy River, about three miles this side of Frederick, we came to a halt, for the railroad bridge had been blown up by the Rebels, and its iron pillars and arches were lying in the bed of the river. [6]
- To Wilson, so long familiar with neglect and depreciation, this strange new incense of popularity and admiration was as a fragrance blown from the fields of paradise. [5]
- He could write it after he had blown his brains out. [5]
- She was alone in the world like a tree without roots, like a leaf blown out to sea, like an unfledged bird that has fallen out of the nest. [10]
- While he was in the height of this engagement, perhaps the horn would be blown from the back porch, reminding him that it was time to quit cutting brush and go for the cows. [4]
- She sat down in the editorial chair and read a great deal of uninteresting matter, but at last found something on the floor (where the wind had blown it) which made her laugh. [9]
- But see: when I am blown into the air I shall not ride alone. [11]
- Far around as human breath has ever blown he keeps our fathers, our brothers, our sons, and our friends prostrate in the chains of moral death. [7]
- Rudyard had blown his friend's trumpet wherever men would listen to him; had proclaimed Stafford as the coming man: and this was what he had done to Rudyard! [11]
- When she entered her sleeping-room the courage which she had summoned during the walk, and the hope to which she had yielded, appeared to be scattered and blown away as if by a gust of wind. [10]
- It has brought her money; it has blown her name about the listening world. [4]
- One thing only he felt, one thing only heard--the men in Barbazon's Tavern saying that the bridge should be blown up on the Saturday night; and this was Saturday night--the night of the day following that of the Orange funeral. [11]
- Why, the French have crossed the bridge that Auersperg was defending, and the bridge was not blown up: so Murat is now rushing along the road to Brunn and will be here in a day or two. [2]
- Many a Frenchman has blown his brains out rather than declare himself a bankrupt. [5]
- The terrible rumor had scared the pious sisters out of their wonted peace and put them all into confusion, like smoke blown into a bee-hive. [10]
- A giant oak had blown down across the water, and, cutting out a few branches of this, we spread our blankets under it on the turf. [9]
- If Henry Brierly had been blown up on the first Mississippi steamboat he set foot on, as the chances were that he would be, he and Col. [5]
- Then, good my gentlemen, bring down My robe of soft samite; And let the royal horn be blown, For we ride far to-night. [11]
- And rosy faces gathered there, With rustic good around them; With breath of balm blown everywhere, Pure, ere the world had found them. [11]
- Leaning just gently forward out of the perpendicular, easy and nonchalant, with broad slouch-hat brim blown square up in front, and long riata swinging above the head, they swept through the town like the wind! [5]
- He understood that for him the storm had blown over, and that Kutuzov would content himself with that hint. [2]
- The windmill blown down by the witche's fart, Or Saint George, that, O! [5]
- The sky was dark with snow, which was not permitted to fall peacefully like a blessed mantle, as it sometimes does, but was blown and rent and tossed like the split canvas of a ship in a gale. [4]
- I wish you could have been there to see it all, hear it all, and feel it: and get yourself blown away with the hurricane huzza that swept the place as a finish. [5]
- Is this a cloud, that, blown athwart my soul, Wears a false seeming of the pearly stain Where worlds beyond the world their mingling rays Blend in soft white,--a cloud that, born of earth, Would cheat the soul that looks for light from heaven? [6]
- Peasants having no clear idea of the cause of rain, say, according to whether they want rain or fine weather: "The wind has blown the clouds away," or, "The wind has brought up the clouds. [2]
- But when they came to rig the powderhoist and a couple of them descended into the magazine with pipes lighted, I was in imminent expectation of being blown as high as a kite. [9]
- The shops and cafes, which had been thoroughly looted, had their walls blown out, but in many cases the signs of the vanished and homeless proprietors still hung above the doors. [9]
- We had now but one of our starboard nine-pounders on its carriage, and word came from below that our battery of twelves was all but knocked to scrap iron, and their ports blown into one yawning gap. [9]
- I noticed that, but attached no importance to it, thinking a draught had blown it there. [5]
- Macrinus greeted them briefly, and, instead of having the tuba blown as usual and letting them fall into their ranks, he told them to gather close round him, the centurions in front. [10]
- There glass is blown, or weapons and iron utensils are forged. [10]
- Henry was asleep--was blown up--then fell back on the hot boilers, and I suppose that rubbish fell on him, for he is injured internally. [5]
- We could have blown up the Tower of London with these charges. [5]
- The storm had blown the pigeon away. [10]
- The storm had blown out the lanterns at the masts--the signal lights for which his people looked--and he found neither servants nor torch-bearers on the bank, so he struggled through the scorching wind as far as the gate of his house. [10]
- A hawk was blown off, also. [5]
- The Englishman had blown off his gun-ports. [9]
- The bandage had blown from his head, and blood trickled down his face. [13]
- When they were blasting down a wall where those palings now stand, he promised me I should see it done, and had it rebuilt and blown down again because I had missed the sight. [9]
- These many years Benn Claridge carried his life in his hands, and in a good cause it was held like the song of a bird, to be blown from his lips in the day of the Lord. [11]
- Mr. Bixby had been blown up, in Madrid bend; was not injured, but the other pilot was lost. [5]
- George Ritchie had been blown up near Memphis--blown into the river from the wheel, and disabled. [5]
- The staff had been blown down, the tent had fallen over them, the drift had covered them, and for three days they had slept beneath the snow, never waking. [11]
- Fire can stand any wind, but is easily blown out, and then come smouldering and smoke, and profitless, slow combustion without the cheerful blaze which sheds light all round it. [6]
- On the roads and in the gardens lay uprooted trees and many slightly-built houses which had been blown down, while the tents in the strangers' quarter, and hundreds of light palm-thatched roofs, had been swept away. [10]
- Bats swooped to and fro in the gloom from the city of the dead to the river, and flitted above it like shadows blown about by the wind. [10]
- Our quiet burghers and farmers are in the position of river-boats blown from their moorings out upon a vast ocean, where such a typhoon is raging as no mariner who sails its waters ever before looked upon. [6]
- Later on, down a side street, he pauses before a house with its face blown away. [9]
- At two o'clock a jaded and blown horse stood before the door of the barracks at Archangel's Rise. [11]
- Occasionally you see a heathen from the sunny isles away down in the South Seas, with his face and neck tatooed till he looks like the customary mendicant from Washoe who has been blown up in a mine. [5]
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