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Sentences starting with carrying

Carrying sacred relics and figures of the gods on trays or boats, with emblematic standards, scepters, and cymbals, they moved about the sacred precinct in prescribed order, and most of them fulfilled their duties with devotion and edification. [10]

Sentences ending with carrying

It soon came out that mine was not the only shot fired; there were five others--a division of the guilt which was a grateful relief to me, since it in some degree lightened and diminished the burden I was carrying. [5]
Each one either must or will carry his own burden, which he commonly cannot, or by pride or shame will not, ask help in carrying. [4]
She went towards home with a drooping head and almost crying, but before she had reached it her eyes fell on the peaches and the roast bird she was carrying. [10]
Iberville was the first to find what Bucklaw was carrying. [11]

Short sentences using carrying

Balass----Earthen vessel for carrying water. [11]

Sentences containing carrying two or more times

They were followed by men holding office at the court, and carrying golden staves, on the ends of which peacocks' feathers and silver lotus-flowers were fastened, and these by Pastophori, carrying on their shoulders a golden cow, the animal sacred to Isis. [10]

More example sentences with the word carrying in them

Since last March, you know, I am carrying a mighty load, solitary and alone--General Grant's book--and must carry it till the first volume is 30 days old (Jan. 1st) before the relief money will begin to flow in. [5]
Order is not yet restored and not a single merchant is carrying on trade in a lawful manner. [2]
Dainty pages certainly would not be deprived of the favour of carrying her train and lighting her way with torches. [10]
She was carrying Wolf's gift to Frau Lerch, her dressmaker. [10]
His voice broke with sheer grief; nevertheless his serving lad was carrying his lute after him, and as he gave me his hand to bid me good-day he told me that Ann was above tending her father. [10]
He stood charged with robbery; the note had been found upon him, though he was innocent in thought and deed; and they were carrying him back, a prisoner. [12]
He was endeavoring, with loud cries, to prevent a number of men of his own class from carrying a large chest out of the house. [10]
He was faint with lonely vigils; he was visibly carrying the load of the poor and the despised. [4]
Taus, the innkeeper's wife, now came out, a buxom and vigorous Egyptian woman of middle age, carrying some of the puffs for which she was famous, and which she had just made with her own hands. [10]
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 tall Thessalian who marched after the Archidikastes to the Hall of justice, carrying his papers, was hardly grander than his "body-servant. [10]
In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
And the boom, which had been acting uneasily, finally decided to gybe, and swept majestically over, carrying two of the Four in front of it, and all but dropped them into the water. [9]
Behind the store were moored the barges that floated down on the swift current to the Ohio, carrying goods to even remoter settlements in the western wilderness. [9]
The men servants were carrying the large leather sofa from Prince Andrew's study into the bedroom. [2]
The crippled rider went one way; the one frustrated in his attempt to get the carbine rode another, Venters thought he made out a third rider, carrying a strange-appearing bundle and disappearing in the sage. [13]
She had a way of carrying her head, of throwing it back at times, that was not exactly imperious, and conveyed the impression of spirit rather than of mere vivacity. [4]
Jim, as usual was washing, and Clemens was carrying water. [5]
While the nurse was thus carrying me, Laura came suddenly upon the balcony. [6]
In fact, it was the control of the subterranean corridors of the sanctuary which had suggested to Gorgias the idea of carrying Dion through them to Pyrrhus's fishing-boat. [10]
I suppose he was still carrying forward his plan of reparation in his mind--to the dead for the dead. [8]
Such a tumult was generally odious to her retiring nature; but to-night she felt herself merely one drop in the great, flowing river, of which every other drop felt the same impulse which was carrying her forward to her destination. [10]
And to be waked out of a well-earned siesta--to save a gentleman who has come here to make things unpleasant for him--is carrying a joke a little far. [9]
Four bearers were waiting outside with the sedan-chair, three servants with torches, and two stout attendants carrying clubs over their shoulders. [10]
It was all very well (so said the first spokesman) to pluck a few feathers from a bird so bountifully endowed as the Honourable Adam, but were not two gentlemen who should be nameless carrying the joke a little too far? [9]
We are getting used to all these things, but we are not getting used to carrying our own soap. [5]
It had swept up to Vadrome Mountain, and had marched furiously through the forest, carrying down hundreds of trees, drowning the roars of wild animals and the crying and fluttering of birds. [11]
They are coming up here, and the Egyptian is carrying a small jar. [10]
Sometimes it swelled up and for a moment seemed less remote; but when we were hopefully expecting it to betray its cause and nature, it dulled and sank again, carrying its mystery with it. [5]
These bright and untarnished spirits were equal to the hardest task and capable of carrying it through with energy, acumen, and success. [10]
I also became unintentionally acquainted with a secret, which seriously endangered his chances of obtaining the crown; and lastly, I prevented his carrying off a virtuous maiden from the house of her grandmother, an aged woman, beloved and respected by all the Greeks. [10]
The joint commission under the act of the last session of carrying into effect the convention with Peru on the subject of claims has been organized at Lima, and is engaged in the business intrusted to it. [7]
This was in truth a painful effort, for the sand crumbled away again and again under his feet, slipping down hill and carrying him with it, thus compelling him to find a new hold with hand and foot. [10]
The party now took up the line of march for old Doctor Kittredge's house, Abel carrying the pistol and knife, and Mr. Bernard walking in silence, still half-stunned, holding the hay-fork, which Abel had thrust into his hand. [6]
This morning I took from the post office a letter from Dubois enclosing the names of sixty subscribers, and on carrying it to Francis I found he had received one hundred and forty more from other quarters by the same day's mail. [7]
But other news too was carrying through the town: the French Government, having learned of the Duke's intentions towards Philip, had despatched envoys from Paris to forbid the adoption and deed of succession. [11]
And the risk to which he would expose his life by carrying out his design excited him still more. [2]
She had managed to turn the knife in the Arab's hand against his own breast, and then suddenly pressed her body against it; but the impulse of the act came near carrying her over also. [11]
Each held on to the raft by one lean, wiry arm, carrying on the other the round bucklers on which the arrows that came whistling from the boat, fell and stuck as soon as they were within shot. [10]
Laforce was delighted to see her carrying her basket, till she opened it and showed the spoon inside. [11]
The wind began to moan in hollow murmurs, as the sun went down carrying glad day elsewhere; and a train of dull clouds coming up against it, menaced thunder and lightning. [12]
He had written to Lorenzo Dow and her grandfather, he said, but had heard afterwards that the vessel carrying the letters had been taken by a French privateer; and so they had not arrived in Jersey. [11]
But the allusion to her father reminded her of the first duty in her path; she roused her energies, thanked Marianne warmly, and begged her only to assist her in carrying the corpse into the thalamos, and then to take charge of the keys. [10]
She longed, indeed, to get home, that her father might share the happiness which uplifted her heart; but then she reflected that she would not soon have the opportunity of carrying out, unobserved, the purpose she had in her mind. [10]
They had come to fight, even if the boat had been defended by fifty Egyptian soldiers instead of carrying a score or so of sailors and artisans. [10]
I, too, seemed to feel the delight of carrying with me, as if they were my own, the charms of a presence which made its own welcome everywhere. [6]
Not being accustomed to carrying about soiled clothes, he declined this proposal, and consulted a chambermaid. [4]
The party supposed to be interested in the remark was, however, carrying a large knife-bladeful of something to his mouth just then, which, no doubt, interfered with the reply he would have made. [6]
But they had to avoid carrying the man upstairs, and so they took him into the wing and put him in the room that had been Madame Schoss'. [2]
I dreadfully wanted to ask a question, but I was carrying about as many short answers as my cargo-room would admit of, so I held my peace. [5]
They sang it to a quaint sweet air--a solacing sweet air which has gone murmuring through my dreaming spirit all my life when I was weary and troubled, resting me and carrying me through night and distance home again. [5]
Presently they came to a place where a little stream of water, trickling over a ledge and carrying a limestone sediment with it, had, in the slow-dragging ages, formed a laced and ruffled Niagara in gleaming and imperishable stone. [5]
In the mean time they desired nothing in the world but honor and pleasure; and such pleasure as well-bred, healthy, and genial youths, with amiability, strength, and money to spend, can always command, they enjoyed to the full, without carrying it to reckless extravagance. [10]
Count Ilya, again thrusting his way through the crowd, went out of the drawing room and reappeared a minute later with another committeeman, carrying a large silver salver which he presented to Prince Bagration. [2]
Low whisperings came through the dusk like mournful nightwinds carrying tales of awe through a heavy forest. [11]
I have long thought it would be to our advantage to produce any necessary article at home which can be made of as good quality and with as little labor at home as abroad, at least by the difference of the carrying from abroad. [7]
But, ere carrying this plan into execution, Moses, accompanied by a few trusty men, desired to examine the new route and ascertain whether it would be passable for the great wandering people. [10]
A man ere this has lost his life by carrying his shoe-leather across the threshold of a mosque, and this sort of thing William Sowerby knew, and of his knowledge he heeded. [11]
The apostle of this church may be a deaf mute carrying a cup of cold water to a thirsting fellow-creature. [6]
It swept along, thick and solid, five hundred thousand angels abreast, and every angel carrying a torch and singing--the whirring thunder of the wings made a body's head ache. [5]
In a moment, they, with the people, were busy carrying water to pour upon the side of the endangered warehouse. [11]
And happy are they who feel it, and, feeling it, do not lose it in this world, and have the hope of carrying it into the next. [11]
And why if they were guilty of not carrying out a prearranged plan were they not tried and punished? [2]
From the battery they could be seen running back past it carrying their wounded on their muskets. [2]
Macavoy, stripped to the waist, and carrying only a hatchet and a coil of rope tied round him, started away alone up the river. [11]
I understand that the ship is made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo; and so long as the ship is safe with the cargo, it shall not be abandoned. [7]
Ned entered, leading the prisoner with one hand and carrying a Bible and a rope in the other. [5]
He was at the philanthropic centre of a good many movements which he watched others carrying out, as a calm and kindly spectator, without losing his common sense for a moment. [6]
It was carrying the old regiment of the General Officer Commanding, who had sent Stafford to its Colonel with an important message. [11]
At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines. [2]
The bullet grazed the lad's temple, carrying away a bit of his hair. [11]
He laughed at the idea of carrying a loaded pistol about with him; but still it seemed only fair, as the old Doctor thought so much of the matter, to humor him about it. [6]
Then Lassiter, carrying the field-glasses began to lead the way up the slow rise of ground. [13]
She had followed the experience on the Island by a visit to Grandois' house, carrying delicacies for the sick wife. [11]
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]
He leaped upon the chiefs who were carrying the King's body; he desired to die with him on account of his love. [5]
In such case the carrying is demonstrably a dead loss of labor. [7]
On coming near the brow of the hill, we met a party carrying picks and spades. [6]
Putting down in the anteroom whatever might be in his way while greeting Barbara, and carrying the roll of velvet under his arm and a little box in his pocket, he entered the chamber which the old man called his artist workshop. [10]
She was in the act of retiring, when Gorgias, the architect, followed by an assistant carrying surveying instruments, advanced towards her. [10]
When he discovered that the young man was carrying on a love affair with his daughter, he had summoned him before a court of justice for a breach of the law which forbade minors to betroth themselves without parental consent. [10]
Was it strange that in the dark pathways of the Court I watched your footsteps come and go, carrying radiance with you? [11]
Lucky for me that in Mexico I got into the habit of carrying a pop-gun. [11]
It missed his temple, but caught the rim of his straw hat, carrying it off his head, and crashed into a lantern hanging against the wall, putting out the light. [11]
They had evidently taken the matter seriously, and were come with the intention of carrying their point, whatever it might be. [11]
By carrying the sword into Egypt, I shall avenge king Hophra's wrongs as well as my own. [10]
It was near sundown when Tom and Weldon appeared on the mountain side carrying a buck between them. [9]
Well, one matchless summer's day I was bowling down the bend above island 66, brimful of self-conceit and carrying my nose as high as a giraffe's, when Mr. Bixby said-- 'I am going below a while. [5]
One of his suite beckoned to the soldiers carrying the standards to advance and surround the commander in chief with them. [2]
I will never suffer myself to be frightened from the carrying out of any thought which promises to be of use to a fellow-mortal by a fear lest it should be considered "unfeminine. [6]
Like a torrent suddenly swelled by a storm it rushed on, surging and growing at each moment, and carrying with it even those who tried to resist its force. [10]
It had come suddenly from the east, had shrieked over the village, levelling fences, carrying away small bridges, and ending in a pelting hail, which whitened the ground with pebbles of ice. [11]
Richard Swiveller, therefore, sticking a pen behind each ear, and carrying another in his mouth as a token of his great importance and devotion to business, hurried out to meet and treat with the single gentleman. [12]
It is a steam ram, built so as to sacrifice nearly all capacity for carrying to those of speed and strength, so as to be able to split any vessel having hollow enough in her to carry supplies for a voyage of any distance. [7]
Pet shared her stateroom with a young companion, and the two were carrying on a private dialogue during this public performance. [4]
That night a stalwart figure passed from David Humphrey's door, carrying with him the warm atmosphere of a good woman's love. [11]
Halfway up the stairs they were almost knocked over by some men who, carrying pails, came running downstairs, their boots clattering. [2]
It was the song of a bannered army, marching over the battle-field with conquering voices, and swords as yet unsheathed and red, carrying the spoils of conquest behind the laurelled captain of the host. [11]
Next came four soldiers, carrying something heavy on a cloak, and passed by the fire. [2]
If they do so, it can only be done by carrying the Fillmore men of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. [7]

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