Use chest in a sentence
Sentences ending with chest
- Think what it would be if the grasp were tightened so that no breath of air could enter your panting chest! [6]
- He felt intoxicated with lofty, pure emotions, but suddenly checked his steps before the sutler's stand and pointed to the pastry gradually disappearing in a chest. [10]
- For the barrister's voice was not as strong as it once was, and the cold would not seem to lift from his chest. [9]
- Her officiousness seemed to hurt him more than the pain in his chest. [11]
- Another smith tried to enter the doorway, pressing against the publican with his chest. [2]
- At one and the same moment came the sound of an explosion, a whistle of splinters as from a breaking window frame, a suffocating smell of powder, and Prince Andrew started to one side, raising his arm, and fell on his chest. [2]
- She still possessed the pearl necklace and other ornaments of more prosperous days, and on festal occasions they did not remain in a chest. [10]
- She confidently drew the key out of her pocket and went up to the chest. [10]
- Dr. Puffer insisted that the man died from the effects of the wound in the chest. [5]
- Something touch me, smell me, and a nose was push against my chest. [11]
Short sentences using chest
- Indignation threw out his chest. [11]
More example sentences with the word chest in them
- I have not yet got rid of the pains in my chest and back. [14]
- 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]
- In one tent, where a young mother was shaking with the chill of a severe attack of fever, Miriam asked the pallid Milcah to bring her medicine chest, and the desolate wife went on her errand with joyous alacrity. [10]
- And yet he was not tall; but on his deep chest, his enormous square shoulders, and short, bandy legs, the muscles stood out like elastic balls, showing the connoisseur that in strength he was a giant. [10]
- Besides, the king was a brave man, and he had strength, and more than once he had laid his hand on the chest of the other, as one might on a grand animal. [11]
- But now the war chest of our opponents was negligible; and we were comforted by the thought that, however disagreeable the affair might be while it lasted, in the long run capital was invincible. [9]
- She knew the virtue of every herb in the big chest in the storeroom. [9]
- He slowly went up to the chest in which his tools and instruments lay, and bitter tears ran down his cheeks, as he took his heaviest hammer in his hand. [10]
- I will lock up the gold in the chest with my documents. [10]
- She opened the top drawer of the chest, the drawer in which Hannah, breaking tradition, had put the Bumpus genealogy. [9]
- The old doctor took it and put the wrong end to his ear and the other to the patient's chest, and kept it there about two minutes, looking all the time as wise as an old owl. [6]
- I pass soft, to the treasure-room, and I see him kneel beside a chest, looking in. [11]
- She was liable to sore throat, and depressing pain at the chest, and difficulty of breathing, on the least exposure to cold. [14]
- How'd you feel to light on a rotten chest full of gold and silver--hey? [5]
- Ferrol was about to follow him, but he had a sudden fit of weakness, and he caught up a pillow, and, throwing it on the chest where Shangois had sat, stretched himself upon it. [11]
- There was a thin chest of drawers on the other side, and the small coal stove that stood in the centre so nearly filled the remaining space that the two visitors were one too many. [4]
- In spite of the violent aching of her foot and the loud rattling in her chest, she thought it a specially favourable dispensation of Providence that she had found her way here just at this moment; for Lienhard was still speaking. [10]
- I well remember the tingle in my chest as I looked and listened. [9]
- The commander of the regiment was an elderly, choleric, stout, and thick-set general with grizzled eyebrows and whiskers, and wider from chest to back than across the shoulders. [2]
- A minute later the old man's large stout figure in full-dress uniform, his chest covered with orders and a scarf drawn round his stomach, waddled out into the porch. [2]
- At length, when the last chest was shut again and locked, and I had exhausted my ingenuity at commendation, and my patience also, he turned to me as a man come out of a trance. [9]
- So he led the Gaul carefully back to the couch he had deserted, and, after moistening the bandage with healing balm from Myrtilus's medicine chest, ordered him to keep quiet. [10]
- We knew how the eggs of all the feathered guests of Germany were coloured and marked, and the chest of drawers containing our collection stood for years in my mother's attic. [10]
- This bazaar of the dead was well supplied, for coffins of every form stood up against the walls, from the simplest chest to the richly gilt and painted coffer, in form resembling a mummy. [10]
- The arch of the broad chest stood forth in fine relief, and with it the breast-plate and points of his armor. [10]
- She looked under the bed; it was not there: under the washstand, under the chest of drawers, under the improvised dressing-table; and no cat was to be found. [11]
- She remembered at that moment the time that a horse had struck Val with its forefeet, and torn the flesh from his chest, and how he had been brought home tied to a broncho's back. [11]
- But take a sup o' this whisky, while you swear wid your hand on your chest, 'Amin' to the words o' Tim Macavoy. [11]
- He wore a suit of Western clothes as a military man wears mufti, if not awkwardly, yet with a manner not wholly natural--the coat too tight across the chest, too short in the body. [11]
- Heron at last stood still for a minute or two, lost in thought, and then brought out of his chest a casket, from which he took a few engraved gems. [10]
- Sonya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran after Natasha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face and light, joyous steps. [2]
- The room is small, but it contains a cook-stove, a chest of drawers, a small table, a couple of chairs, and two narrow beds. [4]
- Every word the sick man tried to speak cut his chest like a knife, and his eyes half started from his head with the agony of it. [11]
- With bitter emotions, she replaced the casket in the chest and obeyed the summons to dinner, but found no one at the great table except Adrian and the servants. [10]
- Natasha concluded that she must be on the chest in the passage. [2]
- With shaking fingers she lighted the candle yet once more, after which she lighted a lamp standing upon the chest of drawers. [11]
- Paula, however, as she had not perjured herself, but had merely invented an impossible tale with a good motive, was dismissed, and her chest was to be replaced in her room. [10]
- Another time when she called Dunyasha her voice trembled, so she called again--though she could hear Dunyasha coming--called her in the deep chest tones in which she had been wont to sing, and listened attentively to herself. [2]
- When the cough shakes my chest, I see Charon raise his oar and invite me also to enter his sable boat. [10]
- Thou hast Mahommed Seti"--his chest blew out like a bellows-- "and thou hast Donovan Pasha. [11]
- There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke. [5]
- And at the same time he glanced down nervously at the new line of buttons on his chest. [9]
- As I nodded sadly enough, she must have seen in my face that I missed the little volumes and, ere I was aware, she had taken them out of her chest and thrown them in with the rest. [10]
- A case is reported on the page before me of a soldier affected with acute inflammation in the chest, who took successively aconite, bryonia, nux vomica, and pulsatilla, and after thirty-eight days of treatment remained without any important change in his disease. [3]
- I could not remain constantly beside the corpse, so I locked up the paper in the linen chest. [10]
- When the weaver Rebecca was more eager to find room in the cart for the rude cradle in which her darling had died, than for the beautiful ebony chest inlaid with ivory an Egyptian had pawned to her husband, who could blame her? [10]
- Ulrich had now reached the bottom of the chest. [10]
- The cuirass fell rattling on the ground, and now--no, there was no deception, the wounded man's chest rose under her ear, she heard the faint throbbing of his heart, the feeble flutter of a gasping breach. [10]
- A cold shudder ran through his frame; but the next moment he threw back his waving locks, and his chest heaved with a long breath. [10]
- Besides, he constantly raised a large linen handkerchief to his face, and his huge chest laboured for breath as he hastily repeated to Eva and the abbess what he had just announced to Els in a few rapid words. [10]
- As she was putting the letters back in their old place, she touched some cloths which seemed put in to fill up the bottom of the chest, and felt a hard round substance underneath. [10]
- His face became purple and distorted, his body convulsed, then limp, and presently he lay on the ground with a knee on his chest and fierce, bony hands at his throat. [11]
- He felt my pulse; then stopped and put his ear to my chest, and listened long. [11]
- The effort of pulling at the heavy oars on board the galley had been too much for his weak chest. [10]
- Several dressers were pressing on his chest to hold him down. [2]
- That night a pony and cart took away from the house of Annette's father the chest of drawers, the bed, the bedding, the pieces of linen, and the pile of yarn which had been made ready so long against Benoit's coming. [11]
- And there stood Pollux, bridled, with a blanket thrown over his great back and chest, surrounded still by the hunting-frocks, who had followed him from the White Horse. [9]
- Eager for new pleasure, he drew a long breath as he went out into the open air, pressed his hands upon his broad chest, and with his eyes fixed upon the commandant of Pelusium's galley, bedecked with flags, walked swiftly toward the landing place. [10]
- He was suffering physically at that moment, there was a weight on his chest and he could not breathe. [2]
- He had found papers in the wall of the house, and from the Gover'ment chest he got more. [11]
- The man was over six feet in height, the shoulders were square, the chest deep, the hips and legs modeled for strength, and with no superfluous flesh. [4]
- Paula at once opened a chest, and took out a costly and beautifully-wrought necklace set with pearls. [10]
- She took out one roll after another; then she tossed them all out on to the floor till the bottom of the chest was bare--but the gold was really gone, nowhere to be found. [10]
- It was not one of the worst, for though small and containing a cook-stove, a large bed, and a chest of drawers, there was an attempt to make it tidy. [4]
- The son of one of my friends had found it in an old chest, when he was playing in the attic of The Three Kings. [10]
- But she wrote on, struggling against her own feelings of illness; "continually recurring feelings of slight cold; slight soreness in the throat and chest, of which, do what I will," she writes, "I cannot get rid. [14]
- He lay meditating on the divan for an hour; then he took a wax tablet out of a chest and began to write a letter on it to the prefect. [10]
- Prince Andrew lay on his chest with his face in the grass, breathing heavily and noisily. [2]
- He was lying on his back, with his arms abroad; his mouth was open and his chest heaving with long gasps, and his white shirt-front was all splashed with blood. [5]
- That is the old chest of drawers; you never hear it crack in the daytime. [6]
- See the quivering of the eyelids, the heaving of the chest, the opening lips; note the curve of her waist from the shoulder, and the line rounding into the fall of the folds of the Austrian cashmere. [4]
- On the top of the chest are a looking-glass, some toilet articles, and bottles of medicine. [4]
- The sacred fire of enthusiasm sparkled in his eyes, and though the few words he addressed to his fellow-combatants in the deepest chest tones of his powerful voice were plain and unadorned, they found their way to the souls of his auditors. [10]
- Tapping the chest of a bulky soldier who stood outside, he said brusquely, "Too fat, too fat; you'll come to apoplexy. [11]
- She sat down now at the cherry chest of drawers that was also a desk, to write: not to pour out her troubles, for she never had done that,--but to calm her mind by drawing little character sketches of her pupils. [9]
- Prince Andrew did not see how and by whom it was replaced, but the little icon with its thin gold chain suddenly appeared upon his chest outside his uniform. [2]
- He knew a neat, snug hoof, a delicate pastern, a broad haunch, a deep chest, a close ribbed-up barrel, as well as any other man in the town. [6]
- And what was my surprise to find Captain Paul buried to his middle in a great chest, and the place strewn about with laced and broidered coats and waistcoats, frocks and Newmarkets, like any tailor's shop in Church Street. [9]
- In an hour my servants will come and ask for the portrait of my betrothed bride; instead of the picture, you will put your baggage in the chest. [10]
- It began in my head, then I had a sore throat, and then a sore chest, with a cough, but only a trifling cough, which I still have at times. [14]
- I have felt much less of the disagreeable pains in my chest lately, and much less also of the soreness and hoarseness. [14]
- I'll send the medicine chest over. [11]
- Everything, everything in me is by halves, for I, if the scale were to turn in my favor"--and here he struck his chest and his forehead, "I should be twice the man I am. [10]
- Donna Sophonisba gave me a hundred zechins for you; they are lying in yonder chest, and thank Heaven, haven't grown impatient by waiting. [10]
- His name was Luc Baste--a shock-haired criminal with a huge chest and a big voice, and a born filibuster. [11]
- The singer too loudly expressed his joy alike in verse and in prose, and fetched his best theatrical dress out of the chest to put it on his son in the place of his ragged chiton. [10]
- He placed his lips to hers, and filled her breast with the air from his own panting chest. [6]
- The ghostly blue light from a distant arc came slanting in at the window, glinting on the brass knobs of the chest of drawers-another Bumpus heirloom. [9]
- He raised the lid, and the first thing his hand came upon in the chest was the necklace with the empty medallion--it was as though some kind Genius were aiding him. [10]
- In this Chapel is a marble chest, in which, they told us, were the ashes of St. John; and around it was wound a chain, which, they said, had confined him when he was in prison. [5]
- In this chest is a castle in Spain, a real one, and not only in Spain, but anywhere he will choose to have it. [6]
- There is paper in yonder chest, on the very top; bring it to me, with pen and ink. [10]
- The money was in the chest in the matron's room. [10]
- My host travelled in luxury, and we ate the Creole dishes, which his cook prepared, with silver forks which he kept in a great chest in the cabin. [9]
- I was easier in all my body, yet miserably sick still, and I remained so, now shivering and now burning, a racking pain in my chest. [11]
- Another general stood in a martial pose, crossing himself by shaking his hand in front of his chest while looking about him. [2]
- He spoke slowly in a loud voice and throwing out his chest slightly swayed one leg. [2]
- It seemed as if his chest and throat must burst. [11]
- Pardon me if I too quit you now; I have the key of my friend's chest still in my possession, and must restore it to him. [10]
- The woollen stockings I knit for him are up in the painted chest. [10]
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