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Sentences ending with corners

The ancestral features were there, the lips--covered by a grizzled moustache moulded for the precise formation that emphasizes such syllables as el, the hooked nose and sallow cheeks, the grizzled brows and grey eyes drawn down at the corners. [9]
Another object of their assaults was Frederick Grierson, who by this time had emerged from obscurity as a small dealer in real estate into a manipulator of blocks and corners. [9]
The wind howled, the rain lashed with fury against the windows, the mob tore through the streets of the town, sacked the wine-shops, built great fires at the corners. [9]
Half the seamen on this ship have tasted the inside of a jail; and the rest come from the press-gang, and what's left are just the ragged ends of street corners. [11]
There were rows of dwelling houses, once ultra-respectable, now slatternly, and lawns gone grey; some of these houses had been remodelled into third-rate shops, or thrown together to make manufacturing establishments: saloons occupied all the favourable corners. [9]
The war has not changed the Southern habit of sitting out-of-doors, but has added a new element of street picturesqueness in groups of colored people lounging about the corners. [4]
But there were no strikers in sight, and on Second Avenue they stood quietly about in groups on the corners. [8]
He did not move until he had seen them all started homewards from the Four Corners. [11]
Poverty and sorrow, loss and bereavement, were in every street, peeped mournfully out of every window, lurked at street corners. [11]
All that evening I sat by my fire at the Warwick Arms, steeped in a dream of the olden time, while the rain beat upon the windows, and the wind roared about the eaves and corners. [5]

Sentences containing corners two or more times

If the man to whom he had listened could pour the light into the dark corners of other men's souls, he, John Hodder, felt the same hot spark within him,--despite the dark corners of his own! [9]
A consulting practitioner's mouth; that is, movable round the corners while the case is under examination, but both corners well drawn down and kept so when the final opinion is made up. [6]

More example sentences with the word corners in them

It had no Zulu clicks in it; and it seemed to have no angles or corners, no roughness, no vile s's or other hissing sounds, but was very, very mellow and rounded and flowing. [5]
Once a drunken woman spat at me and cursed me; once I was fired at; and many times from dark corners I heard voices crying, "Sauvez-moi--ah, sauvez-moi, bon Dieu! [11]
It was flooded with level, yellow rays of light that seemed to be searching the corners in vain for dust. [9]
Once in a while, as he found a way for them through the crowd, Peter glanced down at her, and something like a smile tugged at the corners of a decidedly masculine mouth, and lit up his eyes. [9]
The place through which he made his way at leisure was one of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd corners of this town and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. [12]
The furtive smile which had betrayed his content at pocketing the six thousand dollars still lingered at the corners of his mouth. [11]
The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. [12]
Stephen, who was watching him, could not tell whether it were a grim smile that creased the corners of the Colonel's mouth as he added. [9]
Mr. Sprole's hair was prematurely white, and the crow's-feet at the corners of his eyes were not the result of legal worries. [9]
The short day was drawing to a close, shadows were gathering in the corners of Ditmar's room as she reached the threshold and gazed about her at the objects there so poignantly familiar. [9]
The corners of wall bluntly rose, scarred and scrawled, to taper into towers and serrated peaks and pinnacled domes. [13]
The fire flared up, but there were corners in deep shadow. [11]
He could look up at the gallery without turning his head, and sometimes he caught her momentary glance, and again, with her chin in her hand, she was watching Mr. Crewe with a little smile creasing the corners of her eyes. [9]
He idled through unfrequented streets, stopping in doorways and corners to take it out and look at it. [5]
At Twelfth Street two men were lounging on the corners, each of whom glanced at him listessly as he passed. [9]
There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe--only two--the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. [5]
The whole country, to the corners of its remotest colony, was looking forward to the results of this evening's meeting of Parliament. [6]
Mr. Cuthbert appeared to be ransacking the corners of his brain for words. [9]
A smile seemed to be pulling at the corners of his mouth. [9]
From time to time these ancestors had continued to buy desirable corners, which no amount of persuasion had availed to make them relinquish. [9]
Her features disordered themselves slightly at times in a surface-smile, but never broke loose from their corners and indulged in the riotous tumult of a laugh,--which, I take it, is the mob-law of the features;--and propriety the magistrate who reads the riot-act. [6]
I would station them on the corners after they had rounded up all the depraved people of the district so they could not escape, and then have them read from their poems to the poor unfortunates. [5]
Men stood on the street corners in the rain, reading of the capture of Camp Jackson, and of the riot, and thousands lifted up their voices to execrate the Foreign City below Market Street. [9]
The bare trees, the sand, the bricks and roofs of the houses, the green church spire, and the corners of the white house in the distance, all stood out in the transparent air in most delicate outline and with unnatural clearness. [2]
He had forbidden the idle young singers who wanted to go with him to follow, but one had secretly slipped after, and, in one of the dark corridors of the big house, full of nooks and corners, he suddenly heard a voice call his name. [10]
We stirred up the hard leather letter-sacks, and the knotty canvas bags of printed matter (knotty and uneven because of projecting ends and corners of magazines, boxes and books). [5]
But whence came the deep lines about her red mouth and the outer corners of her eyes? [10]
Farrar pulled down the corners of his mouth with trying not to smile. [9]
Perhaps it was the ceaseless planning and pondering of the statesman and general which, during the last few years, had thinned the light-brown hair at the corners of the brow. [10]
So it was that this spacious kitchen, with its huge chimney, and paved with square flagstones and sanded, became like one of those ancient corners of camaraderie in some exclusive inn where gentlemen of quality were wont to meet. [11]
The light was such that the room was revealed to its farthest corners, and Sibley noted that three men were evidently carefully watching the bank, and that one of the men was Studd Bradley, the so-called boss. [11]
The dancing-dogs, the stilts, the little lady and the tall man, and all the other attractions, with organs out of number and bands innumerable, emerged from the holes and corners in which they had passed the night, and flourished boldly in the sun. [12]
Musicians had been stationed at the corners to play lively airs; the Beggars' song mingled with the pipes and trumpets and the cheers of enthusiastic men. [10]
Arabs and fellaheen squatting at street corners looked at him with furtive interest. [11]
It was a spirited sight to see them come leaping fences, tearing around corners, swarming out of every bystreet and alley. [5]
Good feeling helps society to make liars of most of us,--not absolute liars, but such careless handlers of truth that its sharp corners get terribly rounded. [6]
As he did so she tapped the floor impatiently with her umbrella, and looked at him curiously, but with a little quirk of humour at the corners of her mouth. [11]
They were both so beautiful, and looked so noble and princely as they leaned back in the corners of their gilt coach during their drives and gazed into vacancy, as if their interests were above those of ordinary mortals. [10]
I like to smoke a good deal, but it wounds my sensibilities to see one of these stub-hunters watching me out of the corners of his hungry eyes and calculating how long my cigar will be likely to last. [5]
At last, when shadows were gathering in the corners of the room, I heard footsteps. [9]
I found myself seeking chances to shirk into corners where I might think, undisturbed; and the most I got out of my thought, was this: both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it. [5]
The plaster was scored with sword-cuts; not high up as where men have fought, but low down, and about the corners, as if a creature had crouched to avoid the blow. [5]
And as we sat reading and dreaming in the still, sunny corners I forgot, that struggle for power in which I had been so furiously engaged since leaving Cambridge. [9]
Next to Weyrother sat Count Langeron who, with a subtle smile that never left his typically southern French face during the whole time of the reading, gazed at his delicate fingers which rapidly twirled by its corners a gold snuffbox on which was a portrait. [2]
Round corners, over ruts and stones, and uphill and down, we went jolting and swinging, holding fast to the seat, and putting our trust in things in general. [4]
All day he rode slowly and cautiously up the Pass, taking time to peer around corners, to pick out hard ground and grassy patches, and to make sure there was no one in pursuit. [13]
So the most renowned knights came from the four corners of the earth and retired down the dragon's throat one after the other. [5]
She does not raise half the dust, nor fill her own eyes and mouth with it,--but she goes into all the corners, and attends to the leaves as much as the covers. [6]
Suddenly comes the quiver about the corners of his mouth and the gray eyes respond. [9]
I think it possible it might cut off a few corners of his present belief, as it has cut off martyr- burning and witch-hanging;--but time will show,--time will show, as the old gentleman opposite says. [6]
What are the poor dips which flare and flicker on the crowns of spikes that stand at the corners of St. Genevieve's filigree-cased sarcophagus to this perpetual offering of sacrifice? [6]
And still the packed audience waited, for it was a prodigious occasion in Bull's Corners, and one in which every father of a family was necessarily interested. [5]
Whose save my own are these lines around the corners of the eyes and on the brow? [10]
And he came out into a great amphitheater into which jutted huge towering corners of a confluences of intersecting canyons. [13]
The usual lounging on the corners and benches and steps was not in evidence. [13]
Then there came on a little twitching at the corners of the mouth. [6]
Later again, one of the mountain's sides was clean and clear, and another side densely clothed from base to summit in thick smokelike cloud which feathered off and flew around the shaft's sharp edge like the smoke around the corners of a burning building. [5]
From all corners of the earth her wealth poured in upon her. [9]
In sheltered corners of that truculent instrument for the diffusion of the prejudices of the few among the many begin to grow the violets of tender sentiment, the early greens of yearning. [4]
In the middle of one of the longest sentences, he stopped the rotary motion of the snuffbox, raised his head, and with inimical politeness lurking in the corners of his thin lips interrupted Weyrother, wishing to say something. [2]
In various corners of Moscow there still remained a few people aimlessly moving about, following their old habits and hardly aware of what they were doing. [2]
The red glow of light from the shaded candles on the table, and the corners of the dining room filled with gloom. [9]
The long strain of a long fight, in which he had risked much for which he had labored a life to gain, had told on him, and there were crow's-feet at the corners of, his eyes, and dark circles under them. [9]
Here are many nooks and hidden corners to dream in and make love in, the soft sea air being favorable to that soft-hearted occupation. [4]
In various quiet nooks and corners I had the beginnings of all sorts of industries under way--nuclei of future vast factories, the iron and steel missionaries of my future civilization. [5]
There are strange nooks and corners and passages in the old building, and one place, a queer little "cubby-hole," has the appearance of having been a Roman Catholic chapel. [6]
Every night, on my way home at ten, or a quarter past, I found the larrikin grouped in considerable force at several of the street corners, and he always gave me this pleasant salutation: "Hello, Mark! [5]
Enterprising Italians had monopolized the corners with fruit stores, and plate glass and asphalt were in evidence. [9]
There were still many unexplored corners in his soul. [9]
They have the manner of laziness, they have the air of leisure, they have worn off the angular corners of existence, and unconsciously their life is picturesque and enjoyable. [4]
He was a man of few words, and he knew that the "will you" did not require an answer, being the true New-England way of rounding the corners of an employer's order,--a tribute to the personal independence of an American citizen. [6]
True, it could make no pretensions to beauty--the thin, hooked nose was far too large and long; the corners of the mouth drooped downward too much; perhaps it was this latter peculiarity which gave the whole face so sorrowful an aspect. [10]
Natasha was lying looking steadily straight before her at one of the mahogany sphinxes carved on the corners of the bedstead, so that the countess only saw her daughter's face in profile. [2]
It is a long, low house, with very broad passages below and above, which give lightness and cheerfulness to the interior, and each of the four corners of the entrance hall has a fireplace. [4]
He also, by letter to the village authorities at Duffy's Corners, Arkansas, gave order that the remains of the late twins be embalmed by some St. Louis expert and shipped at once to the usurper--with bill. [5]
Some of the larger buildings had corners knocked off; pillars cut in two; cornices smashed; holes driven straight through the walls. [5]
But, do you know, it is pleasant sometimes to be with people who haven't so many corners as our people have. [4]
Yet, too, the keen observer could have seen gathered into shaded corners here and there, a few sombre, low-voiced men talking covertly to each other. [11]
In the centre is a winged beetle, and on the four corners . [10]
There had been, indeed, a critical, anxious moment, emphasized by the agitation of bright feminine plumes and the shifting of masculine backs into the corners of the pews. [9]
Her indolent nature in repose wanted the dust of existence swept into a corner out of sight; yet when she was roused, and there were no corners into which the dust could be swept, she could be as bold as any better woman. [11]
Well, the American husband is old Dryfoos all over; no mustache; and hay-colored chin-whiskers cut slanting froze the corners of his mouth. [8]
At every door hung a portiere from large rings on a brass rod; every shelf and dressing-case and mantel was littered with gimcracks, and the corners of the tiny rooms were curtained off, and behind these portieres swarmed more gimcracks. [8]
A hint of humour crept into the bishop's blue eyes, which were watery, yet strong, with heavy creases in the corners. [9]
There were days, however, when he appeared, mentally, to be watching the street corners. [11]
The men spread hither and thither, some at the corners of the church, some behind the fences of the little gardens. [9]
The corners of his mouth twitched in the attempt to repress a smile. [9]
At last, shaking his head, he murmured in an undertone: "Yes, but those shadows at the corners of the mouth--do you see?--that light on the brow, and there--just look at the nostrils--I certainly did not paint those. [10]
Excitement keyed us high; we reached the shade, plunged into it, and presently came out staring at the bastioned corners of a fort which rose from the centre of a clearing. [9]
He stared at her, and the corners of his mouth twitched, and still he stood respectfully in the doorway. [9]
The corners of her apron dropped from her fingers, and the yellow may-apples fell about her feet. [11]
The palisades that held its earthenwork were rotten and crumbling, and the mighty bastions of its corners sliding away. [9]
He doubted that he would ever see it again; he knew he never wanted to; yet he looked at the red corners and towers with the eyes of a rider picturing landmarks never to be forgotten. [13]
I put my hands over my eyes and counted till I could stand it no longer, and then --the pallid face of a man was there, with the corners of the mouth drawn down, and the eyes fixed and glassy in death! [5]
Now that she had time to gather up the threads of the situation, the irresistibly comic aspect of it grew upon her, and little creases came into the corners of her eyes--which Mr. Crewe admired. [9]
Poor old Rab had not many "friends" at first, but if all his friends of today could gather to his grave from the four corners of the earth what a procession there would be! [5]
The crowd that had gathered at the Four Corners were greatly disturbed, for they also felt the repulsion that possessed the Little Chemist's wife. [11]
Natasha's face, which had been so radiantly happy all that saint's day, suddenly changed: her eyes became fixed, and then a shiver passed down her broad neck and the corners of her mouth drooped. [2]
Only there are guerrillas left here and there, about the borders and in corners, unsubdued,--Forrest docks, and Quantrell grass, and Beauregard pig-weeds. [4]
Her ladyship's as good a patriot as any," he added, watching the Duchess out of the corners of his eyes, his face turned to the desert. [11]

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