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Short sentences using curled
- Stafford's lips curled with contempt. [11]
More example sentences with the word curled in them
- He jumped up yelling, and the first thing the light showed was the varmint curled up and ready for another spring. [5]
- He rose and without any word of command from his master, he silently and carefully placed on the high-priest's bare head a long and thick curled wig, [Egyptians belonging to the higher classes wore wigs on their shaven heads. [10]
- He is curled with a novel in his grandfather's easy chair by the window. [9]
- The long mustache, which usually curled so arrogantly upwards, now drooped damp and limp over his mouth and chin, and his long reddish hair fell in dishevelled locks around his bloated face. [10]
- Sometimes the head was polled; sometimes the hair was curled, and then suffered to grow long like a woman's locks, and many times cut off, above or under the ears, round as by a wooden dish. [4]
- The waxing moon was mirrored in the almost unruffled surface and where a ripple curled it the tiny crest glittered like white flame. [10]
- His white hair was chiselled on his broad brow, his face was a solemn pathos petrified, his lips were curled with an iron contempt, an incalculable anger. [11]
- A white shell walk divided the garden and ended at the door of a low outbuilding, from the chimney of which blue smoke curled upward in the evening air. [9]
- He curled himself up shivering under the sheep-skin which covered only half his body, for the icy night wind now blew through the opening of the cave, which by day was as hot as an oven. [10]
- Now you've curled up and got warm, you daughter of a bitch! [2]
- His forehead was unwrinkled--a rare thing in that prairie country where the dry air corrugates the skin; his light-brown hair curled loosely on the brow, graduating back to closer, crisper curls which in their thickness made a kind of furry cap. [11]
- Then he would turn away to the portrait of his dead Lise, who with hair curled a la grecque looked tenderly and gaily at him out of the gilt frame. [2]
- His lips, pressed together, curled in with a trick they had when he was thinking hard, planning things. [11]
- It ran close to the edge of the steep hillside,--so close that there were times when every one of our forty digits curled up like a bird's claw. [6]
- Their close curls, their elegantly set heads, column-like necks, straight noses, short, curled lips, firm chins, deep chests, light flanks, large muscles, small joints, were finer than anything we ever see. [6]
- To this follows the trimming and tricking of their heads, the laying out their hair to show, which is curled, crisped, and laid out on wreaths and borders from ear to ear. [4]
- They have both the same broad forehead, too; but Abibaal's nose was more aquiline, and his hair curled less closely. [10]
- She had stifled the leap of her wrath, but for perhaps the first time in her life a bitter derision curled her lips. [13]
- I told him that in theory a dry battery was just a curled darling and no mistake, but when it come to practice, sho!--and here's the result. [5]
- There was more than power; malice drew down the brows and curled the sensitive upper lip. [11]
- The fawn had taken his morning meal, and now lay curled up on a bed of moss, watching contentedly, with his large, soft brown eyes, every movement of his mother. [4]
- From where she stood she could only see his side-face as he came down the steps, and indeed it was not ill-favored; brow, nose, and chin were finely and nobly formed; his beard was thin, and a mustache curled over his lips. [10]
- The wind was stilled, the blue wood smoke curled lazily from the wide stone chimneys of the houses nestling against the hill. [9]
- Hurrying thither in shocked anxiety, he found a curled gentleman of the guard, resplendent in red velvet and gold chains, in peevish argument with a boisterous Seigneur of a bronzed good-humoured face, who urged his entrance to the presence-chamber. [11]
- They could not see the front of the Palace, nor yet the Residency Square, but, even as they looked, a cannonade began, and the smoke of the guns curled through the showering peach-trees. [11]
- Here and there ribbons of smoke curled upward, adding volume to the blue cloud that hung over the tables, which in turn was dissipated in spots by the industrious electric fans. [9]
- This protection, however, proved unnecessary, for, instead of the praetorians, Johanna entered the room, supporting on her arm the half-sinking form of a young man in whom no one would have recognized the once beautifully curled and carefully dressed Alexander. [10]
- They go to prison curled and musked by Voban. [11]
- And as I passed along to bed there was another one: the big Dwarf, in brave new armor, sat sentry at Joan's door--the stern Spirit of War made flesh, as it were--and on his ample shoulder was curled a kitten asleep. [5]
- During the course of this argument his hair had got itself duly curled, and he now desired Arsinoe to arrange her own hair nicely and then to accompany him. [10]
- The tawny fires of the sunset were dying down behind us, the mist stealing, ghostlike, into the valleys below; in the sky a little moon curled like a freshly cut silver shaving, that presently turned to gold, the white star above it to fire. [9]
- In the bottom of the boat was one poor little trout, his tail curled up and his spots faded. [4]
- The eyes were not so flashing as they once were; the lips were curled in a half-cynical mood. [11]
- A beard and mustache covered the lower part of his face, and a tangle of hair, infested with lice, curled round his head like a cap. [2]
- All the pleasant morning we slid smoothly along over the plains, through thin--not thick--forests of great melancholy gum trees, with trunks rugged with curled sheets of flaking bark--erysipelas convalescents, so to speak, shedding their dead skins. [5]
- A quantity of loose fair hair curled in papers stuck up all over the round head and fell over the forehead, the eyes were tired and still half shut, but the little mouth was wide awake and laughing with the frank amusement of light-hearted youth. [10]
- As the Khedive looked, his lip curled a little, for he recalled what Dicky Donovan had said about it; how he had pleaded against it, describing loathsome wounds and pilgrims done to death. [11]
- They got a look in return that froze their marrow, and by that time a curled and breast-pinned bar keeper was beaming over the counter, proud of the established acquaintanceship that permitted such a familiar form of speech as: "How're ye, Billy, old fel? [5]
- The thick waving locks curled in dishevelled masses around his handsome head, as leaning far back in his chair with unfastened collar, he mingled clever sallies and brilliant similes with the quiet conversation of the others. [10]
- As for the lady, she curled her lip. [9]
- And my hair is to be curled, and the prefect's wife, and then your dress. [10]
- Sometimes he gazed into the heavens, sometimes made a remark to the steersman, disposed his beautiful purple chlanis in fresh folds, or busied himself in the arrangement of his scented brown curls, or his carefully curled beard. [10]
- Heavy clouds gathered in the north, and wreaths of mist, like a hot vapor-bath, swayed over the crisply-foaming wavelets that curled the lustreless waters of the Mareotis Lake. [10]
- We curled up in the clammy beds, and went to sleep without rocking. [5]
- Next he satisfied his own hunger, fed Ring and Whitie and, with them curled beside him, composed himself to await sleep. [13]
- Nay, meseemed that he and Ursula had no part with us; inasmuch as that she was arrayed in velvet and rich brocade, and a bower, as it were, of yellow and purple ostrich plumes curled above her riding-hat. [10]
- I thought Titian hair was bronzy-tawny was what Mr. Burlingame called it when he was spouting," --her upper lip curled in contempt. [11]
- In the Sebastopol goose the scapular feathers are greatly elongated, curled, or even spirally twisted, with the margins plumose. [1]
- His face was fresh and rosy, his white-plumed hat, tilted to one side, disclosed his curled and pomaded hair besprinkled with powdery snow. [2]
- Out went the fires in an instant, and the dragon curled up and died. [5]
- Observe that his fingers are curled as if in the act of tickling, and that his face is represented with a wink, as he appeared when committing his barbarous murders. [12]
- The pirogue was filled with the weak, and in the end of it I was curled up with my drum. [9]
- The tobacco-smoke curled feebly from his lips, and was swallowed up in the clouds of powder-smoke that circled round them. [11]
- He looked handsomer even than he had seemed the day before; his hair was freshly oiled and curled, his scale-armor gleamed as brightly, and his crimson tunic was as new and rich as if he were going at once to guard the Imperial throne. [10]
- It was another dog, and this one was asleep, curled up between a saddle and a pack. [13]
- But they soon curled, as if what she heard aroused her disgust, for the speaker now turned to Dion and accused him of preventing the kindly disposed Regent from increasing the renown of the great Queen and affording her noble heart a pleasure. [10]
- The hair that curled upon his thoughtful brow, and the kalathos that crowned it were of pure gold At his feet crouched Cerberus, raising his three fierce heads with glistening ruby eyes. [10]
- I've just lain curled up there, happy. [5]
- The latter's lips curled still more deeply, as after a pause, he replied: "Or excommunication and a fitting punishment will fall upon you and the vagabond doctor. [10]
- A sorrowful smile curled his lips as he recalled the agreement which they had made just before a separation. [10]
- A scornful smile curled her lip. [10]
- He examined it critically, and said: "It must do, since we can do no better; but he has his trunk curled up and tucked into his mouth. [5]
- I killed him, and curled him up on the foot of Jim's blanket, ever so natural, thinking there'd be some fun when Jim found him there. [5]
- Each looked neat and clean, and was surrounded by trees and shrubs, but though the smoke curled up from several of the roofs every house seemed to have been deserted. [10]
- When Barbara was alone she retired into the bow-window and fell into a silent reverie, during which she often shook her head, as if amazed at herself, and often curled her full lips in a haughty smile. [10]
- Thus the bull alone has curled hair on the forehead. [1]
- She leaned in a sitting posture against a pile of white satin pillows, and her thick locks, interwoven with strings of pearls, bore witness to the skill of the maid who had combed and curled them so artistically and adorned them with a heron's plume. [10]
- One awoke of a morning to the twittering of birds, to walk to school amidst delicate, lace-like shadows of great trees acloud with old gold: the buds lay curled like tiny feathers on the pavements. [9]
- His lip curled a little with almost playful scorn. [11]
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