Use draught in a sentence
Sentences ending with draught
- The cold breath which fanned his cheek was certainly no mere draught. [10]
- He had endeavored to vanquish the disgust she felt for him merely to ensnare her and her healing hand more surely--as his plaything, his physic, his sleeping draught. [10]
- The rest of the party had long felt the chill of the damp night air that blew through the room from the river, but knowing that the father suffered more from heat than from anything, they had all willingly endured the draught. [10]
- For whom is the Medea probably brewing in imagination the poisoned draught? [10]
- Tom gazed at the dish a puzzled moment or two, then raised it to his lips, and gravely took a draught. [5]
- Her hand was steady; the happy smile on her lips, and the eager expression of her eyes, might have led a spectator to believe that she was thirsty and had mixed herself a refreshing draught. [10]
- She sighed as she listened to every note of the chant, and it worked upon her like a healing draught. [10]
- Then suddenly he raised it, and drained it at a draught. [11]
- That is the polite way; but when you are ready to go, you empty the beaker at a draught. [5]
- He was very pale, and he felt like a wanderer in the desert who finds the spring choked where he had hoped to find a refreshing draught. [10]
Short sentences using draught
- Give me another draught. [10]
Sentences containing draught two or more times
- It commonly entered into the first draught of the infant and the last draught of the dying man. [7]
More example sentences with the word draught in them
- I will fetch you a draught of wine. [10]
- Her hands trembled with rage, and stammering rather than speaking she desired the praetor to order a composing draught for her. [10]
- Thou shalt share with me my little draught of immortality,--its week, its month, its year,--whatever it may be,--and then we will go together into the solemn archives of Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library! [6]
- Now go; you will not feel the draught in the anteroom with that wrap on. [10]
- Your morning draught was well enough, but we don't care for your evening slip-slop. [6]
- His tormented brain was like a dried-up well; bucket after bucket did he send down, but not one brought up the refreshing draught he needed. [10]
- It is fair to give you a seat that is not in the draught, and your friends ought not to find fault with you if you do not care to join a party that is going on a sleigh-ride. [6]
- It is impossible to get out of a draught, and the progress is so slow that variety enough is not presented to the eye to keep one from ennui. [4]
- And, besides all this, if a leaf flutters off the table without being touched by any visible hand, you do not doubt that a draught of air, which you can neither hear nor see, has swept through the room. [10]
- He still relished the draught from the beaker of homage proffered by his fellow-citizens; nay, it seemed as if it could not lose its sweetness for a long time. [10]
- Hardly had she swallowed the deadly draught when she shivered with a sudden chill. [10]
- He would have swallowed a basin of pea-soup at a draught, but she stopped him, holding the basin till she thought he might venture again. [11]
- It has a straw through it; you pull this out, and it leaves a flue, otherwise there would be no draught, not even as much as there is to a nail. [5]
- He spoke and spoke, while the others listened without moving until he raised a large goblet and took such a long draught that the duchess was frightened. [10]
- As he did so, the door swung in the draught, and I saw a blooming young woman,--it was my friend's sister, who had been sitting with a book in her hand, and who rose at the opening of the door. [6]
- A strong draught showed that the door leading from the atrium was being opened, and now a shout, half choked by weeping, greeted him: "Hermon! [10]
- He cooked his scanty meal, and took a deep draught from a horn of whiskey from beneath a board in the flooring. [11]
- It was the repetition of an attempt at a draught from the Cup of Tantalus. [6]
- The draught I put into the wine must have been strong. [10]
- The more they overwork themselves, the more exacting becomes the sense of duty,--as the draught of the locomotive's furnace blows stronger and makes the fire burn more fiercely, the faster it spins along the track. [6]
- She was appointed one of a committee to draught By-laws for its government. [5]
- We had several of his chromos; one was his "Miraculous Draught of Fishes," where he puts in a miracle of his own--puts three men into a canoe which wouldn't have held a dog without upsetting. [5]
- Cleopatra rejoiced to mark his long slow draught, for she thought the Roman meant to imply by it that he could not cease to esteem himself happy in the favor she had shown him. [10]
- He unslung his little gourd-shaped earthenware jug, and I put it under my moustache and took a long, glorious, satisfying draught. [5]
- Emerson's quotations are like the miraculous draught of fishes. [6]
- It had a lid on top, and in the side a small door with bars for draught, suggesting to me in little the delight of a fireplace. [11]
- The draught kept it continually in motion, and it wavered to and fro in the hall, like the restless souls of the damned. [10]
- Sir Philip Sidney is better remembered by the draught of water he gave the dying soldier than by all the waters he ever drew from the fountain of the Muses, considerable as are the merits of his prose and verse. [6]
- The immortals have indeed shown me very plainly that it is their will sometimes to spoil the feast of life with a right bitter draught. [10]
- She still held in her hand the jar from which she had given the bereaved goddess a reviving draught, but it was empty and she longed for a drink. [10]
- Involuntarily he drew in a great draught of it, and his eyes seemed to gaze out, almost wonderingly, over the grass and the trees to the boundless horizon. [11]
- In the evening he ate nothing save a piece of bread, with some goat-cheese and figs, and quenched his thirst with a draught of muddy wine which he diluted with water. [10]
- Now the trial had come, and that which was in him as deep as being, the habit of youth, the mother-fibre and predisposition, responded to the draught he had drunk then. [11]
- Mr Swiveller appeared gratified beyond all expression by this reply, and took a long draught himself, steadfastly regarding his companion while he did so. [12]
- If on the golden floor one draught remain, Trust me, thy careful search will be in vain; Not till the bowl is emptied shalt thou know The names enrolled below. [6]
- The lambkin caught fire and just as the flame had begun to burn the wooden skeleton of the toy a draught from the window blew the flame towards the other little sheep and in a minute they were all burned to ashes. [10]
- He would soon finish the draught of the new edict for which his Eminence and the Councillor Viglius were waiting in the adjoining chamber. [10]
- Few intelligent readers ever took it up and laid it down without taking a long draught of its singular and interesting contents. [6]
- The sneer from Eliphalet's seemed to penetrate like a chilly draught. [9]
- Was ever giant's dungeon dug so deep, Was ever tyrant's fetter forged so strong, Was e'er such deadly poison in the draught The false wife mingles for the trusting fool, As he whose willing victim is himself, Digs, forges, mingles, for his captive soul? [6]
- Now take this draught, divide it in four parts, and give it to Uarda for four evenings following. [10]
- To create a draught this hot day it had been flung wide open, and Els could distinguish plainly the words uttered below. [10]
- What a good draught the nag takes! [4]
- Had not Shiel Crozier had his draught of bitter herbs to drink over the past five years? [11]
- Yet now he could not wait to eat the soup with a spoon, but lifted the bowl and took a long draught of it, and set it down with a sigh of content. [11]
- It makes me cheerful to sit by the machine: come up with Mrs. Goodman and refresh yourself with a draught of the same. [5]
- I noticed that, but attached no importance to it, thinking a draught had blown it there. [5]
- When added years bring whitening hair, The draught of wisdom then wilt share, But it will lack the flavor due, Without a drop of folly too. [10]
- The room was as bright as if it were noonday, though the lights flickered constantly, for the wind found its way through the thin shutters closing the windows on both sides of the corner room, and a strong, cold draught swept in. [10]
- I had been appointed chairman of a committee to draught an address to the Emperor in behalf of the passengers, and as I fully expected, and as they fully intended, I had to write the address myself. [5]
- He would, then and there, have gone through the exertions of the last few hours all over again if he could have been certain that he should once more be refreshed with the draught of water from her hand. [10]
- He was indeed an indefatigable man, for although these details kept him busy the whole day, he allowed himself no rest nor did he once ask for the refreshment of food or a cooling draught. [10]
- When they find an inch of mud in the bottom of a glass, they stir it up, and then take the draught as they would gruel. [5]
- And this was an act of supreme devotion--to put at his hand the lulling, inspiring draught. [11]
- A draught of air rushed through this hall, and in stormy weather switched the water all over the floor, now robbed of its mosaics, and covered, wherever the foot could tread, with a thin, dark green, damp and slippery coating of mossy plants and slime. [10]
- The feeling most active in his mind was pity, and, as he prepared a draught from his own stock of medicines, he thought the past and the present all over. [11]
- The need to act restored the power to act: and a new and bitter experience which now befell was as a draught of wine, making my heavy heart beat high and steady once more. [10]
- Armour poured out a stiff draught, added a very little water, and drank it. [11]
- He drew in a great draught of air, and said: "The world--the great, wonderful world, where men live, and love work, and do strong things! [11]
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