Use drawing in a sentence
Sentences starting with drawing
- Drawing keeps us within the bounds assigned to what is true and beautiful. [10]
- Drawing back, he waited until he heard the foot of Elise upon the stair. [11]
- Drawing a chair up to the table, the young wife seated herself and began to read. [10]
- Drawing a hawthorn sprig from a porcelain vase I had given her, she put it in my hand. [9]
- Drawing near, I saw that it came from a small hut or lean-to. [11]
- Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, Smolyaninov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an acquaintance--he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor. [2]
- Drawing himself up quickly, he asked his eldest daughter for whom she was carrying water. [10]
- Drawing forth two packets with a gasp of relief, he put them in his pocket, and, with extreme care, proceeded to close the panel. [11]
- Drawing a hood over her head, she stepped out into the night. [11]
- Drawing her arm out of her father's, she stood against the wall, and looked, with a strange, cold glitter in her eyes, at the crowd which moved and babbled before her. [6]
Sentences ending with drawing
- He had a very good artist--Williams--who had never taken a lesson in drawing. [5]
- The artist kept up a pretense of drawing. [4]
- Upon inquiry, it turns out that Mr. Bascom has had a front seat for the last twenty years--he has been uniformly lucky in drawing. [9]
- Alma held up the drawing. [8]
- If you only saw his foot, you'd take him to be nineteen feet high, but he wasn't; it was because his foot was out of drawing. [5]
- She wanted to learn to express her ideas by drawing. [14]
- Kindly, and without either mockery or reproof, he represented to him that he was still far too young for military service, and after Ulrich had confirmed everything the painter had already heard from the jester, Moor asked who had given him instruction in drawing. [10]
- Look at the drawing. [4]
- Mr. Woolner made an exact model of one such case, and sent me the accompanying drawing. [1]
- In Paris, in a set he knew there, what an effect she would be with that look of hers, and that beauty, all out of drawing! [8]
Short sentences using drawing
- I'm drawing It over! [5]
- It was drawing her, irresistibly.... [9]
- See his drawing, Fig. [1]
- The hounds were drawing near. [4]
- Evening was drawing down. [11]
- Keep him drawing constantly. [10]
Sentences containing drawing two or more times
- These sayings were prepared in the inner laboratory of his mind in a portable form as if intentionally, so that insignificant society people might carry them from drawing room to drawing room. [2]
- You see that piece that's got the blood on it will keep drawing and drawing, trying to fetch the other piece to it, and so that helps the blood to draw the wart, and pretty soon off she comes. [5]
- Drawing, perpetual drawing, became burdensome, repulsive, hateful; but with palette and brush in his hand he could not fail to become an artist, perhaps an artist like Titian. [10]
More example sentences with the word drawing in them
- He would make young Schopper pay some penalty yet more than a mere fine, to that he pledged his royal word, and as for young Welemisl, he was minded to devise some punishment that should hinder many an over-bold knight from drawing his sword! [10]
- Antonio has tormented you sufficiently with drawing lifeless things. [10]
- I know what you call it: the mechanical and automatic putting together of impressions received from outside, and drawing an inference from them. [5]
- As the peace-maker's work was already drawing to a close, the wounded lad, pointing with his sound hand in the direction of the school, suddenly called warningly: "There comes Herr von Nordwyk. [10]
- They could exchange words and looks, they could arrange private interviews, they would be stooping together over the same book, her hair touching his cheek, her breath mingling with his, all the magnetic attractions drawing them together with strange, invisible effluences. [6]
- Without saying a word Rostopchin rose and walked hastily to his light, luxurious drawing room, went to the balcony door, took hold of the handle, let it go again, and went to the window from which he had a better view of the whole crowd. [2]
- Slowly drawing the wonderful soft web of hair over her shoulders, she began to weave it into one wide strand, which grew and grew in length till it was like a great rope of spun gold. [11]
- When yonder sick woman seemed to be drawing near her end she asked for the sacrament, which was administered by the Dominican. [10]
- She is the witness I am drawing this from. [5]
- I am not without talent for drawing, and even at that time it was an easy matter to reproduce anything which had caught my eye, not only distinctly, but sometimes attractively and with a certain degree of fidelity to nature. [10]
- She had waked without moving, had observed the scene without drawing the attention of a man--a sentry--who sat beside the tent-door. [11]
- To repay them with treachery and desertion was foreign to his nature and, drawing a long breath, he sprang to his feet with the conviction that he had chosen aright. [10]
- After supper Pierre with his partner followed the others into the drawing room. [2]
- Besides being occupied with his estates and reading a great variety of books, Prince Andrew was at this time busy with a critical survey of our last two unfortunate campaigns, and with drawing up a proposal for a reform of the army rules and regulations. [2]
- Princess Mary turned with absent-minded questioning look to Pierre, who hat in hand and with a smile on his face was the last of the guests to approach her after the old prince had gone out and they were left alone in the drawing room. [2]
- This drawing water with a bottomless pitcher is beginning to be too much for me. [10]
- He entered his wife's drawing room as one enters a theater, was acquainted with everybody, equally pleased to see everyone, and equally indifferent to them all. [2]
- It was she who spied me as I was drawing down the ladder again. [9]
- A dozen persons who had business with Pierre were awaiting him in the drawing room. [2]
- Only a little while ago few people in the United States knew how to draw, and only a few could tell good drawing from bad. [4]
- While the guests were taking their leave Pierre remained for a long time alone with Helene in the little drawing room where they were sitting. [2]
- At last they were roused by the sound of a horn, and, looking down, they saw a four-in-hand drawing smartly down the road to the village over the gorse-spread common, till it stopped at the Cloistered House. [11]
- Anxiety and suspense were expressed in every face: Amasis' last hour was drawing very near. [10]
- For one day we can move into the drawing room. [2]
- She had a way of drawing things out of you, and you just couldn't resist. [9]
- You see, Cauchon was managing to narrow her chances more and more all the time; he was drawing the toils closer and closer. [5]
- If the boat was known to make her best speed when drawing five and a half feet forward and five feet aft, she was carefully loaded to that exact figure--she wouldn't enter a dose of homoeopathic pills on her manifest after that. [5]
- Mademoiselle Bourienne, who was in the drawing room, looked at Princess Mary in bewildered surprise. [2]
- The band itself was half asleep, but by sheer force of habit it kept on, the fiddlers drawing the perfunctory bows, and the melancholy clarionet men breathing their expressive sighs. [4]
- Once more it was flattened into a lap, given to a comber that felt out its fibres, removing with superhuman precision those for the finer fabric too short, thrusting it forth again in another filmy sliver ready for the drawing frames. [9]
- The March night was drawing toward its end, pallid mists floated over the canal, the work of Hebrew bondmen which, as far as the eye could reach, intersected the plain, watering the fields and pastures along its course. [10]
- The sombre daylight was drawing to an early close as the two stood looking out of the sitting-room window. [9]
- The year 1222 was drawing to a close. [5]
- 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]
- I thought that was drawing it a little strong, about the turtles, any how, but I asked Mr. Church if it was so, and he said it was, and what Mr. Church tells me, I believe. [5]
- If the drawing was bad, Margaret knew it; if a false note was struck, she saw it. [4]
- But I don't want to interrupt you," he added, and was about to go to the drawing room. [2]
- The entertainment which Verus was giving on the eve of his birthday seemed to be far from drawing to an end, even at the beginning of the third hour of the morning. [10]
- A drawing by Vanderlyn, made in Paris in 1805, and a portrait by Jarvis in 1809, present him to us in the fresh bloom of manly beauty. [4]
- Mr. Cooke stood up, and drawing from his pocket a small and mysterious paper parcel he forthwith delivered himself in the tone and manner which had so endeared him to the familiars of the Lake House bar. [9]
- Then, drawing herself up to her full height, she exclaimed, "Well, then, to work! [10]
- Parpon went up two steps of the chancel quietly and caught the arm of the Cure, drawing him down to whisper in his ear. [11]
- A smile of triumph passed over Caesar's features, and drawing Melissa's hands away from her tearful face, he said, kindly: "Alexander's soul pines for Roxana's; that is what makes your presence so dear to me. [10]
- When his imagination tortured him with fancies that mice and beetles were leaping and running out of his pockets and the breast of his doublet, he thought that his end was drawing near. [10]
- He then began to talk in a general way about Gaston's voyage, of the Hudson's Bay Company, and expeditions to the Arctic, drawing Lady Dargan into the conversation. [11]
- Kasana sat opposite to him on a seat covered with a panther-skin, drawing the fine wool from the distaff. [10]
- We have agreed to combine to ask for him to be recalled; Anana is drawing up a letter to the chief priest, which we shall all subscribe. [10]
- I felt that to be wholly a man I should turn from those eyes drawing me on. [11]
- Therefore, from 1905 to 1909, I kept drawing upon all those experiences of others, from the true tales that had been told me, upon the reminiscences of Hudson's Bay trappers and hunters, for those incidents natural to the West which imagination could make true. [11]
- Though at one time, in Petersburg, she had been annoyed with Natasha for drawing Boris away, she did not think of that now, and in her own way heartily wished Natasha well. [2]
- 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]
- But his comrade, throwing down the boots and drawing his sword, moved threateningly toward Pierre. [2]
- Pierre well remembered this small circular drawing room with its mirrors and little tables. [2]
- The enemy appeared this morning and then retired, with the intention of drawing us on. [7]
- At the city-gates they met Romanus, the general in command of the Imperial army, with his staff of officers, and he, drawing rein by the great merchant's carriage, had asked him, pointing to Constantine, whether that were his son. [10]
- The King discovered these rascals approaching the front gate before they had had a chance to see him; so he said nothing about drawing the line, but took up his basket of kittens and stepped quietly out the back way, without a word. [5]
- After this drawing, these four districts, and also the Seventeenth and Twenty-ninth, shall be carefully re-enrolled; and, if you please, agents of yours may witness every step of the process. [7]
- By the statistics there was a hundred and eighty-two of them drawing sneak pay in America last year. [5]
- The typesetting-machine and the unfortunate publishing venture were drawing heavily on the family finances at this period, and the cost of the Hartford establishment was too great to be maintained. [5]
- She lay in the state between sleeping and waking, looking so long at his motionless figure that at length she almost feared he had died as he sat there; and softly rising and drawing close to him, ventured to whisper in his ear. [12]
- With hurried hands the soldiers blindfolded them, drawing the sacks over their heads, and bound them to the post. [2]
- They proceeded from the sick-rooms, but also from Orion, who had just come in, and from Nilus the treasurer, who had been called by the former into his room, though the night was fast drawing on to morning. [10]
- Hastily drawing aside the shutters from one of the openings which served as windows, she looked out. [10]
- When he entered the Rostovs' drawing room Natasha was in her own room. [2]
- Medallion began with the parish, passed to the law, from the law to Napoleon, from Napoleon to France, and from France to the world, drawing out from the Avocat something of his old vivacity and fire. [11]
- They were at the house, no doubt, for some men were in the very act of drawing up the wooden gangway which connected the vessel with the land. [10]
- At that moment the great clock struck two and another with a shrill tone joined in from the drawing room. [2]
- We discover in the foregoing letter that the long European residence was drawing to an end. [5]
- On moving to the drawing room he handed the letter to Princess Mary and, spreading out before him the plan of the new building and fixing his eyes upon it, told her to read the letter aloud. [2]
- Sonya sat in the drawing room at the round table, copying a design for embroidery. [2]
- I shall direct the draft to proceed in all the districts, drawing, however, at first from each of the four districts--to wit, the Second, Fourth, Sixth, and Eighth--only, 2200 being the average quota of the other class. [7]
- Presently he drove the dogs across the road, and attached them to a flat vehicle, without wheels or runners, used by Garotte for the drawing of lime and stones. [11]
- By this time the dinner was drawing to its close and now a singular thing happened. [11]
- Anna Pavlovna arranged the different groups in her drawing room with her habitual skill. [2]
- Pleasant companionship during the day produced, for the time, the unusual blessing of calm repose at night; and after her friend's departure she was well enough to "fall to business," and write away, almost incessantly, at her story of Villette, now drawing to a conclusion. [14]
- We had had the best instructors in drawing and painting in Germany--Haemmerling, Vogel, Mueller, Dietz, and Schumann. [5]
- He presently found that while he was busy drawing life from one of his sleeves a young English gentleman was stealing supplies from the other one. [5]
- Every one knows that the end is drawing near, and imitates the Pharaoh to whom the oracle promised six years of life, and who convicted it of falsehood and made them twelve by carousing during the night also. [10]
- Do you know that the birds and other animals those beggars have been drawing, which we thought were caricatures, are the real thing? [4]
- He agreed entirely that no principle was established by the treaty, but that the throwing of dice or drawing of lots was not a new invention on that occasion, but a not uncommon method in arbitrations. [6]
- It may be that I've got some of the sample pages here, if I haven't left them at home," said Mr. Grady, fumbling in an ample inside pocket, and drawing forth a bundle. [9]
- It was clear that Horapollo was uneasy at Philippus' long silence, and his pointed eyebrows, raised high on his brow, plainly showed that he was drawing his own conclusions from it--no doubt the right ones. [10]
- It was evident that he not only knew everyone in the drawing room, but had found them to be so tiresome that it wearied him to look at or listen to them. [2]
- I rather liked that exercise he read us the other day, though I must confess I should hardly dare to translate it, for fear some people in a remote city where I once lived might think I was drawing their portraits. [6]
- This embryo was ten lines in length, so that the drawing is much magnified. [1]
- There were indeed tears in her eyes, and drawing out her handkerchief to brush them away, she happened to let it fall. [12]
- The little princess talked incessantly, her short, downy upper lip continually and rapidly touching her rosy nether lip when necessary and drawing up again next moment when her face broke into a smile of glittering teeth and sparkling eyes. [2]
- Sigel's regiment had swung into the street, drawing in its wake a seething crowd. [9]
- I was a superior man, but I have lived as a small man these many days; and now, behold, I am drawing near to my end as a superior man. [11]
- But when on Sunday after church the footman announced in the drawing room that Count Rostov had called, the princess showed no confusion, only a slight blush suffused her cheeks and her eyes lit up with a new and radiant light. [2]
- He would head straight for the beacon and pass between the Marmotier and the Maitre Ile, where is a narrow channel for a boat drawing only a few feet of water. [11]
- Evidently the terrible stormcloud he had desired with the whole strength of his soul but which yet aroused involuntary horror in him was drawing near. [2]
- I could have stood that by drawing what is left of Mrs. Clemens's letter of credit, and we would have done it cheerfully. [5]
- First, step by step, leaning against trees, drawing himself forwards, a journey as long to his determined mind as from youth to age. [11]
- She, presently, would step out of the noise, the oppressive moist heat of the drawing and spinning rooms, the constant, remorseless menace of whirling wheels and cogs and belts. [9]
- He took a step nearer to the table, and, drawing himself up, looked his princely interlocutor steadily in the eyes. [11]
- She kept turning steadily, singing to herself the while, as with anxiety she saw the Indians drawing closer and closer in from the gate. [11]
- Mademoiselle George was standing in a corner of the drawing room surrounded by young men. [2]
- We went up stairs again--laid off our wraps, and were conducted through one drawing room and into another, and left alone there and the door closed upon us. [5]
- I did not speak, but nodded assent, and took to drawing the leaves of corn between my fingers as he was doing. [11]
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