Use drawn in a sentence
Sentences starting with drawn
- Drawn on by the movement of his troops Napoleon rode with them as far as the Dorogomilov gate, but there again stopped and, dismounting from his horse, paced for a long time by the Kammer-Kollezski rampart, awaiting the deputation. [2]
- Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it, and had his being there. [6]
- Drawn up in lines on the green grass were four regiments, all at last in the blue of their country's service. [9]
Sentences ending with drawn
- But suddenly there was a rush from the Residency Square, and thirty men, under the command of Cumner, rode in with sabres drawn. [11]
- Our city was throwing off its social conservatism; wealth (which implied ability and superiority) was playing a greater part, entertainments were more luxurious, lines more strictly drawn. [9]
- In one sense the woman he had just left in the hospital was nothing to him, and yet now she seemed to be the only living person to whom he was drawn. [11]
- The instances of the horse, the gull, the mother bird, and the elephant show that those creatures put their this's and thats together just as Edison would have done it and drew the same inferences that he would have drawn. [5]
- All who had the fortune to see Calvin in the flesh will recognize the accuracy with which his portrait was drawn. [4]
- Above and beyond the city rose, overpowering, a very different city, somehow, than that her imagination had first drawn. [9]
- As they approached the apartments occupied by Caesarion, Antyllus's loud voice reached them through the open door, whose curtain was only half drawn. [10]
- This was the only blood drawn. [5]
- They generally passed off with nothing worse than bruises and scratches, but now and then swords were drawn. [10]
- Not a drop of blood was drawn! [10]
Short sentences using drawn
- The curtains were drawn. [9]
- Her lips were drawn. [11]
- The cordon was drawn tighter. [9]
Sentences containing drawn two or more times
- The first carriage was a so-called harmamaxa, drawn by four horses decked out with bells and tassels; a two-wheeled cart followed, and last in the train was a baggage-wagon drawn by mules. [10]
- It was as though the infinite had drawn near to the man, or else that the man had drawn near to the infinite. [11]
- Here again in the Palace square were Kaid's Nubians in their glittering armour as of silver and gold, drawn up as she had seen them drawn then, to be reviewed by their overlord. [11]
- Her cheeks had sunk, her lip was drawn up, and her eyes drawn down. [2]
- Then between the master-at-arms with a drawn sword and two corporals with drawn swords behind, the thief, stripped to the waist, is placed. [11]
- A fairly straight line, 700 miles long, drawn westward from Sydney, would strike Broken Hill, just as a somewhat shorter one drawn west from Boston would strike Buffalo. [5]
- It was a drawn battle, and corps law requires that drawn battles shall be refought as soon as the adversaries are well of their hurts. [5]
More example sentences with the word drawn in them
- It is not your rich gifts that have drawn me to you. [10]
- Even as a young lad, his father's notable place in the colony, and the freedom and gaiety of life in Quebec and Montreal, had drawn upon him a notice which was as much a promise of the future as an accent of the present. [11]
- By the time you have drawn twenty-one wales and written "William I.--1066-1087--twenty-one years" twenty-one times, those details will be your property; you cannot dislodge them from your memory with anything but dynamite. [5]
- She could not yet obtain a clear insight into the result of the promise which she had given her son; it seemed as though a veil was drawn over her active mind. [10]
- I did not yet grasp the synthesis he had made of them all, but I saw them now all focussed in him elements he had drawn from human lives and human experiences. [9]
- Or again you would have observed those myriad masses plunging across the veld, still in cohering masses, which shook and broke and scattered, regathering again, as though drawn by a magnet, but leaving stark remnants in their wake. [11]
- Here comes the wonderful one-horse-shay, Drawn by a rat-tailed, ewe-necked bay. [6]
- Those who come within its irresistible influence are drawn so close that it seems as if they must become one with her sooner or later. [6]
- Had one stood within "the Hunter's Room," as it was called, a little while before, one would have seen a man's head bowed before a woman, and her hand smoothing back the hair from the handsome brow where dissipation had drawn some deep lines. [11]
- You can sit, with your knees drawn up to your chin and your arms clasped around them, but you are bound to turn over presently, because you are top-heavy in that position. [5]
- The long windows, with the curtains drawn in the deep, panelled arches; the carved white mantelpiece; the glint of silver on' the sideboard, with its wine-cooler underneath,--these, spoke of generations of respectability and achievement. [9]
- At the table, with his head sunk in his arms, sat Dyck Calhoun, snoring stertorously, his drawn sword by his side. [11]
- His wooden image, with his bow drawn, above the doors of taverns, was a frequent feature of the scenery. [5]
- The spur was with difficulty drawn from the skull, and as the kite, though dead, retained his grasp, the two birds were firmly locked together; but the cock when disentangled was very little injured. [1]
- Now that my winter's work is over and spring is with us, I feel naturally drawn to the Poet's company. [6]
- It was Kate Wimper, who, before that, had waylaid the one man for whom she herself had ever cared, and drawn him from her side by such attractions as she herself would keep for an honest wife, if such she ever chanced to be. [11]
- So the wave which was to have wafted them on to the shore of Elysium has just failed of landing them, and back they have been drawn into the desolate ocean to meet no more on earth. [6]
- The danger in which Heinz stood of being drawn into the monastery made him deeply anxious, and he had already ventured several times to oppose his design. [10]
- Not far from where the trap was drawn, and between it and the runaway, was a lane, which ended at a farmyard in a cul-de-sac. [11]
- Many years before, when she was living in a count's family, she had taught the king, as a young prince, to churn, and on the strength of this a petition was drawn up for her by my family. [10]
- At the Fete when she and Ingolby met face to face, people had immediately drawn round them curious and excited. [11]
- In the days when Flood Ireson was drawn in the cart by the Maenads of Marblehead, that fishing town had the name of nurturing a young population not over fond of strangers. [6]
- Still, if from what she has done an inference is sought to be drawn as to what I would do, I may without impropriety speak out. [7]
- Before he realized what had happened to him she had drawn his face to hers, kissed it, and was pushing him off the train. [9]
- But her thoughts were uncontrollable, she was drawn continually to the edge of that precipice which hung over the waters whence they had dragged her, never knowing when the vertigo would seize her. [9]
- 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]
- Margaret and Carmen were made acquainted, and were drawn together by curiosity, and perhaps by a secret feeling of repulsion. [4]
- Twenty, twenty-five cards were drawn, and then Pierre paused. [11]
- The main body were drawn up in front of the mines and, familiar with the signal which requested negotiations, asked their commander for an interview. [10]
- The two men were drawn to each other; Irving greatly admired the "noble hearted, manly, spirited little fellow, with a mind as generous as his fancy is brilliant. [4]
- Illustrations of this were drawn from the Greek, the French, and the English literatures. [4]
- But the swords were drawn back from him and he was at once blindfolded again. [2]
- Yet as he went towards his own home now, he recalled the day they were married, and for the first time had drawn as near to each other as life could draw. [11]
- But before she went she contrived to place near his elbow one of the scraps of paper on which Pauline had drawn his face, with that of Manette. [11]
- For fifty miles we travelled under it, towards the Gap, our eyes drawn to it by a resistless fascination. [9]
- He had lain watching Charley for a long time, his brow drawn down with thought. [11]
- The young Doctor was to take the two Annexes in a wagon, and the Tutor was to drive Number Five in a good old-fashioned chaise drawn by a well-conducted family horse. [6]
- From the scuffle-ground was the sign of something about the size of a man having been dragged to the edge of the thicket, where it joined the track of some small-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse, as shown by the road-tracks. [7]
- Eda, of course, was the aggressor; she was irresistibly drawn, she would not be repulsed. [9]
- How acutely he was suffering could be seen in his drawn mouth and sad eyes, but he would not allow himself to be interrupted, often as the abbess and the gardener entreated him to lay aside the stylus. [10]
- Though the night was not hot, the door was drawn to. [11]
- At last I was lucky enough to light on a sturdy wagon, drawn by a pair of serviceable bays, and driven by James Grayden, with whom I was destined to have a somewhat continued acquaintance. [6]
- But the face was drawn, the eyes were hard, and the look of him was altogether pinched. [11]
- Soon the boat was drawn up again, and others took the place of those who had disappeared. [11]
- Presently my attention was drawn towards a very odd-looking insect on the mantelpiece. [6]
- Presently our attention was drawn to a marble medallion portrait on the corner building of an ordinary-looking row of houses. [6]
- Her fair hair was drawn plainly and smoothly, over her temples, and the slender, slightly stooping figure, resembled a young tree, which the storm has bowed and deprived of strength and will to raise itself. [10]
- Gradually, as he was drawn more and more into the network of the relationships of this extraordinary man,--nay, as he inevitably became a part of that network,--a period of bewilderment ensued. [9]
- Soon the curtain was drawn down again, and then he went once more to the house and took his old seat beside the table. [11]
- Presently his attention was drawn by the glitter of something upon one of the crosspieces of timber halfway up the wall. [11]
- The Durrett house was closed, the blinds of its many windows drawn, but Nancy was watching for me and opened the door. [9]
- When the coffee was brought, the door had been shut, and Dicky had drawn the curtain across, Selamlik Pasha said: "What great affair brings us together here, saadat el basha? [11]
- The night being warm, there was a large screen drawn across the room, for a barrier against the heat of the fire. [12]
- I suppose she wanted to impress me with the value of the prize I've drawn, dear. [4]
- First a long wain covered in by a tilt so high I trove that meseemed many a town gate might be over low to let it pass; and it was drawn by four right small little horses, with dark matted coats and bright, wilful eyes. [10]
- A string of wagons drawn by oxen was lumbering along. [13]
- Besides the plunderers, very various people, some drawn by curiosity, some by official duties, some by self-interest--house owners, clergy, officials of all kinds, tradesmen, artisans, and peasants--streamed into Moscow as blood flows to the heart. [2]
- The house was very still and the blinds were drawn to shut out the heat, but the soft din of the locusts came through the windows. [11]
- They have drawn upon their last branch of resources, and we can now see the bottom. [7]
- His blood was up, and rushing on them with his drawn sword, he had already cut his way through the first troop when a second came up. [10]
- I took it up with a certain emulous interest (for I fancied at that day that I too had drawn a prize, say a five-dollar one, at least, in the great intellectual life-lottery) and read the first words. [6]
- I have drawn up this description from Yarrell's 'British Fishes,' vol. [1]
- It was drawn up shortly after their marriage. [4]
- They were drawn up on two lines facing each other with fixed bayonets, a grim look on their faces that would certainly have put any Hun to flight. [9]
- He would take up his quarters in the room which he had occupied as a scholar, where he had studied, practised music, trained himself in the art of composition, and in leisure hours had even drawn and painted a little. [10]
- He also made up his mind that Tom should be allowed a reasonable time for spiritual preparation, and then be hanged, drawn and quartered, according to the law and usage of the day in cases of high treason. [5]
- The dispositions drawn up by Weyrother for the battle of Austerlitz were a model of perfection for that kind of composition, but still they were criticized--criticized for their very perfection, for their excessive minuteness. [2]
- The dispositions drawn up by Toll were very good. [2]
- He had drawn up a plan of action with great military skill, and succeeded in gaining not only Cambyses' approval, but that of the old general Megabyzus and the best tacticians among the Achaemenidae. [10]
- Keep it out until a vote is taken, and a vote in favor of it cannot be got in any population of forty thousand on earth, who have been drawn together by the ordinary motives of emigration and settlement. [7]
- But Richter, the type of the university-bred revolutionist which emigrated after '48, is drawn more or less from life. [9]
- On the side toward the room the curtains were drawn back far enough to allow those who were permitted to approach the regent to see her head and the upper portion of her body, which was wrapped in an ermine cape. [10]
- The parable was told to illustrate a single virtue, humility, and the most unwarranted inferences have been drawn from it as to the whole character of the two parties. [6]
- You recollect you told me you had drawn the Chicago Masark money, and sent it to the claimants. [7]
- Indeed Miss Bronte told me that, before publication, she had sent those parts of the novel in which these remarkable persons are introduced, to one of the sons; and his reply, after reading it, was simply that "she had not drawn them strong enough. [14]
- The first object to which my eyes were drawn was an old-fashioned well-sweep. [6]
- He was drawn to them: the conviction grew upon him that he did not reach them, and it troubled him, as he thought, disproportionately. [9]
- It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them sloshing around in your head same as so much drawn butter. [5]
- Involuntarily listening now to the firing, which had drawn nearer and was increasing in strength, Alpatych hurried to his inn. [2]
- He composed himself to sleep, but, as he lay waiting for that coverlet of forgetfulness to be drawn over him, he heard the sound of bells soft and clear. [11]
- The compassionate impulse to lighten the lot of a sufferer, which had before drawn her so strongly to Caracalla, had now lost its sense and meaning for this healthy, high-spirited man. [10]
- She was about to leave the house upon the mission which had drawn her footsteps in the same direction as those of Ian Stafford, when the butler came to her for information upon some details. [11]
- She had drawn to her the roughest men in the troop, and for old Sewell, the grim sergeant, she had a specially warm place. [11]
- But it seemed to her that life must be dull in any of them, and with that idea in her head her dreaming fancy had drawn these pictures. [6]
- His being seemed to expand suddenly to an enormity of chaos and then as suddenly to shrink, dwindle, and fall back into a smother--as though, in falling, blankets were drawn roughly over his head and a thousand others were shaken in the air around him. [11]
- The officers followed to check the soldiers and were involuntarily drawn into doing the same. [2]
- He himself desired to be gracious to the brave champion of Marchfield, who under great irritation had drawn his sword. [10]
- Indeed, for a time the issue had seemed doubtful, for the endurance and persistence of the Seigneur made for exasperation and recklessness in his antagonist, and once blood was drawn from the wrist of the great man; but at length Lempriere went upon the aggressive. [11]
- At the same time she allowed herself to be drawn away to the hall with her husband. [11]
- It was drawn tighter and tighter till at last he could not breathe and fell down insensible. [10]
- Where all the tides are drawn To greet their Sun and bathe their Idol's knees? [11]
- General attention was thus drawn to the poor fellow, and a great many people came forward and helped him toward reform with their countenance and encouragement. [5]
- It was drawn through the wax of a seal attached to the parchment of a state document. [5]
- A shriek rang through the cave, and they could hear a heavy, rusty bolt drawn back, the roughly hewn door was opened, and a hoarse voice asked: "Is that Paaker? [10]
- The young Burgrave thought that he, Heinz Schorlin, could aid in convincing the sovereign, who would lend him a ready ear, that he, Wolff, had only drawn his sword under compulsion. [10]
- It was as though the gates of hell had been closed and the curtains of heaven drawn for the eyes to see. [11]
- In spite of this, and although his absence threatened to rouse Caesar to fury, and everything pointed to the necessity of his remaining within call, Macrinus, drawn by an irresistible craving, had followed the invitation, which sounded more like a command. [10]
- Detricand saw that this was not acting, that it was a supreme terror, an awful momentary aberration; for the traitor's eyes were wildly staring, the mouth was drawn in agony, the hands were now rigidly clutching an imaginary something, the body stiffened where it crouched. [11]
- It transpired that this signifies that the wearer has fought three duels in which a decision was reached--duels in which he either whipped or was whipped--for drawn battles do not count. [5]
- Whether or not this motive had drawn others,--for the millionaire's speech had not lacked advertisement,--it is impossible to say, but there was standing room only on the floor of the House that day. [9]
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