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Sentences starting with dropping

Dropping the pen, she went over to the window, staring out over the grey waters, trembling so violently that she could scarcely stand. [9]
Dropping the book, she leaned over her father's bed and looked closely at him. [11]
Dropping upon a ledge beneath, and from that to a jutting tree, which gave way, he shot down into the whirlpool. [11]

More example sentences with the word dropping in them

Many a strong-limbed young man and many a blooming young woman have I seen failing and dropping away in or before middle life, and many a delicate and slightly constituted person outliving the athletes and the beauties of their generation. [6]
In a few words she told him all, tears dropping from her eyes. [11]
An instant, then, with the instinct of the woods and the plains, and the courage that has habitation everywhere, dropping her basket she sprang forward noiselessly. [11]
She swung about with a start, her music dropping to the floor, and stared at him. [9]
Here she stopped with a shriek, dropping the comb, for the thundercloud was now directly over the city, and a loud peal, following close upon the flash of lightning, shook the house; but Barbara scarcely heeded the dazzling glare and the rattling panes. [10]
But the central wisdom which was old in infancy is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise. [6]
And Nelson Langmaid, who had fallen into the habit of dropping into Hodder's rooms in the parish house on his way uptown for a chat about books, had been struck by the rector's friendship with the banker. [9]
I thought you were in your room," she said, for some reason blushing and dropping her eyes. [2]
Then Hume rose, went to a cupboard, took out some sealing wax and matches, and in a moment melted wax was dropping upon the lock of the box containing his Idea. [11]
His grandfather, who was his godfather, trembling and afraid of dropping him, carried the infant round the battered tin font and handed him over to the godmother, Princess Mary. [2]
Deftly dropping her veil, she picked up a riding whip that lay on the railing and descended the stairs to the courtyard. [9]
These, it is useless to say, were probably not the "barnacle geese" which the nautical travelers used to find, and picture growing upon bushes and dropping from the eggs, when they were ripe, full-fledged into the water. [4]
Tarboe did not understand, but now his blood was up, and as another volley sent bullets dropping around the two he gave the Ninety-Nine to the wind, and she came bearing down smartly to them. [11]
Tucking his legs under him and dropping his head he sat down on the cold ground by the wheel of the cart and remained motionless a long while sunk in thought. [2]
The call of tubas and bugles rang without ceasing through the great building, to the frequent accompaniment of the most horrible sound of all in this hideous spectacle--the heavy fall of a dead man dropping from above into the gulf. [10]
If it's a tragedy"--she drew herself up with a little shudder, for she was thinking of that figure dropping from Elise's window--"you cannot stop it. [11]
Ned's first voyage to the Chinchas, but his fame had gone before him--the fame of being a man who would fight at the dropping of a handkerchief, when imposed upon, and would stand no nonsense. [5]
The young priest there, who seems so fond of gardening, has other fruit in his mind besides the half-ripe figs that he is so slowly dropping into his basket. [10]
When I heard them--and saw the shiny trees--and the blue sky--and then a blaze of gold dropping down--I wondered--" She did not complete her fancy, but Venters imagined he understood her meaning. [13]
As soon as the sale was completed and the money paid--which was on the 11th--I began to stick to Fuller's track without dropping it for a moment. [5]
She acquiesced in the recognition of herself as the authoress of "Jane Eyre," because she perceived that there were some advantages to be derived from dropping her pseudonym. [14]
And it was the memory of this incident that suddenly threw a glaring, evil light on all of Lise's conduct during the past months--her accidental dropping of the vanity case and the gold coin! [9]
He had shown the latter that Antony, in any case, was a lost man, and Egypt was in the act of dropping like a ripe fruit into the lap of Octavianus. [10]
I fell into the habit of dropping in on Nancy at least twice a week on my way from the office, and I met her occasionally at other houses. [9]
A third is the dropping of a studied remark apparently without knowing it, as if one where thinking aloud. [5]
A third is the dropping of a studied remark apparently without knowing it, as if one were thinking aloud. [5]
Napoleon merely laid the cross on Lazarev's breast and, dropping his hand, turned toward Alexander as though sure that the cross would adhere there. [2]
Eglington vaguely knew that now he was to face some trial of mind and nerve, but with great deliberation he continued dropping liquid from a bottle into the glass retort he carried, his eyes, however, watchful of his visitor, who involuntarily stared around the laboratory. [11]
Mrs. Laflamme declared that it was the perfection of existence for a couple of months, one in early summer and another in the golden autumn with its pathetic note of the falling curtain dropping upon the dream of youth. [4]
Will stood stock still from fright, and I was for dropping my rod and cutting, when I was arrested by the dominie calling out: "Have a care, Master Carvel; have a care, sir. [9]
A canoe was softly and hastily pushed out from its hidden shelter under the overhanging bank, and was noiselessly paddled out to midstream, dropping down the current meanwhile. [11]
Their towering visitor slowly unloosed something he carried very carefully and closely beneath his arm, and laid it on the table, dropping his compass-like fingers softly on it. [11]
Far to the side, dropping behind, trooped the riders. [13]
Let the order sending him be such as shown me to-day by the Adjutant-General, only dropping from it the names of Maguire and Tompkins. [7]
But could the senate make the Nile rise, or stay the pestilence, or prevent the dates dropping from the palm-trees? [10]
Looking up, he saw tears slowly dropping from Magor's eyes. [11]
The sing-song voice rose again in the ceremony of blessing, but suddenly it quavered and broke, the man rose, dropping the prayer-book to the floor, and ran quickly out of the room and into the dust of the street, and on, on into the plains. [11]
The proprietors are rich, and very holy; but the wage they pay to these poor brothers and sisters of theirs is only enough to keep them from dropping dead with hunger. [5]
As his convalescence progressed, Austen Vane fell into the habit of dropping in from time to time to chat with him, and gradually was rewarded by many vivid character sketches of Mr. Meader's neighbours in Mercer and its vicinity. [9]
More dropping off,--but places much as before. [6]
Bones all twisted out of shape, great knots protruding from face and body, joints decaying and dropping away--horrible! [5]
After a moment or two he ventured forward again--one step--reached for his prize and seized it, dropping the knife sheath. [5]
The city went on dropping down, and down, and down; but we didn't seem to be doing nothing but just hang in the air and stand still. [5]
They is dropping off powerful fast. [5]
Then the emotion of terror conquered--terror of the unknown--and she sprang away, dropping her note-book and running to the window, where she stood swaying. [9]
With a kind of instinct as to the course he must henceforth pursue, Charley replied simply, dropping his eye-glass as he met that clear soluble look of the priest--such a well of simplicity he had never before seen. [11]
Two miles--two hours of incredible agony, now running, now leaning against a palm tree, now dropping to her knees, now fighting on and on, she came at last to the one spot in the world where she could die in peace. [11]
To say nothing of fiery projectiles sent into the room, even by the best wood, from the explosion of gases confined in its cells, the brands are continually dropping down, and coals are being scattered over the hearth. [4]
Since the spire of Chichester Cathedral fell in 1861, sheathing itself in its tower like a sword dropping into its scabbard, one can hardly help looking with apprehension at all these lofty fabrics. [6]
Only, isn't it odd, this personal dropping back into an old situation? [4]
But it looked now as if the bottom was dropping out of it. [9]
Neither by birth nor education were the travelers fishermen on Sunday, and they were not moved to tempt the authorities to lock them up for dropping here a line and there a line on the Lord's day. [4]
He is in my seigneury; he is a tenant of the Church here--" "It is a grave offence that an infidel, dropping down here from, who knows where--that an acknowledged infidel should be a tenant of the Church! [11]
Then the listener must be alert, for in many cases the teller will divert attention from that nub by dropping it in a carefully casual and indifferent way, with the pretense that he does not know it is a nub. [5]
Then the listener must be alert, for in many cases the teller will divert attention from that nub by dropping it in a carefully casual and indifferent way, with the pretence that he does not know it is a nub. [5]
I never thought much about it before, I always hated it," she cried, dropping the papers and suddenly facing him. [9]
Indeed, at that moment Mr. Ditmar himself was stepping off the end of the bridge and about to start the engine when, dropping the crank, he walked to the dashboard and apparently became absorbed in some mechanisms there. [9]
Therefore dropping the metaphor--she was merely an amanuensis, and furnished neither the language of Science and Health nor the ideas. [5]
We had parched meal, excellent good, sodd [cooked] beans, which eat as sweet as filbert kernels, in a manner, strawberries; and mulberries were shaken off the tree, dropping on our heads as we sat. [4]
Nor would he make any advances whatsoever to Grafton, or receive those hints which my uncle was forever dropping, until at length he begged to be allowed to come to Dr. Hilliard's funeral, a request my grandfather could not in decency refuse. [9]
By him was lying the uprooted limetree, from which that leaf had fallen, and whereas the rain was dropping from it fast, meseemed it was weeping. [10]
In the silence, looking neither to right nor left, she advanced almost to where the Greffier sat, and dropping on her knee and looking up to the Bailly and the jurats, stretched out her hands and cried: "Haro, haro! [11]
He turned like lightning on the lad, and raised his kris to throw; but a bullet was quicker, and he leaped into the air and fell dead without a cry, the kris dropping from his hand. [11]
In front of it was the river, with its banks dropping forty feet, and below, the rapids, always troubled and sportive. [11]
For a minute it was pretty; and then I give a little soft call, and in a minute there was the broncho bucking--doubling like a hoop, and dropping same as lead. [11]
The fact is, it is just a sort of polished-up court of Comanches, and there isn't a squaw in it who doesn't stand ready at the dropping of a hat to desert to the buck with the biggest string of scalps at his belt. [5]
At such times, I have liked to sit down on one of the empty benches in the Hof Garden, where the leaves already half cover the ground, and the dropping horse-chestnuts keep up a pattering on them. [4]
At the moment, however, of dropping off to sleep, somebody unfortunately notes a drop of water on his face; this is followed by another drop; in an instant a stream is established. [4]
The officer, dropping his sword, seized Pierre by his collar. [2]
The count, holding his cards fanwise, kept himself with difficulty from dropping into his usual after-dinner nap, and laughed at everything. [2]
It occurred to him that he possibly might get a little light on the matter by dropping in that afternoon and taking a quiet cup of tea with Mrs. Henderson. [4]
Mrs. Smith took her work, and tried not to observe the countenance, which the other tried to hide between the large sheets; but she could not help becoming aware of tears stealing down the face and dropping on the lap. [14]
I don't believe he'd mind throttling me, and dropping me softly into the river when the tide was at its strongest, any more than he'd mind killing a rat--indeed I don't know whether he wouldn't consider it a pleasant joke. [12]
He with the gnawed yellow mustache pushed himself clear of the barouche, his smouldering cigar butt dropping to the floor. [9]
Usually in a forest at night one can hear the piping of frogs, the hum of insects, or the dropping of limbs; but here nature was dumb. [5]
Then she started, first without looking round, as does an animal, dropping her head slightly to one side, though not exactly appearing to listen. [11]
But presently they fell to dropping remarks that were evidently aimed at Tracy, and some of them at the tinner. [5]
He raised her face; her eyes were closed; they were dropping tears. [11]
But I am dropping one of my internal tears for you, with this pleasant smile on my face all the time. [6]
They were quietly dropping melted wax into snow and looking at the shadows the wax figures would throw on the wall, when they heard the steps and voices of new arrivals in the vestibule. [2]
The custom of dropping it was not borrowed from the North, nor inherited from England. [5]
She was always dropping it out, and turning up her old dead-light on the company empty, and making them oncomfortable, becuz she never could tell when it hopped out, being blind on that side, you see. [5]
They will be dropping along about three hours from now, and will spread the news--do you hear? [5]
I am only dropping a line to let you know I am well. [5]
Three sisters had done this,--then two, the other sister dropping off from the walk,--and now one was left desolate, to listen for echoing steps that never came,--and to hear the wind sobbing at the windows, with an almost articulate sound. [14]
The old man could not reply, but he drew her close to him, and Hovey, from the door, saw his tears dropping on her white hair. [11]
As to Nell, constant dropping will wear away a stone; you know you may trust to me as far as she is concerned. [12]
We saw a comedy of the beam dropping heavily on the foot of another, and he limping off with a guttural howl of rage and pain. [9]
Everyt'ing!--Her blood ran cold at the thought of dropping the lodge- curtain upon this man and herself alone. [11]
I'll take the chances on dropping into this town just once more, for a look. [5]
By dropping a cent in the slot one can get his weight, his age, a piece of chewing-gum, a bit of candy, or a shock that will energize his nervous system. [4]
Yere servan', Mr. Carvel," and he made me a low bow, to the great dropping of jaws round about, and led me into the inn. [9]
In reply there came not a word, not a nod or shake of head, not so much as dropping eye or twitching lip--nothing but a quiet, stony stare. [13]
In his palace by the Nile, Harrik, the half-brother of the Prince Pasha, heard it, and breaking off from conversation with two urgent visitors, passed to an alcove near, dropping a curtain behind him. [11]
I evaded him by dropping flat in the bottom of the boat; and, when I picked my traps up, he was spinning across the lake as if he had a new idea: but the line was still fast. [4]
Another shot whizzed by at a distance, but we did not change our course, and then balls came flying over our heads, dropping round us, cooling their hot protests in the river. [11]
The knife caught Bucklaw in the throat and he staggered against the table like a stuck pig, the bullet hit Radisson in the chest and he fell back against the wall, his pistol dropping from his hand. [11]
A distant sound broke the stillness, and Auguste was near to dropping the candle on me. [9]
I heard a big shout, and turned around--the city was dropping from under us like a shot! [5]
He had never believed that when man or woman said no that no was meant; and, if it were meant, he still believed that constant dropping would wear away the stone. [11]

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