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Sentences starting with drops

Drops of sweat stood on his brow, and with sudden shame he snatched up his garments that were lying on the ground, and covered his naked limbs. [10]
Drops of sweat hung on his forehead and his hands. [11]
Drops of perspiration had oozed from the statue of Antony in Alba. [10]
Drops of deliquescence glistened on his forehead, Whitened round his feet the dust of efflorescence, Till one Monday morning, when the flow suspended, There was no De Sauty. [6]
Drops of perspiration covered her forehead when she entered the frigidarium, but there the most delicious coolness greeted her. [10]

Sentences ending with drops

Then the halfbreed said to him, "You were careful--thirty drops? [11]
Therefore the hundredth part of a grain of the vaccine matter, if no more than this is employed, soon increases in quantity, until, in the course of about a week, it is a grain or more, and can be removed in considerable drops. [3]
Truly, the bitterness of life, as the joy of it, is distilled in strong drops. [9]
The water was green and clear as crystal, into which, while molten, bits of emeralds had been cast to change them into liquid drops. [10]
Only a few drops! [10]
Four-forty, whispering again, and the gavel drops. [9]
One ran for a glass of brandy, another for cider, and an old woman handed up to him a mogue of cinnamon drops. [11]

Sentences containing drops two or more times

Its whole surface consisted of drops closely pressed together, and all these drops moved and changed places, sometimes several of them merging into one, sometimes one dividing into many. [2]

More example sentences with the word drops in them

Dis ole woman'll wuk fo' you twell de flesh drops off'n her fingers, suh. [9]
Then his forehead would knot and furrow itself, and the drops of anguish stand thick upon it. [6]
But speak in words of living power, --They fall like drops of scalding rain That plashed before the burning shower Swept o'er the cities of the plain! [6]
You came hither with the assurance of your favour; but the flattering words of promise which you bestowed upon the unhappy woman were probably only the drops of poppy-juice given to soothe the ravings of fever. [10]
These hard-working veterans will not let one get rid of them until he drops in his harness, and so gets rid of them and his life together. [6]
At this the widow held Mary's ankles more tightly, asking, while she wiped the drops from her brow: "What is going on? [10]
Hunt; Baron Burrows, who farms out the post-office at Edmundton, leads Edmunds County; Earl Elisha Jane, consul at some hot place where he spends the inclement months drops the first ticket for Haines County, ostensibly solid for home-made virtue and the Honourable Giles. [9]
Through the storm, which lashed her face with whirling clouds of dust and drops of rain, Barbara reached the little Prebrunn castle. [10]
That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side. [2]
Your eyes are wet, and the drops here on your hands have not fallen from the clouds. [10]
She did not weep passionately, but the big salt drops welled slowly from her eyes and ran down her young cheeks, as drop after drop of shining sap flows down the trunk of a wounded birch-tree. [10]
Now the sun was already high in the heavens, yet she did not return, though it was long past the time for the bandages to be renewed, and the drops to be given which sustained the life of the dying Minorite in the adjoining room. [10]
The grey granite walls of the valley exhaled fiercer and fiercer heat and drops of perspiration had long been pouring from the burning brows of the three men on the cliff. [10]
Sometimes the plank walk runs for a mile or two, on its piles, between rows of these shops and booths, and again it drops off down by the waves. [4]
A little dwarf up in my brain drops the nuts down now and then. [11]
When the physician turned round and saw her calmly and quietly wiping the cold drops from the sick man's brow, he said gloomily: "Of what use is it to shut our eyes like the ostrich. [10]
The water was trickling out of a leaky butt, and a most wretched cat was lapping up the drops with the sickly eagerness of starvation. [12]
No one had told him so, but he knew it, and was seized with such anxiety about the doctor, that drops of perspiration stood on his brow. [10]
Great drops began to fall, unheeded. [9]
For a long time, Milo exerted all his strength to shake him oft, but in vain, and the sand of the Stadium was freely moistened by the great drops of sweat, the result of this Herculean struggle. [10]
Our old acquaintance, Time, drops in, And while the running sands Their golden thread unheeded spin, He warms his frozen hands. [6]
Up to this time we have submitted to having Mrs. Boinville pushed upon us as ostensibly concerned in these Italian lessons, but the biographer drops her now, of his own accord. [5]
A shudder ran through his frame; cold drops of perspiration, extorted by fear, stood on his brow. [10]
When I climb the trees, and throw down the dusky fruit, Polly catches it in her apron; nearly always, however, letting go when it drops, the fall is so sudden. [4]
As soon as the sun appeared in a clear strip of sky beneath the clouds, the wind fell, as if it dared not spoil the beauty of the summer morning after the storm; drops still continued to fall, but vertically now, and all was still. [2]
He drops into the stoodio as sober-colored as anything you ever see: now look at him. [5]
A grain of the powder is to be taken, a hundred drops of alcohol are to be poured on it, the vial is to be slowly turned for a few minutes, until the powder is dissolved, and two shakes are to be given to it. [3]
Everything depends on the number of drops of the elixir vitae which Nature mingled in the nourishment she administered to the embryo before it tasted its mother's milk. [6]
In fact, at the moment some drops of rain fell. [4]
A wind stirred the maple, releasing a shower of heavy drops, and she opened the gate and went up the path and knocked at the door. [9]
We will shed the last drops of our blood to accomplish it, and every true Castilian thinks as I do. [10]
She could see the flood surging, swelling--saw it lapping round her own house, her own feet; drops of sweat bedewed her forehead and hands from terror at the mere thought. [10]
I expect, from the extravagance of his behaviour, and from mysterious hints he drops (for he never will speak out plainly), that we shall be hearing news of fresh debts contracted by him soon. [14]
The accounts in the evening papers were only the premonitory drops to this mighty shower. [5]
He pointed to the drops of perspiration which, spite of the wind sweeping through the hall, covered her brow: "You must use your handkerchief. [10]
As she neared the doorway of the cottage, a few heavy drops began to fall, and, in spite of her bitter trouble, she quickened her footsteps, fearing that her grandfather had come back, to find the house empty and no light or supper ready. [11]
The drops pelted the chocolate water into froth, and a blue veil hid the distant bluffs beyond the Illinois bottom-lands. [9]
All at once the blood dropped out of her cheeks as the mercury drops from a broken barometer-tube, and she melted away from her seat like an image of snow; a slung-shot could not have brought her down better. [6]
About the time that the lichens, falling on the stone, like drops of water, had spread into fair, round rosettes, the tutor had starved into a slight cough. [6]
The red morning-tint that shone in the drops had a strange look,--one would say the cliff was bleeding;--perhaps she did not mean it. [6]
White walls, gaudily-painted temples and private villas gleamed among the green, and the slanting rays of the low sun, shining on the drops that fell from the never-resting wheels and buckets that irrigated the land, turned them into showers of diamonds. [10]
You should hear sweet words, but grief and pain will pour bitter drops into everything I say. [10]
Beaded drops of sweat stood upon my forehead. [5]
Ten drops in such a cup as that, full of water. [10]
The sun and stars are but as toys in his hand, the earth is his foot-stool, the storm is his breath, and the sea is in his sight as the drops on the grass. [10]
He pressed onward, staggering like a drunken man, with drops of sweat standing on his brow and with parched mouth. [10]
These celebrities I speak of are the Prince-Rupert's drops of the learned and polite world. [6]
Nitetis had been so happy in the thought of reading the very letter, which poured such bitter drops of wormwood into her cup of happiness. [10]
I doubt if she ever sits down, except when she drops in at the mission chapel now and then, and sits quite unmoved on a bench by the door during vespers. [4]
However, when she seemed to doze, her granddaughter sprinkled strong waters about the room to freshen the air, poured a few drops on the old lady's dress, wiped the dews from her brow, and fanned her to cool her. [10]
The poet, you said, was one of the drops in which the moon of your soul finds a reflection--and I will not divide it with many. [10]
Upon those hollow rocks the bellow of the storms was like the rumbling of the wheels of a million gun-carriages; and yet high overhead there were only the bright sun and faint drops of rain falling like mystic pearls. [11]
The smell of ripening fruit came on them with pungent sweetness, their feet crashed odorously through clumps of tiger-lilies, and the dew on the ribbon-grass shook glistening drops upon their velvets. [11]
This latter was rigid and colourless, and on his forehead big drops of cold sweat gathered, broke and blended together, and trickled down his face. [5]
See, he's been riding hard and long-you can tell by the way the horse drops his legs. [11]
Before the litters reached the little castle a gust of wind rose, driving large drops of rain, straw, and withered leaves-Barbara could not imagine whence they came in the month of May--into her face. [10]
Large drops of rain soon began to fall, and, as the storm clouds came sailing onward, others supplied the void they left behind and spread over all the sky. [12]
The few drops presaged a shower. [4]
In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses. [2]
One of these pieces satisfies a beggar when it drops into his hat; and then it detains him long enough in the examination of it, so that your carriage has time to get so far away that his renewed pursuit is usually unavailing. [4]
He is the person who comes in without knocking, drops in in the most natural way, as his wife does also, and not seldom in time to take the after-dinner cup of tea before the fire. [4]
The rain was over, but drops were still falling from the trees. [2]
Clouds were lowering over the city, and big drops falling, as Stephen threaded his way homeward, the damp anal gloom of the weather in his very soul. [9]
It was poured out quickly, and then thirty drops of laudanum were carefully counted into it. [11]
So it is our youth drops from us, --scales off, sapless and lifeless, and lays bare the tender and immature fresh growth of old age. [6]
During the spring our little white-throat (Sylvia cinerea) often rises a few feet or yards in the air above some bush, and "flutters with a fitful and fantastic motion, singing all the while, and then drops to its perch. [1]
He drinks two or three drops and eats a mouthful, and then will take no more even if he is beaten. [10]
Pie for sale on the grounds, and rocks to crack it with; and ciRcus-lemonade--three drops of lime juice to a barrel of water. [5]
Such a brightness on the face like the light of heaven, and from the blessed Mother's cheek it drops and drops...." "But, dear me, that must be a fraud! [2]
Clear drops sparkled on leaf and flower and blade, for, only a short time before, the garden by Bent-Anat's house had been freshly watered. [10]
Finally Huck leaned on his shovel, swabbed the beaded drops from his brow with his sleeve, and said: "Where you going to dig next, after we get this one? [5]
His hands fell on his hips as, in his mess, an officer with no pockets drops his knuckles on his waist-line for a stand-at-ease. [11]
He struggled silently on beside his master against the wind, until it suddenly subsided, and a violent storm of rain streamed in big warm drops on the thirsty earth and the belated pedestrians. [10]
The flavor of Old Virginia is unmistakable, and life drops into an easy-going pace under this influence. [4]
One more example of the method of wringing a dry cloth for drops of evidence ought to be enough to show the whole spirit of the paper. [6]
The hundred feet of silk swished through the air, and the tail-fly fell as lightly on the water as a three-cent piece (which no slamming will give the weight of a ten) drops upon the contribution plate. [4]
A few drops of rain warned me to seek shelter. [9]
A few drops of alcohol bring about a confusion of mind not unlike this poetical metempsychosis. [6]
But she could not attain to that state of sadness made sacred by memories with which consoling angels so often mingle some drops of sweetness, after the first anguish is overpast. [10]
In this act no one spoke save the abased Magdalene, who knelt at the foot of the cross, and on whose hair red drops fell when the Roman soldier pierced the side of the figure on the cross. [11]
Thou, O Thou Most High, art my witness that I earnestly seek it, but so soon as the thorns tear my flesh the drops of blood turn to roses, and if I put them aside, others come and still fling garlands in my way. [10]
The road became more difficult at every step, then it began to grow dark, and heavy drops of rain fell from the clouded sky. [10]
How could they make a man commander in chief who cannot mount a horse, who drops asleep at a council, and has the very worst morals! [2]
The clouds hung low, and now and again great drops struck the faces of the people in the field. [9]
Enchanted with this lovely vision, he fell down before her and took her hand, but he had scarcely touched it, when drops of blood appeared at the tips of her delicate fingers, and she turned away from him with every sign of horror. [10]
His face is livid, and the drops of perspiration on his brow are not due solely to the heat. [10]
Marry, yea,--many drops, large and round and full of moonlight as those thou shalt have absterged! [6]
More than this, it not only drops it out of mind, but it has no conception of its influence and power in the very affairs from which it seems to be excluded. [4]
My veins contain, indeed, many drops of the blood of Thotmes, and though the experience of life has taught me to stoop low, still the stooping hurts me. [10]
The bare twigs in the garden were hung with transparent drops which fell on the freshly fallen leaves. [2]
Rain dripped wretchedly in slow drops of melancholy sound from their projecting eaves upon the broken flagging, lay there in pools or trickled into the swollen drains, where the fallen torrent sullenly gurgled on its way to the river. [5]
An hour passed in listening to that flow of thought, calm and clear as the diamond drops that distil from a mountain rock, was a true nepenthe for a careworn soul. [6]
One fragrant morning Honora came down to find him awaiting her, and to perceive lying on her napkin certain distilled drops of the spring sunshine. [9]
Paaker sprang from his seat, and wrenched the weapon from her hand; the sharp point slightly scratched the skin, and dark drops of blood flowed from it, and dropped upon the floor. [10]
She gently released his hand from her grasp and laid it across his breast, and moved no more, excepting to wipe the drops from his brow. [10]
Keraunus still looked heated, his eyes seemed more prominent than usual and large drops of sweat stood upon his brow, when his daughter entered the room where he was. [10]
At this time he had reduced his dose of the drug to eight drops twice a day. [11]
How precious would have been those drops to him! [9]
Even the rector grew very white in the face,--so white that one of his vestry-men begged him to sit down at once, and sprinkled a few drops of water on his forehead, to his great disgust and manifest advantage. [6]
There is the great ocean, holding the navies of the world, which comes from little drops of water no larger than a woman's tears. [5]

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