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Sentences starting with falling

Falling into line these strikers would march across the bridge between the towns at such time as would bring them into touch with the line of the Orange funeral--two processions meeting at right angles. [11]
Falling backwards when the horse suddenly bolted, his head had struck the medicine-chest, and he had lain insensible till brought back to consciousness by the good offices of the voluble Colonel. [11]
Falling out about something, Machumps slew Namontack, and having made a hole to bury him, because it was too short he cut off his legs and laid them by him. [4]
Falling of the old-gentleman-opposite's lower jaw --(gravitation is beginning to get the better of him. [6]
Falling sober again, he began to question the prisoner. [9]

Sentences ending with falling

Yet how many years had they leaned there without falling! [13]
So evanescent and unstable are men's works in this world!--the late good King is but three weeks dead and three days in his grave, and already the adornments which he took such pains to select from prominent people for his noble bridge are falling. [5]
Yet, when she tried to understand it all, her head pained her so, and she turned so giddy, that she clutched the neck of the ass to save herself from falling. [10]
She was forced to cling to the back of the chair she had disdained, to save herself from falling. [10]
He said he thought he would wait until Monday, and take the risk of his house falling. [5]
The law required the opposite thing--the big wheel must be turned in the direction in which you are falling. [5]
Don't tell me that your father says sugar is falling. [11]
It is a shaft of stone filigree-work, frightfully open, so that the guide puts his arms behind you to keep you from falling. [6]
But her bosom rose and fell fast, as if some danger threatened her, and her nostrils quivered, and I was minded to hold out my arms to save her from falling. [10]
Is the river rising or falling? [5]

Short sentences using falling

The world is falling asunder! [10]
Am I falling? [2]
Falling? [2]

Sentences containing falling two or more times

It was delightful until I bent to kiss her; then the swan I rode melted into mist, and I plunged headlong down, falling, falling, until I woke. [10]
And yonder, receding, receding, plumes lifting and falling, lifting and falling, streamed the thundering charge of La Hire's godless crew, La Hire's great figure dominating it and his sword stretched aloft like a flagstaff. [5]
There is one paper published here in the English language--The Levant Herald--and there are generally a number of Greek and a few French papers rising and falling, struggling up and falling again. [5]
Curses, hands that battered and tore at him, the doorway reached, and then a blow on the head and--falling, falling, falling, and distant noises growing more distant, and suddenly and sweetly--absolute silence. [11]
There hain't been a breath of wind: but for hours the leaves have been falling, falling, just as you see them now; and at last it's pretty much bare. [4]

More example sentences with the word falling in them

In any event, you will be able to prevent the main body of the enemy's forces from leaving Richmond and falling in overwhelming force upon General McDowell. [7]
How often have you and I stood here at the anvil, the fire heating the iron, and our hammers falling constantly! [11]
It was hard work to do this, she plunged so, and so beat and belabored the billows with her rising and falling bows. [5]
She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
Our intelligent cat will quit the fire and sit for hours in the low window, watching the falling snow with a serious and contented air. [4]
The intelligent reader will not confound this matured and serious intention of falling in love with the young lady with that mere impulse of the moment before mentioned as an instance of making love. [6]
The long hall, which ran from street to street, was packed, the people surging backward and forward, and falling roughly against the mahogany pieces; and apologizing, and scolding, and swearing all in a breath. [9]
The day of which I have spoken a storm had set in, the rain falling in sheets. [9]
Cynthia promised, and when she went out at last through the little door her own tears were falling, for she loved Miss Lucretia. [9]
But her lips were now tight closed, her glance now and anon seeking mine, and then falling with an exquisite droop to the coverlet. [9]
In the picture we see him sad and weary and downcast, with the scepter falling from his nerveless grasp. [5]
Sometimes, do what we could, we couldn't keep her from falling over, and she come mighty near mashing us every time. [5]
The Maria's mainsail was up, and the jib was being hoisted, and her head was rapidly falling off to the wind. [9]
Mr. King, who was put in good humor by falling on his feet, as it were, in such agreeable company, amused himself by studying the guests as they entered. [4]
Yet the tension was not constant, rising and falling with his moods and struggles, all of which she read--unguessed by him--as easily as a printed page by the gift that dispenses with laborious processes of the intellect. [9]
I thought I was getting ahead of her little assessments of $35 a month, but find I am falling behind with her instead, and have let her go without money. [5]
Peter the Great was frightened, when an infant, by falling from a bridge into the water. [6]
The setting sun was flaming upon it, a Summer shower was falling, and it was spanned by two magnificent rainbows. [5]
Even as dusk was falling, even as the Mayor, the Hon. [9]
The sunset light was falling upon the splendid panorama and softening it. [4]
When the sun was falling below Little Red Hill, Macavoy came to Wonta's tent. [11]
The planet Mars was burning like a red coal; the northern constellation was slanting downward about its central point of flame; and while he looked, a falling star slid from the zenith and was lost. [6]
You handle yourself very carefully, all the time, under the silly impression that if it is not falling, your trifling weight will start it unless you are particular not to "bear down" on it. [5]
It was a vast financial operation, some said, scathingly, a "deal," but the magnitude of it prevented it from falling into the reports of petty swindling that appear in the police-court column. [4]
Large tears now trickled down from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened, his colossal frame shivered convulsively, and falling on his side he expired. [5]
The road belonged to the horsemen; on the right lay a wide, snow-covered plain, on the left rose a cliff, kept from falling on the side towards the highway by a rude wall. [10]
I ran back to the fort, and when I had gotten my drum the three companies were falling into line, the men murmuring in undertones among themselves. [9]
I could afford to smile at the weather, at the obsidian sky, at the rain still falling persistently; and yet, as I ate my breakfast, I felt a certain impatience to verify what I knew was a certainty, and hurried to the telephone booth. [9]
I kept saying to myself, he'll get so high that when discovery does finally come it will be like the sun falling out of the sky. [5]
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]
I arose early to discover a morning gray and drear, with a mist falling to chill the bones. [9]
It is owing to a neglect of the doctrines, that there is such a fearful falling away in the country. [5]
At the same time thundering plaudits echoed from the walls of the fortifications and broke, sometimes rising, sometimes falling, against the ships and masts in the calm water of the harbour. [10]
But this dreadful thud was what gave rise to the loudest applause among the spectators, falling on their satiated ears as a new sound. [10]
Striving to peer through the infinite azure, Alternate turning to earthward and falling, Measuring life with Damastian measure, Finite, appalling. [11]
It was as though, in trying to solve a problem, she caught herself from time to time falling off to sleep. [9]
I liked not this fashion of speech, and when he saw that I was ill-pleased and grieved, instead of falling in with his merry mood, he took up a more earnest vein and said: "Never mind, Margery. [10]
I smiled to think what the tiny creek, always creeping through a faint leak in the gates and falling with a granite rattle on the stones, would now become. [11]
He rode around them at the peril of falling with his horse over a precipice, and now found himself before a labyrinth of scaffolds and free-stone, in the midst of a wild, grey, treeless mountain valley. [10]
Thereupon he gave the word to go, and said that he had done wrong--for now the spell was falling from him. [11]
The quiet of the woodland, the song of the birds, the tumbling brook, the smell of the rich earth, replenishing its strength from the gorgeous falling leaves, had soothed him. [11]
For a while the whole region about us seemed as bright as day, and yet the rain was falling in torrents all the time. [5]
Ray had found the water falling from an oozy bank, and there we dozed fitfully until we were startled by a distant boom. [9]
The darkness gathered, the snow was falling, the wind wailed plaintively about the house or shook it with fitful gusts. [5]
In other words, the millionocracy, considered in a large way, is not at all an affair of persons and families, but a perpetual fact of money with a variable human element, which a philosopher might leave out of consideration without falling into serious error. [6]
In the diningroom the metal lamp, brightly polished, was burning as usual, its light falling on the chequered red table-cloth, on her father's empty chair, on that somewhat battered heirloom, the horsehair sofa. [9]
He rang at the last of these up-town apartments as it was falling dusk, and it was long before the janitor appeared. [8]
Twenty-four hours after the falling of the cliff, it seemed as if it had happened ages ago. [6]
And I watched the falling leaves; and I saw my leaf, and it was withered, but only a little withered, and so I live yet a little. [11]
Seventeen men, by the exertion of all their strength, were dragging the heavy statue from the house, which was almost on the point of falling in, into the square. [10]
Below her yawned the dizzy gulf of space, and the air was filled with a rain of sceptres, crowns, and golden chains of honour falling upon ermine and purple robes on the ground below. [10]
The prophet had the deep wound, inflicted on the lad by a falling stone, washed at the well and, after it had been bandaged, summoned him to his own litter, which was protected from the sun. [10]
They are just the age to be falling in love and to be fallen in love with. [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]
He had entered that period which marks the decline of men who have ceased growing in knowledge and strength: from forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. [6]
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]
Well, I know That I turned my cold face to the wall, Was silent, strove, gasped, then there fell A numbness, a faintness, a spell Of blindness, hung as a pall, On me, falling low, And a far fading sound of a knell. [11]
They will see that I spoke falsely,--being ignorant, as they will fancy --and with the falling of the first shadow of that darkness you shall see them go mad with fear; and they will set you free and make you great! [5]
And the same terror returned to him now after all the years of respite, tenfold increased, of falling in the sight of man from the topmost tower. [9]
He brought the terrible news that Byng, the rescuer of so many, was himself caught by falling timbers and imprisoned near a spot where Jabez and Jacob Holyhoke were entombed. [11]
But to be taken there by Charles Fox was an honour falling to few. [9]
Of course, I supposed that such vessels came in unexpectedly, after indefinite years of absence,--suddenly as falling stones; and that the great guns roared in their astonishment and delight at the sight of the old war-ship splitting the bay with her cutwater. [6]
He was in such haste to do this that he detained Wolf, who wanted to speak to old Ursel before he began to drink the wine, by the statement that she suffered from wakefulness, and he would disturb her just as she was falling asleep. [10]
If thou could'st succeed in falling on the rear from the north of Kadesh, while the foot soldiers seize the camp of the Asiatics from the south, the fortress will be thine before night. [10]
The howl of storms, the roar and clash of waves, the crack and crash of the falling thunderbolt,--these of course made themselves heard as they do to mortal ears. [6]
By the chair stood the priests, their long hair falling over their magnificent glittering vestments, with lighted tapers in their hands, slowly and solemnly conducting the service. [2]
I did not stir when--ineffaceable brutality--the batteries on the heights began to play upon us, the shot falling round us, and passing over our heads, and musket-firing followed. [11]
The Nile was still narrow when you last found your way to me, and now it has been falling some time. [10]
At last he spied her, but there was a sudden falling of his mercury. [5]
It was a solemn sort of silence; even the wind put on a stealthy, sinister quiet, and made no more noise than the falling flakes of snow. [5]
Presently feeling the sofa behind him, he dropped upon it, and, falling back, began to breathe heavily. [11]
Lotus-blossoms, white as snow, lay on the surface of the river, rising and falling with the waves, and looking like eyes in the water. [10]
Flakes of falling snow were fluttering in that light. [2]
My feelings I smother, but thou hast been the cause of this anguish, my--upon my word,' said Mr Swiveller, checking himself and falling thoughtfully into the client's chair, 'I should like to know how they use her! [12]
At last she slowly came to the curtain of the Tent, and lifting it, without a pause stepped inside, the curtain falling behind her. [11]
But when they showed us the print of Peter's face in the hard stone of the prison wall and said he made that by falling up against it, we doubted. [5]
The hazy light showed his face upward to the skies, his breast rising and falling in a heavy, luxurious sleep. [11]
He saw her shoulders rising and falling as her breath came deeply, spasmodically--like sobbing. [9]
It was the shock of the heavy Indian falling on Polly Ann and me as we cowered under the trunk, and even then there was an instant that we stood gazing at him as at a worm writhing in the clay. [9]
While looking on she had felt as though she herself was in danger of falling into the depths. [10]
It was a sharp prolonged rattle, continuous, but rising and falling as if in rhythmical cadence. [6]
But she has seen men tied to their horses ride as that man is riding, when stricken with fever, bruised by falling timber, lacerated by a grizzly, wounded by a bullet, or crushed by a herd of buffaloes. [11]
Greatness, as Confucius said, does not consist in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. [9]
It is also said his supposed desertion is comprised in an absence commencing with his falling behind last winter, being captured and paroled by the enemy, and then going home. [7]
And when the sad pursuing constellations came to know and realize the bitter sorrow that was come upon them --note this idea--their hearts broke and their tears gushed forth, filling the vault of heaven with a fiery splendor, for those tears were falling stars. [5]
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 glow spread, rising and falling, farther and farther still. [2]
The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as it neared its aim, just as the velocity of a falling body increases as it approaches the earth. [2]
He was still pleading, but she seemed rather to be listening to the symphony of the unseen waters falling over the dam. [9]
By-and-by an open place was reached, where were the charred remains of a farm-house, and near them a barn which was falling to ruin and decay. [5]
If any young person seems in danger of falling in love with her, send him to me for counsel. [6]
He only asked permission to wipe his eyes ere his arms were bound behind his back; for tear after tear was falling on the grey beard of the warder who, outwitted and overpowered, no longer felt capable of discharging the duties of his office. [10]
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]
Quiet and pale ordinarily, his clear russet-brown hair falling in a wave over his forehead, when roused, he seemed like some delicate engine made to do great labours. [11]
The falling masses, or huge fragments breaking off from them, would have swept the house and all around it to destruction but for this deep shelving dell, into which the stream of ruin was happily directed. [6]
Now I humbly opine that the drop is only about falling on the first act, or perhaps only the prologue. [6]
It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain. [6]
But there was one chance of avoiding a battle without running away--the glass had been falling all night and morning. [11]
The sleigh flew on up the hill, but she turned once more to look behind her, and he still had his hat in his hand, the snowflakes falling on his bared head. [9]

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