Use fastened in a sentence
Sentences starting with fastened
- Fastened by a gold bar to the stranger's breast was the ribbon of an order. [11]
Sentences ending with fastened
- The Keilhau ones were kept in a cellar, and through the opening we thrust a pole to which the blade of a rapier was fastened. [10]
- The windows of Valmond's chambers were alight, and to one a staff was fastened. [11]
- Hurrying through an unlocked passage into the shop, he felt his way to the street door, but it was securely fastened. [11]
- It must go on down the current, or be swerved to the shore, to be fastened. [11]
- We shook him off; but when we returned at sundown across the fields, from a visit to Anne Hathaway's cottage, we met the sidewheeler cheerfully towing along a large party, upon whom he had fastened. [4]
- It is made of leather, on which bronze scales are fastened. [10]
- The prairie horse knew the trick of the cord, and leaned away from the captive, so as to keep the thong tensely stretched between his neck and the peak of the saddle to which it was fastened. [6]
- The lid is fastened. [10]
- Going to the door, which opened into the farmyard, he found it securely fastened. [11]
- Released, she beheld a lady in a mauve satin gown, at the throat of which a cameo brooch was fastened. [9]
More example sentences with the word fastened in them
- He fastened the young widow's eyes. [11]
- First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
- And the viper would fasten on his hand--it had fastened on his hand, and he had struck it off; but it would come again, the dark thing against which he had fought in the desert. [11]
- Over this he wore a mantle of white cloth-of-gold, pounced with the triple-feathered crest, lined with blue satin, set with pearls and precious stones, and fastened with a clasp of brilliants. [5]
- Miss R. P., with that repugnance to ostentation in dress which is so peculiar to her, was attired in a simple white lace collar, fastened with a neat pearl-button solitaire. [5]
- See, it's bottomed with a steel plate, and the plate is fastened on with little screws. [5]
- A hundred eyes were fastened upon the canvas-covered statue, which had been the means of the young man's undoing. [11]
- Their halberd staves were covered with crimson velvet, fastened with gilt nails, and ornamented with gold tassels. [5]
- My arms were well fastened down, and I was tied about till I must have looked like a bale of living goods of no great value. [11]
- The more I weakened, the more stubbornly you fastened on to those particular sins; till at last the places on my person that represent those vices became as callous as shark-skin. [5]
- The color thereof was white and sapphire-blue, and so likewise were the velvet cap and finely-rounded ostrich feather, which was fastened into it with a brooch of sparkling precious stones. [10]
- Across the top was laid a beam, to which the rope was fastened, and a dry-goods box served for the platform. [5]
- Round her throat was fastened a necklace like a collar, made of pearls and costly stones, and hanging low down on her well-formed bosom. [10]
- The young countess was challenging his attention still more boldly, tossing her head back so impetuously that the turban-like roll on her hair, spite of the broad ribbon that fastened it under her chin, almost fell on the floor. [10]
- The landlord, Johnson, was a meek, well-meaning fellow, and Arkansas fastened on him early, as a promising subject, and gave him no rest day or night, for awhile. [5]
- Her usual dress was a green gown, in colour not unlike the curtain of the office window, made tight to the figure, and terminating at the throat, where it was fastened behind by a peculiarly large and massive button. [12]
- He opened his waistcoat, took from his bosom an order fastened to a little bar of gold, and held it in his hand. [11]
- He has fastened upon you at last," answers Comyn, taking the paper. [9]
- Suddenly he scrambled up, moaning, as if the scourge itself had fastened on him, backed into the house, and slammed the door in my face. [9]
- Then we started up the machine slowly, by hand, and fastened our eyes on the space-selecting pins. [5]
- She had just untied the belt to which the implements were fastened, when suddenly the event, to which her brother had alluded, occurred. [5]
- I could then undo the lumbering padlocks with which our chains were fastened, whenever I might choose. [5]
- He went down under the hoofs of the enraged animal, as his huge boar- hound, always with him, fastened on the moose's throat, dragged him to the ground, and tore gaping wounds in his neck. [11]
- Three lamps fastened to stands abundantly lighted this work-room, but chiefly a figure standing on a high trestle, which Polykarp's fingers were industriously moulding. [10]
- The executioner ascended to her side and wound chains around her slender body, and so fastened her to the stake. [5]
- She hastily tried to draw the curtains aside from the window, but this was not accomplished as quickly as she expected--they had been care fully fastened with pins. [10]
- She closed it tight, and fastened it, then stood for a moment in the middle of the room looking at both door and window. [11]
- My tongue is tied; I cannot speak; it is fastened with a thousand pegs. [11]
- A stick was thrust between her jaws and she was fastened with a leash, as if bridled, her legs were bound together, and Daniel rolled her over once or twice from side to side. [2]
- I fastened my thought upon her face as I had last seen it. [11]
- Upon each of these wharf-boats the association's officers placed a strong box fastened with a peculiar lock which was used in no other service but one--the United States mail service. [5]
- Therefore he ordered the prisoners to be again loaded with chains, the ex-chief fastened to a coughing old man, and all made to stand in rank and file before the fire till morning dawned. [10]
- Only she allowed the pomegranate blossoms, which had remained perfectly fresh, to be fastened on her breast, that her dress might not look like mourning. [10]
- Afterwards, however, as the Partners all talked together up-stairs, the enormity of the dead man's crime had fastened on him, and his brain had been stunned by the terrible thought that directly or indirectly Jasmine had abetted the crime. [11]
- Some members of the orchestra would not part with theirs, and behind the saddle of many a mounted virtuoso or attendant was fastened a violin case or a shapeless bag which concealed some other instrument. [10]
- Then she arranged the folds of her sister's dress, fastened on the ornaments, and proceeded to dress herself. [10]
- She had fastened the epaulettes on its shoulders. [11]
- He went to the door, laughter came to him across the green from the harness shop, and his eye following the sound, fastened on Bijah seated comfortably in the midst of the group there. [9]
- I stood watching the dial one day,--it was near one o'clock,--and a strange attraction held me fastened to the spot. [6]
- We fastened down the curtains and even caulked them with clothing, but the rain streamed in in twenty places, nothwithstanding. [5]
- Before he entered, the chamberlains fastened the usual cloth before his mouth, and commanded him to cast himself on the ground before the king. [10]
- One of the sudden and frequently fatal colds of the mountains had fastened on him, and he had begun a war for life. [11]
- The Gate was studded with thousands of nails, which fastened to its massive timbers relics of the faithful, bits of silk and cloth, and hair and leather; and here from time immemorial a holy man had sat and prayed. [11]
- When Cassi was strangled, the door of the room was fastened from the inside by Tookaram. [5]
- Since the two strangers had entered, Angele's eyes had been fastened on the gentleman who accompanied Sir Andrew Melvill. [11]
- Presently, as he stood with clouded face and mist in his eyes, Jasmine's maid entered, and, surprised at seeing him, retreated again, but her eyes fastened for a moment strangely on the white rose he held in his hand. [11]
- He never once stirred them, and I was presently surprised to see that they were all fastened to the floor. [11]
- It was a steel thing with a long pin to it, with which his long cloth outside garment was fastened together in front. [5]
- Let all the standards be hoisted, and the garlands of flowers which will presently arrive from Arsinoe be fastened up on the pylons; have the animals brought in for sacrifice, and arrange a procession for the afternoon. [10]
- Then I shall shoot an arrow, with the cord fastened to it, up into his window, (I never miss), tell him to fasten a weight to it and let it down again to me. [10]
- Without answering, Rostov shook the soldier's Cross of St. George fastened to the cording of his uniform and, indicating a bandaged arm, glanced at Berg with a smile. [2]
- All that day she watched the tailor's shop, and even when the door was shut in the evening, her eyes were fastened on the windows. [11]
- With eager excitement she fastened the rolls together, and on her features was depicted impatient longing to put an end to an intolerable state of things, as she exclaimed, though there was no one but herself to hear: "Ay, peace, salvation, good-will! [10]
- She had never seen such a bird before, and thought it could not possibly be a usual one, for a little gold chain was fastened to its foot, and its tail seemed made of sunbeams instead of feathers. [10]
- Suddenly, however, he seemed to tower over her, his two big hands were raised as though they would strike, and then the palms spread out and enclosed her cheeks lovingly, and his eyes fastened upon hers. [11]
- Suddenly Shelek Pasha saw the dark-blue eyes fastened upon his face with a curious intentness, a strange questioning; and the blue of the turquoise on the hand folded over the other in the grey lap did not quite reassure him. [11]
- Yet the strangest, saddest smile played about her lips; and presently, as the eyes of the others fastened on the woman and did not leave her, she regained her usual composure. [11]
- Hermon, with the rose for his friend fastened in the breast folds of his chiton, mounted his horse gratefully, and his companion, a sinewy, bronzed Midianite, who was also to attend to the opening of the fortress gates, did the same. [10]
- In this very room, a month or two ago, some people admired that portrait; some admired this, but the great majority fastened on that, and said, "There is a portrait that is a beautiful piece of art. [5]
- The large gold quivers set with emeralds, fastened on the sides of the chariot, were filled with arrows. [10]
- Counsel for the prosecution now said: "By the oaths of citizens whose simple word is above suspicion, we have fastened this awful crime, beyond all possibility of question, upon the unhappy prisoner at the bar. [5]
- Oh, no, a proper enough envelope--with a most ostentatiously broad mourning border--for his cat, perhaps, since he was a bachelor--and fastened with red wax--a batch of it as big as a half-crown--and--and--our crest for a seal!--motto and all. [5]
- Happily they were plated with bronze and fastened with strong iron bolts, but they might fly open at any moment and then the furious mob would storm into the hall. [10]
- The old man paused a moment while it was gently closed and fastened on the inside, and satisfied that this was done, walked on at a slow pace. [12]
- When he was passing his uncle, the old man stirred in his sleep, and Tom stopped instantly--stopped, and softly drew the knife from its sheath, with his heart thumping, and his eyes fastened upon his benefactor's face. [5]
- In the darkest passages his step was sure, and his hand fastened on latch or door-knob with perfect precision. [11]
- Once within the palace, Gyges left Bartja and Zopyrus, fastened his sword into his girdle, begged Darius to do the same and to follow him, and was soon standing again under the great portico with the stranger, but this time in total darkness. [10]
- Two or three pairs of eyes, he observed, were fastened upon him. [6]
- Smith fastened two or three charred pieces of match to divers small lines of an hundred fathoms in length, armed with powder. [4]
- It had stood open during the day, but the frost fastened it firmly to the frame. [10]
- It was really only a bird of paradise that had broken the chain by which he had been fastened to a tree in the park, but to her he was the Phoenix. [10]
- Suddenly they fastened on the little group of which Judge Carcasson was the centre. [11]
- His eyes fastened on the face of the son of Lemuel Fawe, as though it was that old enemy himself. [11]
- I fastened them on the doors with my own hands, as soon as the fray began. [10]
- His eyes fastened on the burnished head of the Cock among the ruins. [11]
- McGilveray sat down on the bench, and in five minutes his feet were shackled, while a chain fastened to a staple in the wall held him in secure captivity. [11]
- Her eyes fastened on it, and for an instant stared at it transfixed; then she recovered herself and spoke again. [11]
- You can very often carry two facts fastened together more easily than one by itself, as a housemaid can carry two pails of water with a hoop more easily than one without it. [3]
- The peplos was of the same color and decorated to match; costly clasps of mosaic, representing full-blown roses and set in oval gold settings, fastened it on the shoulders. [10]
- An upper garment of rich white and gold brocade reaching just below the knees, was fastened round the waist with a girdle of blue and white, the royal colors of Persia. [10]
- The other end of every wire must be brought back into the cave and fastened independently, and _without_ any ground-connection. [5]
- For a quarter of an hour he studied the books and papers, then, all at once, his fingers fastened on a point and stayed. [11]
- I took three-quarters of a mile of rope and fastened one end of it around the waist of a guide, and told him to go find the road, while the caravan waited. [5]
- What must he not have endured from the persecutions of small-minded worshippers who fastened upon him for the interminable period between the incoming and the outgoing railroad train! [6]
- He certainly did not glance at Kit or at his mother, and appeared utterly unconscious of their presence; still Kit could not help feeling, directly, that the attention of the sly little fiend was fastened upon them, and upon nothing else. [12]
- The last born nobleman I have seen, I saw this morning; he was pulling a rope that was fastened to a Maine schooner loaded with lumber. [6]
- But as the niche was illumined only by the tiny oil lamp burning beneath the image of the Virgin, bedizened with flowers and gold and silver tinsel, fastened against the wall, Biberli asked the weary bar-maid for a brighter light. [10]
- He had lived much apart from his kind, but he had a mind that fastened upon a thought and worked it down until it was an axiom. [11]
- Some little worm-shaped masses of clear jelly containing specks are fastened to the stick: eggs of a small snail-like shell-fish. [6]
- The Chief Factor's look was fastened on him with bewilderment; he was trying to remember something: his mind went feeling, he knew not why, for a certain day, a quarter of a century before, when he unpacked a box of books and papers from England. [11]
- She fastened her look on the maps. [11]
- Bright rays of light flashed from their whirling ranks all the time, for each dancer had a mirror fastened between her shoulders, which flashed while she was in motion, and reflected the scene when she was still. [10]
- Standing with his legs apart and his hands fastened on the fish in the pockets of his long queminzolle, he called after her in sneering comment: "Ma fistre, your pride didn't fall--ba su! [11]
- I unwound the lariat, and fastened one end of it to the limb. [5]
- This chain is laid in the bed of the river and is only fastened at the two ends. [5]
- Several of the kahilis were then fastened to a frame-work in front of the tomb, there to remain until they decay and fall to pieces, or, forestalling this, until another scion of royalty dies. [5]
- Every eye fastened itself with wondering interest upon Tom as he rose and took his place upon the stand. [5]
- The Broad Church is on board, working hard at the pumps, and very slow to believe that the ship will be swallowed up with so many poor people in it, fastened down under the hatches ever since it floated. [6]
- Roughly described, it is a fat wooden cigar with its butt-end fastened to a flexible twig. [5]
- All eyes fastened involuntarily on this French column advancing against them and winding down over the uneven ground. [2]
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