Use features in a sentence
Sentences starting with features
- Features a little too sharp, a keen, gray eye, a quick and restless glance, which rather avoided being met, gave the impression that she was a wide-awake, cautious, suspicious, and, very possibly, crafty person. [6]
Sentences ending with features
- Charley was pleased with my comparing the face of the small Ethiop known to his household as "Tines" to a huckleberry with features. [6]
- You might as well try to jump upon your own shadow as to hit the little man's intellectual features. [6]
- He was a very handsome young man, of medium height, with firm, clearcut features. [2]
- If I see two men wrestling, I wrestle too, with my limbs and features. [6]
- The, old man took her hand and looked her in the face, with a wonderful tenderness in his squared features. [6]
- Agatha's extreme beauty, too, struck the artist's daughter as something divine, and her eye often rested admiringly on her new friend's pure and regular features. [10]
- The street was too dark for him to see how pale she was; and yet he never took his eyes off her dear but scarcely distinguishable features. [10]
- Both now spoke to the spectator from these features. [10]
- Hadrian had refused to see it when he learnt that the death by drowning had terribly distorted the lad's features. [10]
- The rector turned to me with a smile of cynical amusement playing over his features. [9]
Short sentences using features
- That is, its large features. [5]
Sentences containing features two or more times
- Els, on the contrary, who had learned to read the sufferer's features and understood her even without words when speech was difficult, had watched every change in the expression of her features with the utmost attention. [10]
- I think we can peacefully agree as to two or three extraordinary features of her make-up, but not upon the other features of it. [5]
More example sentences with the word features in them
- The king, four years since, had ordered a sculptor to execute a sacred image with the lovely features of the newly-married bride of his charioteer, and Paaker had succeeded in having a duplicate made. [10]
- She is fifteen years old, tall and womanly for her age, has dark hair and eyes, fresh complexion, regular features, pleasant smile and voice, but shy with strangers. [6]
- His words so wrought upon us that it was a relief to us all when the conversation drifted into a more cheerful channel and the natural features of the curious country we were in came under treatment. [5]
- After these farewell words Frau Maria's features became painfully distorted, the lids drooped over her eyes, there was a brief struggle, then a slight gesture from the physician announced to the weeping group that her earthly pilgrimage was over. [10]
- So he gazed with tender anxiety at the features convulsed by pain and, when she at last opened her eyes, smiled at her with paternal affection. [10]
- Her eyes sparkled with joy, and her features wore an expression of compassion only at brief intervals, when the youth spoke of the greatest sufferings which he had borne with his uncle. [10]
- His broad head with its bold features and glittering eyes was resting on his hand. [2]
- Go and talk with any professional man holding any of the medieval creeds, choosing one who wears upon his features the mark of inward and outward health, who looks cheerful, intelligent, and kindly, and see how all your prejudices melt away in his presence! [6]
- The goddess on whom Hermon had bestowed the features of her own face had deprived him of sight to confer upon her the happiness of brightening and beautifying the darkness of his life. [10]
- But the Italian who, as she rode by, had been attracted by the noble features of the aged man, whose eyes still sparkled with youthful enthusiasm, gazed at him enquiringly. [10]
- Even Mrs. Waring, who resembled a Roman matron, with her wavy white hair parted in the middle and her gentle yet classic features, sighed secretly at times at the unyielding attitude of her husband, although admiring him for it. [9]
- Her gray, nearly white hair, though ill-suited to her almost youthful features, lent them a peculiar charm, and how brightly her round, brown eyes still sparkled! [10]
- A good caricature, which seizes the prominent features and gives them the character Nature hinted, but did not fully carry out, is a work of genius. [6]
- The pure brow, which seemed to him too high for a woman's face, wore an indignant frown; and though her mouth was beautiful in form, its outlines were often marred by a passionate tremor that lent the exquisitely chiselled features a harsh, nay, bitter expression. [10]
- The tender smile which played on his features filled her soul with the certainty that he would vouchsafe to be gracious; nay, she could believe that he moved those marble lips and promised to grant her prayer. [10]
- They are features which might well have served to extend the remark of Madame de Stael that a great historian is almost a statesman. [6]
- Her verbal output, when left undoctored by her clerks, is quite unmistakable It always exhibits the strongly distinctive features observable in the virgin passages from her pen already quoted by me: Desert vacancy, as regards thought. [5]
- What a head, what features, and what hair! [10]
- Yet the features were there, too, regular and fine; and her brown hair waving away from her broad, white forehead over eyes a greyish violet in colour gave her a classic distinction. [11]
- 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]
- His regular features were still beautiful in their symmetry, and there was a touch of pathos in their mournful gentleness, so evidently incapable of any firm resolve, especially when a smile lent his mouth a bewitching charm. [10]
- Her features, too, were regular and beautiful, and she would have attracted attention by her loveliness among a multitude. [10]
- Wilhelm's milder features were really those of a poet, while Jakob's sterner cast of countenance, and his piercing eyes, indicated more naturally a searcher after knowledge. [10]
- Besides, Korinna's features were indelibly impressed on my eye. [10]
- The fair-haired man's well-cut features wore the rigid, lifeless expression of a mask. [10]
- Her manner, so well-controlled, though her features seemed to shrink all at once, if it did not deceive him, gave him the wish to say an affectionate thing. [11]
- As he sat watching her, he saw that her features were growing easier, and in a short time her deep, even breathing showed that she was asleep. [6]
- His glorious figure was set off to advantage by his rich dress, his features were bright with happiness and a feeling of conscious strength. [10]
- And the story was not in any of its features new, except to the auditor. [4]
- Yet surely it was not his fault that Daphne's features bore the impress of that gentle, winning kindness which he himself and Soteles, imitating him, had often condemned as weak and characterless. [10]
- Immeasurably bitter scorn was depicted in Ledscha's features as she gazed after Gula. [10]
- It was yet warm, and the handsome features wore a smile. [11]
- They have all very much the same general features, pleasing and displeasing. [6]
- One or two very important features of it were altered, and in time effects would result from this, if opportunity offered--effects of a quite serious nature, too. [5]
- Master Gridley could usually detect the shifting action, but the young man's features and voice never betrayed him. [6]
- You come unexpectedly upon truck-loads of tanned youngsters, whose features, despite flannel shirts and campaign hats, summon up memories of Harvard Square and the Yale Yard, of campuses at Berkeley and Ithaca. [9]
- To-day she summoned up her courage, stood opposite to it, and gazed steadily at the youthful features of the woman, with whom Peter had been happy. [10]
- But by his unwearied narrations he impressed his image in gigantic features on our plastic continent. [4]
- There was an unusual lock of benignity upon his firmly moulded features, and an air of ease which rather surprised Mr. Bradshaw, who did not know all the social experiences which had formed a part of the old Master's history. [6]
- Years of trial unknown to me had left an ennobling mark upon her features, increasing their power an hundred fold. [9]
- A smile of triumph passed over Caesar's features, and drawing Melissa's hands away from her tearful face, he said, kindly: "Alexander's soul pines for Roxana's; that is what makes your presence so dear to me. [10]
- The conical capped tower I got from a French chateau, and some of the features on the south from a Buddhist temple in Japan. [9]
- Up in the tower Dicky had listened intently, and as the speech proceeded his features contracted; once he gripped the arm of Renshaw. [11]
- It is half-sister to the genius for music, and has some of the features which remind us of earthly love. [6]
- They were more to him than he had ever known; they were parts of himself which had slowly developed, as the features and characteristics of ancestors gradually emerge and are emphasized in a descendant as his years increase. [11]
- His face seemed to have shriveled or melted; his features had grown smaller. [2]
- To call attention to an exaggerated bunion when the odorous towel lay upon the hidden features of what once was a "human," was the last act in the drama of the Unmaking of Man. [11]
- We made good time; and a couple of hours before sunset we stood upon the high confines of the Valley of Holiness, and our eyes swept it from end to end and noted its features. [5]
- Melissa felt as though she was gazing on the face of a stranger, for, though his eyelids still quivered, his eyes were bright with ecstatic fire and his features looked more youthful. [10]
- It was as though she held up a mirror and compelled me to look at my soul features. [9]
- That speechless tongue, those prisoned features, that heart so freighted with unspoken troubles, and that breast so oppressed with its piteous secret had been here. [5]
- V Many of those picturesque features of the older England, that stir us by their beauty and by the sense of stability and permanence they convey, will no doubt disappear or be transformed. [9]
- His features were those of a man of advancing years, but well-formed, and his smoothly-shaven, plump cheeks were well-rounded. [10]
- How beautiful were those marble-white, and nobly-cut features! [10]
- The light of those beautiful eyes was like the lustre of ice; in all her features there was nothing of that human warmth which shows that sympathy has reached the soul beneath the mask of flesh it wears. [6]
- And added to this were a thousand little features, anecdotes, and events which all pointed to the universal discontent. [10]
- I saw all this as plainly as if it had all been printed in great-primer type, instead of working itself out in her features. [6]
- People did not think whether he was handsome or not; his features bore the impress of his intellectual power so distinctly that the first glance revealed the presence of a remarkable man. [10]
- He was a thick-set man of middle height, with a large head, and clever but coarse features, as rudely moulded as if they had been carved from wood. [10]
- The owner of these features, having only Mr. Botcher in his line of vision, made what was perhaps an unguarded remark. [9]
- Beneath her abstractions there was a capacity of loving which might have been inferred from the expression of her features, the light that shone in her eyes, the tones of her voice, all of which were full of the language which belongs to susceptible natures. [6]
- I wonder if there are any such beings nowadays as the great Eliphalet, with his large features and conversational basso profundo, seemed to me. [6]
- But where is there another woman of your age with such a carriage, such unwrinkled features, so clear a brow, such deep kind eyes, such beautifully-polished arms--" "Be quiet," exclaimed his wife. [10]
- Why was it then, as I gazed upon his fine features in death, that I experienced no intensity of sorrow? [9]
- Blind forces in themselves; shaping thoughts as they shaped features and battled for the moulding of constitution and the mingling of temperament. [6]
- Her features disordered themselves slightly at times in a surface-smile, but never broke loose from their corners and indulged in the riotous tumult of a laugh,--which, I take it, is the mob-law of the features;--and propriety the magistrate who reads the riot-act. [6]
- Now Luna saw the young Nuremberg merchant gaze after the Swiss with an expression of such deep anxiety and pain upon his manly features that she felt the utmost pity for him. [10]
- It has melted the world's conscience in its crucible, and cast it in a new mould, with features less like those of Moloch and more like those of humanity. [6]
- The owner of the voice bore all the marks of a gentleman: picturesque and costly raiment, the aspect of command, a hard countenance, with complexion and features marred by dissipation. [5]
- Yes, they were the very same features that I had seen, first at Naukratis and then in Theodorus' workshop, they were . [10]
- By instinct, over the twenty-five years of his life, he had observed and become familiar with the main features of the work. [11]
- Thus he presented the singular spectacle of a President who, in the midst of a great civil war, with unprecedented duties weighing upon him, was constantly in person debating the great features of his policy with the people. [7]
- All features of the noble building are distinct now, but soft and dreamy, for the sun is lightly veiled with clouds. [5]
- The features of the new arrival could no longer be distinguished; but she must be young. [10]
- Scattered all about the mighty monolith were sphinxes of noble countenance, carved out of Egyptian granite as hard as blue steel, and whose shapely features the wear of five thousand years had failed to mark or mar. [5]
- A flush tinged the livid features of the invalid, prematurely aged monarch, and at a wave of his hand the foster-mother left him and his companion alone with the little one. [10]
- Nobility spoke in the large features, in the generous mouth, in the calm, gray eyes. [9]
- At these words the king turned very pale, and his features were agitated with pain as he looked at his brother's lovely young wife. [10]
- His features betrayed the growth of this suspicion so clearly that the Master replied to his look as if it had been a remark. [6]
- Nebsecht shrank back; the greedy look, the glistening teeth, the dark, rough features of the man terrified him. [10]
- So I adorned the goddess with her pleasant features. [10]
- The dusk of the gathering twilight concealed the picture, but he had doubtless gazed long at the lovely features, and still beheld them with his mental vision. [10]
- These visions of the future aroused so joyous a feeling in his young soul that Massi, the violinist, read in his by no means mobile features what was passing in his mind. [10]
- I remarked for the fiftieth time how strong her face was, with its generous lines and clearly moulded features. [9]
- He may describe the features, the manner, mention certain traits and sayings, all literally true, but absolutely misleading as to the total impression. [4]
- Her countenance had the features of the wife of Mena. [10]
- Antoinette had inherited the energies as well as the features of the St. Gre's, yet there was a painful moment as she stood there, striving to put down the agitation the sight of me gave her. [9]
- As he opened the door, the Milesian features of Father McShane presented themselves, and from their centre proceeded the clerical benediction in Irish-sounding Latin, Pax vobiscum! [6]
- As soon as the door was closed upon them, Caesar's features lost their cruel look. [10]
- So much for the doctrines of Hahnemann, which have been stated without comment, or exaggeration of any of their features, very much as any adherent of his opinions might have stated them, if obliged to compress them into so narrow a space. [3]
- Gorgo sat by the bed of her apparently lifeless father, gazing fondly at the worn and wax-like features, and listening to his breathing, now soft and easy and again painful and convulsive, as it fluttered through his nostrils. [10]
- Don Luis nodded the answer which he desired to receive, and a bright smile flitted over his emaciated, corpselike features. [10]
- It was remarkable that with all this her look was almost natural, and her features were hardly sharpened so as to suggest that her life was burning away. [6]
- There descended from that train of which we have heard the whistle a lady with features of no ordinary moulding, with curls and a string bonnet and a cloak that seemed strangely to harmonize with the lady's character. [9]
- I will explain that this bugle-call is one of the pretty features here. [5]
- It is said that the lamp of love can illumine into beauty any features of clay through which it shines. [4]
- It is true that my waters exhale and are renewed from one season to another; but are your features the same, absolutely the same, from year to year? [6]
- His clothes bore that mark which distinguishes his world from the other, but his features were so striking as to hold my attention unwittingly. [9]
- Mr. Bronte thought that it looked older than Charlotte did, and that her features had not been flattered; but he acknowledged that the expression was wonderfully good and life-like. [14]
- It is probable that his features or tones betrayed some impatience at having thus been foiled of his purpose, for Mrs. Hopkins thought he looked all the time as if he wanted to get rid of her. [6]
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