Use fell in a sentence
Sentences starting with fell
- Fell out of her chair and snapped both thigh-bones. [6]
Sentences ending with fell
- Our armies met; ye were worsted and Cyrus fell. [10]
- As the phaeton would make the distance to the station in less time than the car, this seemed the sensible thing to do, and Denzil's spirits fell. [11]
- Ministries came and went; statesmen rose and fell. [11]
- When the meal was finished they sat smoking till night fell. [11]
- He is a villain but he knows the height from which he fell. [11]
- Hermas involuntarily glanced up at the window where more than once he had seen Sirona, and said, as he pointed to the centurion's house, "He too fell. [10]
- Like the famous toy of Mongolfier, it rose by means of heated air,--the fevered breath of enthusiastic ignorance,--and when this grew cool, as it always does in a little while, it collapsed and fell. [3]
- Presently, one man's toe-hold broke and he fell! [5]
- So she turned to the others again, saying soothingly: "It all happened in the time before I fell. [10]
- Without further remark, they fell. [5]
Short sentences using fell
- Sainte-Helene fell mortally wounded. [11]
- Silence fell on us. [11]
- His eye fell upon me. [9]
- The ten fell to him. [2]
- They fell to thinking. [5]
- She fell to studying Iberville. [11]
- Down fell the spears. [5]
- There fell another silence. [9]
- Then he fell sick. [11]
- Fell, and--broke the Sabbath. [5]
Sentences containing fell two or more times
- Mabry fell pierced with twenty buckshot, and almost instantly O'Connor fell dead without a struggle. [5]
- His eyes fell upon her rich, firm, stately body; it lingered for a moment on the brown fulness of her hair; then her look was gathered to his, and they fell into each other's arms. [11]
- Trembling and panting the old man fell into that state of fury in which he sometimes used to roll on the ground, and he fell upon Eykhen, threatening him with his hands, shouting and loading him with gross abuse. [2]
- Upon one occasion the brothers fell out about something, and Chang knocked Eng down, and then tripped and fell on him, whereupon both clinched and began to beat and gouge each other without mercy. [5]
- We were soon on the prairies, and in the misty rain that fell and fell they seemed to melt afar into a gray and cheerless ocean. [9]
- I threw myself on a tall tribune, throttled him, and, as he fell, I fell with him in the dust. [10]
- His blows fell like hail, and wherever one fell a subject went down. [5]
- Below them the land fell away, and fell again to the distant broadening valley, to where a mist of white vapour hid the course of the Blue. [9]
- Without an instant's hesitation Dyck ran forward, and as he entered, put his sword into the man's vitals, and he fell, calling out as he fell. [11]
- He had his hand upon the latch, when something in the form--distinctly seen as one log broke and fell, and, as it fell, blazed up--arrested it. [12]
More example sentences with the word fell in them
- What manner of young woman was this who fell off horses? [9]
- Even as the young officer who brought the letter handed it to De la Foret in the little house on the hill-side above Rozel Bay, he was taken suddenly ill, and fell at the Camisard's feet. [11]
- They were virtuous young men, and lost no opportunity that fell in their way to make their livelihood. [5]
- There, however, the young couple both fell victims to the climate, and died, leaving a little daughter, Sappho. [10]
- Shall I tell you that I fell in love with him? [9]
- And I'm telling you nothing but the unvarnished truth when I say that not one single drop of rain fell on me--not a single drop, sir! [5]
- I've told it you because you saved me years ago when I fell down the bank. [11]
- The axe fell, yet he uttered no cry as he went before his Master. [9]
- They had not yet gone to rest, for loud laughter fell upon her ear from the large sheds, open on all sides, which stood over the dyers' vats. [10]
- It was Sunday; yet at Canterbury the streets were empty; strangest of all, there was not even a priest in sight, and no stroke of a bell fell upon my ear. [5]
- The very next year he stood in the place of his father who fell at Ascalon, deeply lamented. [10]
- Fully clothed, and wrapped in blankets, and huddled ourselves up, by the window, with lighted pipes, and fell into chat, while we waited in exceeding comfort to see how an Alpine sunrise was going to look by candlelight. [5]
- These dumb cattle would not learn it of themselves, and so the murrain of Homoeopathy fell on them. [6]
- Of course it would not do to copy a model, raw, like' that, but he fell to studying his traits, trying to see the common humanity exhibited in him. [4]
- If not, it would be the turn next of those whom she herself had pushed into the arms of the fell monster: First Heliodora, and then her mother! [10]
- They fell to work on the port battery in so ludicrous a manner that I was fain to laugh despite the gravity of the situation. [9]
- He fell to wondering, but, even as he wondered, his habit of observation made him take in every feature of the governor's house and garden, so that he could have reproduced all as it was mirrored in his eye. [11]
- He fell asleep wondering why Judge Whipple had sent him. [9]
- He fell back, wondering how he could so greatly have offended, when she put her hand on his sleeve. [9]
- He lay and wondered for a long time, but fell asleep again; and the steely iteration went on in his dreams. [11]
- It is little wonder that under circumstances like these he fell down and brake his neck. [5]
- Now it is won, I would give it up and a hundred times as much to hear you say, 'Come to Skaw Fell again. [11]
- It was a woman's confession, and her voice fell to a whisper as it threaded the last words. [6]
- Madame Gravois, elderly, wizened, primp in a starched cotton gown, opened the door herself, fell upon Monsieur Vigo in the Creole fashion; and within a quarter of an hour I was installed in her best room, which gave out on a little court behind. [9]
- But I come without my family, and with no fell purposes. [11]
- Felion sat just within his doorway, looking out into the sunlight which fell upon the red and white walls of the little city, flanked by young orchards, with great, oozy meadows beyond these, where cattle ate, knee- deep in the lush grass and cool reed-beds. [11]
- Twilight fell around Withersteen House, and dusk and night. [13]
- The warm confidence with which Mary, the widow of the King of Hungary, who fell in the Turkish war, gazed into Quijada's finely modelled, slightly bronzed countenance proved that she knew how to estimate his worth aright. [10]
- Renewing the attempt with the other war-club, that also was broken, but the bear fell senseless. [5]
- She fell in with the notion. [8]
- She was indignant with the Brandon scrupulousness; it chafed her.. Was this simply because she loved her husband, or was this indignation a little due also to her liking for the world which so fell in with her inclinations? [4]
- I fell in with some people I knew who were going where the spirit moved them, and I went along. [9]
- Pierre turned away with repugnance, and closing his eyes quickly fell back on the carriage seat. [2]
- Truly (I thought with remorse) she had been more industrious than I. I fell at length into a fevered sleep, and awoke, athirst, with the light trickling through my lattices. [9]
- She received him with quite the old Hawkeye openness and cordiality, and fell to talking at once of their little acquaintance there; and it seemed impossible that he could ever say to her what he had come determined to say. [5]
- The company advanced with levelled pikes, but at a motion from the Seigneur his men fell back before them, and, making a lane, disclosed Michel de la Foret at the end of it. [11]
- Smaller hills covered with forests fell away on all sides and the tops of the trees caught the radiance of the sinking sun. [10]
- Then, bustling about with feverish activity, and constantly saying, "Welcome, welcome," he arranged his bench, seated the King on it, by the hearth, threw some faggots on the fire, and finally fell to pacing the floor with a nervous stride. [5]
- One walked ahead with a smile, or else fell back to lend a helping shoulder to a fainting man. [9]
- The book fell with a loud noise to the floor. [6]
- And in that wild covert Venters shut his eyes under the great white stars and intense vaulted blue, bitterly comparing their loneliness to his own, and fell asleep. [13]
- But the Judge, whose mind was on the argument, continued to mutter defiantly until his eye fell upon Stephen. [9]
- A young woman who was a stunner, who rode wild horses and fell off them and rode them again, was beyond the pale not only of Euphrasia's experience but of her imagination likewise. [9]
- There are those who say, however that tears fell down her cheeks as she laughed. [11]
- This was one who rose and fell, who lived and loved and hated and died and was buried by--money. [9]
- Formerly the hosts who came from the east, and fell on our land like swarms of locusts, robbing and destroying it, were spoken of as 'a curse' and a 'pest. [10]
- There they stayed, while the blue lines quivered and fell back through the forests on that short winter's afternoon, dragging their wounded from the stagnant waters. [9]
- In a little while he fell to grumbling to himself, and soon he slouched back to the bar and said: "Lan'lord, what's your idea for rakin' up old personalities and blowin' about your father? [5]
- The last camp which we fell back upon was in a hollow near the village of Florida, where I was born--in Monroe County. [5]
- In Philip's story, which was very slowly maturing, the heroine fell in love with a young man simply for himself, and regardless of the fact that he was poor and had his career to make. [4]
- The long mustache, which usually curled so arrogantly upwards, now drooped damp and limp over his mouth and chin, and his long reddish hair fell in dishevelled locks around his bloated face. [10]
- The yoke to which the horses were harnessed broke from the pole, and the heavy, four-wheeled carriage fell over the precipice without obstruction. [10]
- No; her arms which she had thrown up as if to fly, fell by her side it was all in vain. [10]
- Every pet name which he had once been so glad to hear, and during recent years had forgotten, again fell from her lips. [10]
- The subdued light which crept under the porch and came in through the fan shaped window over the door fell on his face. [9]
- In the valley where the moonlight fell in icy coldness a herd of cattle was moving, and their breath rose like the spray from sea-beaten rocks, and the sound of their breathing was borne upwards to the watchers. [11]
- Night fell, and when they reached the Silliston road the lights of Hampton shone below them in the darkness. [9]
- Since the time when the world was young, no white man hath been there save one, and behold sickness fell on him; the grave is his end. [11]
- The dread returned when the party approached again the turmoil of the American Fall, and fell again under the influence of the merciless haste of the flood. [4]
- And that prodigy, when Jack was dragged into his presence, and also fell down with Edith and worshiped him in his crib, did actually smile, and appear to know that this man belonged to him, was a part of his worldly possessions. [4]
- It was November when Howells finally fell under the baleful influence of the machine. [5]
- The next morning, when Hodder entered his study, he sighed as his eye fell upon the unusual pile of letters on his desk, for their writers had once been his friends. [9]
- He stopped short when he saw them, his hand fell to his sides, and his words died on his lips. [9]
- He spoke, but what he said I knew not, for the stark upturned face of Juste Duvarney was there before me, there was a great buzzing in my ears, and I fell back into darkness. [11]
- Now an ancient whale-ship master fell to talking about the sort of crews they used to have in his early days. [5]
- When I went West, he fell out of my life. [9]
- The knight's knees were trembling under him, and as the monster, in the form of a unicorn, charged against his shield he fell to the ground. [10]
- At last they were still, her eyelids fell, her hands dropped the crucifix, a slight shiver ran through her limbs, which then relaxed, and she opened her mouth as though to draw a deeper breath. [10]
- As the papers were handed over, a photograph dropped from among them and fell to the floor face upward. [11]
- Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone. [5]
- All his nobles were assembled waiting for him there, welcomed him with loud acclamations, and fell on their faces to the ground before their king. [10]
- One day I went as usual, armed only with my bow and arrow, and, accompanied by my grey-hounds, heedlessly followed a hare; a troop of Danaids fell upon me, bound me with cords, and led me into their camp. [10]
- I am never well,--he answered.--His eyes fell mechanically on the death's-head ring he wore on his right hand. [6]
- However, it seemed well worth while to chance it, so he fell to groaning with considerable spirit. [5]
- The windows were well screened, but a few sunbeams forced their way into the room and fell on her red-gold hair. [10]
- Mainly we were well scattered, but when Paris fell we happened to be together. [5]
- Only one short week later he fell again. [5]
- Night fell as we were going out of the 'Upper River' and meeting the floods of the Ohio. [5]
- Softly and calmly we refused to sacrifice, thanked the imperial official, who warned us kindly, and in the same hour and place we fell into the hands of the torturers. [10]
- The day before we left Hannibal, a curious thing fell under my notice-- the surprising spread which longitudinal time undergoes there. [5]
- As soon as we fell, the sergeant let go the horse, and it went off; so that escape was cut off. [5]
- As it fell, we could be alone together for a few minutes only, and had no chance of speaking to each other privily. [10]
- In these cases we always fell back on some other camp of ours; we never stayed where we were. [5]
- When we spoke, we almost invariably addressed him, his rare words fell like bolts upon the consciousness. [9]
- Sellers led the way to a saloon on Fourth street under the hotel, and the young gentlemen fell into the custom of the country. [5]
- He knew the way they would go, so he fell behind a tree, and saw them start for the place where they could order a cab. [11]
- In a vague way he felt its full significance, and the shadow of it fell on him. [11]
- We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. [5]
- The impatient painter was very tired of waiting, so, seating himself on a feeding-manger for asses which stood in front of the adjoining house, he presently fell asleep. [10]
- My fat envelope was thrown by a strong hand, and fell on board all right, and my victory was a safe thing. [5]
- But his laugh was the only one left in the village: it fell upon a hollow and mournful vacancy and emptiness. [5]
- But my exhaustion was so great that I fell asleep again, and the dream which followed was so delightful that I did not forget it. [10]
- Captain McCarty's company was set to making canoes, and the rest of us looked on apathetically as the huge trees staggered and fell amidst a fountain of spray in the shallow water. [9]
- And when it was seen that Richter likewise had no protection, but was calmly smoking the little short pipe, with a charred bowl, a hush fell upon all. [9]
- Such a bill was passed and tendered to the Republican Governor for his signature; but, principally for the reasons I have stated, he withheld his approval, and the bill fell without becoming a law. [7]
- When her prayer was over and the sacrifice offered, the youths fell asleep, and never woke again. [10]
- His favorite place was on the brightest spot of a Smyrna rug by the conservatory, where the sunlight fell and he could hear the fountain play. [4]
- Her lover henceforth was no longer her enemy; and as the tumult of the struggle by the breach fell on her ear, she could think with joy of his victorious arms. [10]
- Our mossy resting-place was named the Bridal Chamber Camp, in the enthusiasm of the hour, after darkness fell upon the woods and the stars came out. [4]
- Just as I was in the very act of mounting, I lost my senses and strength, and fell down on the ground in a dead faint. [10]
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