Use figure in a sentence
Sentences ending with figure
- Gunther in 'Proceedings, Zoological Society,' 1870, p. 778, with a coloured figure. [1]
- Some of the younger officers who were there, laughed as they followed his retreating figure. [9]
- I vow you would be a sensation, with your height and figure. [9]
- The prelate's white woollen morning-robe clung closely around his stately figure. [10]
- The hostess succeeds who is able to excite this general play of all the forces at the table, even using the silent but not non-elastic material as cushions, if one may continue the figure. [4]
- Now--is that a white figure? [5]
- I knew him when he was eleven feet high and of a faultless figure. [5]
- At last she went up to the doorway, which was too low for her tall figure. [10]
- Ten minutes afterwards we stood beside the flag-staff, and at our feet lay a moaning, mangled figure. [11]
- And I have told her how singularly young Pamela is looking, and what a fine large fellow Sam is, and how ill the lingering syllable "my" to his name fits his port and figure. [5]
Short sentences using figure
- A figure was there. [12]
- That figure in the room. [12]
- His figure darkened the doorway. [11]
- I cannot recall Monsieur's figure. [11]
- And her whole figure! [10]
- The figure moved again. [12]
- My figure was a million. [5]
- But the figure! [10]
Sentences containing figure two or more times
- Accompanying Carterette to the shore was a little figure that moved along beside them like a shadow, a little grey figure that carried a gold- headed cane. [11]
- I gazed about the mean room, with its litter of newspapers and reports, its shabby furniture, and these seemed to have become incongruous, out of figure in the chair facing me keeping with the thoughtful figure in the chair facing me. [9]
- Right-hand figure, under side of part of a wing-nervure, much magnified, showing the teeth, st. Left-hand figure, upper surface of wing-cover, with the projecting, smooth nervure, r, across which the teeth (st) are scraped. [1]
- In imagination she saw him there, a straight, slim, handsome figure, with the very vanity of proud health upon him, and ambition and passionate purpose in every line of his figure, every glance of his eyes. [11]
- In the Red Mansion Faith's delicate figure moved forlornly among relics of an austere, beloved figure vanished from the apricot-garden and the primitive simplicity of wealth combined with narrow thought. [11]
- He stood motionless, like the figure of a man on one of his mother's ancient vases, staring in bewilderment after the flying figure of Happiness, whom he might easily have caught by her floating locks. [10]
- But at their head a figure held our eye,--a figure that spoke of dignity and courage, of trials borne for others. [9]
- He saw a figure rise painfully from a couch in a corner,--the figure of a woman young and beautiful, but wan and worn. [11]
- The figure should be--the figure should be in harmony with all that, but, oh, what we get in the conventional picture, and it is always the conventional picture! [5]
More example sentences with the word figure in them
- If I had your face and neck and figure I'd die before I'd live in Rivington. [9]
- Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
- Without heeding the young Burgrave Eitelfritz or Sir Boemund Altrosen, who were just approaching her, she forced her way nearer to her father, He still maintained his self-control, but already the veins on his brow had swollen and his short figure was rigidly erect. [10]
- You smile as you think of my taking it for a fleshless human figure, when I saw its tube pointing to the sky, and thought it was an arm, under the white drapery thrown over it for protection. [6]
- How much did you figure you could get out of me, if I let you bleed me? [11]
- But look at yonder figure in the white robe beside the left obelisk--is it not Dion? [10]
- She was wonderful yet, with her white hair and straight nose, her erect figure still slight. [9]
- She had not yet looked at the figure on the bed. [11]
- After all these years, Mr. Daaken stands before me a prominent figure of the past in an ill-fitting suit of snuff colour. [9]
- Althea's very defects would perfect the figure of the restless, wretched weaver whom Athene transformed into the spider. [10]
- Seeing that it would be a mistake to arrest Marchand at that moment, he raised the struggling figure of the wrecker above his head and, with Herculean effort, threw him up over the heads of the Frenchmen in front of him. [11]
- Though shaken and worn, it was a figure which had no affinity with death. [11]
- It is quite within the probabilities that a century hence she will be the most imposing figure that has cast its shadow across the globe since the inauguration of our era. [5]
- The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
- The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden. [2]
- He now gazed with eager observation down the path which, as the day approached, stood out with increasing clearness from the surrounding shades, and his heart began to beat faster as he perceived a figure approaching the well, with rapid steps. [10]
- I am watching with considerable interest to ascertain what figure "the free-State Democrats" cut in the concern. [7]
- His huge figure, with arms hanging down and with a puckered, though smiling face, moved after Willarski with uncertain, timid steps. [2]
- A young man with an unusually tall and powerful figure was standing in this yard, gazing up at a window in the second story. [10]
- He inspired her with an instinctive fear; and she tried to imagine, in contrast, the erect and soldierly figure of General Chiltern performing the same office. [9]
- Ruth advanced, and with a not very steady hand lifted the white covering from the upper part of the figure and turned it down. [5]
- In the gaunt, wiry figure and the lean, brown face Jane recognized one of her Mormon riders, Blake. [13]
- A bright pupil will learn to get the outline of a human figure in ten lessons, the model coming five hundred feet nearer each time. [6]
- The tall lady, whose noble face and majestic figure were shrouded in a thick veil, was Juliane's mother--and she had offered the sick ropedancer a home in her wealthy household. [10]
- The third, upon whose figure Austen's eyes were riveted, was seated on a stone bench set in a recess of pines, and looking off into the Yale of the Blue. [9]
- And going the whole figure, I have no doubt, would be more popular with some thoughtless people than that which has been done, But I cannot assume this reckless position, nor allow others to assume it on my responsibility. [7]
- Some political giants, who have not negotiated their credentials, are recognized as they walk down the aisle: the statesmanlike figure of Senator Whitredge (a cheer); that of Senator Green (not so statesmanlike, but a cheer); Congressman Fairplay (cheers); and--Hilary Vane! [9]
- A figure in white stepped through and slowly passed him. [11]
- With a swiftness which no one could have looked for from her heavy and bulky figure, Martina hastily returned to her husband, and even at the door exclaimed: "It is all right, all has gone well! [10]
- The four Fs which he had advised his master to heed in his wooing--Family, Figure, Favor, and Fortune--he no longer deemed the right touch-tones. [10]
- One windy morning when the leaves were kiting over the valley we were getting ready for pounding hominy, when a figure appeared on the trail. [9]
- Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
- Looking after Barry Whalen's retreating figure he saw this new, grave world opening out before him; and as the vision floated before his eyes, Barry's appeal that he should visit Jasmine at the hospital came to him. [11]
- The clay, still wet, clung to the same board as the figure of the soldier, modeled by the same hand. [10]
- Seats at it were worth--well, you would never believe the figure, so it is no use to state it. [5]
- Even as they were uttered, kaleidoscopic memories rushed in, and David's face, figure, personal characteristics, flashed before him. [11]
- The more unskilful were obliged to thrust at this figure to train the hand and eye; the others stood face to face in pairs and fought under Georg's direction with blunt foils. [10]
- The Seigneur's remarks were highly critical, till, with a few hasty strokes on brown paper, Charley sketched in his figure with a long overcoat in style much the same as his undercoat, stately and flowing and confined at the waist. [11]
- His great schemes were completed, he was a rich man, and he had pictured himself retiring to this Seigneury, a peaceful and practical figure, living out his days in a refined repose which his earlier life had never known. [11]
- Each day we went farther afield, and each night trooped merrily in through the gates with hopes of homes and clearings rising in our hearts--until the motionless figure of the young Virginian met our eye. [9]
- Your figure is well-suited to the trade of war, and you surely are not wanting in courage. [10]
- But he likes well that "they do not observe the confecting of the Ointment under any certain constellation; which is commonly the excuse of magical medicines, when they fail, that they were not made under a fit figure of heaven. [6]
- About this person we shall have accumulated no little circumstantial knowledge;--thus, his face, figure, gait, his mode of dressing, of saluting, perhaps even of speaking, may be familiar to us; yet who he is we know not. [6]
- A profound and wayworn loneliness showed in his figure, in his face, in his eyes. [11]
- Instead of using wax he had recourse to clay, and formed a tall figure which represented Antinous as the youthful Bacchus, as the god might have appeared to the pirates. [10]
- With a friendly wave the round figure of Mr. Orchardson disappeared over the side, and I knew that the time had come to say farewell. [9]
- As she stood watching the departing figure, she scarcely knew that the Queen was preparing to go to her bed-chamber. [11]
- Excited as she was, there was a wild sort of beauty in her face, and her figure was lithe and supple. [11]
- If the stock was worth such a gallant figure, with five thousand shares in the corporation, it makes me dizzy to think what it would have been worth with only our original six hundred in it. [5]
- Even while she was still speaking, the friends exchanged significant glances; but scarcely had the last words fallen from her lips when the giant figure of the freedman passed through the door, which had remained open. [10]
- 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]
- In his face was secrecy, knowledge, and some tragic underthing which gave him, apart from his office, a singular loneliness of figure and manner. [11]
- The slender figure was poised on one foot; the other, covered to the ankle with the long robe, hovered in the air. [10]
- Speranski's whole figure was of a peculiar type that made him easily recognizable. [2]
- His brown hair was now streaked with grey, but the light in the face was the same; there was the same alertness and buoyant health in the figure and the same row of laughing white teeth. [11]
- His tall figure was now resplendent with rich ornaments, and a priest, who walked before him, held the vessel high above his head. [10]
- But the illusion was momentary, and my eyes speedily recovered from the shock of the bright flame and snowy drapery to see that the figure was a breathing one. [6]
- At first Carterette was inclined to run towards the prophet-like figure --it was Ranulph's father; next she drew back with dislike--his smile was leering malice under the guise of amiable mirth. [11]
- Her fair hair was drawn plainly and smoothly, over her temples, and the slender, slightly stooping figure, resembled a young tree, which the storm has bowed and deprived of strength and will to raise itself. [10]
- The afternoon sun was beating in over the threshold as he reached it, and, at his footstep, a figure started forward from the shadow of a corner. [11]
- Honora descended, and was almost at the flight of steps leading down to the office door when a familiar figure appeared coming out of it. [9]
- Our young captain was a very handsome man, tall and perfectly formed, the very figure to show up a smart uniform's best effects. [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]
- But now, without warning, a sudden fierce yearning took possession of her: surprised and almost frightened, she stopped irresistibly and looked back at the thin little figure crouched beside the water, to discover that his widened eyes were still upon her. [9]
- Gaining the Grand Walk, I saw Mr. Marmaduke's insignificant figure dodging fearfully among the roughs, whose hour it was. [9]
- They were probably waiting for their comrades, for when the young wife had ascended the first steps of the staircase and looked upward, she found the top of the narrow flight barred by the tall figure of a soldier. [10]
- Suddenly, while we waited for murder, a tall figure shot out of the door past the widow, the pistol flew out of Tipton's hand, and Tipton swung about with something like a bellow, to face Mr. Nicholas Temple. [9]
- On reaching the vestibule Natasha saw a tall figure in a fur coat unwinding his scarf. [2]
- I selected a very modern and unusual type of man as the central figure of my story. [11]
- Powhatan is a very large figure in early Virginia history, and deserves his prominence. [4]
- Wolff had scarcely vanished from the street, and Els from the window, when a man's slender figure appeared, as if it had risen from the earth, beside the spurge-laurel tree at the left of the house. [10]
- The three of us turned to the window to watch the figure, the music of which was just beginning. [9]
- The figure sank upon the ground and buried a pitiful face in the wet grass. [11]
- At Charley's words upon the Abbe's figure, gaunt and precise as a swaddled ramrod, he pulled his nose with a grunt of satisfaction. [11]
- A smile played upon her lips as she perceived young Hermas, who had already been for some time leaning motionless against the wall of the house opposite, and devouring with his gaze the figure of the beautiful young woman. [10]
- He straightened himself up, as he spoke, standing on the top round of his high chair, I suppose, and so presented the larger part of his little figure to the view of the boarders. [6]
- M. Fille bridled up, and his spare figure seemed to gain courage and dignity. [11]
- He drew himself up, a smile of debonair gallantry lit up his face and as soon as the last figure of the ecossaise was ended, he clapped his hands to the musicians and shouted up to their gallery, addressing the first violin: "Semen! [2]
- Again she looked up to survey the scene, and she was now aware of a white figure coming toward her from the tamarisk hedge. [10]
- He held it up at the window; perhaps you remember the physician holding a flask to the light in Gerard Douw's "Femme hydropique"; I thought of that fine figure as I looked at him. [6]
- Her eyes ran up and down his figure, then met his curiously. [11]
- Now let's figure up a little on, the preliminaries. [5]
- He was an unusual figure for a woodsman or river-man--he did not wear ear-rings or a waist-sash as did the river-men, and he did not turn in his toes like a woodsman. [11]
- Should she nestle under the great ledge, or sit on a projecting rock with her figure against the sky? [4]
- The gas was turned low, but under the chandelier was the figure of a young man struggling with an overcoat. [9]
- There was one trembling instant when he would have taken her hungrily into his arms, but as if some evil spirit interposed with malign purpose, there came the sound of feet on the gravel outside, and the figure of a man darkened the doorway. [11]
- If it's a tragedy"--she drew herself up with a little shudder, for she was thinking of that figure dropping from Elise's window--"you cannot stop it. [11]
- In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good price; but this place was utterly stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me ashamed, every time I think of it. [5]
- Her dark skin took on a curious reddish radiance, her eyes were lustrous and her figure beautiful. [11]
- In that house, too, General Warren probably passed the night before the Bunker Hill battle, and over its threshold must the stately figure of Washington have often cast its shadow. [6]
- The figure moved to where the money and the pistol were, and said, in a whisper still: "Go! [11]
- A visitor, indigenous to the region, looking pensively at the figure, asked the lady of the house "if that was a statoo of her deceased infant? [6]
- I wish you to take up all the country stretching away from the north pole on all sides for many degrees south, and buy Greenland and Iceland at the best figure you can get now while they are cheap. [5]
- Then he fell to studying the figure on the couch. [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 stock rose to sixty-five dollars a foot, and at this figure the world-renowned tragedian, McKean Buchanan, bought a commanding interest and prepared to quit the stage once more--he was always doing that. [5]
- David's figure seemed to shrink for a moment, his face had a withered look, and his head fell forward in a mood of terrible dejection. [11]
- There were none to see the frail, perishable figure, as it glided from the fire and leaned pensively at the open casement; none but the stars, to look into the upturned face and read its history. [12]
- I am bound to say that these two, however, sat and watched my vigorous combats with the weeds, and talked most beautifully about the application of the snake-grass figure. [4]
- His impatience began to rise, and it seemed like a welcome diversion, when he heard steps approaching and a man's figure entered the house. [10]
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