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A Government officer went languidly by in full uniform--even the Governor wore uniform at all times to encourage respect--and the cafes were filling. [11]
She was a remarkable woman in her way, with a will of her own, and a kind of madness in her; and there could be no backing and filling. [11]

More example sentences with the word filling in them

They have not yet succeeded in filling her place, and I think it more than likely that you can get it. [9]
Some summer insect, with no escape into the air, flew blindly to and fro, beating its body against the walls and ceiling, and filling the silent place with murmurs. [12]
For some days, with a certain sense of isolation and a tinge of envy which she would not acknowledge, she had been watching a group of well-dressed, clean-looking people galloping off on horseback or filling the six-seated buckboards. [9]
And then a wind burst out of the east with a high mournful note, as from a great flute afar, filling the air with leaves and branches of trees. [9]
While the west wind blew its tidings, filling his heart full, teaching him a man's part, the days passed, the purple clouds changed to white, and the storms were over for that summer. [13]
The birds suddenly were on every tree, glancing through the air, filling it with song, sometimes shaking raindrops from their wings. [4]
His only pauses were for the worthy purpose of filling the detective's or the captain's glass, and these he watched with a hospitable solicitude. [9]
While the company were filling and refilling the beakers, which raised their spirits to so wild a pitch, the prisoner Pentaur had been examined in the presence of the Regent. [10]
No doubt, if we had now known her for the first time, we should have admired her exceedingly, and probably have accounted her thrice happy in filling so well her brilliant position. [4]
Then, too, there was that "nerve-strengthening" patriotism which pervaded everything, filling the place of the superficial philanthropy of the Basedow system of education. [10]
The whole air was full of a vague vast scheme which was to eventuate in filling Laura's pockets with millions of money; some had one idea of the scheme, and some another, but nobody had any exact knowledge upon the subject. [5]
Meantime the camp was filling up with people, and there was a constantly growing excitement about our Humboldt mines. [5]
Already the air was dissipated of its choking weight, and the vast solitude was filling with that sense of freedom which night seems to shut in as with four walls, and day to widen gloriously. [11]
The great square was already filling with people who had come to trade. [11]
The town was waking from its siesta, the streets filling, and people stopped to stare at Nick as we passed. [9]
Years ago, people used to saunter over the Atlantic, and spend weeks in filling journals with their monotonous emotions. [4]
And it's filling up, every day--people coming from everywhere. [5]
He has little time for the poetry of haying, as he struggles along, filling the air with the wet mass which he shakes over his head, and picking his way with short legs and bare feet amid the short and freshly cut stubble. [4]
Could I see the wind which had now risen stronger, and drove a few cloud-scuds across the sky, filling the night, somehow, with a longing that was not altogether born of reminiscence? [4]
He could leave the task of filling the jugs to his young assistants. [10]
Then filling in the space between the mound and two contiguous stones, the impost could be dragged up to its position. [6]
The sound of the sakkia was in his ears--the long, creaking, crying song, filling the night. [11]
Auramazda and Angramainjus, the principles of good and evil, were invisible existences filling all creation with their countless train of good and evil spirits. [10]
The sun in the mean time had risen, and the streets were filling with people. [10]
By the time the market was filling it was raining in torrents, and a cold breeze blew over the town from the lake. [10]
The sun of the June morning had just risen, filling it with cheerful light. [10]
We still have the idea that we must eat for ourselves, and that we cannot delegate this performance, as we do the filling of the mind, to some one else. [4]
As soon as the filling of the house is about complete the standing multitude turn and fix their eyes upon the princely layout and gaze mutely and longingly and adoringly and regretfully like sinners looking into heaven. [5]
In 1606, upon the entry of the king of Denmark, the chronicler celebrates "the unimaginable number of gallant ladies, beauteous virgins, and other delicate dames, filling the windows of every house with kind aspect. [4]
And it has the elements of motion, of agitation, of life, because the vast territory is filling up with a rapidity unexampled in history. [4]
Mammy Easter opened the door, and then stood with her arms akimbo, amply filling its place. [9]
The spirit of the desert was on him, filling him with its voiceless music. [11]
When she had taken leave of him and remained alone she suddenly felt her eyes filling with tears, and then not for the first time the strange question presented itself to her: did she love him? [2]
One image reigned supreme in his imagination, filling it with delight--it was that of the fairest woman, who, radiant in her royal dignity and trembling with pride, had thrown herself in the dust for his sake. [10]
Whoever had already succeeded in filling a jar had obtained the water from the overflow which had escaped through the quickly-made dam. [10]
The car for South St. Louis stood at the end of the line, fast filling with curious people who had read in their papers that morning of the equipment of the new troops. [9]
Some of the soldiers were frightened and ran away, others went on filling their bags. [2]
It is not so much that nebular theory which worries me, when I think about this subject, as a kind of bewilderment when I try to conceive of a consciousness filling all those frightful blanks of space they talk about. [6]
His face now showed none of the passion and sternness which had been present when he passed the Sentence of the Patrin upon Jethro Fawe; nothing of the gloom filling his eyes as he left Ingolby's house. [11]
After his decease she was left a well-to-do widow; but instead of taking thought for herself she at once entered on a life of fresh care, for she undertook the duty of filling the place of mother to us three orphans. [10]
Last of all, she saw herself filling the jug for the sick woman and gathering the red pinks for her and Lienhard in the landlady's little garden by the shimmering starlight. [10]
But scarcely had she discovered that her mistress had fainted, when she heard the garden filling with people, a confused sound of men's and eunuchs' voices, and the notes of the trumpet used to summon the sentries. [10]
Could he not see that he was breaking her heart, while filling it also with unbearable joy? [11]
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]
When the market place was filling, however, the sturdy old soldier kindly fulfilled his duties as host by offering to show his guests the sights of the fortified seaport. [10]
When the market place was filling, gray-haired Philippus visited him. [10]
While the market place in Tennis was filling, Archias's white house had become a heap of smouldering ruins. [10]
Some caught up pails and buckets: the more thoughtful ones filling them; the hastier snatching them up empty, trusting to find water nearer the burning building. [6]
Then, filling his own, he spilled a little in the steely dust of the smithy floor. [11]
And the head of them is always likely to be filling up, little by little, so that the marks you reckon their depth by, this season, may not answer for next. [5]
Yet this causes no trouble, for everybody stands up until all the seats are full, and the filling is accomplished in a very few minutes. [5]
The pain in my eyes grew less, and, though they kept filling with moisture from the violence of the light, I soon could see without distress. [11]
And the next morning, while Mr. Seward's henchmen, confident and uproarious, were parading the streets of Chicago with their bands and their bunting, the vast Wigwam was quietly filling up with bony Westerners whose ally was none other than the state of Pennsylvania. [9]
His nature was more and more spiritualized, till in the esoteric philosophy of the time of the Rameses he is compared to the All filling and All guiding intelligence. [10]
But he prevented me, the tears filling the wrinkles around his eyes. [9]
The inhabitants were leaving it and the retreating troops were filling it. [2]
Pretty straw mats lay on the floor, and pots of plants, filling the little room with fragrance, stood on the window-sill and in a corner of the room where a clay statuette of the Good Shepherd looked down on a praying-desk. [10]
A depression, where its bed had once been, in other times, was already filling, and in one or two places the water was beginning to wash over the main bank. [5]
It was no illusion, or delusion: there they were filling the hall as if they meant to stay, and buzzing with excitement. [9]
I'll do all I can...." To Princess Mary it was strange that now, at a moment when such sorrow was filling her soul, there could be rich people and poor, and the rich could refrain from helping the poor. [2]
Can you think how joyfully I packed full the good brown bowl, delicately filling in every little corner, and at last held it to the flame, and saw it light? [11]
Soon they heard his tremendous howl, like distant thunder, slowly filling all the sky; and then they heard him speak and say, 'Who can it be that has dared to steal my wampum? [5]
He drank a health to Miss Swain, and another to Miss Tayloe, and was on the point of filling a third glass to the ladies of Maryland, when he caught himself and brought his hand down on the table. [9]
It was said he had failed to punish offences by the Maroons, and this had given them confidence, filling them with defiance. [11]
The outside world has paused to draw breath at the spectacle, and members of the metropolitan press are filling the rooms of the Ripton House and adding to the prosperity of its livery-stable. [9]
When a friend has done for our education in the way of filling our minds with sweet and solid wisdom "it is a sign to us that his office is closing, and he is commonly withdrawn from our sight in a short time. [6]
His image can hardly be dimmed in your recollection, as he stood before you only three years ago, filling the same place with which I am now honored. [3]
And when I had finished, she said, "And I am filling this with the things you have forgotten. [9]
Would that my grave might lack filling, as long as my little strong-box here; I'd willingly allow it. [10]
This Davie was gifted with a dangerous kind of humour which I have heard called innuendo, and he soon had the bar packed with listeners who laughed and cursed turn about, filling the room to a closeness scarce supportable. [9]
Clarence dropped in from time to time and said the public excitement was growing and growing all the time, and the whole country filling up with human masses as far as one could see from the battlements. [5]
Pushing her way frantically through the people filling the yard she climbed the tower stairs and made her way into one of the spinning rooms. [9]
After filling the flat with cattle we took on board the family of T. S. Hooper, seven in number, who could not longer remain in their dwelling, and we are now taking them up Little River to the hills. [5]
But still with firm politeness he insisted on filling my cup, and said I had traveled all night and better deserved it than he--and while he talked he placidly poured the fluid, to the last drop. [5]
They had been filling up with American people about the same period of time; their progress enabling them to come into the Union about the same time. [7]
All difficulty about filling up the "local department" ceased, and the only trouble now was how to make the lengthened columns hold the world of incidents and happenings that came to our literary net every day. [5]
The necessity of filling this space causes the writer, instead of stating his idea in the shortest compass in which it can be made perspicuous and telling, to beat it out thin, and make it cover as much ground as possible. [4]
Rostov saw tears filling the Emperor's eyes and heard him, as he was riding away, say to Czartoryski: "What a terrible thing war is: what a terrible thing! [2]
Gentlemen," he cried, filling his glass from a bottle on the table, "a toast to General Wilkinson, emancipator and saviour of Kentucky! [9]
As Alpatych was driving out of the gate he saw some ten soldiers in Ferapontov's open shop, talking loudly and filling their bags and knapsacks with flour and sunflower seeds. [2]
And he never dreamed that such a joyful letter could sadden her and fill her night with sighs, and troubled thoughts, and bodings of the future, instead of filling it with peace and blessing it with restful sleep. [5]
Merely filling in dark days, living a sober-coloured game out. [11]
It was his custom to sit for a while on the porch chatting cheerily with Virginia, his stout frame filling the rocking-chair. [9]
The floors were covered with filling, and then rugs and then skins; the easy-chairs all had tidies, Armenian and Turkish and Persian; the lounges and sofas had embroidered cushions hidden under tidies. [8]
With the second course, a gigantic sterlet (at sight of which Ilya Rostov blushed with self-conscious pleasure), the footmen began popping corks and filling the champagne glasses. [2]
But at the corner of the Common she halted, her glance drawn by a dark mass of people filling the end of Hawthorne Street, where it was blocked by the brick-coloured facade of the Clarendon Mill. [9]
The illusion was considerable, for the Seigneur had taken the only arm- chair in the room, a little apart, as it were, filling the place of judge. [11]
But the hidden cisterns of the soul may be filling fast with sweet tears, while the windows through which it looks are undimmed by a drop or a film of moisture. [6]
They were so casual I could not recognize which one it was that touched that bottom, for in an instant that old man was literally in eruption and was filling the whole place with profanity of the most exquisite kind. [5]
The main fight came upon the filling of the blanks with the sum to be appropriated for the purchase of the land, of course. [5]
Then the storm burst with a succession of ropes and streaks and shafts of lightning, playing continuously, filling the valley with a broken radiance; and the cracking shots followed each other swiftly till the echoes blended in one fearful, deafening crash. [13]
After a little backing and filling they got into line, at the proper distance from each other, and sat motionless, their bodies bent forward, their arms outstretched, their oars in the water, waiting for the word. [6]
We found Judah B. Tallant there,--in spite of the fact that it was a busy night for the Era; and Adolf Scherer himself, in expansive mood, was filling the largest of the library chairs. [9]
How the brilliant Avenue, now filling up with afternoon equipages, sparkled in the sunshine! [4]
I woke Clarence and told him the great ditch was filling up with men, and that I believed all the knights were coming for us in a body. [5]
Here he came and stayed, an officer of the Company, building King's House, and filling it with all the fine things he had brought with him, making in this far north a little palace in the wilderness. [11]
I knew that, an hour before, in filling a phial with medicine, I found I was doing it mechanically, and had to begin over again, making an effort to keep my mind to my task. [11]
Newton's hypothesis of an ether filling the heavenly spaces does not, I confess, help my conceptions. [3]
And so in all ages the swarming populations have clung to these shores, filling all the coasts and every nook in these almost inaccessible hills with life. [4]
Near by Lieutenant Abbott was an unhappy gentleman, occupying a small chamber, and filling it with his troubles. [6]

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