Use frame in a sentence
Sentences ending with frame
- On the doorstep, whittling, sat a bearded, unkempt farmer with a huge frame. [9]
- From these he was saved by his not untimely release from the imprisonment of the worn-out bodily frame. [6]
- Then he would turn away to the portrait of his dead Lise, who with hair curled a la grecque looked tenderly and gaily at him out of the gilt frame. [2]
- Philip noticed, as they fronted each other for an instant and the stranger raised his hat, that his hands and feet were smaller than usually accompany such a large frame. [4]
- In showing us the portrait of one of his own far-back progenitors, Lord Ronald placed a photograph of himself in the corner of the frame. [6]
- Then you overlooked the fine engraved gem which was set in that modest gold frame? [10]
- She pointed to the bed, where a sheet lay limply over the angles of a wasted frame. [9]
- I was aware that both of our guests were unusually silent; and I saw a little shiver run from time to time over Miss Bronte's frame. [14]
- The closely fitting steel chain armour, in which he had ridden out, now hung in large folds upon his powerful frame. [10]
- He had a sense of dark and malicious humour, a long horse-like face, with little beady eyes and a huge frame. [11]
Sentences containing frame two or more times
- I will ask the President to recommend the thing in his message (and if he should ask me to sit down and frame the paragraph for him I should blush --but still I would frame it. [5]
More example sentences with the word frame in them
- What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in, year out? [5]
- What proportion of your earnings or income would you be willing to pay for that frame of mind, year in year out? [5]
- I swear to you that, as a man and an artist, I never felt better, and so I ought properly to be in my usual frame of mind. [10]
- Now, if they would make the effort in good temper, could they not with nearly equal unanimity frame and pass a law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath? [7]
- Such a statement would be open to the charge of exaggeration, and his frame of mind was pessimistic. [9]
- How beautiful the world is to an invalid, whose senses are all clarified, who has been so near the world of spirits that she is sensitive to the finest influences, and whose frame responds with a thrill to the subtlest ministrations of soothing nature. [5]
- The frame corresponded with the head. [4]
- Louisville grew amazingly; white frame houses were built, and even brick ones. [9]
- The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around. [2]
- Some of us were in an unhappy frame of mind. [5]
- Two frame houses were built that year, and several persons were added to the population. [5]
- Her whole frame was wrapped in pleasant languor. [10]
- His large head was very grey; and his whiskers, which he wore only around his face, like a frame, were grey also. [5]
- His whole frame was racked and wrenched with fettered hurrahs. [5]
- But the doctor was not in a happy frame of mind, and seemed willing to forget the present in the past: things went wrong, somehow, and the time was out of joint with him. [6]
- Her motherly solicitude was aroused, and she tried to get him interested in the talk and win him to a happier frame of mind, but the cloud of sadness remained on his countenance. [5]
- In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one- and two- story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning glories. [5]
- The committee, in view of these objections, has been solicitous to frame a bill which would not be obnoxious to them in principle or in practical effect. [7]
- He had retired very late to rest, and the chamberlain therefore put off waking him, especially as he had been troubled by evil dreams, in spite of his happy frame of mind when he sought his couch. [10]
- We seem lifted up into a purer atmosphere; we feel a serenity of soul, a buoyancy of spirits, an elasticity of frame, which render mere existence happiness. [4]
- And in this unhopeful frame of mind he dropped off in sleep. [4]
- This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. [7]
- A specimen or two may dispose the reader to turn over the pages which follow in a good-natured frame of mind. [6]
- Large tears now trickled down from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened, his colossal frame shivered convulsively, and falling on his side he expired. [5]
- Appeal was made to him; he gave assent, and came forth arrayed for battle; but no sooner did the Frenchman glimpse his huge frame and hear his famous name but he fled away, and the French king's cause was lost. [5]
- Joshua's frame, inured to fatigues of every kind, resisted the tortures of this hurried march; but his weaker companion, who had grown grey in a scribe's duties, often gave way and at last lay prostrate beside him. [10]
- In my free time and at night I could work at my frame, and when I have scraped enough together I shall soon find a ship that will carry me to Gaul, to my own people. [10]
- A shudder ran through her frame, and a deep pity for the sweet creature whose coloured likeness she held in her hand seized upon her. [10]
- What an exquisite thrill ran through my frame when the timid nose appeared, was withdrawn, poked out again, and finally followed by the entire animal, who looked cautiously about, and then hopped away to feed on the clover. [4]
- In giving up this gold frame Orion also gave himself up; with this talisman in her possession she stood before him as irresistible Fate. [10]
- His frame was thick-set, his body was heavily nourished, his eye was shifty but intelligent; and a close observer would have seen something elusive, something furtive and sinister, in his face. [11]
- I did read them, in a frame of mind I cannot describe. [14]
- The habitations on the way are mostly board shanties and mean frame cabins, but the railway is introducing ambitious architecture here and there in the form of ornamental filigree work on flimsy houses; ornamentation is apt to precede comfort in our civilization. [4]
- He ran up the steps before March, and opened the carpenter's temporary valve in the door frame, and led the way into a darkness smelling sweetly of unpainted wood-work and newly dried plaster; their feat slipped on shavings and grated on sand. [8]
- To go into the shop of a European modiste is almost to put one's self into a truthful and candid frame of mind. [4]
- At one and the same moment came the sound of an explosion, a whistle of splinters as from a breaking window frame, a suffocating smell of powder, and Prince Andrew started to one side, raising his arm, and fell on his chest. [2]
- You are in the right frame, now. [5]
- A spring gave, the picture came slowly away from the frame, and disclosed a small cupboard behind. [11]
- In and by the original instrument, a mode was provided for amending it; and, as I have already stated, the present frame of "the Government under which we live" consists of that original, and twelve amendatory articles framed and adopted since. [7]
- When Tom reached the little isolated frame schoolhouse, he strode in briskly, with the manner of one who had come with all honest speed. [5]
- She now blew the dust from the frame and canvas, and perceived the signature of the artist to whom the picture owed its origin. [10]
- The gateway, in the dark-colored barrier, makes a strong frame for the great picture. [5]
- As I turned the corner, around a frame house, there was a great rattle and jar, and it occurred to me that here was an item!--no doubt a fight in that house. [5]
- He struggled against the confession of his weakness but dimly felt that he could not overcome it and that his former gloomy frame of mind, concerning vengeance, killing, and self-sacrifice, had been dispersed like dust by contact with the first man he met. [2]
- The frame of the building was a good deal jarred by the shock, but no danger was apprehended from the injury it had received. [6]
- So it is that woman continues to reign, where she has once got a foothold, long after her dear frame has become dust. [4]
- The figure was that of a man without a skin; with every vein, artery, muscle, every fiber and tendon and tissue of the human frame represented in minute detail. [5]
- Add to this that Kunz was a well-favored, slender youth; but as compared with Herdegen's splendid looks and stalwart frame he looked no more than common. [10]
- Then refilling the tankard, he poured a libation, and was about to empty it to Melissa's health, but Praxilla's lean frame was standing by his side as quickly as though a serpent had stung her. [10]
- And as we talked he reached out and took my hand, for I sat near him, and said: "Richard, I have heard tidings of you that gladden my heart, and they have done more than Dr. Leiden's physic for this old frame of mine. [9]
- The American might take the candid advice given by one friend to another, who complained that it was so difficult to get into the right frame of mind. [4]
- Walking down the street of shops, in the fore-noon, I was attracted by a large picture, carved, frame and all, from a single block of chocolate-colored wood. [5]
- Other favoured beings stood aghast when they heard of it, and hastened to old Tom with timely counsel; but he had reached a frame of mind which they knew well. [9]
- We found the state palace of the Governor of Nevada Territory to consist of a white frame one-story house with two small rooms in it and a stanchion supported shed in front--for grandeur--it compelled the respect of the citizen and inspired the Indians with awe. [5]
- He sings beautiful songs of his own invention to the lyre; his ecstatic and versatile mind works him up into any frame of feeling; but his soul is perverted; it is soaked in wickedness as a sponge drinks up water. [10]
- It would take some time to make the confusion into order, and she was now hot, now cold, in all her frame, when at last she climbed into her wagon. [11]
- They must expect some rough treatment when we lift the sash from the frame and let the outside elements in upon them. [6]
- The Greek's noble, soldierly figure looked strikingly fine by the slovenly, lank frame of the tall Egyptian. [10]
- And the long sobs by which his frame was shaken awed our very souls. [9]
- As he did so, Mary Callen, who had been listening inside the room with shaking frame and bursting heart, dropped on her knees beside the table, her head in her arms. [11]
- The bedstead was small, the frame was of hickory, with no footboard, ropes making the support for the husk tick. [11]
- The glass and silver was all of a special pattern, and an obsequious waiter handed Honora a menu in a silver frame, with a handle. [9]
- This secluded and silent solitude this clean, soft air and this enchanting view of Florence, the great valley and the snow-mountains that frame it are the right conditions for work. [5]
- Though Wyndham's heart sickened within him, his lips did not frame a word of reproach; but a blush of shame came into his face, and crept up to his eyes, dimming them. [11]
- A slight shudder shook the frame of Angelo, but he said nothing and the conversation ceased. [5]
- Presently the man shook his head sorrowfully, and covered up the small disfigured frame again, but this time with a tanned skin of the caribou. [11]
- But it ain't shabby--no shanty-farm business; nice brick and frame houses, some of 'em Queen Anne style, and all of 'em looking as if they had come to stay. [8]
- His big frame seemed out of place in the small cell, and the watcher sitting near him, to whom he had not addressed a word nor replied to a question since the watching began, seemed an insignificant factor in the scene. [11]
- The earth itself seemed far away, and he was toiling among vastnesses, himself a giant with colossal frame and huge, sprawling limbs. [11]
- The dome, the round and the Gothic arch, the groined roof, the flying buttress, are all familiar to those who have studied the bony frame of man. [6]
- All along the road we saw nothing but mean shanties, generally of logs, with now and then a decent one-story frame, and the people looked miserably poor. [4]
- To illustrate: Suppose refugees from the South and peace men of the North get together in convention, and frame and proclaim a compromise embracing a restoration of the Union. [7]
- His colossal frame really did seem immovable, and I deemed mine, though much slighter, capable of nearly equal endurance. [10]
- But a shudder ran through Ulrich's frame when he heard it, and this woman, whose questioning glance had always disturbed him, now inspired him with a mysterious dread, which he could not control. [10]
- A light shiver ran through his frame with the speed of lightning, and the Epicurean's maxim that fear and cold are companions darted through his brain. [10]
- Here was the ragpicker's shop, the fence covered with bedraggled posters, the deserted grand-stand of the base-ball park spread with a milky-blue mantle of snow; and beyond, the monotonous frame cottages all built from one model. [9]
- No whooping-cough did rack his frame, Nor measles drear with spots; Not these impaired the sacred name Of Stephen Dowling Bots. [5]
- Oh, I got quite familiar with the human frame. [5]
- How was it possible to frame a message that should be commercial on its face, and yet convey the deepest agony and devotion of the sender's heart? [4]
- He is a poor working man of this village--a thoughtful, reading, feeling being, whose mind is too keen for his frame, and wears it out. [14]
- These authors write pictures and frame rhapsodies, and lesser men follow and see with the author's eyes instead of their own, and speak with his tongue. [5]
- This is a picture in a little gold frame. [11]
- The slight lad Philip had grown bronzed, and stouter of frame. [11]
- And besides, to-morrow perhaps he will be in a better frame of mind, and next day--" Melissa became urgent. [10]
- A shiver of pain, of remorse, went through her frame now, as he held her at arm's length and looked at her.... Had she started right? [11]
- For now the over-tense nerves are all unstraining themselves, and a buzz, like that which comes over one who stops after being long jolted upon an uneasy pavement, makes the whole frame alive with a luxurious languid sense of all its inmost fibres. [6]
- A neighbor of ours hid six cans of rifle powder in the bake-oven of an old discarded cooking stove which stood on the open ground near a frame out-house or shed, and from and after that day never thought of it again. [5]
- It had stood open during the day, but the frost fastened it firmly to the frame. [10]
- At the head of them was a man of huge frame, and long, light hair falling down over the collar of his hunting shirt. [9]
- But the circumstances of the present case--I being a democrat by birth and preference, and an aristocrat by inheritance and relish--" The earl stopped suddenly, his frame stiffened, and he began to stare speechless through the curtainless window. [5]
- By the frame of the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but little power for mischief; and have, with equal wisdom, provided for the return of that little to their own hands at very short intervals. [7]
- In this frame of mind, it was some consolation to him to find that Richard Swiveller was, for different reasons, evidently irritated and disappointed by the same cause. [12]
- In this frame of mind I followed, as fast as I could, the eager footsteps of the pilgrims, and stood upon the shore of the lake, and swelled, with hat and voice, the frantic hail they sent after the "ship" that was speeding by. [5]
- Under our frame of government and my official oath, I could not depart from this purpose if I would. [7]
- After the study of form and composition follows close that of action, and this leads us along back to the first moment of the germ, and forward to the resolution of the living frame into its lifeless elements. [3]
- The cruel blows of fate which had fallen on Herdegen had not been all in vain, and the growing weakness of his frame warned him not to spend his strength and eagerness on new and ever new things. [10]
- He had not observed her presence; but she pitied him deeply, for though it was very hot he was trembling in every limb, and his strong frame shuddered repeatedly. [10]
- He stood there now, resting his great frame against the wall and gazing toward the reciter like one entranced. [5]
- And--no, Gorgias was not mistaken-the slender frame of the lovely woman, whose exuberant vivacity had so often borne him and others away with it, trembled as if shaken by deep and painful emotion. [10]
- He was in no frame of mind to argue with; the conversation was distinctly unpleasant. [9]
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