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Sentences starting with heads

Heads are not so cheap in our Anglo-Saxon countries; passions not so fierce and uncontrollable. [9]
Heads of sibyls, prophets, and so forth. [6]
Heads he does it, and tails he doesn't. [11]

Sentences ending with heads

If we lead you across the mountains now, his blood will be upon your heads. [9]
They could neither wrestle, shoot, nor climb, so we gave them little thought, and anything like actual flirtation was unknown--we had so many better things in our heads. [10]
He was a worthy, excellent man before the craze for liberty turned people's heads. [10]
He rose and without any word of command from his master, he silently and carefully placed on the high-priest's bare head a long and thick curled wig, [Egyptians belonging to the higher classes wore wigs on their shaven heads. [10]
Then I began with their heads. [11]
Here we are with the convention only two days off, and we don't know where we stand, how many delegates we've got, or whether this upstart at Leith is going to be nominated over our heads. [9]
The two first were convicts with shaven heads. [2]
We are pretty well aware that ours is not an ideal state of society, and should be so, even if the English who pass by did not revile us, wagging their heads. [4]
A solitary bell was clanging on the chapel as I went by, and I saw three nuns steal past me with bowed heads. [11]
It had come up heads. [11]

Short sentences using heads

The king stroked their heads. [10]
Duck your heads, stupids! [11]
Broken heads and scandal followed. [9]
Knock their heads off! [5]
Endor heads the list. [5]
It came down heads. [11]
They shook their heads again. [11]

Sentences containing heads two or more times

Many fruit and flower clusters, human heads and grim projecting lions' heads are still as perfect in every detail as if they were new. [5]

More example sentences with the word heads in them

Here three naked youths, with trays upon their heads, cried aloud at each doorway what, interpreted, was: "Pies! [11]
If the American young man and young woman get it into their heads that repose, especially of manner, is the correct thing, they will go in for it in a way to astonish the world. [4]
I 'll tell you what,--the Master said,--I know something about these young fellows that come home with their heads full of "science," as they call it, and stick up their signs to tell people they know how to cure their headaches and stomach-aches. [6]
If they have wounds, we will make them heal; if their heads are turned, we will screw them the right way round; if their souls are dark, we will light up a flame in them. [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]
Their heads are worth a good deal to the Khedive, he thinks. [11]
There's no such wonderful faces and handsome heads in this town none that even begin. [5]
When they were within thirty yards of me they let their long lances droop to a level, depressed their mailed heads, and so, with their horse-hair plumes streaming straight out behind, most gallant to see, this lightning express came tearing for me! [5]
Only the soldiers with swords at their sides held their heads erect. [10]
It was a wild night for homeless young heads to be out in. [5]
We saw only wig-making establishments, with shocks of dead and repulsive hair bound upon the heads of painted waxen brigands who stared out from glass boxes upon the passer-by with their stony eyes and scared him with the ghostly white of their countenances. [5]
In young persons whose heads have become fixed either sideways or backwards, owing to disease, one of the two eyes has changed its position, and the shape of the skull has been altered apparently by the pressure of the brain in a new direction. [1]
Those lean Egyptians, who pushed past in silence and haranging their heads, were no doubt bent on carrying offerings to Osiris and Anubis--for the festival of the gods of death and resurrection coincided with the Nekysia--and on winning their favors by magical formulas and spells. [10]
The four monks, who had leaned their heads against the cornice of the wide, closed fireplace and, in spite of the flies which buzzed around them, had fallen asleep, awoke. [10]
The younger men, who followed him, whispered among themselves, shaking their heads as though some miracle had been performed; and every eye that looked on him was radiant with enthusiastic veneration. [10]
Those of us who are striving to reorganize our beliefs and make them tenable, do not bother our heads about miracles. [9]
In a little while Van Dorn arrived and confirmed the news; and so we gathered in our cabin and with heads close together arranged our plans in impressive whispers. [5]
I recollect that while I was speaking a drum went by the church, and how I was disgusted to see all the heads near the windows thrust out of them, as if the building were on fire. [6]
Besides the variations which can be grouped with more or less probability under the foregoing heads, there is a large class of variations which may be provisionally called spontaneous, for to our ignorance they appear to arise without any exciting cause. [1]
It was late when we turned in, our heads upon our saddles, for the Cadi had been more than amusing--he had been confidential, and some political characters were roughly overhauled for our benefit, while so-called Society did not escape flagellation. [11]
Herod tells that when a house was on fire the Egyptians never thought of extinguishing the fire until their cats were all saved, and that when a cat died, they shaved their heads in sign of mourning. [10]
If, after all, what is now sought is to have me put Dr. McPheeters back over the heads of a majority of his own congregation, that, too, will be declined. [7]
Do you know what brought tears to the eyes of the guards?--What made the captain and the sailors turn their heads away from us, lest we should see that their faces were wet? [11]
Their charming heads were wreathed with flowers too, and looked very like the lovely rosebuds which one of them, on seeing the young men come up, held out to their notice. [10]
Both curly heads were turned towards the side, and rested on a dimpled hand pressed upon the silken pillow. [10]
Wherein the wanderers were right, and the heads of the same were level. [5]
His noble horses were richly caparisoned; purple housings, embroidered with turquoise beads, covered their backs and necks, and a crown-shaped ornament was fixed on their heads, from which fluttered a bunch of white ostrich-feathers. [10]
The two that were left shook their heads and wondered. [11]
When the armies were encamped near each other at Raza and Argish, Rodoll cut off the heads of parties he captured going to the Turkish camp, and threw them into the enemy's trenches. [4]
Once get it well into your heads, and you will find it renders the landscape wonderfully interesting. [6]
Nine-tenths of them wear nothing on their heads but a filmy sort of veil, which falls down their backs like a white mist. [5]
So,' he says, 'we tie our faces up with kerchiefs and turn our heads away as we drag them off: we can hardly do it. [2]
And presently, when we drew a little closer, he gave one big shout and whipped off the hat from his head; and off, too, came the caps from the white heads of Scipio and Chess and Johnson behind him. [9]
In the eddying water, however, about the reversing screw, were two heads, and farther off was a man struggling. [11]
All this process was watched by the three spectators with absorbing interest, their heads bent together over Luigi's palm, and nobody disturbing the stillness with a word. [5]
Here the flat was towed alongside the gin-house where there were fifteen head standing in water; and yet, as they stood on scaffolds, their heads were above the top of the entrance. [5]
When their cage was shaken, they would lift their heads and spring their rattles; but the sound was by no means so formidable to listen to as when it reverberated among the chasms of the echoing rocks. [6]
Many said it was not in Father Peter's character and must be a mistake; but the others shook their heads and said misery and want could drive a suffering man to almost anything. [5]
Then, when she was freed again--she saw it all quite clearly--two heads had been cut off in the courtyard of the Hall of justice: Orion's and Paula's--and she was left alone, quite alone and forlorn. [10]
The daring act was committed just at dawn, by six masked men, who sprang up alongside the coaches, presented revolvers at the heads of the drivers and passengers, and commanded a general dismount. [5]
Before the door was a sleigh of a pattern new to him, with a seat high above the backs of two long-bodied, deep-chested horses, their heads held with difficulty by a little footman with his arms above him. [9]
But now Laura was a convert to the prophet of the Healing Springs, and those people who still retain their heads in the eddy of religious emotion were in despair. [11]
He heard the voice of Faith whisper over the heads of the people. [11]
It was Mahmoud's voice now that quavered over the heads of the camels and drove them on; it was his eye which watched the horizon. [11]
His eye ran us over sharply, and his head nodded, as we marched past him; and once I heard him say, 'If they had had but ten years each on their heads, my Prince! [11]
The fire flashes up; all the row of heads is lifted up simultaneously to watch it; showers of sparks sail aloft into the blue night; the vast vault of greenery is a fairy spectacle. [4]
Every extraordinary occurrence unsettles the heads of hundreds of thousands of men for a few moments or hours or days. [5]
Tom grew frantic under these taunts, and shouted: "Knock their heads off, Chambers! [5]
The groans of two young singers who were seriously ill were drowned by the din and heeded by no one except the old drummer's pitying wife, who sometimes wiped the perspiration from the sufferers' brows or supported their heads. [10]
If I had two heads, I would have spoken; but as I had only one, it seemed judicious to take care of it; so I kept still. [5]
A pair of turtle doves over their heads were less indifferent to the sun's rays than they, for the birds had closed their eyes, and the head of the mother bird was resting languidly against the dark collar round her mate's neck. [10]
The soldiers without turning their heads glanced at one another, curious to see their comrades' impression. [2]
If the twins turned their heads, they broke and fled in every direction, but stopped at a safe distance and faced about; and then formed and came on again as soon as the strangers showed them their back. [5]
He carried my trespass to his betters; I was stubborn; wherefore, presently upon my head and upon all heads that were dear to me, fell the curse of Rome. [5]
Then, from the trees over our heads, came a chittering and a chattering such as I had never heard. [9]
But the helpless town-bred damsel declined this friendly invitation; for her shrewd little head had devised another plan for saving her brother, though the tavern-keepers, to whom she confided it in a whisper, laughed and shook their heads over it. [10]
Several soldiers ran toward the cart from different sides: some beat the carriage horses on their heads, turning them aside, others fought among themselves, and Pierre saw that one German was badly wounded on the head by a sword. [2]
I. and H. took it into their heads to come here. [14]
They're drunk enough to-night to want to do anything, and to-morrow when they've got sore heads they'll do anything. [11]
We saw ancient tombs and temples of fanciful architecture carved out of the solid rock high up in the face of precipices above our heads, but we had neither time nor strength to climb up there and examine them. [5]
Pressing their heads together, they gazed out of the open linen tilt which arched above the first cart or crowded to the little windows of the coaches to see Ratisbon. [10]
Lay your heads together when you're by yourselves. [12]
It is easy to write laws, but difficult to rule.... Just the same as now--I ask you, Count--who will be heads of the departments when everybody has to pass examinations? [2]
They all seemed to tell; the swords always bent over the opponents' heads, from the forehead back over the crown, and seemed to touch, all the way; but it was not so--a protecting blade, invisible to me, was always interposed between. [5]
I showed it to several friends, but they all shook their heads. [5]
We all have to practise patience; we live like people dwelling in a ruinous house with to-day a stone and to-morrow a beam threatening to fall upon our heads. [10]
The artist proposed to make a sketch of one of these primitive couples, but it was impossible to do so, because they lay in a trench which they had scooped in the sand two feet deep, and had hoisted an umbrella over their heads. [4]
When she returned to Ghent, even if Don John had not been appointed governor, she might even have ventured to make her house the rendezvous of the heads of the royalist party. [10]
Many were beginning to drop their heads and shut their eyes, in anticipation of the usual petition before a meal; some expected the music to strike up,--others, that an oration would now be delivered by the Colonel. [6]
Indeed, he tried to control himself, for some reason standing in awe of my appearance, and then he burst out into such loud haw-haws that the crew poked their heads above the cabin hatch. [9]
Little things suffice to amuse the lower classes, who do not have to bother their heads with elections and mass meetings. [4]
He delivered the thunders of his royalty upon the heads of all who hampered his liberties or tried to force him to service. [5]
Meanwhile Melissa had thrown off the indifference into which she had fallen, and her old doubts raised their warning heads with renewed force. [10]
He contrived to throw down a woman standing beside him before the mini-balls swished over their heads, and the leaves and branches began to fall. [9]
Did they get through the tutto tremante passage, reading from the same old large edition of Dante which the Tutor recommended as the best, and in reading from which their heads were necessarily brought perilously near to each other? [6]
One or two thought they discerned something like a track; the others shook their heads and confessed that the smooth hard surface had no marks upon it which their eyes were sharp enough to discover. [5]
I write all this to you, dear friend, only to convince you of the Gospel truth which has become for me a principle of life: not a single hair of our heads will fall without His will. [2]
So long as this old brain is able to think, and this mouth to speak, not a hair of your heads shall be hurt. [10]
The members of this lowly organised order are wingless, dull-coloured, minute insects, with ugly, almost misshapen heads and bodies. [1]
Finding it liquid, they would snatch away their heads and fall to trembling, snorting and showing other evidences of fright. [5]
He wondered if they would believe the marvellous tale he should tell when he got home, or if they would shake their heads, and say his overtaxed imagination had at last upset his reason. [5]
From this point they watched the burial, still well above the heads of the vast crowd, through which the sweetmeat and sherbet sellers ran, calling their wares and jangling their brass cups. [11]
This ceremony over, they walked towards Mont Violet, averting their heads as they passed the Manor Cartier, in a kind of tribute to its departed master--as a Stuart Legitimist might pass the big palace at the end of the Mall in London. [11]
Well, sir, next they took it into their heads that they would like some music; so they made me stand up and sing "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" till I dropped-at thirteen minutes past four this morning. [5]
And at last they took a change and begun to lay their heads together in the wigwam and talk low and confidential two or three hours at a time. [5]
Hands on hips, they swung along erect, with baskets of cakes and sweetmeats on their heads, musically crying their wares. [9]
No, they hadn't, they said: and they shook their heads and said there was something powerful strange about it. [5]
The more ignorant they are, the more pitifully certain they are to pretend you haven't shot over their heads. [5]
The eldest of these were sent to bring in the great canopy under which the heads of the establishment might assemble. [10]
For a space there was a very bedlam of cries and broken heads, those behind in the mob surging forward to reach the scrimmage, forcing their own comrades over the edge. [9]
Your heads for theirs, you guards, if they escape. [10]
Both gentlemen drew their swords and advanced to the middle of the lawn, and stood opposite one another, with flowing linen shirts open at the throat, and bared heads. [9]
Garlands, stripped of their leaves and flowers, still crowned their heads and hung over their shoulders. [10]
When they took their leave they threatened to come back and burn the house over the heads of the family if any report of their doings got to the ears of the authorities. [5]
They had saved their heads, but they had not learned their lesson yet; and Achmet, blinded by rage, not at all. [11]
The others nodded their heads, and, as they went out, McGilveray said after them: "I'll dance a jig on yer sepulchrees, ye swobs! [11]
They babbled, shook their heads, and waved their hands excitedly, and swayed and craned their necks to see the offender. [11]
The multitude cover their heads, and the rest of the procession moves by; first the Hungarian Guard in their indescribably brilliant and picturesque and beautiful uniform, inherited from the ages of barbaric splendor, and after them other mounted forces, a long and showy array. [5]
She looked over their heads with the air of a queen. [10]
The men lost their heads with terror. [5]

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