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Sentences ending with landing
- The candy-striped pole, which indicates nobility proud and ancient along the palace-bordered canals of Venice, indicated merely the humble barbershop along the main street of Dawson's Landing. [5]
- The weather and water were blustering all that day, and Phips did not move, save for a small attempt--repulsed--by a handful of men to examine the landing. [11]
- But the mystery was explained when we got under way again; for these people were evidently bound for a large town which lay shut in behind a tow-head (i.e., new island) a couple of miles below this landing. [5]
- But for an unfortunate remark of his, he would no doubt have entered at once upon a successful career at Dawson's Landing. [5]
- The captain shouted to the steersman on the forward log: "How's she landing? [5]
- One by one their names were sent up and solemnly mouthed by the footman on the landing. [9]
- He went along the whole length of this passage to the stairs and, frowning and rubbing his forehead with both hands, went down as far as the first landing. [2]
- Early, too early, the sun fell down behind the serrated forest-edge of the western hill, a ball of orange fire.... One evening Delphin and Herve, followed by two other canoes, paddled up to the landing. [9]
- I ran into the front hall and up the stairs, and my mother heard me coming and met me on the landing. [9]
- He got aboard the boat, her decks already blue with troops, and as she backed out with her whistle screaming, the last objects he saw were the gaunt old man and the broad-shouldered young man side by side on the edge of the landing. [9]
More example sentences with the word landing in them
- Several times a year she made this journey, landing at the Eperquerie Rocks as she had done one day long ago, and selling her beautiful wool caps and jackets to the farmers and fisher-folk, getting in kind for what she gave. [11]
- So the wave which was to have wafted them on to the shore of Elysium has just failed of landing them, and back they have been drawn into the desolate ocean to meet no more on earth. [6]
- From the landing where Pierre stood there was a second staircase leading to the back entrance. [2]
- But as he went downstairs he halted on the, landing, his hand going to his forehead, a reflex movement significant of a final attempt to achieve the hitherto unattainable feat of imagining her as his wife. [9]
- Past Chimney Rock we fly--noble shaft of six hundred feet; then just before landing at Minnieska our attention is attracted by a most striking promontory rising over five hundred feet-- the ideal mountain pyramid. [5]
- She led the way without comment up the darkened stairs, and on the landing produced another key, opened the door of her rooms, fumbled for the electric button, and suddenly the place was flooded with light. [9]
- He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image. [5]
- She led the way along the landing, and paused at her door. [11]
- If Judge Driscoll was the recognized first citizen of Dawson's Landing, Pembroke Howard was easily its recognized second citizen. [5]
- After the boat was fast to the landing stage he remained watching the captain, who was speaking a few parting words to some passengers of fashion. [9]
- He understands the wants of Stone's Landing, and the claims of the inhabitants--who are to be there. [5]
- Four apartments opened upon each landing, in which was the common hydrant and sink. [4]
- The old gentleman understood Stone's Landing a good deal better than he would have done after an hour's talk with either of it's expectant proprietors. [5]
- At last they turned the prow to the landing, Forbes rowing, and Marion dragging her hand in the water, and looking as if she had never cast a line. [4]
- From what was told me by Mr. C. P. Ferguson, a planter near Red River Landing, whose place has just gone under, there is much suffering in the rear of that place. [5]
- Jeff gave prosperity to Stone's Landing and navigation to Goose Run, and the toast was washed down with gusto, in the simple fluid of corn; and with the return compliment that a rail road was a good thing, and that Jeff Thompson was no slouch. [5]
- King was ready to pull the boat on to the float, and Irene stood by the landing expectant. [4]
- Leostaf without him, to proceed up the river stealthily with the rest of the fleet to Cap Rouge, from whence the last great effort of the heroic Wolfe to effect a landing was to be made. [11]
- He applies it to everything, from the landing of the ark to the introduction of the horse-car. [5]
- We hurried back to a point overlooking our landing place, and then--but mere words cannot describe our dismay--the boat was gone! [5]
- This time the Thursday boat had not arrived at ten at night--so the people had waited at the landing all day for nothing; they were driven to their homes by a heavy storm without having had a view of the illustrious foreigners. [5]
- Seventeen bridges in three miles and a half--forty-nine bridges from Hark-from-the-Tomb to Stone's Landing altogether--forty nine bridges, and culverts enough to culvert creation itself! [5]
- Peace fell upon the travelers like a garment, and although they had as much difficulty in landing their baggage as the early Pilgrims had in getting theirs ashore, the circumstance was not able to disquiet them much. [4]
- Setchem had seen the struggle from her litter at the top of the landing steps, but without understanding its origin, and without recognizing the chief actors. [10]
- Just at dusk the steamer landed midway in the lake at Green Island, where the scenery is the boldest and most romantic; from the landing a park-like lawn, planted with big trees, slopes up to a picturesque hotel. [4]
- The landing was the signal for a great display on the part of the people and the militia--yes, the militia shared in the applause, your honour! [11]
- The mortality of the season that followed the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth has been sufficiently accounted for. [3]
- The door of the room was open, and in view outside on the landing sat Madame Bulteel reading. [11]
- When he died the last time, he distinctly remembered the landing of the Pilgrims, which took place in 1620. [5]
- She paused on the landing, her sense of relief overborne by a greater sense of defeat. [9]
- The spot where the landing was made was the only one in that stretch where footing could have been found on the shore; everywhere else precipices came sheer down into forty fathoms of water. [5]
- Sellers was at the landing to bid thorn good-bye. [5]
- The mirrors on the landing reflected ladies in white, pale-blue, and pink dresses, with diamonds and pearls on their bare necks and arms. [2]
- The shore below the landing is a line of broken, ragged, slimy rocks, as if they had been dumped there for a riprap wall. [4]
- Then there came the landing below, and the cutting loose from a base --unheard of. [9]
- He rested on the landing and faced round toward me. [6]
- Our landing on the island of St. Aignan was not disputed. [5]
- Underneath him, on the first landing of the high pulpit, the deacons sat with knitted brows, and the key-note from Isaiah Prescott's pitch pipe sounded like mournful echo of the mournful wind without. [9]
- Nearer and nearer the boat of prisoners approached the stone steps of the landing, and we were several hundred yards behind. [11]
- Yet everybody knows that the worst dangers begin after we have got near enough to see the shore, for there are several ways of landing, not all of which are equally desirable. [6]
- On landing at Teos, I heard that you were king no longer, that the mighty Cyrus, the father of yonder beautiful youth, had conquered the powerful province of Lydia in a few weeks, and reduced the richest of kings to beggary. [10]
- I heard people talking at the ferry landing. [5]
- So we have struck an inconsistency here --one says it was the landing, the other says it was the Pilgrims. [5]
- They had the street to themselves, and the promenade was one of discovery, and had much the interest of a landing in a foreign city. [4]
- Halfway up, the stairway divided at a landing, lighted by great triple windows of small panes. [9]
- When from this spot the dancer fixed her eyes upon the landing place, she suddenly dropped her companion's arm, exclaiming: "It is the handsome blind sculptor, Hermon, the heir of the wealthy Myrtilus. [10]
- The news went speedily round that Captain Delancy's flag was flying at the anchorage off the landing. [4]
- The Epicurus would soon reach the mouth of the harbour, and after landing he must again leave Archibius. [10]
- I have read somewhere of the great leap that one Don Alvarado, a Spaniard, made in Mexico, but surely never was a greater leap than you two made that night, landing safely on the other side, and making for the sea-shore. [11]
- They lived each side of the line, and the church was at a landing called Compromise. [5]
- On the landing she stops to brush her eyes with her handkerchief. [9]
- By the time she reached Dawson's Landing, she was her old self again; her blues were gone, she was in high feather. [5]
- They brushed past Scipio at the door, and were pushing up the long flight when they were stopped on the landing by Dr. Leiden. [9]
- The passengers and scene, Stanhope was thinking, were typically New England, until the boat made a landing at Naushon Island, when he was reminded somehow of Scotland, as much perhaps by the wild furzy appearance of the island as by the "gentle-folks" who went ashore. [4]
- At length we saw the white wooden steps in the levee at the landing, and near them were three figures waiting. [9]
- It was not safe to leave the landing then, and there was a delay. [5]
- I made a safe landing, and clumb up the bank. [5]
- She was still ruminating upon his curious behaviour, when the floor of the crazy stairs and landing cracked beneath the tread of the other travellers who were passing to their beds. [12]
- Then, as we rounded the bend, we were suddenly astonished to see people gathered on the landing at the foot of the lawn, where they had run, no doubt, in a flurry at sight of the ship below. [9]
- They were not rewarded by anything new except at the landing, where, behind the bath-houses, the bathing suits were hung out to dry, and presented a comical spectacle, the humor of which seemed to be lost upon all except themselves. [4]
- The governor can't refuse their landing now. [11]
- When, however, they reached Stone's Landing the Senator looked about him and inquired, "Is this Napoleon? [5]
- Eager for new pleasure, he drew a long breath as he went out into the open air, pressed his hands upon his broad chest, and with his eyes fixed upon the commandant of Pelusium's galley, bedecked with flags, walked swiftly toward the landing place. [10]
- Presently the tug Pinafore glides up to the landing, the engineer flings open the furnace door, and the glowing fire illumines the interior, brings out forms and faces, and deepens the heavy shadows outside. [4]
- I agreed to pay the damages if he were late in returning for these gentlemen, and soon he was shooting me with pulsing strokes across the lake-like expanse towards the landing at Fort Finney. [9]
- A malicious Quincy paper used always to refer to this town, in derision as 'Stavely's Landing. [5]
- He was pondering over the words in which to address the Queen, and within a few minutes the ship would have made her landing, and Cleopatra might cross the bridge. [10]
- To add to our ill fortune, a violent current set in from the shore, and it was vain to attempt a landing. [11]
- So we finished our conversation on the landing. [6]
- But we held on to the canoe, and although we were washed down nearly to the Carson, we managed to push the boat ashore and make a safe landing. [5]
- He will re-appear on the scene, the advisor of General Wolfe, as to the best landing place round Quebec. [11]
- A double line of torch-bearers had been stationed from the landing to the gate leading into the Bruchium, and the other on the north, which was the entrance to the palaces on the Lochias, since it was not known where Cleopatra would desire to go. [10]
- At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers. [5]
- On landing at Nukalofa, the capital of Tonga, some years ago, I naturally directed my steps towards the residence of the British consul. [11]
- Smith, however, was not intimidated from landing and attempting to quell their mutiny. [4]
- But even the musician would probably have smiled in hope that day when the young "Spanische" came driving up the river-road from the steamboat- landing miles away. [11]
- The hotel, a much overgrown and altered farm-house, stood, surrounded by great trees, in an ancient clearing that sloped gently to the water's edge, where an old-fashioned, octagonal summerhouse overlooked a landing for rowboats. [9]
- But she heard Mrs. Pomfret's voice on the landing above and fled, as to a refuge, into the dark drawing-room, where she stood for a moment motionless, listening for the sound of his sleigh-bells as they fainted on the winter's night. [9]
- It was still more than half tide when they approached the rocks, and with a fair wind there should be ease in landing. [11]
- In that same month of February, Dawson's Landing gained a new citizen. [5]
- Sellers found the mob quiet enough when he reached the Landing. [5]
- I made two mile and a half, and then struck out a quarter of a mile or more towards the middle of the river, because pretty soon I would be passing the ferry landing, and people might see me and hail me. [5]
- A prima donna might have guessed her feelings as she paused, a little breathless on the wide landing under the windows. [9]
- When the great Memphis packet bore down upon him, he had, been seen from her guards, and rescued and made much of; and set ashore at the next landing, for fear her captain would get into trouble. [9]
- Stone's Landing was making quite a stir in the vicinity, by this time. [5]
- Michael McGrath, was making from the platform an eloquent plea for order and peace, promising a Committee of Arbitration and thinking about soldiers, the leader and the philosophy were landing in Hampton. [9]
- The landing was made at Jamestown on the 14th of May, according to Percy. [4]
- He delayed too long: the tide turned; there could be no landing that night. [11]
- Below Red River Landing, Raccourci cut-off was made (forty or fifty years ago, I think). [5]
- At the first landing she had glanced back, and in doing so pushed the kerchief aside. [10]
- On the second landing she again stood still and, leaning against a pillar, raised her arms and extended them towards the moon, in whose silvery light they gleamed like marble. [10]
- He hit the landing on the other side neatly, for this was a familiar bit of work to him. [5]
- At their first landing at Cape Cod, gaunt and hungry and longing for fresh food, they found upon the sandy shore "great mussel's, and very fat and full of sea-pearl. [3]
- That same Saturday--no, it was the night before--there was a steamboat laying at Flagler's Landing, forty miles above here, and it was raining and storming like the nation. [5]
- This landing, however, is called Point du Chene, and the village of Shediac is two or three miles distant from it; we had a pleasant glimpse of it from the car windows, and saw nothing in its situation to hinder its growth. [4]
- After a few ineffectual attempts he succeeded in landing. [10]
- He had business in the town, and about eight of the clock we crossed the wide river in one of the barges of the fort and made fast at the landing in the Bear Grass. [9]
- Mr. Eliphalet Hopper, in Sunday broadcloth, was seated on the landing, his head lowered to the level of the top of the high door of the parlor. [9]
- The political campaign in Dawson's Landing opened in a pretty warm fashion, and waned hotter every week. [5]
- There was an impression in the house that that dinner was the most important event since the landing from the Mayflower. [4]
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