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Sentences starting with leaning

Leaning against the wall on the right hand side of the room, dressed in his long, snow-white priest's robe, Pentaur stood awaiting the princess. [10]
Leaning forward from under the hood as the horses started, she took her last look at the lilacs. [9]
Leaning over in the saddle, he whispered: "I'll be back in a quarter of an hour Will you wait? [9]
Leaning far over the edge of the boat he seized the floating garment of the drowning creature--it was a woman, no Daimon nor shade--and drew her towards him. [10]
Leaning back on the cushioned seat, as the train started again, he reviewed the years at Bremerton, his first and only parish. [9]
Leaning on the sustaining Infinite with loving trust, the trials of to-day grow brief, and to-morrow is big with blessings. [5]
Leaning back languidly, she was eyeing him closely from under drooping lids, smiling, too, in an unimportant sort of way, as if what she had said was a trifle. [11]
Leaning forward, he saw Eliphalet Hopper and Mr. Cluyme. [9]
Leaning against a rock, he saw the same stars rise which had shone upon him before the tent in the camp at Tanis, when in the sorest conflict with himself he confronted the most difficult decision of his life. [10]
Leaning against a rock not far away, Valmond watched the tiny man with the long arms throw up the soft, good-smelling earth, enriched by centuries of dead leaves and flowers. [11]

Sentences ending with leaning

To get a better view, several officer prisoners climbed onto the wall of the half-burned house against which Pierre was leaning. [2]

Short sentences using leaning

Sappho was leaning against Bartja. [10]

More example sentences with the word leaning in them

While he was yet speaking, Caracalla, leaning on the table by his couch with both hands, fixed his eyes on his face, without a word. [10]
After a grievous yet hopeful leave-taking I came home again, leaning on his arm, through the cool autumn night. [10]
He had not yet been admitted to Dion's presence, but this did not appear to vex him, for he stood leaning quietly against the wall beside the door, gazing at the broad-brimmed sailor's hat which he was slowly turning in his hands. [10]
He was alone with his solitary hills, leaning on his rifle. [11]
So it was with Cynthia leaning against the entry wall, her arms full length in front of her, and her hands clasped as she prayed for strength to withstand the temptation. [9]
One big fellow who was leaning against a lamp-post growled, 'You'd better stay in your own palace, miss, and not come prying round here. [4]
And Boemund Altrosen, who stood opposite to her, leaning against one of the pillars which supported the arched ceiling of the room, how came he here? [10]
She looked to where, not far away, Hylda stood leaning over the railing of the dahabieh, her eyes fixed in reverie on the farthest horizon line of the unpeopled, untravelled plain of sand. [11]
As he stood watching and leaning on ma couzaine, a sailor near him said that the bay and the rock were called Perce. [11]
But there he was, at the top of the ladder; he passed the axe from his left hand to his right, and leaning back a little, looked at the head of the god from one side. [10]
The emperor's breathing was scarcely perceptible, and how nobly cut was the profile which she could see, the other side of his face leaning on the pillow! [10]
While the chamberlain was retiring, Charles saw Barbara leaning on Malfalconnet's arm, beckoned to them, and asked her whether she had yielded to her love for dancing. [10]
This time it was not Quijada, but the Duke of Alba, who offered him the support of his mailed arm, and, leaning on it, he ascended the low stage. [10]
And Dorothy, too, was leaning forward, her lips parted and her eyes riveted upon his face. [9]
Of course it was Bob, and he did not scruple to run, and in a few seconds he was leaning over the fence in front of her. [9]
Out West there was a good deal of confusion in men's minds during the first months of the great trouble--a good deal of unsettledness, of leaning first this way, then that, then the other way. [5]
When she had walked a little way she looked back over her shoulder to see him leaning idly against the post, gazing after her, and waving his hammer in friendly fashion. [9]
Her husband had ushered the Emperor and Quijada, on whose arm he was leaning, into the nursery without announcing his entrance. [10]
Mr. King remarked upon this dumb-show to a gentleman in a blue coat and white vest and gray hat, leaning against a column near him. [4]
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 raised himself up, leaning on the arms of the great chair, so high that we were filled with amazement, and he gazed about him with his glassy eyes and then said, still holding himself up: "That, that. [10]
She then walked up deliberately and steadily to the brink, stepped into the centre of the flame, sat down, and leaning back in the midst as if reposing upon a couch, was consumed without uttering a shriek or betraying one sign of agony. [5]
He stopped and turned round, leaning against the bulwarks as before. [11]
The face was turned in his direction, and he felt an additional thrill when he realized that she must have been watching him as he came in, for she was leaning forward with a gloved hand on the railing. [9]
The Seigneur Duvarney, to whom I had not yet spoken, nor he to me, stood leaning against the wall, gazing at me seriously and kindly. [11]
A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing. [2]
I ran on to the man--" The governor was leaning forward, looking intently, and said now: "It's like a wild dream--but the north--the north is near to the Strangest of All! [11]
He was about to reply, when a lady came into view, leaning on the arm of an Agency Secretary. [11]
Elise raised it to her bosom, leaning her face down close to his. [11]
To distract her thoughts she wandered round the room, looking at the works of art that stood against the walls, feeling the stuffs with which the cushions were covered and striking a lute which was leaning against the pedestal of a Muse. [10]
Yet was not this all; or ever I was rightly aware how it befell, he had clasped me in his arms, and I was leaning on his breast, and his warm bearded lips were for the first time set on mine. [10]
In some places they overhung their base so as to look like leaning towers which might topple over at any minute. [6]
Against one of these the Emperor was leaning stroking the blood-hound, whose prompt and vigorous watchfulness had pleased him greatly. [10]
The crowd massed themselves against the boiler-deck railings, leaning over and staring into the gloom; and every faint and fainter cry wrung from them such words as, 'Ah, poor fellow, poor fellow! [5]
Patty, leaning from the window of the last coach, called out to me as I passed. [9]
Then I saw the Vicomtesse leaning tenderly over her cousin and whispering in her ear, and Antoinette rising, clinging to her. [9]
Then leaning against the trunk of the ancient tree, while he sank down on the bench, gazing alternately at the ground and into her face, she began: "Childhood already lies behind me, and youth will soon follow. [10]
Then, leaning over the table towards the dying man, he added: "You let her die-well! [11]
All at once the stranger closed the book, putting in a marker, and again, leaning with his arms on the back of the sofa, sat in his former position with his eyes shut. [2]
Then he propped the stove door to its place by leaning the poker against it, for the hinges had retired from business. [5]
The curtains of the stage waved continually by the repelled forces that were given to them, which caused Leos to behold Ambulinia leaning upon the chair of Elfonzo. [5]
Anatole lay on the sofa in the study leaning on his elbow and smiling pensively, while his handsome lips muttered tenderly to himself. [2]
The physician visited the sick, the convalescent made his first attempt, leaning on a friendly arm, to walk from his bedroom to the "viridarium," and alms were given and received. [10]
There, leaning against the shaft of a pillar, under the shade of the blossoming shrubs, she stood gazing thoughtfully to the southward. [10]
The sight of the self-conscious woman who, in her wonderful beauty, stood leaning with folded arms on the ironing-table stirred his heart and senses too strongly. [10]
They all did the same, Jeff Hyde leaning on the shoulders of Gaspe Toujours. [11]
Bent-Anat slowly arranged the reins in her hand, her eyes resting the while on the poet, who, leaning against a door-post, gazed at her in beatitude. [10]
There, leaning over the railing, stood Mrs. Falchion, her eyes fixed with a shocking wonder at the drooping, weird figure. [11]
Well, there stood the Paladin leaning against a tree and looking down on me! [5]
He walked to the mantelpiece, and, leaning his arm on it, looked round. [11]
And there was the Judge leaning forward from his hips, straight as a ramrod. [9]
Three hours later the guests had all gone, and Lady Belward, leaning on her grandson's arm, went to her boudoir, while Ian and his father sought the library. [11]
As Valmond entered the garden, Madame Chalice was leaning over the lower half of the entrance door, which opened latitudinally, and was hung on large iron hinges of quaint design, made by some seventeenth- century forgeron. [11]
The pressure within the fort, like a flood, opened the gates of it, despite the sturdily disapproving figure of a young man who stood silent under the sentry box, leaning on his Deckard. [9]
Sally lies in the churchyard with a slab of blue slate at her head, lichen- crusted, and leaning a little within the last few years. [6]
They were crossing the bridge at Stanley Street, now deserted, and by common consent they paused in the middle of it, leaning on the rail. [9]
Then he made the blonde discover, through the help of the Roscicrucian and the melodramatic miscreant, that while the Duke loved her money ardently and wanted it, he secretly felt a sort of leaning toward the society-young-lady. [5]
Mr. Wetherell noticed that many members turned in their seats as they clapped, and glancing along the gallery he caught a flash of red and perceived the radiant Miss Cassandra herself leaning over the rail, her hands clasped in ecstasy. [9]
Then, as if suddenly instinct with life, it leaped hurtingly down to alight on the steep incline, to bound more swiftly into the air, to gather momentum, to plunge into the lofty leaning crag below. [13]
She turned and stood waiting, leaning against the table, watching the door through which he presently came. [11]
He rose and stood leaning his arm upon the mantel-piece, and looking into the fire, and said, abruptly, at last: "I called to see you, Miss Forsythe, to--to consult you about your niece. [4]
First, step by step, leaning against trees, drawing himself forwards, a journey as long to his determined mind as from youth to age. [11]
Crags and pinnacles, splintered cliffs, and leaning shafts and monuments, would have thundered down to block forever the outlet to Deception Pass. [13]
To speak truth, sir, I begin myself to have a little leaning to that cause which you have so bravely espoused. [9]
Mr. Brinsmade was silent, leaning back in the corner of the carriage, and Virginia absorbed in her own thoughts. [9]
Taking up another, she touched it with a moistened finger to test the heat, and, leaning above the table again, passed it over the linen for a few moments, smiling at something that was in her mind. [11]
Panting for breath, she stood leaning her weary head and tangled hair against the trunk of the tree, a wine-cup upside down in her right hand. [10]
For a half-hour she sat so, and then, suddenly, she raised her head listening, leaning towards the window, through which the moonlight streamed. [11]
She wheeled to see M. Savary dit Detricand leaning with both elbows on the little counter, his chin in his hand, grinning provokingly, "Oh, it's you! [11]
Glancing up, I saw Hungerford, among others, leaning over the side, and looking at Mrs. Falchion in a curious cogitating fashion, not unusual to him. [11]
But presently she saw him leaning against the tree, and she started as from a spirit. [11]
My dear," she said leaning toward Cynthia, "who is he? [9]
She watched him sadly for a moment, and then, leaning over and touching him gently on the shoulder, said: "It's worse for you than it is for me, father. [11]
Before she could rise, a man was leaning over her--and in the instant she had the impression that he was a friend. [9]
It seems hardly real when I find myself leaning for a moment on a ruined wall and looking listlessly down into the historic pool of Bethesda. [5]
Leaning against a pillar, he stood looking calmly at the group surrounding the Duke at the great council-table. [11]
These were my own thoughts as I listened to the tones of the priest as they came, droningly, out of the door, while Nick was exchanging jokes in doubtful French with some half-breeds leaning against the palings. [9]
She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come. [5]
We were leaning over the parapet of a little-stone bridge. [9]
Tom Peters, leaning over the ornamental cast-iron fence which separated his front yard from the street, presently spied me scanning the sidewalk. [9]
He was leaning over a box of papers, and they rustled loudly under his hand. [11]
Natasha's face, leaning out of the window, beamed with quizzical kindliness. [2]
Prince Andrew took out his notebook and, leaning on the cannon, sketched a plan of the position. [2]
We imagine that our queer official costumery was deliberately devised to symbolise our Republican Simplicity--a quality which we have never possessed, and are too old to acquire now, if we had any use for it or any leaning toward it. [5]
Disregarding the officers' orders, the soldiers stood leaning against their stretchers and gazing intently, as if trying to comprehend the difficult problem of what was taking place before them. [2]
She notices that one sits upright, and one seems leaning forward on his horse's neck. [11]
And next some one shouted that our battery of twelves was fighting them muzzle to muzzle below, our rammers leaning into the Serapis to send their shot home. [9]
Selene stood on one foot, leaning, to recover herself, against the right-hand post of the window-opening, and there she could hear more distinctly than from her couch, the voice of the waves as they broke on the stone quay just behind dame Hannah's little house. [10]
She was seated once more leaning back in the corner of the carriage on her way to the station, she felt Ditmar's hand working in her own, and she heard his voice pleading forgiveness--for her silence alarmed him. [9]
Leaning a hand on the table, she bent towards him slightly. [11]
At sunset, leaning on the steward's arm, he went to the Temple of Nemesis, where he prayed and commissioned the priest to offer a costly sacrifice to the goddess in his name. [10]
Cawley stood leaning on the foot-board; the woman's face was cowled in the quilt with hungry eyes; and Gaston's voice went on in a low monotone, to the ticking of the great clock in the next room. [11]
Pierre swung round on the bench, leaning upon the other elbow, and, cherishing his cigarette, presently continued: "She had come far and was tired to death, so stiff that she could hardly get from her horse; and the horse too was ready to drop. [11]
Busby was leaning on it with both hands, and staring at Rawley like some animal jaded and beaten from pursuit. [11]
Pierre lay leaning on his elbow for a long time, gazing at the shadows that moved past him in the darkness. [2]
He was leaning on his daughter's arm, while in one hand he carried a stick. [11]
However, he put on his coat, and sallied forth into the sharp air, the Judge leaning on his arm. [9]
Lajeunesse was leaning on his bellows, laughing, and holding an iron in the spitting fire; Muroc was seated on the edge of the cooling tub; and Duclosse was resting on a bag of his excellent meal. [11]
I am glad of this opportunity of assuring you that we do not," he continued, leaning forward and holding up his hand to ward off interruption, "and I know that Senator Whitredge will bear me out in this statement, too. [9]
Leaning against one of the timbers and half seated, with the softened roar of the city in his ears, the lights gleaming on the heights, the river flowing dark and silent, he began to be conscious of his situation. [4]

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