Use lifted in a sentence
Sentences starting with lifted
- Lifted on a crest, our canoe, heavily laden, dropped at both ends; and again, sinking into the hollows between the short, brutal waves, her gunwales yielded outward, and her waist gaped in a dismal way. [11]
Sentences ending with lifted
- Presently I saw who it was, for the face lifted. [11]
- The darkness lightened, turned to slow-drifting haze, and lifted. [13]
- The wind died, the sun beat down with a moist and venomous sting, and northeastward above the edge of the bluff a bank of cloud like sulphur smoke was lifted. [9]
- Then shall beauty--Divinity taking outlines and color--light upon the souls of men as the butterfly, image of the beatified spirit rising from the dust, soars from the shell that held a poor grub, which would never have found wings, had not the stone been lifted. [6]
- Then there came stains upon the mist of royal purple, of scarlet, of yellow like a mandarin's robe, peeps of deep blue fading into azure as the mist lifted. [9]
- It could not last, but there it was; and she could not return to the transitory till this cloud of fate was lifted. [11]
- If the veil could but be lifted! [11]
Short sentences using lifted
- Gaston lifted him up. [11]
- Pierre lifted a shoulder slightly. [11]
- M. Garon lifted it away. [11]
- Sherry lifted his glass. [11]
- Pierre lifted his eyebrows. [11]
Sentences containing lifted two or more times
- No praiseful voice was lifted for the lost Bard of Avon; even Ben Jonson waited seven years before he lifted his. [5]
- Barry Whalen lifted up his head and drew him back into the chair, then three of them lifted him upon a sofa. [11]
- She crossed the room, her head lifted, her heart lifted, to where this man of sorrows stood smiling down at her. [9]
- It was a new but a dear joy, to be lifted up and carried back into the happy world, which was now all aglow with the light of love; to be lifted and carried by the one she loved more than her own life. [5]
- Venters lifted his gaze to the grand archway over the entrance to the valley, and Bess lifted hers to follow his, and both were silent. [13]
- Yet she smiled at Jean Jacques when he lifted her down from the red wagon at the door of the Manor Cartier, even though he lifted his daughter down first. [11]
More example sentences with the word lifted in them
- You see it yourselves" They gazed at each other awe-struck, and lifted their hands and said in unison: "It's per-fectly wonderful. [5]
- I will see you all go down, and hand of mine shall not be lifted for you! [11]
- You promised her yonder at the Red Mansion that you would help him--him that never wronged you, him you always wronged, and you haven't lifted hand to help him in his danger. [11]
- But I warrant ye didn't have the heft," and she lifted it, judicially. [9]
- The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more. [5]
- Now his forehead would pucker into deep folds and his eyebrows were lifted, then his eyebrows would descend and deep wrinkles would crease his cheeks. [2]
- She saw me working; she knew the life I had to live; she was lifted up with me. [11]
- It was a wonderful Indian summer day, the sunlight soft and melting; and the smoke which continually harassed this district had lifted a little, as though in deference to the Sabbath. [9]
- No smoke mingled with this clear and genial blaze, but it compelled her to shade her dazzled eyes; and as she lifted her hand she woke to see Medius standing in front of her. [10]
- The kemengeh-player stood with his instrument ready, and he lifted it in a kind of appeal. [11]
- Hadrian was trembling with fury, he doubled his first as he lifted it in Pollux's face, and going close up to him asked in a threatening tone: "What do you mean by that? [10]
- Ruth advanced, and with a not very steady hand lifted the white covering from the upper part of the figure and turned it down. [5]
- She screamed aloud,--so wildly that Myrtle lifted her head from the pillow against which she had rested it, and started forward. [6]
- It was Stephen who lifted her, and helped her to the coping, where she sat with her bandanna awry. [9]
- It was Starling who lifted her off--George Pembroke stood by Honora. [9]
- The Abbe Rossignol, who had just arrived with the Seigneur, lifted the cross from the insensible man's breast. [11]
- It was still while he was only a bundle of bones that one Sunday morning, Parpon, without a word, lifted him up in his arms and carried him out of the house. [11]
- A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed. [5]
- It was that which gave promise that in due time the weight would be lifted from the shoulders of all men. [7]
- Like a doe which comes forth from a thicket and finds her young grazing in the glade, she lifted her head and looked with brightest eyes away to the high road whence the call had come. [10]
- She obeyed, and wherever it was necessary to climb over the rocks, he supported and lifted her, but he only spoke when she addressed him. [10]
- A little later, when the veil had lifted, it became a mirror for the hills and crags, the blue reaches of the sky. [9]
- Jethro drew breath when he saw that look, as if a great load had been lifted from his heart. [9]
- He lifted it when he heard that soft friendly voice, and there was a wistful something in his face which made one think that there had been music in it for him and that he would like to hear it again. [5]
- I cannot describe what a load of anxiety was lifted from my mind when I found that he was only asleep. [5]
- These sandy cloudlets were instantly dissipated by the wind; it was the larger clouds that were lifted whole into the air, and the larger clouds of sand were becoming more and more the rule. [5]
- He caught at Wendling's shoulder, but felt him lifted and carried away, while he himself stood still in a screeching wind and heard impalpable water rushing over him. [11]
- During the afternoon we lifted him into a chair and gave him an alcoholic vapor bath, and then set about putting him on the bed again. [5]
- With certain persons we are lifted up, inspired to face the battle of life and overcome its difficulties. [9]
- Numb as Venters was when at length Jane Withersteen lifted her head and looked at him, he yet suffered a pang. [13]
- Ah, the morning was silver with glory As I lay by my tent on the shore; And the soft air was drunken with odours, And my soul lifted up to adore. [11]
- The dark shadow was Princess Mary, who had come up to the cot with noiseless steps, lifted the curtain, and dropped it again behind her. [2]
- Although the lead was pattering on the other side of the logs, Cowan lifted me to the port. [9]
- This good Samaritan was not only taking me into his home, but would fight for my rights with the strong brain that had lifted him out of poverty and obscurity. [9]
- But she, too, was not forgotten, for, whenever you lifted your stick, you thought, I should suppose, of her. [10]
- Since New Orleans was in a swamp, the older houses for the most part were lifted some seven feet above the ground, and many of these houses had wide galleries on the street side. [9]
- Indeed, the effect was almost comical when he lifted it and scratched his head and then rubbed his chin with it; it made him look part bumpkin and part sailor. [11]
- Susan and Jane, waiting to give her comfort when she was recovered a little from this unknown but overwhelming affliction, were fain to stand mute when they saw her to pay a silent deference to one whom sorrow had lifted far above them and transfigured. [9]
- But Wrangle, as Venters led him, snorted defiance or disgust rather than fear, and, like a hobbled horse on the jump, lifted his ponderous iron-shod fore hoofs and crashed down over the first rough step. [13]
- The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place. [2]
- 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]
- She lifted him up, kissed him, and then asked the mother, who also greeted her, for a piece of bread, for her hunger was becoming intolerable. [10]
- Natasha lifted her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting her. [2]
- He was lifted up, carried to his study, and laid on the very couch he had so feared of late. [2]
- You are lifted up, canoe and all, and you rush on down rapids, over falls, on the Kimash River in the air. [11]
- Detricand lifted him up, and buttoning the shirt and straightening the coat again, he said: "Now, you're to go home and sleep the sleep of the unjust, and you're to keep the sixth commandment, and you're to tell no more lies. [11]
- Stooping, she lifted up the tailor's head, then felt his heart. [11]
- Then he lifted up the curtain and passed out into the night. [11]
- Now she took up the beaker, and lifted it to her lips, but set it down again to answer Paaker's remark that she was breakfasting late. [10]
- Eva, with her up lifted eyes, seemed to be gazing directly into the open heavens. [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]
- He held it up for me to look at, and lifted his eyes, brimful, till they met mine. [6]
- At last he turned, and, seeing me intent, stooped, caught me by the arms, and lifted me upon the wall. [11]
- Presently Pierre nodded towards the door, and King Kinkley and another lifted him and carried him towards it. [11]
- They recognized the touch of fashion and of form, of a worldly education, of a convention which lifted her away from the tan and the caravan, from the everlasting itinerary. [11]
- His hand lifted, took the tobacco, and then his eyes came keenly to Pierre's. [11]
- When they returned to the house, and she was thanking him with a glow of enthusiasm for such a lovely day, he lifted her up and kissed her, with an emotion of affection that brought tears to her eyes. [4]
- If you try to take me down, I'll do my best to kill you," and he lifted the loaded end of the whip. [9]
- Caesar was wont to say that this man's hands were matchless for lightness and delicacy of touch, but to-day they trembled as he lifted the laurel wreath from Caesar's head and unbuckled the padded breast plate. [10]
- We fairly seemed to pick up our wheels and fly--and the mail matter was lifted up free from everything and held in solution! [5]
- Philip drew her to him, and her eyes lifted to his. [11]
- The Cure hastened to her side and lifted up her head. [11]
- She lifted them to her lips. [11]
- She lifted it to her chin, at which it pecked tenderly. [11]
- She lifted him to a sitting position, but his head fell on her shoulder. [11]
- When they were tired of lugging him, they lifted him, with much effort and difficulty, to the top of a high wall, and left him there amid the broken bottles, utterly unable to get down. [4]
- From time to time the curtain was lifted and a lovely head appeared, whose questioning blue eyes fixed at once on the physician, but were always dismissed with the same melancholy shrug. [10]
- And time and time have I walked from here to Brook Street without recognizing a step of the way, lifted clear out of myself by the sight of her devotion. [9]
- The sorrows of three years were suddenly lifted from his shoulders, and for an instant Ephraim wanted to dance until he remembered the rheumatism and the Wilderness leg. [9]
- Without a word they lifted the glasses and drank. [11]
- Regaining the carriage, they drove out to the end, Agassiz's Point, where, when the mist lifted, they saw the sea all round dotted with sails, the irregular coasts and islands with headlands and lighthouses, all the picture still, land and water in a summer swoon. [4]
- I remembered that these were her words when her husband was lifted from the sea to the 'Fulvia'. [11]
- The sky lifted, there was a promise of fair weather, the storm, for him, had indeed cleared the air. [4]
- This now and then lifted the pole, and as the chariot crunched backwards a few inches, the charioteer growled out a sleepy "Brrr. [10]
- But she lifted them to Philip's, and the fear and premonition passed. [11]
- They, "and also their wives, began to make themselves merry, insomuch that they began to dance, and to sing, and to speak with much rudeness; yea, they were lifted up unto exceeding rudeness. [5]
- They never lifted their eyes above the day's labour. [11]
- At that moment the young lady lifted her arm accidentally in such a way that the light fell upon the clasp of a chain which encircled her wrist. [6]
- The first time the young foreigner allowed himself to reproach her, she lifted her beautiful head and, half turning to him, said firmly: "That's just like a man--selfish and cruel! [2]
- A moment, and the wounded man was lifted to the ground. [11]
- Revolutions are often the work of instants, not years, and the crucial test and problem by which Grassette was now faced had lifted him into a new atmosphere, with a new capacity alive in him. [11]
- After a while the weather grew milder, and the clouds lifted somewhat. [5]
- The canyon narrowed; the walls lifted their rugged rims higher; and the sun shone down hot from the center of the blue stream of sky above. [13]
- Charmian timidly lifted the upper layer of the fruit, but the Queen said mournfully: "The wife of Antony dragged through the streets of Rome behind the victor's chariot, a spectacle for the populace and envious matrons! [10]
- He lifted up the top of the refrigerator. [9]
- As he held the tassels, lifted the gold- fringed curtain, and invoked Allah's blessing, a half-naked sheikh ran forward, and, raising his hand high above his head, cried shrilly: "Kaid, Kaid, hearken! [11]
- Jaded horses in the street lifted their noses; stray, homeless cats rubbed against his legs, and vagrant dogs looked up at him trustfully with wagging tails. [9]
- Men stood on the street corners in the rain, reading of the capture of Camp Jackson, and of the riot, and thousands lifted up their voices to execrate the Foreign City below Market Street. [9]
- The mare and the sorrel of Cumner's Son I put inside the house that covers the well, and I lifted two stones from the floor and set them against the entrance. [11]
- After a little the smother lifted slowly from his brain. [11]
- He picked up the sewing she had dropped and looked at it as one would regard a relic of the dead; he lifted her handkerchief, kissed it, and put it in his breast. [11]
- And each of the seven lifted up his voice and said, It is a whiz. [5]
- Emerson looked at the rose admiringly, and then as if by a sudden impulse lifted his hat gently, and said with a low bow, 'I take off my hat to it. [6]
- Terry now played the part with a naturalness and force which soon lifted the play away from the farcical element introduced into it by those who had interpolated the gibes at himself. [11]
- She had said the one thing which above all others could have lifted the situation to its real significance. [11]
- He had lost the old sense of comradeship, of easy equality; and he had the odd feeling of dealing with a new man, at once familiar and unfamiliar, who had somehow lifted himself out of the everyday element in which they heretofore had met. [9]
- Both came forward, the old man uttered a short prayer and then stooping down, lifted the sheet which covered the dead. [10]
- Paula stooped, lifted the necklace, held it out to the judges, pulling it straight by the two ends. [10]
- The burial finished, the Kentuckians splashed across the creek, and one of them, stooping with a shout at the mouth of the run, lifted out of the brambles a painted body with drooping head and feathers trailing. [9]
- And in fact the head in the nightcap was lifted at once. [2]
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