Use lifting in a sentence
Sentences starting with lifting
- Lifting up her skirts, she swung round and faced me. [9]
- Lifting her eyes she saw--ashen, shaken, stricken-- not the Bishop but the man! [13]
- Lifting the bowl of the censer, in the eyes of all the people he drew in a long whiff to bear witness of peace. [9]
- Lifting himself on his hind legs, he looked all around. [5]
- Lifting up my heart, I looked again, and again I took hope and rode on. [11]
- Lifting up her heart again in a brief prayer for a calm and collected mind, she slowly arranged her dress and its folds, and as she did so the key of the tomb-cave, which she still had about her, fell under her hand. [10]
- Lifting up his head, she called to him in an agony of entreaty. [11]
- Lifting her head, he tipped the canteen to her lips. [13]
- Lifting the dish, he drained it at a gasp, though the milk almost choked him, and, to the apprehension of his hostess, set the bowl spinning on the table like a top. [11]
- Lifting her lightly, he ascertained that the same was true of the hole where the bullet had come out. [13]
Sentences ending with lifting
- For the process of democracy is not degrading, but lifting. [9]
- I take mine in at the level of the ground, and send them off from my doorstep almost without lifting. [6]
Sentences containing lifting two or more times
- And yonder, receding, receding, plumes lifting and falling, lifting and falling, streamed the thundering charge of La Hire's godless crew, La Hire's great figure dominating it and his sword stretched aloft like a flagstaff. [5]
More example sentences with the word lifting in them
- Even in this world you are as an angel to me, lifting me into the heaven where I shall meet you again, or it will not be heaven. [6]
- It was under-tinged with all the colours of a morning sunrise over Mount Bobar not far beyond, lifting up its somnolent and massive head into the Eastern sky. [11]
- It is a wide stretch of cheap little brick houses, with here and there a noble architectural pile lifting itself out of the midst-government buildings, these. [5]
- And all the while one nun after another glided through the chamber in silence, and with bowed head, her arms folded, and never so much as lifting an eye to look at me. [10]
- Just as he was lifting the fallen man's hand to feel his pulse Arsinoe rushed into the room. [10]
- Yes, this one was lifting from its bed on the hard earth beneath. [9]
- Just as he was lifting anchor to get away, he saw a boat shoot out from the side of the Cormorant. [11]
- I was about two hundred feet away from the bear when it turned slow round at me, lifting its foot from the body. [11]
- Orlando's ruddy face turned white; something seemed to blind him for an instant, and then he was on his knees beside her, lifting up her head, feeling her heart. [11]
- That load is too heavy for you, Ephraim, you are lifting beyond your strength. [10]
- They drew near to the unearthly luxury of that Call, now lifting with an unbounded joy. [11]
- As he said to Perrot: "Well, Nick, they've saved us the trouble of lifting the treasure; we'll see now who shall beach it. [11]
- Three or four times, as if in response to the call of the spectators, this was repeated, the curtain lifting every time on a different scene, and then it was all over, and the heavy mist shut down on the registered and the unregistered alike. [4]
- When I realized this, I was so angry that I had to sit down on the floor and take hold of something to keep from lifting the roof off with an explosion of opinion. [5]
- The birches with their sticky green leaves were motionless, and lilac-colored flowers and the first blades of green grass were pushing up and lifting last year's leaves. [2]
- His eyes followed the young man to the gate, and presently, with a quick lifting of the shoulders, he said: "Robert Belward! [11]
- At this moment the old suspicion stirred her soul with revived force, and lifting her right hand, as if in attestation, she exclaimed: "Oh, Fate, Fate! [10]
- Having done that, the officer, lifting his elbow with a smart gesture, stroked his mustache and lightly touched his hat. [2]
- Then I drew the cork from the bottle of wine, and, lifting it towards that face which was always visible to my soul, I drank--drank--drank! [11]
- Let us prove that we are--not--like the others," she said, lifting her head, "and then it cannot matter to us what any one thinks. [9]
- Her hair looked strangely, as if lifting itself, and her eyes were full of wild light. [6]
- Then he suddenly stood still in the middle of the room and lifting his eyes and arms on high cried aloud, like one in an ecstasy: "Eternal Truth, holy Truth! [10]
- Away in the southwest, lifting themselves up in a gleam of the western sky, the Great Smoky Mountains loomed like a frowning continental fortress, sullen and remote. [4]
- At last she slowly came to the curtain of the Tent, and lifting it, without a pause stepped inside, the curtain falling behind her. [11]
- An' I were Sir Hugh, I would take the shabby carle and--" The jailer finished by lifting himself a-tip-toe with an imaginary halter, at the same time making a gurgling noise in his throat suggestive of suffocation. [5]
- But a smile shimmered at his mouth, giving to his careworn face something almost beautiful, lifting the darkness from his powerful, shaggy forehead. [11]
- In some places she raised her voice, in others she whispered, lifting her head triumphantly; sometimes she paused and uttered hoarse sounds, rolling her eyes. [2]
- When at last she emerged from the library, he rose precipitately and came towards her across the lawn, lifting his hands towards the pitiless puritan skies. [9]
- This she had seen in her husband, too, the same brisk lifting of the head, the same quick smiling. [11]
- But no, she sat and preened herself with the tissue-paper sort of pride of a vain milliner, or nervously shifted about, lifting up this and that, curiously supercilious, her tongue rattling on to her husband and to his mother in a shallow, foolish way. [11]
- But here lay Roan, a long, sprawling ridge, lifting itself 6250 feet up into the sky. [4]
- One of these represented the lifting of the brazen serpent. [6]
- The nurse with raised elbows was lifting the infant over the rail of his cot. [2]
- The hour, the place, the anticipation of the lifting of the veil from an Oriental and ancient art, gave them a titillating feeling of adventure, of a moral hazard bravely incurred in the duty of knowing life, penetrating to its core. [4]
- The rope running over the pulley cut her tender hands; her beautiful face was terribly distorted; but she did not pause until they had succeeded in lifting the burden of the dying man higher and higher till he reached the floor of the scaffolding. [10]
- She flung herself on one side, thrust her hind quarters under the pole, and kicked desperately, lifting the chariot quite off the ground; the young charioteer lost his footing and slipped. [10]
- I will serve my country honourably abroad, or rest peacefully here on my own estate, lifting no hand against your Highness, though I hold to the succession in the monarchy. [11]
- Edward invariably assured Mr. Wiley that he was well, invariably took a drink of coffee to emphasize the fact, as though the act of lifting his cup had in it some magic to ward off the contempt of his wife and elder daughter. [9]
- But on entering Moscow he suddenly came to and, lifting his head with an effort, took Rostov, who was sitting beside him, by the hand. [2]
- At length, once more lifting his wreath and crown, he raised his curls with both hands, and said, quite calmly and decisively; "We must have a Hebe, and must take her where we find her. [10]
- He lifting her,--no marvel in this; and she--by a magic power of levitation at which she never ceased to wonder--sustaining him. [9]
- Only when a man was killed or wounded did he frown and turn away from the sight, shouting angrily at the men who, as is always the case, hesitated about lifting the injured or dead. [2]
- He came and looked, but said nothing, lifting a hand in deprecation. [11]
- His step was light, his head laid slightly to one side, as if in pleased and inquiring reverie, and there was a lifting of one corner of the mouth, suggesting an amused disdain. [11]
- Napoleon smiled and, lifting his head absent-mindedly, glanced to the right. [2]
- Her hand slid into his arm, and, dark as it was, he could see her eyes lifting to his, shining, profound. [11]
- To hide the instant's confusion she turned her head away, using a hand to gather in her hair, which the wind was lifting lightly. [11]
- And Mrs. Holt, in the act of lifting the hot-water kettle; put it down again. [9]
- On lifting it I read these words: The name is Grenville Tudor. [6]
- In another half- hour they were under way in the gaudy light of an orange sunrise, a simmering wind from the sea lifting them up the river, and the grey-red coast of Labrador shrinking sullenly back. [11]
- With lifting chin--good honest gentleman, who afterwards proved his fidelity and truth--he said that he would die to uphold this sacred ceremony. [11]
- Gifted was walking home, deeply immersed in thoughts excited by the hints which hail been thus wantonly thrown out to inflame his imagination, when all at once, on lifting his eyes, he saw Clement Lindsay coming straight towards him. [6]
- She ran to him, and, lifting up his head, saw the look that makes even the fool seem wise in his cold stillness. [11]
- Then, gently lifting her upon a blanket, he folded the sides over her. [13]
- At times, lifting her eyes to him as he sat smoking after dinner on the other side of the library fire, she almost doubted his existence. [9]
- They said with heat: 'It is a marvel that any man in such desperate case as is the King can moon around in this torpid way, and see his all go to ruin without lifting a finger to stay the disaster. [5]
- Then, lifting my head, he held the flask to my lips; for which I was most grateful--I was dizzy and miserably faint. [11]
- Then, lifting her head slowly, after a moment she spoke in a tone that told him her faith, her gratitude--not for reassurance, but for confidence, which is as water in a thirsty land to a woman. [11]
- Without lifting his head he said something, and two of his aides-de-camp galloped off to the Polish Uhlans. [2]
- Again and again he went to the pail of water that stood on the window-sill, and lifting it to his lips, drank deep and full, to quench the wearing thirst. [11]
- At that moment he was lifting his harpoon to strike a whale in Behring's Strait, five thousand miles away, by the way of the Arctic Ocean, or twenty thousand by the way of the Horn--that was the reason. [5]
- The Frenchman, expecting he knew not what, sprang to his feet, snatching up a knife; but Gaston was on him like a hawk, pinioning his arms and lifting him off the ground, binding his legs too, all so tight that the Frenchman squealed for breath. [11]
- In his lap he cuddled a miniature greyhound that snarled, lifting its lip and showing its white teeth whenever any slight movement disturbed it. [5]
- By lifting his hat, a little higher, a little more confidently than in the first instance, he made her leaving seem more gracious, the act somehow conveying an acknowledgment on his part that their relationship had changed. [9]
- We seized the handles, and with all our strength hauled it athwart the loose puncheon that seemed to be lifting even then. [9]
- At last M. Garon rose, and lifting himself up and down on his toes as if about to deliver a legal opinion, he coughed slightly, and then said in a dry little voice: "Madame, I shall have pleasure in calling on your husband. [11]
- They passed the frowning towers of Briel, The "Hook of Holland's" shelf of sand, And grated soon with lifting keel The sullen shores of Fatherland. [6]
- I looked away from him and beheld, a little nearer now, Ann high on her saddle, diligently waving her kerchief, and at her side her father, lifting his councillor's hat. [10]
- A diabolical thought flashed through her over-excited and restless mind; without looking to the right hand or the left she obeyed the impulse and went forward, just as she was, into her friend's sitting-room and then, lifting a curtain, on into the bedroom. [10]
- When Telyanin had finished his lunch he took out of his pocket a double purse and, drawing its rings aside with his small, white, turned-up fingers, drew out a gold imperial, and lifting his eyebrows gave it to the waiter. [2]
- The canoes were filled with men--Indians, it would seem, by the tall feathers lifting from their heads. [11]
- Whereupon, lifting your eyes from the river, you would have seen the answer to your question--masses of men mounted and unmounted, who moved, or halted, or stood like an animal with a thousand legs controlled by one mind. [11]
- We had a crowd of moldy loafers to witness it at the station, not one of whom had ambition enough to work to earn a sou by lifting our traveling-bags. [4]
- What the government could not do Wilkinson did by the lifting of his finger. [9]
- Other men were continually lifting out boxes whose contents had become hard frozen. [5]
- As she was conscious of this new reading of him, a motion arrested her glance, a quick lifting of the head to one side, as though the mind had suddenly been struck by an idea, the glance flying upward in abstracted questioning. [11]
- It withered a cactus that stood lifting its prickly hands aloft beside the trail. [5]
- And I, tossed by the tide of circumstance, Lifting weak hands against a host of swords, Paused suddenly to hear her gentle words Making powerless the lightnings of mischance. [11]
- Parpon was kneeling by Elise, lifting up her head, and looking at her in horrified distress. [11]
- The doctors were busily engaged with the wounded man the shape of whose head seemed familiar to Prince Andrew: they were lifting him up and trying to quiet him. [2]
- The other masquers, being thus encouraged, continued successively exhibiting their powers with various ladies, finishing in like manner with capers, and by lifting their goddesses from the ground . [4]
- Tall Medallion the auctioneer took a glass of the wine, and, lifting it, said: "Who shall I drink to, Parpon, my dear? [11]
- Lifting me off at length he kissed me and bade me not to annoy my mother, the tears in his eyes again. [9]
- Kutuzov looked wearily at him and, lifting his hands with a gesture of annoyance, folded them across his stomach, repeating the words: "For our country's welfare? [2]
- At length he arose, and, lifting the bust tenderly from its pedestal, laid it upon the cloth with which it had been covered. [6]
- The galley was approaching the flickering circle of light at the foot of the Pharos, and Archibius was just producing the token which was to secure the lifting of the chain, when his name echoed through the stillness of the night. [10]
- Then he turned, and, lifting up in his arms the man he had killed, carried him into the deeper woods. [11]
- Once she surprised and discomfited me by lifting her head and gazing fixedly at me through her tears. [9]
- No lifting of a rebellious leaf like an upstart servant that does not know his place and can never be taught manners, but tranquil, well-bred repose. [6]
- Here and there a gum-tree; half a dozen lofty Norfolk Island pines lifting their fronded arms skyward. [5]
- He caught up a glass and, lifting it, said: "I drink to home and--" a little cold burst of laughter came from him, he threw his head back with something like disdain--"and the Code Napoleon! [11]
- He made about a dozen long gasps, his breast lifting the Bible up when he drawed in his breath, and letting it down again when he breathed it out--and after that he laid still; he was dead. [5]
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