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Sentences ending with motions

The Queen's fool was standing near, seemingly engaged in the light occupation of catching imaginary flies, buzzing with his motions. [11]
The President had refused to put these motions. [5]
The faint colour of the crimsoning maples was now in her cheek; the light of the autumn evening was in her eyes; the soft vitality of September was in her motions. [11]
Now that I've got him materialized, I can command his motions. [5]
He thrust his arms out, and made, as if unconsciously, some fantastic yet solemn motions. [11]

Sentences containing motions two or more times

It was now quite dark, and their motions, or the motions of the vessels of war, could not be seen from the French encampment or the citadel. [11]

More example sentences with the word motions in them

In his hottest youth he could not have made such passionate motions of affection. [11]
Votes upon motions, whether carried or defeated, could make endless delay, and postpone the Ausgleich to next century. [5]
The old man turned musingly, and made motions of writing, a pleased look in his face. [11]
She gravely goes through the motions of reluctantly granting admission to the applicant as a favor to him. [5]
It goes through the motions, and they do not succeed; but that does not worry the Government much. [5]
Al'mah's eyes had taken it all in rather wistfully, while she had waited for Krool's return from his master; but the wistfulness was due to personal trouble, for her eyes were clouded and her motions languid. [11]
She was always so quick to recover herself before, but now there is no rebound, and we are dead people who go through the motions of life. [5]
He straightened his shoulders till he looked like a modern actor playing the hero in a romantic drama, and with quick vain motions he stroked and twisted his brown moustache, and ran his fingers through his curling hair. [11]
With fine astuteness she goes through the motions of making it difficult to get membership in her Church. [5]
There was a sense of excitement in her motions, and he also had seen that tremulous, embarrassed look in her eyes. [11]
A Government cannot satisfy all these public opinions; it can only go through the motions of trying. [5]
Tarboe watched the revealing expression of the old man's face and the motions of his body. [11]
He seemed to rearrange the motions of his mind with a little of the old vanity, which was at once grotesque and piteous. [11]
Sights, sounds, motions, passed in a confused way through his mind as the smell of the glue crept through his nostrils; and he struggled hard to remember. [11]
Newton, on the other hand, believed that new motions were generated and existing ones destroyed. [3]
It was one of the most useful motions in mechanics, the pedal movement; so I made a note in my memorandum book, purposing some day to apply a system of elastic cords to him and run a sewing machine with it. [5]
Twisting the ends of his mustache with two rapid motions, he knocked at the young knight's door. [10]
The sounds and motions still pursued me in imagination. [6]
He trained the men so thoroughly in the use of the great guns "that they went through the motions of broadsides and rounds exactly as soldiers generally perform the manual exercise. [9]
Inside, the old man stared round him in a confused and troubled way, but his motions were quiet and abstracted and he looked like some old viking, his workaday life done, come to pray ere he went hence forever. [11]
But huge and loose though the Seigneur's motions seemed, he was as intent as though there were but two beings in the universe, Leicester and himself. [11]
His motions waked Jo Portugais, who scrambled from the floor, and came towards him. [11]
The heart has its own little brains, so to speak,--small collections of nervous substance which govern its rhythmical motions under ordinary conditions. [6]
In her bearing, in all her motions, there was a regal quality; yet, too, something of isolation, of withdrawal, in her self-possession and unruffled observation. [11]
One of them, however, who sat upon the stand, had a powerful spy-glass, and could distinguish his motions very minutely and exactly. [6]
King could not help thinking there was something theatrical about them altogether, and he fancied that when he saw them in their "traps" on the Avenue they were going through the motions for show and not for enjoyment. [4]
In his motions he was quiet and free, yet always there was a kind of stealthiness in his movements, which made him seem less frank than he really was. [11]
Through the loophole he could see a half-dozen men lift a log to advance on the door as Nic passed a couple of officers, coughing hard, and making spasmodic motions with his hand, as though exhausted and unable to speak. [11]
In this way, having carefully removed the leg bands by deft circular motions of his arm following one another uninterruptedly, the man hung the leg bands up on some pegs fixed above his head. [2]
When he saw Elizabeth enter the chapel his eyes swam, till the sight of them was lost in the blur of colour made by the motions of gorgeously apparelled courtiers and the people of the household. [11]
The turbulent waters dashed all about them; the mist occasionally wrapped them from sight; they clung to the rails, they tried to speak to each other; their gestures seemed motions of despair. [4]
They are not dangerous, but they go thro' all the motions of it. [5]
As this operation created strange motions, and did not interest the Major, he said he would go below and reflect. [4]
The white man could not control its motions, could not make it obey him; but the aboriginal could. [5]
Pepys could not control his delight at the appearance of Nell Gwynne, especially "when she comes like a young gallant, and hath the motions and carriage of a spark the most that ever I saw any man have. [4]
There was a cheerful gravity in her motions, a high, fine look in her face. [11]
If, for instance, butter was spoken of, by the help of suitable motions the cow was milked, the milk was poured into a pan and skimmed, the cream was churned, the butter was made into pats and finally sent to market. [10]
He made upward and downward motions of respect with clasped hands in the blue sleeves, and presently, in perfect English, he said: "In one minute Li Choo will receive you. [11]
Now and again a weapon was fired, and, to watch their motions and peepings, it might have been thought I was a dragon, or that they all were hunting La Jongleuse, their fabled witch, whose villainies, are they not told at every fireside? [11]

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