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Sentences starting with movements

Movements and whisperings ceased: the stillness became almost painful. [5]

Sentences ending with movements

Please tell me what you know of his movements. [7]
To-night, the crowd were far more restless than usual, far more irritating in their purposeless movements. [11]
On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements. [2]
There was something very mysterious in all his movements. [5]
He aims, not to bring the Church into politics, but to make her the feeder of these movements. [9]
Barclay is said to be the most capable of them all, but I cannot say so, judging by his first movements. [2]
The Vicomtesse began to arrange the flowers in the bowl, and I watched her, fascinated by her movements. [9]
At the present time Mr. Vandewaters was in the heat of some large commercial movements. [11]
Its suggestions betrayed themselves in one of her first movements. [6]
Totally ungermanic in the raciness of his character and in the sparkle of his mind and the spontaneity of his movements. [5]

Sentences containing movements two or more times

Everyone got up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly visible as if but a stone's throw away, and the movements of the approaching enemy farther off. [2]

More example sentences with the word movements in them

I come under your windows, some fine spring morning, and play you one of my adagio movements, and some of you say,--This is good,--play us so always. [6]
The forces at work in a human intelligence to bring harmony out of its discordant movements are as mysterious, as miraculous, we might truly say, as those which give shape and order to the confused materials out of which habitable worlds are evolved. [6]
Hunger was not with him, nor composure, nor speech, and when he twisted in frequent unquiet movements the heavy guns that he had not removed knocked against the table-legs. [13]
Assembling the Indians, who had watched his movements closely, he told them that he was going through the storm to the nets on the lake, and asked for a volunteer to go with him. [11]
Shrewd country delegates who had listened to the Champion's speeches and had come to the capital prepared to vote for purity, had been observing the movements since yesterday, of Mr. Tooting and Mr. Wading with no inconsiderable interest. [9]
And these movements, which ordinarily might have aroused her curiosity, if not her alarm, she watched with a profound indifference. [9]
The telescope through which he was fond of watching the heavenly bodies, and the movements of which had been the source of such odd fancies on my part, is now the property of a Western College. [6]
But their prayers were brief, for the tumult came nearer and nearer; Apollodorus wrung his hands, and struck his fist against his forehead; his movements were violent--spasmodic. [10]
Katuti and Paaker watched all her movements with beating hearts. [10]
Among their number was Archias, Daphne's father, a man of middle height and comfortable portliness, from whose well-formed, beardless face looked forth a pair of shrewd eyes, and whose quick movements revealed the slight irritability of his temperament. [10]
The Greek prince was an old man, his beard and thick hair were grey, but his movements were youthful and light, though dignified and deliberate. [10]
What is the use of fighting against the seasons, or the tides, or the movements of the planetary bodies, or this ebb in the wave of life that flows through us? [6]
Since then, and until evening, the party had watched the movements of the French without attacking. [2]
Once more the unhappy woman waved him off; his very heart stopped beating, for her movements were wild and vehement, and he could see that the stone which she was holding on by shifted its place. [10]
The supposed lover turned out to be the husband of the lady, and a noted contrabandista; and all his mysterious signs and movements had doubtless some smuggling scheme in view . [4]
If this is true of all the narrower manifestations of human progress, how much more must it be true of those broad movements in the intellectual and spiritual domain which interest all mankind? [6]
They notice the trivial movements and accents which betray the blood of this or that ancestor; they can detect the irrepressible movement of hereditary impulse in looks and acts which mean nothing to the common observer. [6]
Her father had trained her in the management of a hundred employees and the working of gardens and fields; and to keep record of the movements of cattle and riders. [13]
Meantime his wife too had relapsed into a thoughtful silence, and her movements were beginning to show a troubled discomfort. [5]
Washington was unable to penetrate the designs of the British commander, or to obtain any trusty information of the intentions or the movements of the British army. [4]
The water seems to do half the thinking while one is looking at it; its movements are felt in the brain very much like thought. [6]
It is awful to be in the hands of the wholesale professional dealers in misfortune; undertakers and jailers magnetize you in a moment, and you pass out of the individual life you were living into the rhythmical movements of their horrible machinery. [6]
He put the time, the manners, the movements, the men, as in a picture. [11]
But Anatole's expression, though his eyes were fixed on her, referred not to her but to the movements of Mademoiselle Bourienne's little foot, which he was then touching with his own under the clavichord. [2]
You can alter this by muscular power, as you can take hold of the pendulum of a clock and make it move faster or slower; but your ordinary gait is timed by the same mechanism as the movements of the solar system. [6]
Rustlings in the thick undergrowth told him of stealthy movements of these animals. [13]
From the time they turned onto the Kaluga road to the day their leader fled from the army, none of the movements of the crowd had any sense. [2]
During the delay the spectators exhibited unexampled patience, finding amusement and relief in the slightest movements of the court, the prisoner and the lawyers. [5]
The movements in the same direction more extensive though less definite in Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee, should not be overlooked. [7]
They insisted on the retention of the camp at Drissa, according to Pfuel's plan, but on changing the movements of the other armies. [2]
He adds, that the power of performing the appropriate movements must have been modified in accordance with the several deviations. [1]
He was at the philanthropic centre of a good many movements which he watched others carrying out, as a calm and kindly spectator, without losing his common sense for a moment. [6]
Emerson has had the name of being a leader in many movements in which he had very limited confidence, this among others to which the idealizing impulse derived from him lent its force, but for the organization of which he was in no sense responsible. [6]
And so of the movements of our armies. [6]
Elfonzo was watching the movements of everybody; some friends had told him of the plot that was laid to carry off Ambulinia. [5]
Scientists say that the human system has two nerve-centres--one in the brain, to which and from which are telegraphed all movements depending upon the will, and another in the small of the back, the centre of the involuntary operations of respiration, digestion, and so on. [4]
He was of the earth, earthy, and things that had chanced to him this day were beyond the natural and healthy movements of his mind. [11]
Nemu squatted on the earth near her, and followed all her movements. [10]
The reproof of the displeased tone is evidently felt, for she settles at once to her work, showing perhaps a little impatience, jerking her head up and down, and protesting by her nimble movements against the more deliberate trot of her companion. [4]
He judged by the cautious movements of those who crowded round the invalid chair that they had lifted the dying man and were moving him. [2]
I was reminded that unexplained sudden deaths were of constant, of daily occurrence; that any emotion is liable to arrest the movements of life: terror, joy, good news or bad news,--anything that reaches the deeper nervous centres. [6]
Kutuzov only replied that movements arranged from a distance were always difficult to execute. [2]
It so happens that his room is next to mine, and I have the opportunity of observing many of his ways without any active movements of curiosity. [6]
He was conscious that here he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, obedient, and insignificant atom. [2]
It was natural that Bradley & Co. should take an interest in his movements. [11]
The President regards that and the movement against East Tennessee as one of the most important movements of the war, and its occupation nearly as important as the capture of Richmond. [7]
Quietly, Sheila was taking control of their movements, and indeed of her own daily life. [11]
Its movements became swifter, its vicious teeth and lips were covered with froth, which dripped to the floor, and sometimes spattered Ferrol's clothes as he ran past. [11]
There is a surprising deliberation about the preparation of the sun for rising, as there is in the movements of the boatman. [4]
I had known such a woman, older, but with the same characteristics, the same struggles, temptations, and suffering the same restriction of her life and movements by the prejudice in her veins--the prejudice of racial predilection. [11]
There was something strangely compelling in her tone, in her movements. [11]
The movements by State action for emancipation in several of the States not included in the emancipation proclamation are matters of profound gratulation. [7]
All the strange spasmodic movements, the chokings, the odd sounds, the wild talk, the laughing and crying, were in full blast. [6]
He imagined all sorts of movements of the Napoleonic army as a whole or in sections--against Petersburg, or against him, or to outflank him. [2]
However the lines social and political may be drawn, we have to keep in mind that nothing in one class can be foreign to any other, and that practically one philosophy underlies all the movements of an age. [4]
The flight was so rapid that the Russian army pursuing the French could not keep up with them; cavalry and artillery horses broke down, and the information received of the movements of the French was never reliable. [2]
However that was, she did not once wear the stormy look with which she had often met the complaining remonstrances Miss Silence constantly directed against all the spontaneous movements of the youthful and naturally vivacious subject of her discipline. [6]
His voice was sharp and hard, and his movements, in comparison with the deliberation of the other members of the Egyptian court, appeared almost morbidly active. [10]
Through his awakening senses stole the murmurs of the living cradle which rocked him with the wavelike movements of respiration, the soft susurrus of the air that entered with every breath, the double beat of the heart which throbbed close to his ear. [6]
I began to see, dimly, that this was true for other movements going on to-day. [9]
I do not see clearly the prospect of any more rapid movements. [7]
Yet strange to say Boris' presence in his wife's drawing room (and he was almost always there) had a physical effect upon Pierre; it constricted his limbs and destroyed the unconsciousness and freedom of his movements. [2]
The more he saw of him, the more he learned to watch his movements, and to be on his guard in talking with him. [6]
No occasion to restrain its movements. [5]
She did not reply to that, letting down her veil impatiently, with a deftness that characterized all her movements. [9]
And we all remember the great political revolutionary movements of 1848. [4]
Meantime the party remained stationary in the center to watch his movements. [5]
I followed her quick movements, and was soon in a narrow stairway, coming, after fifty steps or so, to a sort of cloister, from which we went into a little cubiculum, or cell, with a wooden lattice door which opened on a small gallery. [11]
Most of the pupils glanced up languidly, but there were two among them that watched his movements with intent eyes. [5]
Turner's movements are proof of nothing. [5]
He was a power in the Congressional prayer meeting, and in all movements that looked to the spread of religion and temperance. [5]
The three illustrious philosophers just referred to agree in attributing the general movements of the universe to the immediate Divine action. [3]
Her fingers crept over the keys, playing snatches of things she knew years before, improvising soft, passionate little movements. [11]
I cannot pass over in silence the part taken by our own physicians in those sanitary movements which are assuming every year greater importance. [3]
But they sway our conscious thought as the unseen planets influence the movements of those within the sphere of vision. [3]
Genius, on the other hand, is much more like those instincts which govern the admirable movements of the lower creatures, and therefore seems to have something of the lower or animal character. [6]
More restless movements on the part of Tull's men broke up the little circle, exposing the prisoner Venters. [13]
Sad cases they often are, in which, nothing but a surprise being intended, the shock has instantly arrested the movements on which life depends. [6]
The restless movements of Tull's men suddenly quieted down. [13]
Not a man of them who had not seen Mrs. Pomfret's important movements on both sides of the water chronicled. [9]
Pure emotional movements of the spiritual nature,--that is what I ask of music. [6]
At the door of the house he grasped the hilt of his sword, and then, with rapid movements, twisted the ends of his mustache. [10]
The full title of Mr. Motley's next and last work is "The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland; with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of the Thirty Years' War. [6]
The languid indolence of his movements scarcely impaired the natural dignity of his presence, yet his musical voice was wont to have a feeble, beseeching tone. [10]
In his "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England," he sketches in a rapid way the series of intellectual movements which led to the development of the "new views" above mentioned. [6]
Their movements are not yet decisive. [4]
Her father could not see her face, but he knew by her movements that her dangerous mood was on her. [6]
The gobbler does not lead his forces in the field, but goes behind them, like the colonel of a regiment, so that he can see every part of the line and direct its movements. [4]
He, indeed, did not attract a strong following, but opposition movements from different quarters appeared more formidable. [7]
Henceforth she thought no more about the decisive battle, and forgot all else during the hours that she sat and followed George's movements. [10]
He says that Newport and Ratcliffe conspired not only to depose him but to keep him out of the fort; since being President they could not control his movements, but that their horns were much too short to effect it. [4]
Their movements were mysterious but not necessarily violent. [4]
F. The unstriped muscular fibre, more properly the fusiform-cell fibre, which carries on the involuntary internal movements. [3]
The old lumber-king's movements were swift, sure and exact. [11]
That before these movements Thomas and Sherman shall respectively watch but not attack Zollicoffer and Buckner. [7]
But those popular movements seem to us rather blind struggles against physical evils, and to be distinguished from those more intelligent actions based upon the theory which began to stir Europe prior to the Reformation. [4]
There were fleeting movements of her lips as if she might be occasionally saying parts of sentences to herself. [5]
We predict their movements as if they were machines we ourselves had made and regulated. [6]
Wintzingerode was not merely to agree to the truce but also to offer terms of capitulation, and meanwhile Kutuzov sent his adjutants back to hasten to the utmost the movements of the baggage trains of the entire army along the Krems-Znaim road. [2]
The movements I mention are less frequent, but I often hear the plaintive cry,--I observe that it is rarely laughing of late;--I never have detected one articulate word, but I never heard such tones from anything but a human voice. [6]

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