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Sentences ending with neck

While speaking, the wretched mother, with trembling hands, tore out a locket which she wore on a little chain around her neck. [10]
Van Blaricom, who wore a long gold watch-chain, now took it off and offered it to the chief, motioning him to put it round his neck. [11]
It is little wonder that under circumstances like these he fell down and brake his neck. [5]
It's all vewy well--only not for those who get it in the neck. [2]
The next day we crossed a ferry on the Ashley River, and rode down the sand of Charlestown neck. [9]
The board gives way as soon as you touch it; and before you have got by, the bag of sand comes round whack on the back of your neck. [6]
Our horse got water, and I bathed my neck. [5]
Another, and her warm hand clasped the pale, moist, and wrinkled one which hung by the horse's neck. [11]
It was all very well at first, until streams of water began to crawl along the face of the rock, and trickle down the back of my neck. [4]
Only--it's much too valuable--" I smiled.... Miss Allsop deftly undid the clasp and hung it around Maude's neck. [9]

Short sentences using neck

He stretched his neck. [11]
How white your neck is! [10]
Bow your neck and spread! [5]

Sentences containing neck two or more times

It lay between the upper and lower divisions of the Union forces, and kept them separate, until a junction was finally effected across the Missouri neck of land; but the island being itself joined to that neck now, the wide river is without obstruction. [5]
While Pierre was running the few steps that separated him from the Frenchman, the tall marauder in the frieze gown was already tearing from her neck the necklace the young Armenian was wearing, and the young woman, clutching at her neck, screamed piercingly. [2]
Run neck and neck with almighty swells once. [11]
He twined his left arm round the neck of Sinnet, and the struggle began, he fighting to free Sinnet's hand from his wrist, to break Sinnet's neck. [11]
His horse and hers were travelling neck and neck. [11]
Some of them fell into a crease in the back of the caterpillar's neck, and began to sprout and grow--for there was soil there--he had not washed his neck. [5]
His sister commenced cutting the neck part, from which the neck had been severed. [5]
And they wouldn't anybody go low neck to the opera-house there, either--not low neck the way they do here, anyway. [8]
His fingers had ached for Marcile's neck, that neck in which he had lain his face so often in the transient, unforgettable days of their happiness. [11]
We rode on--such a ride, the horses neck and neck, their hoofs pounding the prairie like drills, rawbone to rawbone, a hell-to-split gait. [11]

More example sentences with the word neck in them

I heard of your riding to the Neck of Baroob--the men of Boonda Broke brought word. [11]
If I had your face and neck and figure I'd die before I'd live in Rivington. [9]
And I tell you what, Sir, if I hadn't more of these qualities that commonly endear man to man, than our articled clerk has, I'd steal a Cheshire cheese, tie it round my neck, and drown myself. [12]
I once showed you on a fragmentary papyrus that belonged to my foster father, Horus Apollo, a heathen demon represented as going forwards, while his head was turned on his neck so that the face and eyes looked behind him. [10]
But how can ye go back--you that's rolled in that sewer--to the loveliest woman that ever trod the neck o' the world! [11]
I could have wrung his neck, and I didn't speak to her for a month. [9]
I'll take and wring your neck for you one of these days, Noel Rainguesson. [5]
But into the workshop came the moist, fragrant smell of the acacia and the maple, and a long brown lizard stretched its neck sleepily across the threshold of the door opening into the valley. [11]
And how the woman with the red band around her neck, the mark of the rope by which she carried the stone, rushed at the other whose eye had been put out! [10]
And I recalled, with mingled bitterness and tenderness, the turn of her head, the down on her neck, the half-revealed curve of her arm.... [9]
Dick was seized with a great passion for examining this curious chain, and, after some preliminary questions, was rash enough to lean towards her and put out his hand toward the neck that lay in the golden coil. [6]
Come here, I will kiss this great scar, on your neck, my brave, faithful fellow, and some day a fair one will follow my example. [10]
He it was who had carried Fatima, the beloved, about his cage by that neck in which Harrik had laid his face so often. [11]
The golden cord which she wore round her neck at the great party was still there. [6]
The platysma myoides, which is well developed on the neck, belongs to this system. [1]
Kiechel says that when the criminal was driven in the cart under the gallows, and left hanging by the neck as the cart moved from under him, his friends and acquaintances pulled at his legs in order that he might be strangled the sooner. [4]
But both arms were clasped round his neck now. [4]
Very strict precautions were adopted to prevent those who thought more of the golden angel hung round the neck by a white ribbon, than of relief of their bodily infirmities, from making too many calls, as they sometimes attempted to do. [6]
But be danged well sure that you've got the bulge on iniquity here; for gen'lemen with pistols out in the street is one thing, and sittin' weavin' a rope in a court-room for a man's neck is another thing,' says Freddy Tarlton here. [11]
We get so we would rather Gladys would fall out of the book and break her neck than do it again. [5]
Nay, or ever we had ceased he had taken his foot from the stag's neck, and at length we walked with him back to the forest lodge, half amused, yet half grieved, with the mocking words he tormented us with. [10]
The stallion's neck was stretched, his shoes rang on the cobbles, and my eyes were fixed on a narrow space between carriages coming together. [9]
The old man was stretched beside her, and with her hand upon his neck she lay and dreamed. [12]
Just as he was stooping over the fire, as Gordineer did, I sprang upon him, clasping him about the neck, and bringing him to the ground. [11]
Her scant hair was now pure white, her dress seemed to have fallen away from her wasted neck, which was like a trefoil column. [9]
The magnificent star was missing; in its place she wore at the square-cut neck of her dress two beautiful halfblown roses, and her mirror had showed her how becoming they were. [10]
Around her neck was hung a heavy rope of pearls. [9]
Round her neck was a golden torque, a round, cord-like chain, such as the Gaols used to wear; the "Dying Gladiator" has it. [6]
Here was a vain, naturally indolent half-breed, whose life had made for selfishness and independence, giving his neck willingly to a man's heel, serving with blind reverence, under a voluntary vow. [11]
Atossa, with her usual impetuosity, fell on the neck of the friend she had so sorely missed during his absence; the queen gave him her hand, and Nitetis met him like a loving daughter. [10]
I was high up an' could see how the steers kept spillin' by twos an' threes over into the wash. Cairns put his hoss to a place thet was too wide fer any hoss, an' broke his neck an' the hoss's too. [13]
Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. [2]
He went down under the hoofs of the enraged animal, as his huge boar- hound, always with him, fastened on the moose's throat, dragged him to the ground, and tore gaping wounds in his neck. [11]
One hand lay under her head, hidden among the thick dark brown hair, the other clasped unconsciously a little amulet of green stone, which hung round her neck. [10]
The doctor gave Ulrich many an admonitory word, his wife kissed him, and as a parting remembrance hung a small gold ring, with a glittering stone, about his neck, and old Rahel gave him a kerchief full of freshly-baked cakes to eat on his way. [10]
Look at them twistin' the neck o' war! [11]
A pair of turtle doves over their heads were less indifferent to the sun's rays than they, for the birds had closed their eyes, and the head of the mother bird was resting languidly against the dark collar round her mate's neck. [10]
That done, she turned to the old man with a lovely smile upon her face--such, they said, as they had never seen, and never could forget--and clung with both her arms about his neck. [12]
The horse suddenly turned straight towards her, came over slowly, and, with arched neck, dropped his head on her shoulder. [11]
There now, you turned Metivier out by the scruff of his neck because he is a Frenchman and a scoundrel, but our ladies crawl after him on their knees. [2]
This was particularly true of Joshua, whose low, turned-down collar revealed a porous, brick-red, and extremely virile neck, and whose clothes were creased at the knees and across the back. [9]
Yet, when she tried to understand it all, her head pained her so, and she turned so giddy, that she clutched the neck of the ass to save herself from falling. [10]
The other came towards the hospital at a quick trot, drew bridle very near Jasmine's window, slid to the ground, said a soft word to his charger, patted its neck, and, turning, made for the door of the hospital. [11]
Yes--on; still on towards the goal; away over ruins and stones, through blood and dust, till she bowed her proud neck, crushed and beaten, and sued for mercy. [10]
I made the toss, and landed the mess just on the edge of the shaft and it all came back on my head and down the back of my neck. [5]
And when I told him my errand, he wept on my neck, and said he had obtained unlimited leave of absence for you from the Paris commissioners. [9]
Tabus willingly submitted to this act of violence, and passing her thin left arm around her son's bull neck with her free hand, patted his bearded cheeks, wrinkled brow, and bushy, almost white hair. [10]
It is joined to the main by a low neck. [5]
Mr. Linder appealed to the House, but, before the question was put, withdrew his appeal, saying he preferred to let the gentleman go on; he thought he would break his own neck. [7]
He was prompt to take up any poor devil's quarrel and risk his neck to right him. [5]
But he managed to study him pretty well,--first his face, then his neck and shoulders, the set of his arms, the narrowing at the loins, the make of his legs, and the way he moved. [6]
The saddle began to slip, and I took him round the neck and laid close to him, and began to pray. [5]
Venters leaned forward to put his hand on Wrangle's neck, then backward to put it on his flank. [13]
And now list to me; aw'm not goin' to eat dirt, and aw'm goin' to give you the lie, and aw'm goin' to break your neck, if I swing for it to-morrow, Jim Faddo. [11]
She was glad to have Ulrich clasp her so firmly, so she pressed her cheek closer to his, loosened her fingers from his neck, caressingly stroked his face with her cold hand, and murmured: "You are kind, Ulrich, and I love you! [10]
As she started to do so, he hastened to prevent her, but, utterly surprised, he saw the horse whinny to her cheek, and arch his neck under her white palm--it was very white. [11]
The cords began to beat and throb in his neck and on his forehead, and his eyes gave out fire like flint on an arrow-head. [11]
He was not to be daunted, attacked them too, split the skull of one, wounded another in the arm and was taking aim for a third blow, when he felt a cord round his neck. [10]
To liken him to a clothing store model of a well-built, broad-shouldered man with a firm neck, a handsome, rather square face not lacking in colour and a conventional, drooping moustache would be slanderous; yet he did suggest it. [9]
Only a short time ago she had frankly thrown her arms around his neck if she wanted him to gratify a wish or forgive an offence without ever receiving a response to her affection. [10]
We stay here till Sep. 10; then maybe a week at Indian Neck for sea air, then home. [5]
The blood rushed through her veins in a hot tide at the thought; she could have laughed aloud and fallen on the neck of every one she met. [10]
Some of them threw him out neck and crop. [9]
Then Daphne herself threw her arms around his neck with fervent devotion. [10]
She had never thought herself good looking, and now--it was astonishing!--she seemed to have changed, and she saw with pride that her arms and neck were shapely, that her dark hair fell down in a cascade over her white shoulders to her waist. [9]
How the poor thing had trembled and moaned after the executioner's assistant hung the heavy stone around her neck! [10]
For a time they were locked, straining terribly, and then the neck of the champion went with a snap and he lay dead in the middle of the green. [11]
In the moment there was a wild burst of joyous laughter, a pair of round young arms were flung about Conrad's neck and a sweet voice cried: "There, Conrad mine, thy kind words kill me--the farce shall go no further! [5]
They came to their knees on the ground, where they clutched and strained for a wild minute, Valmond desperately fighting to keep the huge bony fingers from his neck. [11]
A vein in the young man's long thin neck swelled like a cord and went blue behind the ear, and suddenly his face flushed. [2]
Behind it was the wilderness of scrub, in which a fugitive would soon starve; in front was the narrow neck, with a cordon of chained dogs across it, and a line of lanterns, and a fence of living guards, armed. [5]
A stroke of the vast paw, a smothered roar as the teeth gave into the neck of the beautiful Fatima, and then--no more. [11]
I have ridden the sorrel of the Dakoon often; he has pressed it on me; I will go to the master of his stud, and I will ride to the Neck of Baroob. [11]
She rolled up the sleeves of her dress, she turned down its prim collar and neck, and glanced from her glass to the portrait, from the portrait back to the glass. [6]
I was in the simplest and comfortablest of gymnast costumes--flesh-colored tights from neck to heel, with blue silk puffings about my loins, and bareheaded. [5]
She well knew the silver chain with the blue turquoises, that rested on the plump neck. [10]
Take care that the rope hangs about the neck of the guilty. [10]
Many and many's the restless night I've wanted to take you by the neck. [5]
In front of the portico was a saddled horse, craning his long neck at two panting hounds stretched on the ground. [9]
Presently she took the perforated head, or "rose," from the neck of the watering-pot, and the full stream poured out in a round, solid column. [6]
We were about the only ones there that went high neck. [8]
In the meantime, the one who brought it, by cutting the neck of the head, caused that also to bleed. [5]
It must make the neck uncommonly stiff, methinks, to have a knightly escutcheon on door and breast, and yet be able to fling florins and zecchins broadcast without offending the devil by an empty purse. [10]
The clefts on the neck in the embryo of man shew where the branchiae once existed. [1]
Think that by the neck and the tail, and the divil absolve ye. [11]
The Marchioness changed the motion of her head, which had not yet left off nodding, and suddenly began to shake it from side to side, with a vehemence which threatened to dislocate her neck. [12]
Age about 45--and the most picturesque of men, when he sits in his fluttering work-day rags, humped forward into a bunch, with his aged slouch hat mashed down over his ears and neck. [5]
Swiftly but silently the man reached down and hauled Eliphalet to the sidewalk by the nape of the neck. [9]
As we passed the light-ship I added an ulster and tied a handkerchief around the collar to hold it snug to my neck. [5]
With none of the impulse that usually marked her actions, she put her arms round Guida's neck and kissed her, saying with a subdued intensity: "I'd go through fire and water for you. [11]
Gaston spoke to the horse, patted his neck, and gave him to the groom. [11]
But she stopped the horse and acquiesced by slipping her arms into the coat, and he felt upon his hand the caress of a stray wisp of hair at her neck. [9]
The pose of the head on the neck, too, as she turned toward him seemed remarkably fine. [10]
He sprang on the hammock- nettings, put the noose of the hanging-rope round his neck, and said to the men who advanced menacingly: "'If you will return to your duty, you may hang me at the yard-arm! [11]
Every man in the garrison had killed at least one of Pango Dooni's men, and every man of them was known from the Kimar Gate to the Neck of Baroob, where Pango Dooni lived and ruled. [11]
The horse with the craning neck, the liveried servant at the bridle, the listless young gentleman with the shiny boots reclining on the horse-block, and above him, under the portico, the grand lady whose laugh had made me sad. [9]
When he persisted, the Chinaman opened his loose blue jacket and showed a ten-dollar gold-piece on a string around his neck. [11]
Then he pushed the bushy grizzled hair, which hung in disorder over his neck and face, out of his eyes, and said cheerfully: "No man is more than man, and many men are less. [10]
Again he examined the body, and ran his fingers over the face and neck. [11]
Detricand was stanching the blood at his temple with the scarf from his neck. [11]

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