Use polly in a sentence
Sentences starting with polly
- Polly Ann replied, with a merry peal of laughter, "You are both jealous of Tom--both of you. [9]
- Polly Ann went up it like a bird, talking all the while to Riley, who blew like a bellows. [9]
- Polly is picking up chestnuts on the sward, regardless of the high wind which rattles them about her head and upon the glass roof of her winter-garden. [4]
- Polly sometimes says to me, "I wish you would call at Bobbin's, and match that skein of worsted for me, when you are in town. [4]
- Polly Ann led the scrawny ponies to the trough, but her eyes snapped with merriment as she listened. [9]
- Polly Ann, water the nags. [9]
- Polly noticed that the beans had not themselves come up in any proper sense, but that the dirt had got off from them, leaving them uncovered. [4]
- Polly Ann was stirring. [9]
- Polly Ann was radiant in a white linen gown, woven and sewed by her own hands. [9]
- Polly says we ought to have one,--a strawberry-festival. [4]
Sentences ending with polly
- Here he is, Polly! [5]
- There, now--why, you look perfectly natural; aging a little, just a little, but you'd have known him anywhere, wouldn't you, Polly? [5]
- Clah to goodness it's de fust time I've sot eyes on 'em, Miss Polly. [5]
Short sentences using polly
- Even Polly Ann was silent. [9]
- Then Polly Ann surprised me. [9]
- I glanced at Polly Ann. [9]
- Polly Ann leaned back. [9]
- It was Polly Ann's. [9]
- Was it Polly Ann's voice? [9]
- Poor Polly Ann! [9]
- Dear Polly Ann! [9]
- Pretty Polly say. [12]
- Polly Ann! [9]
More example sentences with the word polly in them
- The miniature was wrapped now in a silk handkerchief which Polly Ann had bought for me in Lexington. [9]
- Often Polly Ann would draw me to her and whisper: "We'll hold out, Davy. [9]
- Polly, mark my words--in three years from this, Hawkeye'll be a howling wilderness. [5]
- There came a whisper from Polly Ann. [9]
- Once in a while we caught sight of a yellow blaze in a tree, made by himself scarce a month gone, when he came southward alone to fetch Polly Ann. [9]
- To all of which Polly Ann listened with conscious pride, and replied with sallies. [9]
- So one day, when Polly Ann was gone across the ridge, I took down the long rifle from the buckhorns over the hearth, and the hunting knife and powder-horn and pouch beside it, and trudged up the slope to a game trail I discovered. [9]
- I can't tell what they said, though, nor what was the colour of the lady's pegnoir, for I am neither Nancy nor Polly nor the cook--nor Rigby. [11]
- And wondering, likewise, what Polly Ann would do without me. [9]
- He made a vicious dash at me that boded no good, but I slipped behind the hominy block; and Polly Ann, who was like a panther on her feet, dashed at him and gave him a buffet in the cheek that sent him reeling again. [9]
- She stared at us so earnestly that I looked at Polly Ann, and saw her redden and pale. [9]
- Even Tom, intent upon the trail, turned and laughed at Polly Ann as she stood clutching me. [9]
- There was the truck patch, with its yellow squashes and melons, and cabbages and beans, where Polly Ann and I worked through the hot mornings; and the corn patch, with the great stumps of the primeval trees standing in it. [9]
- I got into trouble in San Francisco with the chief mate of the Flying Polly, because I tried to teach him his business. [11]
- She was deft, too, was Polly Ann, and spun from nettle bark many a cut of linen that could scarce be told from flax. [9]
- When I staggered to my feet Polly Ann and Mrs. Cowan and Mrs. Harrod were standing alone. [9]
- I was about to interrupt, but Polly Ann's next remark arrested me. [9]
- Aunt Polly fell to crying and wringing her hands. [5]
- There was no time to think; my great fear was that the devil in the cabin would kill Polly Ann. [9]
- As we rode through the bottom under the pecan trees we talked of Polly Ann, Tom and I, and of our little home by the Salt River far to the southward, where we would live in peace when the campaign was over. [9]
- I stood turning this problem in my mind, subconsciously aware of Cowan's movements: of his yells when he thought he had made a shot, when Polly Ann appeared at the doorway. [9]
- There was the thing in my pocket, still wrapped in Polly Ann's handkerchief. [9]
- The Thatchers were there, the Harpers, the Rogerses, Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, the minister, the editor, and a great many more, and all dressed in their best. [5]
- And then and there we made it all up, in a manner too particular for me to mention; and I never, to this day, heard Polly allude to My Uncle in India. [4]
- Let me raise the vegetables of a nation, says Polly, and I care not who makes its politics. [4]
- When I climb the trees, and throw down the dusky fruit, Polly catches it in her apron; nearly always, however, letting go when it drops, the fall is so sudden. [4]
- It was not the thousand dangers and hardships of the journey across the Wilderness Trail that frightened Polly Ann. [9]
- It was in the shade of this tree that Polly Ann sat watching Tom and me through the mild spring days as we barked the roof, and none ever felt greater joy and pride in a home than she. [9]
- And that day the journey-cakes which Polly Ann had made were untasted by us both. [9]
- I slipped around the corner of the house, seized the pistol, primed it with a trembling hand, and came back to behold Polly Ann, with flaming cheeks, facing them. [9]
- But I think the building of Tom's house was the most joyous occasion of all, and for none in the settlement would men work more willingly than for him and Polly Ann. [9]
- I was on the bed in the cabin looking at the shifts and hunting shirts on the pegs, and Polly Ann would bring a gourdful of clear water from the spring as far as the door. [9]
- Pap, and Judge Thatcher, and Bessie Thatcher, and Jo Harper, and Tom Sawyer, and his old Aunt Polly, and Sid and Mary, and plenty more. [5]
- But Polly says that will not do at all. [4]
- And I knew that Polly Ann was bending over me and calling me. [9]
- There was nothing that I could get Polly that she had not. [4]
- Aunt Polly was tender far beyond her wont, in her good-night to Sid and Mary. [5]
- The pack was taken from the sorrel mare and divided among the party, and Polly Ann made to ride that we might move the faster. [9]
- I feel quite sure that if I had an uncle in Botany Bay, I should never, never throw him up to Polly in the way mentioned. [4]
- His aunt Polly stood surprised a moment, and then broke into a gentle laugh. [5]
- He wavered, and started to slink away, but Tom seized him and said: "Aunt Polly, it ain't fair. [5]
- But as she spun, her wheel made the only music--for Polly Ann sang no more. [9]
- The feast was spread out in the long grass under the trees--sides of venison, bear meat, corn-pone fresh baked by Mrs. McChesney and Polly Ann herself, and all the vegetables in the patch. [9]
- But now he smiled, and patted Polly Ann's brown hand. [9]
- Often did I sit with Polly Ann till midnight in the sentry's tower, straining my ears for the owl's hoot that warned us of his coming. [9]
- They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone. [5]
- It was the shock of the heavy Indian falling on Polly Ann and me as we cowered under the trunk, and even then there was an instant that we stood gazing at him as at a worm writhing in the clay. [9]
- The big man, Riley, regaled Polly Ann. [9]
- Tom walked ahead, rifle on shoulder, then Polly Ann; and lastly I drove the two shaggy ponies, the instruments of husbandry we had been able to gather awry on their packs,--a scythe, a spade, and a hoe. [9]
- But I am quite ready to say to Polly, or any other woman, "You can have the ballot; only leave me the vegetables, or, what is more important, the consciousness of power in vegetables. [4]
- There sat Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, and Joe Harper's mother, grouped together, talking. [5]
- Aunt Polly--Tom's Aunt Polly, she is--and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. [5]
- Light the lamp, Polly, dear, and let's have things cheerful just as glad to see you, Washington, as if you'd been lost a century and we'd found you again! [5]
- I wish, said Polly, "that my uncle in India would send me a camel's-hair shawl, or a string of pearls, each as big as the end of my thumb. [4]
- To be sure, Polly smoothed it off with a rake, and asked me if it was n't nice; and I said it was. [4]
- It wouldn't keep Polly in gloves, let alone dressing her for one of those fashionable entertainments to which we went night after night. [4]
- That very evening Polly Ann had frightened him into obedience by telling him that the Shawanees would get him. [9]
- With a cry Polly Ann flew to the hickory cradle under the tree, Tom sprang for the rifle that was never far from his side, while with a kind of instinct I ran to catch the spancelled horses by the river. [9]
- Would you leave Polly Ann and go to Kaintuckee? [9]
- And our own people, starved and snowbound, went out likewise,--Tom and Polly Ann and their little family and myself to the farm at the river-side. [9]
- I left my own garden yesterday, and went over to where Polly was getting the weeds out of one of her flower-beds. [4]
- I took him over to the oak, and Polly Ann told him the story. [9]
- Captain Sevier bowed over Polly Ann's hand as if she were a great lady, and wished her a happy honeymoon, and me he patted on the head and called a brave lad. [9]
- And I peeped out, and in a little while Tom's Aunt Polly shook herself loose and stood there looking across at Tom over her spectacles--kind of grinding him into the earth, you know. [5]
- Uncle finally grunted out his willingness, and Polly swept away again to prepare for the drive, taking no more notice of me than if I had been a poor assistant office lawyer on a salary. [4]
- And Polly read on, in her melodious voice, which is almost as pleasant to me as the Wasser-fluth of Schubert, which she often plays at twilight; and I looked into the fire, unconsciously constructing stories of my own out of the embers. [4]
- Polly Ann lay on the log bedstead, and she turned to mine a face radiant with a happiness I had not imagined. [9]
- We was setting on the front steps one day about sundown talking this way, when out comes his aunt Polly with a letter in her hand and says: "Tom, I reckon you've got to pack up and go down to Arkansaw--your aunt Sally wants you. [5]
- I will keep old Polly patient and cheered up--the crazy one doesn't need it. [5]
- Then we thought of Tom, and I dared not glance at Polly Ann for fear that the sight of her face would unnerve me. [9]
- There were plenty of these around the taverns to make eyes at Polly Ann and open love to her, had she allowed them; but she treated them in return to such scathing tirades that they were glad to desist--all but one. [9]
- I told her of Temple Bow, and how I had run away; of Polly Ann and Tom, of the Wilderness Trail and how I shot Cutcheon, of the fight at Crab Orchard, of the life in Kentucky, of Clark and his campaign. [9]
- It was, as of old, Polly Ann who ran the mill and was the real bread-winner of the family. [9]
- Polly Ann was not the woman to whimper. [9]
- For it was not given to him to say what he felt; but as I hurried to keep pace with his stride, Polly Ann's words rang in my ears, "Davy, take care of my Tom," and I knew that he, too, was thinking of her. [9]
- As I drew near to Jonesboro my thoughts began to dwell upon that strange and fascinating man who had entertained Polly Ann and Tom and me so lavishly on our way to Kentucky,--Captain John Sevier. [9]
- Having small expectations myself, and having wedded Polly when they were smaller, I have come to feel the full force, the crushing weight, of her lightest remark about "My Uncle in India. [4]
- But not so much as a whimper escaped from Polly Ann. [9]
- One ever memorable morning, early in the crisp autumn, a grizzled man strode up the trail, and Polly Ann dropped the ear of corn she was husking and stood still, her bosom heaving. [9]
- At breakfast, Monday morning, Aunt Polly and Mary were very loving to Tom, and very attentive to his wants. [5]
- Out of the mist the tear-stained face of Polly Ann bent over me. [9]
- This was the message Polly Ann had sent,--a message from little Tom as well. [9]
- Not that Polly meant to be any different, or was, at heart; but, you know, she was so much absorbed in her new life of splendor, and perhaps I was a little old-fashioned. [4]
- You will bring me to Polly Ann that I may thank her for the gift of you,--above all other gifts in the world. [9]
- Polly Ann told me not to let 'em scar' me, Colonel. [9]
- Polly, you've saved me from a crime, and I'll bless you for it always. [5]
- But Polly Ann looked not once to the right or left. [9]
- I recalled with longing my little den, where in the midst of the literary disorder I love, I wrote those stories for the "Antarctic" which Polly, if nobody else, liked to read. [4]
- This man would like to have seen you, Polly Ann. [9]
- I could not leave Polly Ann alone. [9]
- I had not known it since the days when Polly Ann used to mother me. [9]
- But Polly Ann knew, and I knew, that he was thinking of what Chauncey had said to her. [9]
- And if they ketch ye, Polly Ann, just you go along and pretend to be happy, and tear off a snatch of your dress now and then, if you get a chance. [9]
- Polly and I keep up the custom in our simple way, and great is the perplexity to express the greatest amount of affection with a limited outlay. [4]
- Polly Ann baked journeycakes on a hot stone from what we saved under the shiny ivy leaves, and scarce had I spancelled the horses ere Tom returned with a fat turkey he had shot. [9]
- Aunt Polly took it, held it up. [5]
- I was hoeing it this morning for the first time,--it is not well usually to hoe corn until about the 18th of May,--when Polly came out to look at the Lima beans. [4]
- We gathered around it silently, and two great tears rolled down Polly Ann's cheeks as she parted the hair with tenderness and loosened the clenched hands. [9]
- Ye'll not eat it for Polly Ann's sake? [9]
- Polly says she is entirely willing to make a certificate, accompanied with an affidavit, with regard to this hoe; but her habit of sitting about the garden walk, on an inverted flower-pot, while I hoe, some what destroys the practical value of her testimony. [4]
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