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Sentences starting with pressed

Pressed by the throng against the high backs of the chairs, the orators spoke one after another and sometimes two together. [2]
Pressed to name the exact spot, they could only conjecture, but near enough to be heard on the crossing. [9]
Pressed a little, he consented to relate something of the systematic manner in which he had gone about to secure this nomination: how he had visited in person the homes of his fellow-townsmen. [9]

Sentences ending with pressed

I've got to turn out these machines in order that our soldiers may have shrapnel to fight with, and what with enlistments and the determination of unscrupulous workmen to take advantage of the situation, I'm pretty hard pressed. [9]
And to keep the pace,--nay, to set it, the nobility and landed gentry were sore pressed. [9]
Did you leave the old one to be pressed? [8]
He had never been so sorely pressed. [5]
Time pressed. [10]

Short sentences using pressed

Have you pressed them? [11]
Ferrol's fingers tightened, pressed inwards. [11]
Mr. Carroll pressed me likewise. [9]
I'm a pressed man. [11]
Her hand pressed his convulsively. [9]
He pressed his hands together. [9]
Faith pressed his hand. [11]
We pressed on. [9]
She pressed it. [2]
I pressed him. [11]

Sentences containing pressed two or more times

What was it within me that pressed and pressed until I thought I could bear the pain of it no longer? [9]
The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still harder from behind. [2]
You know that for me there is nothing in life but you, and to suffer with you is the greatest happiness for me," and he took her hand and pressed it as he had pressed it that terrible evening four days before his death. [2]

More example sentences with the word pressed in them

Some of our writers have pressed rather too hard on the tendencies of the human soul toward evil as such. [6]
His eyes filled with tears, and he bent as tenderly as a father might over the pale face, and pressed a gentle kiss on the bloodless lips of the senseless youth. [10]
Three mendicant friars, with overflowing pouches, pressed past them, and two others were still standing with the men and the maidservants assembled in the light of the lanterns. [10]
Yet even while, with one hand resting on the back of the chair and the other pressed upon her panting bosom, she was striving to find the right words, Don John's glance brightened. [10]
I was pressed with invitations to go into the country to ride this or that horse. [9]
I am pressed with a difficulty not yet mentioned--one which threatens division among those who, united, are none too strong. [7]
The letters the winged messengers had brought were read aloud from the windows of the town-hall, and the courage of the populace, pressed to the extremest limits of endurance, flickered up anew and helped them bear their misery. [10]
The Comtesse Chantavoine, who still held her hand, pressed it, though herself cold as ice with sickness of spirit. [11]
Is it those who resist the measure, or those who causelessly brought it forward, and pressed it through, having reason to know, and in fact knowing, it must and would be so resisted? [7]
It was Mathilde who ordered her dinner and pressed her to eat. [9]
It was Virginia who first caught sight of the new dome of the Capitol through the slanting rain, but she merely pressed her lips together and said nothing. [9]
A fleet of white clouds, like ships pressed with sail, hurried across the sky as though racing for some determined port; and the shadows they cast along the hillsides accentuated the high brightness of the day, emphasized the vivid and hateful beauty of the landscape. [9]
They watched him while, with a firm step, he crossed the room and pressed a button in the wall, and waited. [9]
The mode in which this knowledge was pressed into service on all occasions to express his meaning and illustrate his thoughts was quite unexampled. [5]
The pilgrims took what was left of the hallowed ruin, and we pressed on toward the goal of our crusade, renowned Jerusalem. [5]
Many readers remember what old Rogers, the poet, said: "When I hear a new book talked about or have it pressed upon me, I read an old one. [6]
I have known what it was to dream of the great passions; but since my mother kissed me before she died, no woman's lips have pressed my cheek,--nor ever will. [6]
Both curly heads were turned towards the side, and rested on a dimpled hand pressed upon the silken pillow. [10]
Others, whose relations were more intimate, pressed forward to enjoy the mournful satisfaction of being the first messengers of evil tidings. [10]
Those who entered went up one by one to the field marshal; he pressed the hands of some and nodded to others. [2]
At evening she went to the station at Fourteenth Street with her father, and stood amongst the people, pressed back by the soldiers, until the trains came in. [9]
Besides, all the weight of care involved in the household preparations pressed on the bride in this case--not unpleasantly, only to the full occupation of her time. [14]
But scarcely had we begun to move, when the expected troops from Leyderdorp pressed forward, their loud San Jago resounding far and wide, while at the same time the old enemy rose from the ditch and attacked us. [10]
Seeing who it was--a widow who, with no demureness, had tried without avail to bring Luke Claridge to her--her lips pressed together in a bitter smile, and she said to her nephew clearly: "Patience Spielman hath little hope of thee, David. [11]
The maiden who was the subject of this whispering, whose purport only a loving glance from the Lady Wendula revealed, pressed her hand upon her heart, whose impetuous throbbing stifled her breath. [10]
In short, she was charming and maddening in her defensive ruses, in her advances and retreats, for I pressed her hard during the four weeks which followed, and in them made four visits. [9]
In truth it was a difficult task, for he pressed me again and again, and when he saw me firm, turned away to wipe his eyes upon his sleeve. [9]
I thought they wanted to breathe the air of this world again in my shape, which I seemed to see as it were empty of myself and of these other selves, like a sponge that has water pressed out of it. [6]
Each day the walls of this cage grew narrower and narrower, each day they pressed nearer and nearer to the unfortunate prisoner, until in despair he died and the dungeon became his coffin. [10]
General Wool still walked the corridors, inexpansive, with Fort McHenry on his shoulders, and Baltimore in his breeches-pocket, and his courteous aid again pressed upon me his kind offices. [6]
She pressed along vigilantly by a descending path, until her feet touched rocky ground. [11]
I was getting very much pressed for time, and I allowed ten minutes only for my visit. [6]
He received no verbal answer to these mute questions, but when Hosea grasped his callous right hand in both his own and pressed it as he would have clasped a friend's, when he bade him farewell with tearful eyes, murmuring: "You shall hear from me! [10]
The latter are used for fuel, and the former are pressed for their oil. [4]
The prisoner, mounted upon a tall steed, had pressed him very closely; nay, the Eletto's victory was not decided, until a musket-shot had stretched the other's horse on the ground. [10]
Slowly he folded up the letter, pressed it to his lips, and put it in the pocket over his heart. [11]
Presently she was trembling with excitement at the story of how Ranulph had been pressed at St. Malo, and, all that came after until this very day. [11]
He pressed her trembling hands in the way that only faithful friendship shows, and said: "Yes, I know you've come, but tell me what you've come for. [11]
Ramballe emptied his too, again pressed Pierre's hand, and leaned his elbows on the table in a pensive attitude. [2]
She pressed the token, which was sewn into a little bag, to her lips, and thought of her paternal home, and her brothers and sisters. [10]
His lips, pressed together, curled in with a trick they had when he was thinking hard, planning things. [11]
She had managed to turn the knife in the Arab's hand against his own breast, and then suddenly pressed her body against it; but the impulse of the act came near carrying her over also. [11]
He pressed me to share a fowl with him one day, but it would have choked me. [9]
Many pressed forward to shake hands with him. [11]
I am pressed to remove him on the ground that he does not attend to the office, nor in fact pass much time in the Territory. [7]
Why it comes to me now I do not know; but it is here"--she pressed her hand tremblingly to her heart--"and I will not act as though it wasn't here. [11]
Then he turned to me and pressed my hand. [9]
Bess shrank closer to him and closer, found his hands, and pressed them tightly over her ears, and dropped her face upon his shoulder, and hid her eyes. [13]
I forthwith hastened to her, pressed the little packet which Mistress Grosz had given me into her hand--for I had it still hidden in my poke--and, whispered to her: "I had two of them, little Ann; make haste and pour them on the heap. [10]
Herse pressed it to her lips, weeping bitterly; but he smiled up at her, nodding his head and repeating again and again the line from Lucian: "Be comforted: you, too, must soon follow. [10]
She pressed them to her face, and chose one. [9]
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]
She seemed actually to feel in her arms its soft little body pressed against her. [9]
She begged me to be content with the 'no;' then I pressed her harder, till she interrupted me, and owned with proud decision that she preferred some one else. [10]
So she resolved to ask the assistance of the landlady of The Pike, coughed with her handkerchief pressed over her lips, in order not to disturb the sleepers, and turned to leave the room. [10]
Before she had time to consider, he pressed it again, and without hesitation she told him all that had happened--it was so very little, of course--between Detricand and herself. [11]
For the first time the real weight of the problem pressed upon her heavily. [11]
At the same time she pressed her lips so tightly together that her toothless mouth deepened into a hole, and her dim eyes shone with a keen, menacing light. [10]
At the same time he extended his foot in an accidental sort of way, and pressed it on the right hand knob of three which were arranged in a line beneath the table. [6]
But tighter and tighter they pressed against the stand, until it trembled. [9]
The joys that thrill, the ill that thralls, Pressed down on heart and brain- These are the only horologues, The Age's loss or gain. [11]
But in all this it is very plain the Judge evades the only question the Republicans have ever pressed upon the Democracy in regard to Utah. [7]
The crowd enjoyed this episode prodigiously, and pressed forward and craned their necks to see the small rioter. [5]
From the moment they were alone and Natasha came up to him with wide-open happy eyes, and quickly seizing his head pressed it to her bosom, saying: "Now you are all mine, mine! [2]
For an instant they stood so, and then he gently pressed her away from him. [11]
Before taking leave, they pressed her to visit them at Gawthorpe Hall, their residence on the borders of East Lancashire. [14]
In answer to these questions, I should say that I have my beliefs and prejudices; but if I were pressed hard for my proofs of their correctness, I should make but a poor show in the witness-box. [6]
Here horses' hoofs, there large and small feet had pressed the snow, yonder hounds had run, and--Great Heaven!--here, by the tree-stump, red blood stained the glimmering white ground. [10]
Her heart fluttered, then stood still, then flew up in her throat, then grew terribly hot and hurt her, so that she pressed her hand to her bosom as though that might ease it. [11]
Others, Hornecht among them, pressed past him into the yard. [10]
Now he pressed them gratefully, almost tenderly, as he made his way along the shady side of the street towards the great library set in its little park. [9]
They threw open their windows to wave at her, but Virginia pressed her lips and stared straight ahead. [9]
He saw that their jests annoyed him, and feeling his own great happiness doubly in that moment, pressed Darius's hand, saying: "I am so sorry that I cannot be present at your wedding. [10]
So they pressed their horses, and he saw them swallowed by the trees, as darkness gathered. [11]
I rode out the Wilderness Trail, fell in with other travellers, was welcomed by certain old familiar faces at Harrodstown, and pressed on. [9]
The Squire pressed the visitors to let him send for their trunks and urged them to stay at his house, and Alice joined in the invitation, but Philip had reasons for declining. [5]
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]
Now and then, the silence of the house, the solitude of the room, has pressed on me with a weight I found it difficult to bear, and recollection has not failed to be as alert, poignant, obtrusive, as other feelings were languid. [14]
The other, at the sick woman's right, pressed her fair head upon her breast. [10]
Ephriam cowered in the shadow of the tent, from which he had slipped, and pressed his ear close to the wall. [10]
Ariabignes, chief of the Secretaries' "I had scarcely placed these lines in the sleeve of my robe, when the king's mother, with her garments rent, and led by Atossa, pressed hastily into the hall. [10]
And as, at the same time, she again pressed her hand to her bosom with pathetic entreaty, he was suddenly silent, and casting his eyes up to heaven, he sank back on the prisoners' bench, deeply affected. [10]
As part of the same subject, let me say I am now pressed in regard to a pending assessment in St. Louis County. [7]
Often he pressed the ring to his heart, and awaited the first living creature that he might meet, regarding it as a messenger from his father;--if it came to him from the right hand as an encouragement, if from the left as a warning. [10]
The Judge pressed the point of his cane against the stomach of the hypocrite and perjurer. [11]
I set down the plate and the pot before him and pressed the pewter spoon into his hand. [9]
By one of the parrots was a cat made of crockery, and a crockery dog by the other; and when you pressed down on them they squeaked, but didn't open their mouths nor look different nor interested. [5]
For short distances the lowest poverty, the hardest pressed labor, must walk; but March never entered a car without encountering some interesting shape of shabby adversity, which was almost always adversity of foreign birth. [8]
He feels that the improvements of this broad and goodly land are a mighty interest; and he is unwilling to confess to the people, or perhaps to himself, that he has built an argument which, when pressed to its conclusions, entirely annihilates this interest. [7]
As soon as the illustrious Naashon had pressed one of the oldest of these hapless men like a brother to his heart, the other liberated bondsmen had flung themselves into the shepherds' arms and thus, still shouting: "They are coming! [10]
The crowd round the icon suddenly parted and pressed against Pierre. [2]
In the eating-house the huge eater and drinker, who laughingly pressed him to do his part, so as not to make a present to the landlord, had filled Hadrian with repulsion. [10]
The King took the frightened face between his hands, and gazed earnestly and lovingly into it awhile, as if seeking some grateful sign of returning reason there, then pressed the curly head against his breast, and patted it tenderly. [5]
The eyes of the former even grew dim with tears as he pressed a farewell kiss upon Barbara's brow. [10]
Barbara hastily opened the door, but one of her attendants closed it again, and in doing so pressed her gently back into the chair. [10]
On the contrary, the courtiers pressed round him--the brother of the future empress-with the greatest assiduity: the high-priest inquired after his brother Philip; and Seleukus, the merchant, who had come with the deputation, addressed many flattering remarks to him on his sister's beauty. [10]
He had disbanded the corps, but he had not given up the arms, and, for reasons unknown, the Government had not pressed the point, so far as the world knew. [11]
She lay on the bed with her cheek pressed to the guitar, and her eyes hungrily feeding on the face of a woman whose beauty belonged to spheres other than where she had spent the thirteen years of her married life. [11]
The guilds and the armed defenders of the city pressed forward in bands under the linden. [10]
We are told that they pressed around him, kissed his hands and his garments, and shouted and danced for joy, while tears ran down the President's care-furrowed cheeks. [7]

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