Use propped in a sentence
Sentences starting with propped
- Propped against the pillows, pen in hand, with General Grant beside him, they arranged the series with the idea of publication. [5]
More example sentences with the word propped in them
- After my talk with McCann I was sitting on the forecastle propped against the bitts of the Maria's anchor-chain, and looking at the swirling foam cast up by the tug's propeller. [9]
- Krebs was propped up with pillows. [9]
- Manners propped me up in bed and left me for a little, so she said. [9]
- It's got something to do with that--" he pointed to the newspaper propped against the teapot. [11]
- Nast, the cartoonist, then in his first fame, propped a joint tour, Clemens to lecture while he, Nast, would illustrate with "lightning" sketches; but even this could not be considered now. [5]
- Then he propped the stove door to its place by leaning the poker against it, for the hinges had retired from business. [5]
- The wattle wall the men had brought was set up in a semicircle by the Eighth Company as a shelter from the north, propped up by musket rests, and a campfire was built before it. [2]
- The uncarpeted stone stairs and floors, the old drawers propped on wood, were all scrupulously clean and neat. [14]
- To the faint sound of the instrument, which was rather a large one, and which he had propped on the pillow by his side, he was singing, or rather murmuring a long ditty. [10]
- One even becomes reconciled to the cistern presently; this is a mighty cask, painted green, and sometimes a couple of stories high, which is propped against the house-corner on stilts. [5]
- There, I have propped up the wretched thing and there it may lie. [10]
- Her spectacles were propped up on her gray head for safety. [5]
- She made a pathetic figure drooping there, with her sunny hair contrasting so markedly with her white, wasted cheeks and her hands listlessly clasped and her little bare feet propped in the framework of the rude seat. [13]
- We propped ourselves on our elbows at once, to gaze, for we had never seen a mountain railway yet. [5]
- He was lying on his back propped up high, and his small bony hands with their knotted purple veins were lying on the quilt; his left eye gazed straight before him, his right eye was awry, and his brows and lips motionless. [2]
- We occupied an old maple-sugar camp, whose half-rotted troughs were still propped against the trees. [5]
- Then I propped myself against M. Gambetta's back, and raised a rousing "Whoop-ee! [5]
- As she stood, much bent, but propped on her ivory crutches, eagerly following every word of a conversation, she looked as though she were prepared at any moment to spring into the middle of it and interrupt the speaker. [10]
- Thus he remained, motionless and bereft of speech, until she had finished her meal, put everything in its place, and swept the hearth; when he motioned her to bring a chair to the bedside, and, being propped up again, opened a farther conversation. [12]
- Jungles of the mangrove tree stood up out of swamps; propped on their interlacing roots as upon a tangle of stilts. [5]
- He lay with his head propped high on the pillows. [2]
- When one goes flying through London along a railway propped in the air on tall arches, he may inspect miles of upper bedrooms through the open windows, but the lower half of the houses is under his level and out of sight. [5]
- Ah, if it could only be propped up, and then rebuilt! [10]
- He was abed, and had his head propped high on pillows; his face was wasted and colorless, his deep-sunken eyes were shut; his hand, lying on his breast, was talon- like, it was so bony and long-fingered. [5]
- He was propped against the wall, in another room, asleep. [5]
- He leaned for a moment over the gate, and looked through a window into a room where the Avocat sat propped up with cushions in a great chair, staring gloomily at two candles burning on the table before him. [11]
- I made out a bed in the corner, and propped up in the bed a man; but for the moment I was most aware of a pair of eyes that flared up when the man spoke, and died down again when he became silent. [9]
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