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Reaching the shore, we marched together, I singing the refrain of an old French song as we went, En roulant, ma boule roulant, En roulant, ma boule so attracting the attention of the Indians. [11]
Reaching them as they mounted, he fired, and brought down his man--a shivering quack- doctor, who, like his leader, had seen a sight in the tailor-shop that struck terror to his soul. [11]
Reaching the Manor safely, she ran up to her room, arranged her hair, washed her hands, and came again to Ferrol's bedroom. [11]
Reaching his hand outside, he finds a puddle of water soaking through his blanket. [4]
Reaching the cottage in the Place du Vier Prison now, she took from a drawer the letter Philip had written her on the day he first met the Comtesse Chantavoine. [11]
Reaching the large house near the Horse Guards' barracks, in which Anatole lived, Pierre entered the lighted porch, ascended the stairs, and went in at the open door. [2]
Reaching the road, he turned his face again to the hill where his wagon lay hid. [11]
Reaching the hill, he saw the Cure coming from the vestry of the burning church, bearing some vessels of the altar. [11]
Reaching the pine grove, thinned by a famous landscape architect, she paused involuntarily to wonder again at the ultramarine of Sawanec through the upright columns of the trunks under the high canopy of boughs. [9]
Reaching the inn grounds, I climbed the hillside to a favorite haunt of mine, a huge boulder having a sloping back covered with soft turf. [9]

More example sentences with the word reaching in them

I will tell your fortune," she suddenly added, reaching for his hand. [11]
In short, if you will set me down at Saville, I am willing to take my chances of reaching the Canadian Pacific from that point without fear of detection. [9]
The snow-white bird, with the yellow head, scratched seventeen times before Xanthe, and, on reaching Mopsus, twenty-three times, which was perfectly correct. [10]
On reaching Memphis with the wreck of his army, he found the Egyptians in glorious apparel celebrating a festival. [10]
It is in winter the only mode Leukerbad has of communicating with the world; and in summer it is the only way of reaching Albinen, except by a long journey down the Dala and up another valley and height. [4]
It was worth while to learn what had induced her to turn back just before reaching the harbour. [10]
Just as they were reaching the end of their walk, the trumpets rang out once more, reminding her that she was under the same roof with him. [10]
I made my way along the wall, finally reaching a side aisle, whence I could get sight of the platform and the speaker. [9]
Another still stronger wave flowed through the crowd and reaching the front ranks carried it swaying to the very steps of the porch. [2]
His instinctive action was to pull Pepper down to a walk, scarcely analyzing his motives; then he had time, before reaching the spot where their paths would cross, to consider and characteristically to enjoy the unpropitious elements arrayed against a friendship with Victoria Flint. [9]
My legal career was reaching its logical climax, the climax he had foreseen. [9]
Between its windows was a table covered with a long, white cloth reaching to the floor, on which, amidst the silverware and glass, was set a tall vase filled with dusky roses. [9]
One of these waitresses, a woman of forty, had side-whiskers reaching half-way down her jaws. [5]
On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind. [2]
On reaching the vestibule Natasha saw a tall figure in a fur coat unwinding his scarf. [2]
Upon reaching him Venters removed the saddle and bridle. [13]
The evidence reaching us from the country leaves no doubt that the material for the work is abundant, and that it needs only the hand of legislation to give it legal sanction, and the hand of the executive to give it practical shape and efficiency. [7]
This information, reaching us daily, will be very useful as well as satisfactory. [7]
He was reaching up to read it when the Doctor touched him lightly. [6]
It was fitted up as a library, with tall shelves reaching almost to the ceiling. [9]
Not a single unwounded straggler came back to White House from the field, and the number of wounded reaching there up to 11 A.M. Saturday was not large. [7]
That is impossible, unless he was reaching for the driver. [5]
The old man took the two cups in one hand, and, reaching out the other, let Sheila's fingers fall upon his own. [11]
But it fell to the ground before reaching which Paulus had indicated as the mark. [10]
And what was to restrain him from reaching out his hand to pluck the fruit which he desired? [9]
Murray Bradshaw returned to his hotel, and, going to his chamber, summoned all his faculties in state council to determine what course he should follow, now that he had the object of his search certainly within reaching distance. [6]
A road had to be cut, over which a sledge could be hauled, and the hardy mountaineers who undertook the removal were three days in reaching the summit with their burden. [4]
But you sell thousands of my moss-backed old books every year--the youngest of them being books that range from fifteen to twenty-seven years old, and the oldest reaching back to thirty-five and forty. [5]
On reaching the third company he suddenly stopped. [2]
On reaching Ratisbon they were obliged to go to bed, and a terrible night was followed by an equally bad morning. [10]
Well, he got there all safe, and was reaching slow and steady toward the buttons, but he knocked down something that made a noise, and we see him slump down flat an' soft in the bottom, and lay still. [5]
I will bring them forward now only reaching to number four. [7]
As they passed the Temple of Artemis, which was brightly illuminated, reminding them that they were reaching their destination, Alexander at last looked up and begged the lovers to consider their immediate affairs. [10]
It seemed like the story of the youth doomed to be slain by a lion before reaching a certain age, and whose fate found him out in the heart of the tower where his father had shut him up for safety. [6]
The news of the probable advent of Mr. Giles Henderson on the field, as well as the tidings of his actual consent to be a candidate, were not slow in reaching Leith. [9]
I returned in the packet ship Utica, sailing from Havre, and reaching New York after a passage of forty-two days. [6]
Worse still are the monstrous doublets, reaching down to the middle of the thighs, so hard quilted, stuffed, bombasted, and sewed that the wearer can hardly stoop down in them. [4]
But on reaching the house her courage failed. [14]
Below these are the gally-hose of silk, velvet, satin, and damask, reaching below the knees. [4]
The escape of the fugitives depended solely upon their reaching the boat unseen, and the surest way to accomplish this was to use the subterranean passage which the architect had again opened. [10]
But on reaching the former place he learned that Gorgias had gone to remove the statues of Cleopatra and Antony from the house of Didymus, and erect them in front of the Theatre of Dionysus. [10]
The Crossing was the first instinctive reaching out of an infant nation which was one day to become a giant. [9]
In speaking of the exalted condition the soul is capable of reaching, he says,-- "Every man's words, who speaks from that life, must sound vain to those who do not dwell in the same thought on their own part. [6]
While, on reaching the end of her walk, she was chalking her soles again, the applause which had accompanied her during her dangerous pilgrimage still rose to her ears, and came-most loudly of all from the stand where Lienhard sat among the distinguished spectators. [10]
General Schenck, on the contrary, believed the service of the force at Winchester was worth the hazard, and so did not positively order its withdrawal until it was so late that the enemy cut the wire and prevented the order reaching General Milroy. [7]
We sailed on the 12th of April, reaching New York on the 14th, as he had planned. [5]
She had broken that nail in reaching out to save something--a vase of roses--that was it!--a vase of roses on a table with a white cloth. [9]
I only know that I descend to the sea there by broad interior flights of steps, which lead through galleries and corridors, and high, vaulted passages, whence extend apartments and caves far reaching into the solid rock. [4]
If the fleet succeeded in reaching the Zoetermere Lake and from thence. [10]
On reaching the street, he pondered over the words in which he should apologize to Doctor Bontius, with a face as sour as if he had wormwood in his mouth; but his eyes and bearded lips smiled. [10]
Meantime Mary was still reaching for the lap-robe. [5]
Yes, and that spirit itself must have felt her own reaching out to it --who can, say? [9]
He did this sometimes willingly, sometimes reluctantly, with greater or less strength, according to the nearness he had attained to his heavenly home; but when he had succeeded in reaching its circle of light, he returned wonderfully invigorated. [10]
On reaching Mr. Smith's, Charlotte put his own letter into his hands; the same letter which had excited so much disturbance at Haworth Parsonage only twenty-four hours before. [14]
On reaching his sleeping-room, the Emperor interrupted him. [10]
Always alert was she, solicitous beyond belief, scanning ever the dial of her watch to know when to give me brandy and physic; or reaching across to feel my temples for the fever. [9]
On reaching Landshut, she had shared during a few hours the little house which the monarch and general had chosen for his lodgings. [10]
The next day she could bear suspense no longer, and set out for Haworth, reaching there just in time to carry the feeble, fainting invalid into the chaise which stood at the gate to take them down to Keighley. [14]
On reaching them, she broke the silence, saying: "Listening, Charmian, is unworthy of a Queen; but if all listeners heard things so painful, one need no longer guard keyholes and chinks of doors. [10]
Barrow placed the second portrait beside the first, and stole another glance while reaching for a third. [5]
On reaching the seashore, my mother made the offering to the sea, and prayed to be pardoned for what we had done. [5]
At times it rose, vibrant with inexpressible feeling, and fell again into gentler, yearning cadences that wrung the soul with a longing that was world-old and world-wide, that reached out towards the unattainable stare--and, reaching, became immortal. [9]
On reaching the rock, We-no-na ran to its summit and standing on its edge upbraided her parents who were below, for their cruelty, and then singing a death-dirge, threw herself from the precipice and dashed them in pieces on the rock below. [5]
Standing upon the Rise, lost in the prospect, was an old, white-haired man in the cassock of a priest, with grey beard reaching nearly to the waist. [11]
Just now, on reaching your order in the case, I telegraphed the same officer withdrawing the suspension, and leave the case entirely with you. [7]
Learned military authorities quite seriously tell us that Kutuzov should have moved his army to the Kaluga road long before reaching Fili, and that somebody actually submitted such a proposal to him. [2]
On reaching home Pierre gave orders to Evstafey--his head coachman who knew everything, could do anything, and was known to all Moscow--that he would leave that night for the army at Mozhaysk, and that his saddle horses should be sent there. [2]
But in reaching perfection, Sri 108 S. B. S. has escaped all that. [5]
Captain Argall, after parting with his consort, without reaching the Bermudas, and much beating about the coast, was compelled to return to Jamestown. [4]
On reaching her own house, Maria attempted to take leave of her companion, but the latter earnestly entreated permission to have an interview with Henrica at once, and could scarcely be convinced that he must have patience until the doctor had given his consent. [10]
Her voice rang out now valiant and clear, now searching and piteous, yet reaching to where the farthermost person knelt, and was lost upon the lake and in the spreading trees. [11]
You've been reaching out for a long time, pasha, and it didn't save the steamer or the cotton-mills; and it didn't save us when we were down by Sobat a while ago, and you sent Halim Bey to teach us to be patient. [11]
Before reaching Sardis our ship was wrecked in a storm. [10]
The fame of our city spread even across the Atlantic, reaching obscure hamlets in Europe, where villagers gathered up their lares and penates, mortgaged their homes, and bought steamship tickets from philanthropists,--philanthropists in diamonds. [9]
But in spite, or perhaps by means, of this rude environment, he grew to be a stalwart giant, reaching six feet four at nineteen, and fabulous stories are told of his feats of strength. [7]
Before reaching the open country the sculptor had to ride through the whole city, with which he was entirely unfamiliar. [10]
Looking out of one of the windows at the back of Dr. Fothergill's house, I saw an immense wooden blind, such as we have on our windows in summer, but reaching from the ground as high as the top of the neighboring houses. [6]
But moving about on this mountain is not a holiday pastime; and we were chiefly anxious to discover a practicable mode of descent into the great wilderness basin on the south, which we must traverse that afternoon before reaching the hospitable shanty on Mud Pond. [4]
On reaching Smolensk on the evening of the fourth of August he put up in the Gachina suburb across the Dnieper, at the inn kept by Ferapontov, where he had been in the habit of putting up for the last thirty years. [2]
My horse shied on reaching your garden-gate, Rhodopis, jaded as he was. [10]
I received congratulations on reaching my eightieth birthday, not only from our circle of Teacups, but from friends, near and distant, in large numbers. [6]
At the junction of the Ohio the Mississippi's depth is eighty- seven feet; the depth increases gradually, reaching one hundred and twenty-nine just above the mouth. [5]
His costume was of the oddest: a long-waisted coat reaching nearly to his heels, short trousers, a flowered silk vest, and a napless hat. [4]
Her boots were of soft, fine leather, reaching clear to her knees. [13]
An upper garment of rich white and gold brocade reaching just below the knees, was fastened round the waist with a girdle of blue and white, the royal colors of Persia. [10]
And some nobility of high emprise, Lady, couldst thou make possible in me; If living 'neath the pureness of thy eyes, I found the key to inner majesty; And reaching outward, heart-strong, from thy hand, Set here and there a beacon in the land. [11]
Even grey-bearded men of dignified bearing, and wives and mothers whose looks augured gentle hearts thrust back the few hapless foes who had succeeded in reaching the land on the ruins of the war-chariots or baggage-wagons. [10]
Tell me what number your force reaching Front Royal will amount to. [7]
But he had not written half-a-dozen words when, reaching over to the inkstand to take a fresh dip, he happened to raise his eyes. [12]
Why did he not take up a position before reaching Fili? [2]
Whenever he is not shying at things, or reaching after a fly, he wants to do that yet. [5]
The story is not managed with much skill, but it has variety enough of incident and character, and is told with so much liveliness that few will be inclined to lay it down before reaching the conclusion. [6]
Between Arles and Nimes (and Avignon again,) we shall be till Saturday morning--then rail it through on that day to Ouchy, reaching the hotel at 11 at night if the train isn't late. [5]
His heart had never throbbed faster or with more joyous anticipation than on the nocturnal ride which led him to his father and the woman he loved, and on reaching his goal, instead of the utmost happiness, he now found only bitter disappointment. [10]
After reaching home Natasha did not sleep all night. [2]
On reaching the Marienthurm she learned that only a barn and a cow stable had b@en destroyed by the flames. [10]
We propose to leave here for New York Oct. 21, reaching Hartford 24th or 25th. [5]
We expect to leave here for home Sept. 4, reaching there the 8th--but we may be delayed a week. [5]
On reaching a large oak tree that had not yet shed its leaves, he stopped and beckoned mysteriously to them with his hand. [2]
I did not know what weariness meant, and when, on reaching Gottingen, I learned that the students' coffee-house was still closed and that no one would arrive for three or four days, I went to Cassel to visit the royal garden in Wilhelmshohe. [10]

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