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Sentences ending with searching

The music in the next room was soft, persistent and searching. [11]
He did not see Jo's face--it was in a mist--he was searching, searching, searching. [11]
Her eyes are searching. [9]
Ah, there ain't many left, now, that's got hope enough, or strength enough, either, to go on searching. [5]
Norice come into her own room the next afternoon, and found detectives searching. [11]
When this was finished they joined the maidens in the train of the lamenting Isis and wandered on the shore with them, singing and searching. [10]
Suddenly one of Dyck's supporters exclaimed he had picked up a small piece of ribbon, evidently dropped to guide those who might come searching. [11]
She gazed round, and then made another tour of the hill, searching. [11]

Short sentences using searching

What was she searching for? [9]

More example sentences with the word searching in them

The Roman, a worthy man, looked at her with a benevolent, but searching gaze. [10]
You do your work in the same old delicate and delicious and forceful and searching and perfect way. [5]
It was flooded with level, yellow rays of light that seemed to be searching the corners in vain for dust. [9]
They kept up with him, in the fascination of the sight, to the next corner, where he turned down the side street still searching the gutter. [8]
Nobody watched Elsie with a more searching eye than her cousin, Dick Venner. [6]
When her eyes were not thus busy, they were searching the lee of the hillside round for yellow lilies, and the valley below for the campion, the daffodil, and the thousand pretty ferns growing in profusion there. [11]
Some searching questions were asked, when it turned out that these lads were as glib as parrots with the "rules," but could not reason out a single rule or explain the principle underlying it. [5]
The anti-aircraft guns were already searching the sky for the invaders. [9]
One day he went searching for Kitty at her favourite retreat, a little knoll behind and to the left of the house, where a half-dozen trees made a pleasant resting-place at a fine look-out point. [11]
Student as he was, he had met a man whose knowledge of the Napoleonic life was vastly more intricate, searching and vital than his own. [11]
But while she was still searching hastily for another he returned the first, saying: "I understand only too well your reluctance to allow such confidential effusions to play the part of defender. [10]
Poor Leos, who was somewhere in the crowd, looking as attentively as if he was searching for a needle in a haystack; here is stood, wondering to himself why Ambulinia was not there. [5]
Yes, the case was plain to Hendon--he must lose no more time in Southwark, but move at once through Kent, toward Monk's Holm, searching the wood and inquiring as he went. [5]
All day they waded with numbed feet vainly searching for a footing in the slime. [9]
I was searching under his shirt, wet with blood, when I became aware of voices at my side. [9]
Old Karay had turned his head and was angrily searching for fleas, baring his yellow teeth and snapping at his hind legs. [2]
He had come to represent to her the great thing she had missed in life, missed by feverish searching in the wrong places, digging for gold where the ground had glittered. [9]
She came close to him, and, after searching his eyes, said with a smile that almost hurt him, "When I have found him, I will bring him to your camp-fire. [11]
And Anne, turning to him timidly, gave him a long, searching look. [9]
I was searching to find the innermost soul of you. [11]
Presently I began to detect a most evil and searching odor stealing about on the frozen air. [5]
Whatever Fay seemed to be searching for in Lassiter's sun-reddened face and quiet eyes she evidently found. [13]
He was talking to a vague audience, into that space where a man's eyes look when he is searching his own mind, discovering it to himself. [11]
The music floated through the room and down the hillside, a searching sweetness. [11]
But who is this, erect, compact, aggressive, searching with a confident eye the wilderness of upturned faces? [9]
He was viewing this crisis of his life as one sees a human face in the wide searching light of a great fire. [11]
When she arrived they let her in without searching her, and before the door could be closed she whipped out a couple of revolvers, and she and her lord marched forth defying the party. [5]
The only world they knew was this cool room, whose oak floors were browned by the slow searching stains of Time, and darkened by the footsteps of six generations that had come and gone through the old house. [11]
They wandered through the quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities, searching out the tumbledown French houses; and Honora was never tired of imagining the romances and tragedies which must have taken place in them. [9]
And for Venters the outlook before him was in some sense similar to a feeling of his future, and with searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. [13]
While Susan and the other serving folks, with certain of the retainers brought by our guests, were searching the house through, I hastily did on my shoes and garments for out-door wear, and albeit it was already dusk, I went forth. [10]
Under searching analysis the ostensible self-sacrifice disappeared? [5]
How bright were the large blue eyes which now gazed at Barbara with an expression far more searching than joyous. [10]
She was searching the heart of another, not only because she was suspicious, but because she wanted to know herself better. [11]
I explained to the head chaleteer just how the thing happened, and that I was only searching for the road, and would certainly have given him timely notice if I had known he was up there. [5]
The more subtle, the deeper part of her, the searching soul never to be content with superficial reasons and the obvious cause, these he did not know--was he ever to know? [11]
It struck me that I never had met a man whose words and manner were at times so charged with pathos; it was artistic in its searching simplicity. [11]
From some observations that fell from the mouth of Griggs I gathered that he was searching for an island which evaded him; and each day added to his vexation at not finding it. [9]
There was something terribly deliberate in her strangeness; it was full of awe to the beholder, more searching and painfully pitiful than melancholy. [11]
Her great beauty strengthened his plan of uniting her to his oldest son, and when the latter entered the house he cast a searching glance at him. [10]
Whilst I was still searching, the door opened, the voices fell calm, and Dorothy came in bearing a candle in each hand. [9]
These doors fitted so snugly and continued the figures of the paper so unbrokenly, that when they were closed one had to go feeling and searching along the wall to find them. [5]
After staggering into Smolensk which seemed to them a promised land, the French, searching for food, killed one another, sacked their own stores, and when everything had been plundered fled farther. [2]
The mist, though sluggish and slow to move, was of a keenly searching kind. [12]
At last he slowly rose, rubbed his eyes as if waking from some confused dream, drew himself up proudly, and scanned the place with searching eyes. [10]
Or if Polykarp should have been searching for her on the mountain in this storm, and in the darkness should have fallen into some abyss, or have been struck by the lightning? [10]
Then, as though she were doomed that day to complicity, her eyes chanced to encounter an appealing glance from the Vicomte, who was searching with the courage of despair for an English word, which his hostess awaited in stoical silence. [9]
As soon as she entered, Pierre's features, which had been gloomy, suddenly lighted up, and while still searching for the papers he glanced at her several times. [2]
All at once she appeared to be agitated; she looked at the basket, then around, as if there were some fearful presence about her which she was searching for with her eager glances. [6]
Its note is self-analysis, searching, unsparing, leaving no room for the deception of self or of the world. [4]
He did not see the searching gray eyes of his old friend upon him. [9]
The vision was searching the store with her eyes, and pouting. [9]
The sergeants are searching the roads; I shall summon your foresters and mine, and put them under Count Frohlinger's command. [10]
There had been searching for the ship, but none had found it; but he, Cassandro Biatt, had sure knowledge, got from an obi-man, of the place where it lay. [11]
The force and searching energy and fire in it stole through his veins, and drove from him the sense of futility and despondency which had so deeply added to his trouble. [11]
It is so searching and so effective that it keeps the general level of Russian intellect and education down to that of the Czar. [5]
You writers go searching all round for materials, just as painters do, fit for your genius. [4]
Still, as he sat brooding and searching the very depths of his soul, he could not help feeling that he had certainly acted rightly and would do the same again, even at the risk of losing her. [10]
Fearfully searching the room for him, her gaze was held by a figure in the recess of the window at the back of the room. [9]
Then we saw poor old Father Peter wandering along back, with his head bent down, searching the ground. [5]
The book of philosophy was underlined and interlined on every page, and every margin had comment which showed a mind of the most singular simplicity, searching wisdom, and hopeless confusion, all in one. [11]
Who were those people who went wandering about among the slain, turning first to this side and then to that, as if searching for something? [10]
She would wait patiently searching for the right term, until it presented itself to her. [14]
Helena blasted it out when she was searching for the true Cross. [5]
Then she sprang out of bed, and, feeling for the matches, lit a candle on the small table beside her bed, and moved it round searching for what she thought to be a cat. [11]
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]
I was spying out from under the shade of my hat brim, searching the floor for leather. [5]
In the midst of their rattling came two soldiers, who ordered them about, and with much blustering began searching here and there, and chucking the maids under the chins, as I could tell by their little bursts of laughter, and the "La M'sieu's! [11]
The fatal wrangle of the pumas there below, the sound of it, would be in his ears for ever, but he had come above it; the searching vigour of the sun entered into his bones. [11]
He was conscious of the perfume from Jasmine's cloak searching his senses, even in this hour when these things that mattered--the things of Fate--were so enormously awry. [11]
Gilfaron--The first--the language of the Garden, sire, When man spoke with the naked searching thought, Unlacquered of the world. [11]
About the end of July, Emily and Charlotte had made a journey to Manchester for the purpose of searching out an operator; and there they heard of the fame of the late Mr. Wilson as an oculist. [14]
In the centre of it stood a stone church with its belfry; but our searching eyes alighted on the spot to the southward of it, near the river. [9]
A misty veil obscured the clear, searching gaze she had kept steadfastly upon the purple slope and the dim lines of canyons. [13]
It was impossible not to note what a fine figure Hungerford made, as he stood erect in the bow, his hand over his eyes, searching the water. [11]
Neither mental bias nor interest gained by any searching examination of the science to which I wished to devote myself, turned the scale. [10]
But I can never forget his searching, cruel look when he recognized me! [11]
Feverishly searching with my foot for Tom's shoulder, I seized the spikes at the top, clambered over them, paused, surveyed the empty area below me, destitute even of a sentry, and then let myself down with the aid of the cross-bars inside. [9]
The young curate, Mr. Tompkinson, for the most part did the diving; or, in scriptural language, the searching after the lost sheep. [9]
When at last morning came I breakfasted early, searching the newspapers for accounts of the occurrence at Templar's Hall; and the fact that these were neither conspicuous nor circumstantial was in the nature of a triumph of self-control on the part of editors and reporters. [9]
Again, at the moment when she thought her belief in Clarence and her love for him at last secure, she found herself drawing searching comparisons between him and the quieter young Bostonian. [9]
Somehow, as he met the searching eye of the rector, he was unable to see the man as a visionary, but beheld--and, to do him justice--felt a twinge of respect for an adversary worthy of his steel. [9]
The injuries Mr. Marmaduke had done me were the first to collect, since I was searching for the cause of my resentment against him. [9]
The physician stood many moments glaring and glooming upon the scene before him; studying it, analyzing it, searching out its genesis; then he put up his hand and beckoned to the aunts. [5]
He saw Oldring's magnificent eyes, inquisitive, searching, softening. [13]
Suddenly, the financier launched forth on a series of shrewd and searching questions about Bremerton, its church, its people, its industries, and social conditions. [9]
I do not know that chemistry, searching for protoplasm, is able to discover the tendency of vegetables. [4]
Stephen felt those keen eyes searching him from their hiding-place. [9]
Its history and its associations are its chiefest charm, in any eyes, and the spells they weave are feeble in the searching light of the sun. [5]
He had thumbed it well in past years, searching it for passages of violence and denunciation. [11]
Joan made searching inquiries, and satisfied herself that the word was true, then she made this annoying remark: "You have done well, and you have my thanks. [5]
In searching round in the little hollows Venters, much to his relief, found water. [13]
The avocat was in the house searching for a book. [11]
After searching awhile in the dark, he found a ladder the gardener had left against a tree; after much straining, we carried the ladder to the house and set it up under one of the windows of the drawing-room. [9]
In his eyes, however, was the wanderlust which had possessed him for three long years, in which he had been searching for what to him was more than Eldorado, for it was hope and home. [11]
Every day, every hour, of Myrtle's absence was not only a source of anxiety and a cause of useless searching but it gave room for inventive fancies to imagine evil. [6]
Antinous, searching for his master, had wandered about in the crowd. [10]
Then they told him, each with his own tongue, and he smiled upon them and questioned them of all their speech by the way; and they answered him all honestly and with gladness, for the searching of their hearts was a joy and relief. [11]
But Eva stopped her, and learned that she was searching for Katterle, who could neither be found in her room, or anywhere else. [10]
The modulations of her voice revealed again the searching, inquisitive spirit within her, and his responded to the intensity of the interest in Mr. Bentley. [9]

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