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Sentences ending with shifting

My knapsack troubled me, for it was loose, and kept shifting. [11]

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The crowd sways with the rise and fall of the shifting, testimony, in sympathetic interest, and hangs upon the dicta of the judge in breathless silence. [5]
He surrounded her with precautions, that Nature might have every opportunity of cunningly shifting the weights from the scale of death to the scale of life, as she will often do if not rudely disturbed or interfered with. [6]
Pierre had spoken with a slow force and precision, yet, as he went on, his eyes almost became fixed on those shifting flames, and a deep look came into them, as he was moved by his own eloquence. [11]
With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
It depends on what you hear; hammering and knocking--that's bad; but a sound of shifting grain is good and one sometimes hears that, too. [2]
With a pen we can only approximate the appearance of the shifting grains at any one time. [9]
Above, an uncertain, watery moon flew in and out among the shifting clouds; and now and then a shot came through the mist and the half dusk, telling of some poor fugitive fighting, overtaken, or killed. [11]
How long I was gazing at the shifting coast I know not, for a strange wildness was within me that made me forget all else, until suddenly I became conscious of a presence at my side, and turned to behold the captain. [9]
Besides, it was very interesting to have Mr. Morgan's point of view of Washington, and to see the shifting panorama through his experience. [4]
Master Gridley could usually detect the shifting action, but the young man's features and voice never betrayed him. [6]
Only it had to talk with its face alone; and such speaking eyes, such rapid alternations of feeling and shifting expressions of thought as flitted over its face, I have never seen in any other human countenance. [6]
I drew aside to let a stately train of beauty and of fashion descend, and saw it sweep through the hall, and enter the drawing-rooms, until it was lost in a sea of shifting color. [4]
He reined Wrangle to a walk, halted now and then to listen, and then proceeded cautiously with shifting and alert gaze. [13]
The moonlight trembled through the shifting leaves. [9]
He slipped in there, avoiding the crowded lobby with its shifting groups and its haze of smoke,--plainly to be seen behind the great plates of glass,--went upstairs, and gained room Number. [9]
Standing up in the red wagon he looked round for someone whom, for a moment, he did not see in the slowly shifting crowd. [11]
I had reached the dock and was making my way through the hurrying and shifting groups toward the steamer train when I saw Maude. [9]
It appears, then, that progress has, after all, been with the shifting world, that has been all this time going to pieces, rather than with the world that has been permanent and unshaken. [4]
Her eyes were strange, baffling, smouldering, yellow-brown, shifting, yet not shifty: eyes with a history. [9]
The air was so still by times that you can hear the rustle of the stars and the shifting of the northern lights; but the cold at night caught you by the heart and clamp it--Mon Dieu, how it clamp! [11]
It is not so much the accumulation of money that is mischievous in this country, for the most stupid can see that fortunes are constantly shifting hands, but it is the use that is made of the leisure and opportunity that money brings. [4]
The laugh was shifting to the other side of their mouths most palpably. [5]
I thought of shifting the lameness to the right lower limb, but even that would be seen through. [6]
There was no shifting of ground, nor inconsistency of testimony between the new piece of evidence and what he originally introduced. [7]
The years had seen many shifting scenes in their companionship; they had been as often at war as at peace; but they had respected each other, each after her own fashion; and now they had a real and mutual regard. [11]
It does not seem as if one could ever get tired of watching this moving show, this shining and shifting spectacle . [5]
I had no reason to admire Doltaire, and yet to this hour his handsome face, with its shadows and shifting lights, haunts me, charms me. [11]
Sometimes, when the place is left entirely to myself, and the servants who are putting it to rights and, as it were, shifting the scenes, I get a glimpse of the reality of all the pomp and parade of the services. [4]
And this shifting panorama continues until, towards evening, behold, on a hill, Berne, shining through showers, the old feudal round tower and buildings overhanging the Aar, and the tower of the cathedral over all. [4]
She seemed like one in a vague shifting, agonizing dream. [11]
The shifting ooze of the shore had hardened to stone, and the light west wind, which now rose and allowed of their hoisting the sail, swept clouds of white dust before it. [10]
The shifting application of sympathy is a very queer thing in this world. [4]
Imagine the benefits of so admirable a system in a piece of river twelve or thirteen hundred miles long, whose channel was shifting every day! [5]
What a world of shifting scenes it is! [4]
He could think of nothing quite clearly; everything was confused and shifting in his mind. [11]
This strange fleet of battle-ships, drifted by the shifting currents, was maneuvering for an engagement. [4]
The groups do not all remain long in place, you may imagine; there is a good deal of shifting about, and I see little stragglers wandering over the church, like fairies lighted by fireflies. [4]
Manitou was as much home--nay, it was a thousand times more home--than the shifting habitat of the days when they wandered from the Caspians to John o' Groat's. [11]
Perhaps there is more sense of force, but the majesty of the scene is relieved by a hundred shifting effects of light and color. [4]
We have always kept a fringe of barbarism on our shifting western frontier; and I think there never was a worse society than that in California and Nevada in their early days. [4]
Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes from Prince Andrew to the staff officer. [2]
There had been, indeed, a critical, anxious moment, emphasized by the agitation of bright feminine plumes and the shifting of masculine backs into the corners of the pews. [9]
It sometimes seems, in this shifting world, that about the best any of us can do is to prepare some one else for doing something well. [4]
She was already in that world which was so shining and shifting and attractive. [4]
The two latter I frequently dislodged by shifting my hold on the bars and driving my knuckles into their ribs; but my friend above stuck fast, held immovable by two bars. [5]
The white of his long, narrow eyes, which had so terrified Melissa, had turned yellow, and his glance was as restless and shifting as that of a hyena. [10]
I then told him to take her away; and he did, at intervals, shifting her to different parts of the grounds in my absence, so that the desolate voice would startle us from unexpected quarters. [4]
Well, when they had laughed long enough on that side of their mouths, they rested-up that side by shifting the laugh to the other side. [5]
The same swift glance, shifting low, brought into range of her sight a smoking gun and splashes of blood. [13]
His quick, shifting gaze settled on it and stayed, softening and quieting. [11]
The flag of France covered his broken body, but his face was untouched--as it had been in life, haunting, fascinating, though the shifting lights were gone, the fine eyes closed. [11]
The old man's eyes were continually shifting from place to place. [11]
Was it not enough to come down to breakfast and sit at the low, broad windows and watch the shifting panorama? [4]
The wind, shifting, drives away the smoke. [4]
The insult was conspicuous, and trouble might have followed, but that Doltaire came between them, shifting the attack. [11]
The commander in chief is always in the midst of a series of shifting events and so he never can at any moment consider the whole import of an event that is occurring. [2]
With shifting eyes but eyebrows still raised, Telyanin handed him the purse. [2]
Thus was Edward Bumpus severed and rolled from the ancestral ledge, from the firm granite of seemingly stable and lasting things, into shifting shale; surrounded by fragments of cliffs from distant lands he had never seen. [9]
He never walked Broadway, a part of its tide of abundant shifting life, without feeling something of the flush of wealth, and unconsciously taking the elastic step of one well-to-do in this prosperous world. [5]
But you will be able to write an enduring inscription on the shifting wave sooner than you will shake my conviction that for our spirit, such as Nature has made it, there is nothing infallible or certain. [10]
When she alighted at the corner of Burton Street there was the well-remembered, shifting group on the pavement in front of the church porch. [9]
This sudden transition and shifting of power was resented at the South, resisted at first, and finally it has generally been evaded. [4]
There is stir and life, and shifting colour everywhere. [5]
He talked high, and his splotchy face lighted itself up with all the shifting tints and signs of evil pleasure and promised triumph--purple, yellow, red, green--they were all there, with sometimes the dull and spongy blue of a drowned man, the uncanniest of them all. [5]
Objects were forming and disappearing, shifting and dancing, now in sun and now gone in fog, and in the elemental whirl we felt that we were "assisting" in an original process of creation. [4]
About the shifting all round of this burden of earning a living, I am not so sure. [4]
Had he, then, accomplished nothing; had he made no impression, established in his shifting flock no habit of continuance in well-doing that could survive even his temporary withdrawal? [4]
The duties of a minister were perplexing enough, when the Spanish government was changing its character and its personnel with the rapidity of shifting scenes in a pantomime. [4]
Good-night is said a hundred times; positions are readjusted, more last words, new shifting about, final remarks; it is all so comfortable and romantic; and then silence. [4]

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