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Sentences starting with sinking

Sinking on a couch he buried his face amid the cushions. [10]

Sentences ending with sinking

Meanwhile the tug was fast sinking. [11]
The next day the patient was no better, she was evidently sinking. [4]
Georg was like the magnetic mountain, that attracted her, and which she must avoid to save the vessel from sinking. [10]
A lively fight ensued, in which the Britaine lost fifteen men, and the argosy twenty, and then surrendered to save herself from sinking. [4]

More example sentences with the word sinking in them

In one so young, and so unused to the scenes in which she had lately moved, this sinking of the spirit was not surprising. [12]
In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
Smaller hills covered with forests fell away on all sides and the tops of the trees caught the radiance of the sinking sun. [10]
Besides the sun, which when the battle began had just risen, was already sinking to rest and should it prove necessary to force an entrance into the oasis it was not advisable to fight in darkness. [10]
On the fifteenth, when young Rostov, in his dressing gown, looked out of the window, he saw it was an unsurpassable morning for hunting: it was as if the sky were melting and sinking to the earth without any wind. [2]
Uarda still lay, when the sun was sinking, in front of the hut. [10]
Irene in Quebec, were left to guard the place of treasure, until, to the sound of the laughing spring, there should come many men and much machinery, and the sinking of shafts in the earth, and the making, of riches. [11]
When the sun went down, and the busy crowd were about to leave, Nefert detained them, and said: "The Sun-bark is sinking behind the western hills; come, let us pray together for the king and for those we love in the field. [10]
They're sinking the wells down in the woods pasture. [8]
Already the staff was in his hands and the cross-roads were sinking into the distance behind. [11]
A floating beam was held out to sinking men, and they would no longer wait for the life-boat that was approaching to rescue them, with strong hands at the oars and a trusty pilot at the helm. [10]
At this Katharina was forced to support herself against her mother's arm-chair to save herself from sinking on her knees; with tingling cheeks she questioned the leech till he lost all patience and turned away much annoyed at such excessive feminine curiosity. [10]
She slipped: there was a sudden sinking, a sharp cry, then another, piercing and hopeless--and it was the one word--"Jacques! [11]
At last it ventured out,--showing at intervals, like the boat rising on the billow, sinking into the hollow, and climbing again into notice. [6]
But now, as under the spell of a new encompassment of her own weaving, she seemed to revert to her former self, sinking, relaxed, into a wicker lounge beside the basin, one long and shapely hand in the water, the other idle in her lap. [9]
The house threatened to give way at any moment: one end of it was sinking, and, in fact, the building looked a mere shell. [5]
But by this time Katuti has brought home her daughter, Mena's wife; the stars are sinking and--there--that was the first signal. [10]
It was not till the governor's son had summoned up his courage and, sinking on his knees, was imploring her pardon, that she recovered some firmness and reminded him of the letter he had sent her. [10]
One hand was thrust deeper into its pocket, he saw a shudder run through her, and suddenly she burst into hysterical weeping, sinking into a chair. [9]
You could hear things cracking and giving way, and it was not pleasant to know that the world overhead was slowly and silently sinking down upon you. [5]
The rats think the ship is sinking, and it is time to leave it. [10]
They both saw that he was sinking slowly and quietly, deeper and deeper, away from them, and they both knew that this had to be so and that it was right. [2]
It was a sound that none of them had ever heard before or could expect ever to hear again, unless he should be one of the last boat-load rescued from a sinking vessel. [6]
Then, nothing but sleep--sleep, a sinking down millions of miles in an ether of drowsiness which thrilled him; and after--no more. [11]
And she must sit and watch him--she, with her primitive fierceness of love, must watch him sinking, fading helplessly out of life, sight and being. [11]
The sun was sinking when the absentees returned, but she at once reminded Karnis that he had promised to take her for a walk and show her Alexandria. [10]
The sun was sinking when suddenly the great brazen gong was loudly struck, and the hard, blatant clatter rent the air of the temple-hall. [10]
The sun was sinking when Mena, who that day had leave of absence from the king, came in great excitement up to the table where the princes were sitting and craved the king's permission to make an important communication. [10]
She was a sinking vessel, with no freight in her to throw over lighten ship withal. [5]
The field was sinking under the burden of the ears of misfortune. [10]
For this--for this sinking sense, this failing body, this wear and tear of mind and heart, this constant study to be possible where she had once been declared by the world to be impossible. [11]
The schooner was sinking like a gallipot. [9]
He had a sinking fear that they might meet Jethro there, but only a few big-boned countrymen were scattered about, attended by sleepy waitresses. [9]
There was a sinking at the pit of his stomach, as if he was in a swing, as high as he could go, close up to the swallows' nests and spiders' webs. [6]
Such an awful sinking at the heart--such a sudden gasp for breath! [5]
She wondered who should be singing a nursery rhyme on a sinking ship: "La main morte, La main morte, Tapp' a la porte, Tapp' a la porte. [11]
When they emerged she did not hear the directions he gave the cabman, and it was not until they turned into a narrow side street, which became dingier and dingier as they bumped their way eastward, that she experienced a sudden sinking sensation. [9]
They are soft, sensuous, lovely--they are exquisite refined, effeminate, but we have seen no sunsets here yet like the gorgeous conflagrations that flame in the track of the sinking sun in our high northern latitudes. [5]
A horrible sinking sensation seized her. [11]
How inspiriting to see with what muscular, masculine vigor this splendid Fleming rushed in and plucked up drowning Art by the locks when it was sinking in the trashy sea of such creatures as the Luca Giordanos and Pietro Cortonas and the like. [6]
Here were the rotten beam, the sinking arch, the sapped and mouldering wall, the lowly trench of earth, the stately tomb on which no epitaph remained--all--marble, stone, iron, wood, and dust--one common monument of ruin. [12]
I must go," remarked Byng at last, though there was a strange sinking of the heart as he said it. [11]
Night came there quickly after the sinking of the sun. [13]
I had been possessed by similar resolutions before, though none so strong, and they had a way of sinking below the surface of my consciousness, only to rise again and again until by sheer pressure they achieved realization. [9]
Everybody rose and peered over at the thing, while he explained the work of sinking a gas-well, as he had already explained it to Frescobaldi. [8]
The gunner burst out of the hatch with blood running down his face, shouting that the Richard was sinking, and yelling for quarter as he made for the ensign-staff on the poop, for the flag was shot away. [9]
Next morning, the old man was in a raging fever accompanied with delirium; and sinking under the influence of this disorder he lay for many weeks in imminent peril of his life. [12]
A miner does not know where to look for such leads, but they are often stumbled upon by accident in the course of driving a tunnel or sinking a shaft. [5]
About midnight the noises dulled away, and I was sinking to sleep, when I heard a new and curious sound; I listened: evidently some joyous lunatic was softly dancing a "double shuffle" in the room over my head. [5]
The skipper told Mr. Delancy that it would be much fresher with the sinking of the sun, but Jack replied that it wouldn't amount to anything; the glass was all right. [4]
Undone, sinking ever lower and lower, thou hast watched me rise to be the richest and most powerful of my nation. [10]
And it was love, simple, trusting love, that put courage into her sinking heart. [4]
Before him, to left, to right, waving, rolling, sinking, rising, like low swells of a purple sea, stretched the sage. [13]
I will put it over the door, and then--"All at once her hand dropped to her side, as though some terrible thought had come to her, and, sinking to the floor, she rocked her body backward and forward for a time, sobbing. [11]
Ditmar, sinking ponderously into his chair, seemed suddenly, ironically amused, grinning at Janet as he opened a drawer of his desk and offered the visitor a cigar. [9]
Orion was alone in the spacious room, feeling as though the whole world were sinking into nothingness after the rack of storm and tempest. [10]
It had become impossible to seek aid from Herr Berthold Vorchtel, the man whose oldest son Wolff had slain, and yet he possessed the means to save the sinking ship from destruction. [10]
The faculty of imagination lifted me when I was sinking, three months ago; its active exercise has kept my head above water since; its results cheer me now, for I feel they have enabled me to give pleasure to others. [14]
So dies a human habitation left to natural decay, all that was seen above the surface of the soil sinking gradually below it, Till naught remains the saddening tale to tell Save home's last wrecks, the cellar and the well. [6]
And within this hour the servants, looking toward the sun where it was sinking out of sight and the night chill coming on, said things I could not understand, but they carried something cold to my heart. [5]
It seemed to her that something heavy was beating rhythmically against all the walls of the room: it was her own heart, sinking with alarm and terror and overflowing with love. [2]
And think of her now, sinking into the wallow of bourgeois vulgarity! [11]
With a sinking heart the clerk realized that he should have to make good to Mr. Judson the seven odd dollars of difference, and then he lost his head. [9]
With a sinking heart he watched Dolokhov's hands and thought, "Now then, make haste and let me have this card and I'll take my cap and drive home to supper with Denisov, Natasha, and Sonya, and will certainly never touch a card again. [2]
How many thousands have looked at it with sinking hearts! [9]
Each seemed separate from the rest and shone with glory of its own; it was as though the sinking disc had been the centre of bow-shots innumerable and golden arrow-shafts radiated to the sky in every direction. [10]
Hast thou then forsaken him in his trouble--the rat from the sinking ship? [11]
I took my face out of my hands, and saw my enemy sinking back upon his inclined board. [5]
Nothing could be daintier than the puffs of vapor they spout up, when seen against the pink glory of the sinking sun, or against the dark mass of an island reposing in the deep blue shadow of a storm cloud . [5]
Now, with a cry of agony, he threw the phial on the ground, and, sinking on the bed, buried his face in his hands and moaned, and fought for freedom from the cords tightening round him. [11]
Lifted on a crest, our canoe, heavily laden, dropped at both ends; and again, sinking into the hollows between the short, brutal waves, her gunwales yielded outward, and her waist gaped in a dismal way. [11]
It is too comfortable--all pain gone, all trouble, the world forgot, just a kind weight in all the body, as you go sinking down, down to the valley, where the long hands of old comrades beckon to you, and their soft, high voices cry, 'Hello! [11]
That could not be, yet he awaited with a sinking heart the movement of Dolokhov's hands. [2]
She seemed to be sinking, sinking--There was a knocking, knocking at the door of the cabin, and a voice calling to her--how far away it seemed! [11]
Hawkins came slowly back, watching wistfully but hopelessly for the stranger, and lowering his price steadily with his sinking heart. [5]
The next evening at supper he informed me that he wished to talk to me in the sitting-room, whither I followed him with a sinking heart. [9]
He rode on and on, hopefully at first, but with sinking courage finally. [5]
He is gone and no one will hinder you," she said to herself, and sinking into a chair she let her head fall on the window sill. [2]
As the Governor amid the Intendant grew together in friendship, Vaudreuil sinking past disapproval in present selfish necessity, they quietly combined against Doltaire as against Montcalm. [11]
The sun was already sinking to rest behind the Libyan range, and soon after, for twilight is short in Egypt, she was wrapped in the darkness of night. [10]
We made assault after assault, through the smoke and flame and the deafening cannon-blasts, and at last as the sun was sinking we carried the place with a rush, and planted our standard on its walls. [5]
It was with a sinking and anxious heart that Katharina had entered the anteroom. [10]
We were approaching a castle which stood on high ground; a huge, strong, venerable structure, whose gray towers and battlements were charmingly draped with ivy, and whose whole majestic mass was drenched with splendors flung from the sinking sun. [5]

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