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Sentences ending with strained

Her face was wan and strained. [11]
The state of things on the staff had of late been exceedingly strained. [2]
As a consequence the carved walnut racks on her library table were constantly being strained. [9]
Every eye was strained. [11]
Toward a little island set in the blue waters of Charleston harbor anxious eyes were strained. [9]

Short sentences using strained

It was strained and tense. [11]

More example sentences with the word strained in them

Kutuzov's general expression was one of concentrated quiet attention, and his face wore a strained look as if he found it difficult to master the fatigue of his old and feeble body. [2]
If he had used caution before, now he strained every nerve to force himself to creeping stealth and to sensitiveness of ear. [13]
The soldiers handed up the charges, turned, loaded, and did their business with strained smartness. [2]
The paroxysm increased until he strained and caught at his breast with his hand. [11]
He went, and tried to hurry, but his legs refused to move and he knew he would not be in time to lock the door though he painfully strained all his powers. [2]
Then a floating tree suddenly lunged up and struck him, so that he dropped upon a knee; but again he was up, and strained for the pier. [11]
Galbraith's eyes strained towards the soldier till the reply came: "And I don't know that; not wan o' me. [11]
We fell victims to the epidemic and strained every nerve to acquire more "feet. [5]
Everything is strained to such a degree that it will certainly break," said Pierre (as those who examine the actions of any government have always said since governments began). [2]
Caldwell stood close to her, shouting his explanations in her ear, while she strained to follow them. [9]
And then, as they trotted sedately through Madison Avenue, he strained her in his arms and kissed her. [9]
For a moment they strained at the rafters and the crude weapons and implements there, then the body moved, quickly, eagerly, and turned to see the flickering shadows made by the fire and the simple order of the room. [11]
They came to their knees on the ground, where they clutched and strained for a wild minute, Valmond desperately fighting to keep the huge bony fingers from his neck. [11]
This discovery strained the very fibres of his being. [9]
The branches of the sycamores and plane-trees drooped and floated on the waves, but the boughs of the tall silver poplars strained upward, as if anxious to avoid the watery world beneath. [10]
It is probable that when the mind has been strained for a long time, and the heart and body suffered much, one sees a calamity vaguely, and cannot define it; appreciates it, and does not know it. [11]
It was worse than useless to shout at him or apply offensive epithets to him--he only took these things for applause, and strained himself to make more noise. [5]
They closed; strained, swayed, became a tangled wrenching mass; and then Mallory was lifted high into the air, and came down with a broken back. [11]
Even as I strained, the tones drew nearer, and they were mixed with sweeter ones I knew well, and Dorothy's mother's voice. [9]
Shall it be strained unto the breast of youth, And in a garden live where grows no weed? [11]
Then, though we strained our ears, we heard them no more. [9]
In vain I strained my eyes for some one who might have authority with them. [9]
But though he strained his ears to follow the crawling or sliding of the fugitive he heard nothing save the footsteps and voices of the warders. [10]
Once more her strained gaze sought the sage-slopes. [13]
Her senses were strained for that very sound. [9]
The hours of strained effort were now as if they had never been, and he wanted to think. [13]
She listened with strained attention, but without moving. [11]
His face became strained and white, and once he poured brandy and drank it off as though it were water. [11]
With strained and startled eyes, she kept her gaze turned on the door, expecting to see it open before her. [11]
I sought the spirit at first in the heart, then in the brain; but now I know that it resides in the arms and legs, for when I have strained them I find thought is impossible. [10]
Again everything was shrouded in hard, dry perplexity, and again with a strained frown she peered toward the world where he was. [2]
He had never seen her face like that--so strained and haggard. [11]
In trying to retain the anecdote in his system he strained himself and died in our arms. [5]
The silver-tongued clock remorselessly tinkled the quarters, and Hylda lay and waited for them with a hopeless strained attention. [11]
It contained her purgatory, which she regarded in good conventional fashion as a mere temporary place of detention, and likewise the heaven toward which she strained, the dwelling-place of light. [9]
But the horses plunged and strained, and he saw in the near distance a troop of cavalry. [11]
The time, the place, the event eluded her, but a sense of foreboding possessed her; and her eyes followed him with strained anxiety as he retired from the presence. [11]
The last weeks passed in her mother's bedroom had strained Natasha's physical strength. [2]
All had worked out as he had planned, and now, with his ear against the door which led from the music-room, he strained to hear what passed between Stafford and Fellowes. [11]
Under the tree Orlando listened with strained attention, absorbed and, at times, almost overcome. [11]
He had them on a dead run, but not yet at the last strained and killing pace. [13]
When she looked off from the glass I thought both her eyes appeared very much as if they had been a little strained, for they were suffused and glistening. [6]
Val is safe now--" In a low strained voice, interrupting him, she said, "Did Val leave you wounded so on the prairie? [11]
But it was not these which held her, rather the intensity of his gaze, a strained weariness, a piercing wistfulness of keen, gray sight, as if the man was forever looking for that which he never found. [13]
She had had no sleep on the journey, and her mind had been strained unbearably. [11]
Fish's letter to Mr. Moran, having, as I trust, sufficiently shown the spirit in which it was written and the strained interpretations and manifest overstatements by which it attempts to make out its case against Mr. Motley. [6]
There were no more shouts of joy; men's lungs were no longer strained to the utmost, but their tongues were all the busier. [10]
Suddenly, however, he leaned farther forward and strained his ears. [11]
From where we lay hid behind log house and palings we strained our eyes towards the prairie to see if Lamothe would take the bait, until our view was ended at the fuzzy top of a hillock. [9]
At this point, just as he was raising his hand to fling another rich largess, he caught sight of a pale, astounded face, which was strained forward out of the second rank of the crowd, its intense eyes riveted upon him. [5]
He glanced at Jo, whose eyes, strained and painful, were fixed upon the door. [11]
He knew that it was a lost battle and that the least accident might now--with the fight balanced on such a strained center--destroy him and his army. [2]
He hurried toward it now, his glance strained ahead to catch sight of her figure under a lamp. [9]
The English language is strained for words hot and rude enough to express his indignation, contempt, and fearful expectation of speedy judgments. [4]
Presently the silence in the hall became acute; the senses of the audience were strained to the utmost. [11]
As we rolled in the cars by Ecclefechan, I strained my eyes to take in every point of the landscape, every cottage, every spire, if by any chance I could find one in that lonely region. [6]
The barrier of human feeling, strained to the utmost, that had held the crowd in check suddenly broke. [2]
This return to his 'madness' broke her heart anew, and she strained him to her breast again and again, and then went back, drowned in tears, to her bed. [5]
With tears in his little blue eyes he had begged the Colonel to take him, and I remember him well on that June morning, his red face perspiring under the white bristles of his hair as he strained at the big oar. [9]
Every muscle of his body had been strained and tortured, and even this lighter task tried him beyond endurance. [11]
Neither was our hero a man to neglect, on account of strained relations, to insist upon his rights. [9]
She sprang from her bed, rushed to the door, and strained her eyes into the silver night. [11]
She stood with her back to the bath-room door, panting, and white, and anguished, and her ears strained to the terrible thing inside the place behind her. [11]
When a woman's heart has once been attached to a man--and pity is one of the strongest of human ties--the bond may be strained and worn, but a few threads must always remain. [10]
The old man's head strained forward, his eyes were misty and dazed. [11]
Though passion may have strained, it must not break, our bonds of affection. [7]
It is simply hard work, for which the strained muscles only get the approbation of the individual conscience that drives them to the task. [4]
He pictured their future life at Grenoble until her heart was strained with yearning for it to begin. [9]
It was Miss Forsythe who came down to me, with strained eyes and awe in her face. [4]
But tow-ropes were for the endless up-river journey, when a numerous crew strained day after day along the bank, chanting the voyageurs' songs. [9]
His face was flushed and eager, his eyes were strained, his teeth set, his breath came short and thick, and the hand he laid upon her arm trembled so violently that she shook beneath its grasp. [12]
Every eye was fixed upon him intently; every ear was strained as he described his coming upon the isolated wagon and the dead man with the reins in his hands. [11]
But now his face was strained, and his voice seemed to lack command as he bowed and mentioned the rector's name. [9]
My men strained every muscle, but the pace was impossible--it could not last; and the rowers in the French boat hung over their oars also with enthusiasm. [11]
I made an effort to blush that strained every muscle in me, and answered as sweetly and winningly as ever I knew how-- 'Been a little slow, but am just this minute closing in on the place where they keep it. [5]
We strained our ears to listen. [10]
He kept his ear strained to hear any sound that might promise hope of rescue; but he heard no voice, no sound of horn or bay of hound. [5]
You can see cracks all about where she has strained herself trying to do it. [5]
Sonya wore a company smile but was evidently tormented by jealousy; now she turned pale, now blushed and strained every nerve to overhear what Nicholas and Julie were saying to one another. [2]
I saw the cloaked figures of the nuns near him, and I strained my eyes, but I could not note their faces. [11]
Jen's fingers nervously clasped and unclasped, and her eyes were strained towards the door. [11]
Little Fay slept; but Jane lay with strained, aching eyes. [13]
The arm had been strained, and the big fellow nursed it. [11]
His brain had been strained beyond the normal, almost unconsciously his fingers had fastened on the pistol in the drawer of the table by his bed. [11]
A gunner lifted away the corpse of his nearest friend from the trail and strained and wrenched at his gun with the intense concentration of one who kneads dough in a trough. [11]
Once, a lad at a worn-out mine Strove to warn her with awe-struck sign-- Turned she neither to left nor right, Strained till the Rock Hills came in sight; "But two miles more," to herself she said, "Then she shall have him alive, not dead! [11]
But the dog and the woman felt, and both strained towards the window. [11]
Five minutes passed, and all eyes were strained to the south, looking for the Atalanta. [6]
But it has an old-fashioned love for the modest and unobtrusive virtues, and an abiding faith that they will win over the strained and strident displays of life. [4]
The judge was alternately taking notes and looking fixedly at the prisoner; the jury were in various attitudes of strained attention; the public sat open mouthed; and up in the gallery a woman with white face and clinched hands listened moveless and staring. [11]
And not Al'mah alone shaded and strained eyes to follow the tumbling, bouncing gun. [11]
Yet through it all Lady Tynemouth saw her glance many times with a strange, strained inquiry at Rudyard, seated far away opposite her; at another big, round table. [11]
These last showed alertness at the sound of the flying sorrel's hoofs, and all at once a tall, keen-eyed horseman sprang to the broad doorway and strained his eyes into the night after Cumner's Son. [11]
The sweet, cold air, with a bracing wind in his face, gave peace to the nerves but now strained and fevered in the fight with appetite. [11]
This is not a strained corollary to the demand for an appropriately costumed novel. [4]
The house drew a long, deep breath, shook its strained cords and muscles free and burst into cheers. [5]
It gave her a large respect for us, and she strained the lean possibilities of her hovel to the utmost to make us comfortable. [5]

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