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Straining all her faculties Princess Mary looked at him. [2]

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Comrade, how still you stepped, your bayonet thrust out before you, clearing the mists, your eyes straining, your teeth set, ready to thrust. [11]
He lay there writhing with pain and quaking with apprehension, but straining every muscle in frantic efforts to get up. [5]
We caught up with them, the wagoners cracking their whips and swearing at the straining horses. [9]
Mannerisms of course will not deceive us, nor extravagances, eccentricities, affectations, nor the straining after effect by the use of coined or far-fetched words and prodigality in adjectives. [4]
People rose up wild all over the house, straining and staring for a better look at him, and the judge was hammering with his mallet and the sheriff yelling "Order--order in the court--order! [5]
At Stratford there was by royal charter a Court of Record sitting every fortnight, with six attorneys, besides the town clerk, belonging to it, and it is certainly not straining probability to suppose that the young Shakespeare may have had employment in one of them. [5]
The Trader got up and stood between the two men, coughing much, his face straining, his eyes bloodshot, as he looked anxiously from Pierre to Halby. [11]
And for some time I swung between sense and oblivion before an overpowering stench forced itself upon my nostrils, accompanied by a creaking, straining sound and sweeping motion. [9]
Xavier had the tiller now, and the men were straining at the oars to send the boat across the current towards the nearer western shore. [9]
For a time they were locked, straining terribly, and then the neck of the champion went with a snap and he lay dead in the middle of the green. [11]
For a space there was only the bumping and straining of the yacht and the swish of the water against her sides. [9]
Both stood straining their eyes and ears to pierce the darkness; but instead of gazing upward the star-reader's eye was bent upon the city, the distant sea, and the level plain. [10]
Everywhere prosperity, everywhere the strings of life pulled taut, signs that energy had been straining on the leash. [11]
And then, as the light began to grow, we were in the midst of the tumbling waters, the steersmen straining now right, now left, to keep the prows in the smooth reaches between rock and bar. [9]
It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. [4]
Who would be strong enough to suppress the straining ambitions of the many that the Empire might continue to flourish in its integrity and gather tribute? [9]
She was indeed straining herself too far. [11]
Once upon the stone he slowed to snail pace, straining his sight to avoid the pockets and holes. [13]
It broke the spell of emotion which was greatly straining everybody's endurance. [11]
The Tsar said something more which Rostov did not hear, and the soldiers, straining their lungs, shouted "Hurrah! [2]
I feel like sitting down on my heels, putting my arms round my knees like this, straining tight, as tight as possible, and flying away! [2]
Often did I sit with Polly Ann till midnight in the sentry's tower, straining my ears for the owl's hoot that warned us of his coming. [9]
Eyes are straining, scouts are watching at the back of the hall and in the street, for the first glimpse of the dreaded figure of Mr. Thomas Gaylord. [9]
I'm straining to reach St. Pierre de Boef, but it's going to be a close fit, I reckon. [5]
Cumner's Son mounted quickly, straining his eyes to see and keeping his pistol cocked. [11]
We laid hold of the tree across the cabin and, straining, flung it over into the water. [9]
But the sense of dependence on Jethro and the fear of straining his purse never quite wore off. [9]
Are not our muscles straining with those of these sixteen young creatures, full of hot, fresh blood, their nerves all tingling like so many tight-strained harp-strings, all their life concentrating itself in this passionate moment of supreme effort? [6]
And for the moment an imagination, ever straining at its leash, was allowed to soar. [9]
A "tournament" in Lynchburg is a thing easily within the comprehension of the average mind; but no commonly gifted person can conceive of such a spectacle in Brooklyn without straining his powers. [5]
They near the line, every rower straining desperately, almost madly. [6]
The wind had increased to a gale, and as she stood on the rocks the harbour below her was full of tossing white yachts straining at their anchors. [9]
Venters felt the increase in quivering, straining shock after every leap. [13]
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]
Beside the straining horses was a great, burly man with a red beard, cracking his long whip, and calling to the horses in a strange tongue. [9]
At wide intervals his straining ear did detect sounds, but they were so remote, and hollow, and mysterious, that they seemed not to be real sounds, but only the moaning and complaining ghosts of departed ones. [5]
Pierre listened to him, straining each faculty to understand the essential points of the impending battle, but was mortified to feel that his mental capacity was inadequate for the task. [2]
No one noticed her, but she was afraid that a fit of coughing might betray her presence, so she pressed her apron firmly over her lips and sat straining her ears to listen. [10]
While listening to her with one ear, he was straining the other to catch what Sir Seitz Siebenburg was saying to his father-in-law, Casper Eysvogel. [10]
Through the stifling heat of these summer days Stephen sat in the outer office, straining at the law. [9]
With straining ears he listened to the sounds from the north, as if suspecting how nearly he was affected by the broken cries and moans borne by the wind from the tents. [10]
For a while he lay as one benumbed, and the gradual realization that ensued might be likened to the straining of stiffened wounds. [9]
All his life he had looked over the heads of the men around him, when he should have merely looked in front of him without straining his eyes. [2]
Again and again had Bickersteth tried to get the old man to speak about the past, but he had been met by a dumb sort of look, a straining to understand. [11]
I may have gone a mile thus, perchance two or three, straining every sense, when a sound brought me to a stand. [9]
I shall never go straining after jokes when in a cheerless mood, so long as the unhackneyed subject of international law is open to me. [5]
Those standing in front, who had seen and heard what had taken place before them, all stood with wide open eyes and mouths, straining with all their strength, and held back the crowd that was pushing behind them. [2]
Then straining my eyes through the mist, I made out two white blurs of sails on our starboard beam. [9]
Her eyes were eyes of shame, upheld a long moment by intense, straining search for the verification of her fear. [13]
I do not endorse that statement--I simply give it for what it is worth--and it is worth--well, I should say, millions, to any man who can believe it without straining himself. [5]
My body was diligently straining and stretching, this way and that, to accommodate the processes of restoration, and every minute or two I heard a dull click inside and knew that the two ends of a fracture had been successfully joined. [5]
Her strong, lithe body was straining in my arms, her lips returning my kisses.... Clinging to her hands, I strove to summon my faculties of realization; and I began to speak in broken, endearing sentences. [9]
His body was bent forwards, his eyes straining into the dark, his hot face dripping, dripping sweat, his breath coming hard and laboured from his throat. [11]
The old woman bent above Elise, watching intently, her eyes straining, her lips anxiously compressed. [11]
Their un-Russian shouting at their horses which were straining uphill with the carts, and their calls to one another, could be clearly heard. [2]
I heard it approach the door --pass out without moving bolt or lock--and wander away among the dismal corridors, straining the floors and joists till they creaked again as it passed--and then silence reigned once more. [5]
He was beyond appeal, his head was down, and his ears trembling backwards and straining for a sound of the terror that pursued him. [9]
They rode hard, and yet they came no nearer to that flying herd straining on with white streaming breath and the surf of snow rising to their quarters. [11]
His cheeks glowed, and the gray eyes, which had long since acquired a fixed look from straining over the gemcutting, now beamed with a blissful radiance. [10]
One can't be all the time trying to do the best of one's best if a company works a steam fire-engine, the firemen needn't be straining themselves all day to squirt over the top of the flagstaff. [6]
I will leave all that straining to people who edit professedly and inexorably "humorous" departments and publications. [5]
As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its former position. [2]
He felt like a man who after straining his eyes to see into the far distance finds what he sought at his very feet. [2]
Many times was a head lifted from a small pillow, straining after the meaning of the squeaky noises that came up from below! [9]

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