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Sentences ending with strayed

Seized of that wilful, daring spirit called Love, her sight was bounded by the little field where she strayed. [11]
Beset by these opposing considerations, Mrs Jiniwin admitted the powers of insinuation, but denied the right to govern, and with a timely compliment to the stout lady brought back the discussion to the point from which it had strayed. [12]
But cold, wet, hunger, want of rest, and lack of any place in which to lay her aching head, soon brought her thoughts back to the point whence they had strayed. [12]
The Colonel's house, alas, was one of many in Glencoe written down in red ink in a book at headquarters as a place toward which the feet of the young men strayed. [9]

Short sentences using strayed

I strayed about the room. [9]

More example sentences with the word strayed in them

And presently, as we strayed down the shore we came upon a strange sight, the same being a huge fort rising from the waterside, all overgrown with brush and saplings and tall weeds. [9]
One day I was up among the rocks, looking for a strayed horse. [11]
She felt as though this cry called her from her slumbers and revealed the precipice to which she had strayed in her sleepwalking. [10]
D.W.] His pen therefore, and whereas, and not as aforesaid, strayed off into other scribbling. [5]
The horse, with the reins hanging loosely over the shafts, had strayed to the side of the driveway and was contentedly eating the shrubbery that lined it. [9]
She strayed into the noble gallery. [4]
I strayed about the decks, in and out of the saloons, wondering at the indifference of other passengers who sat reading in steamer-chairs or wrote last letters to be posted at Havre. [9]
Being engaged in the adjustment of some accounts--an occupation to which the silence and solitude of his retreat were very favourable--he had not strayed from his den for two whole days. [12]
The Colonel's hand strayed upward to Virginia's head. [9]
Her eyes had strayed from the Royal Countenance, and were fixed upon a point in the row of heads outside the promenade. [9]
A goose and some chickens had strayed off to his premises. [10]
The sun was shining warmly, and after young Harvey had taken our horses we strayed through the house, where the servants were busy decorating, and out into my grandfather's old English flower garden, and took the seat by the sundial. [9]
Left alone, he sat down on the edge of the bed, and, for a few moments, his mind strayed almost vaguely from one object to another. [11]
Such a being rarely strayed to Memphis,--and might not this radiant and beautiful creature be "the other" after all, and not Paula? [10]
To these succeeded pert cottages, two and two with plots of ground in front, laid out in angular beds with stiff box borders and narrow paths between, where footstep never strayed to make the gravel rough. [12]
Having advanced six paces and strayed off the track into the snow, Pierre looked down at his feet, then quickly glanced at Dolokhov and, bending his finger as he had been shown, fired. [2]
The trail is open to the White Valley, and the Scarlet Hunter hath saved me, when my feet strayed in the plains and my eyes were blinded. [11]
I question if one here, unless some contemporary of my own has strayed into the amphitheatre,--knows anything about Marjolin. [6]
The sunlight fell like a halo round Dorothy's head, her hands strayed over the keys, and her eyes were far away. [9]
Since Cleopatra's departure, Iras seems like the forsaken Ariadne, or a young roe which has strayed from its mother. [10]
The slender rill had strayed, But for the slanting stone, To evening's ocean, with the tangled braid Of foam-flecked Oregon. [6]
For, indeed, he had not strayed far from the sideboard at the assembly. [9]
His farm had gone to weed, his cattle had strayed or been rustled, his house weathered till it wouldn't keep out rain nor wind. [13]
Yet perhaps his glances strayed almost as frequently to one other maiden. [10]
He had strayed from the obliterated road, and had fallen down the crevasse, twisting his foot cruelly. [11]
At length the cattle were turned out to browse greedily through the clearing, while we lay in the woods by the forest and listened to the sound of their bells, but when they strayed too far, I was often sent to drive them back. [9]
He would have bills printed advertising for Louise as he had done for stray cattle; he would have notices put in the newspapers proclaiming that his wife was strayed or stolen and must be put in pound when discovered. [11]
They turned away and strayed off into one of the more open paths, where the view of the sky over them was unobstructed. [6]
We came by again, within the hour, and he was taking account of stock, to see whether any of his flock had strayed or been stolen. [5]
The surgeon of a whaling ship in the Pacific assured me that when the Pediculi, with which some Sandwich Islanders on board swarmed, strayed on to the bodies of the English sailors, they died in the course of three or four days. [1]

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