Use swayed in a sentence
Sentences starting with swayed
- Swayed she could be, but she would mot easily surrender. [9]
Sentences ending with swayed
- I'm--" Suddenly he swayed. [11]
- Suddenly his hands stretched out as if to seize her shoulders, his face became tortured--he swayed. [11]
- His legs would not support him; he shivered and swayed. [11]
- But I don't feel--" She swayed. [11]
- They swayed. [11]
Sentences containing swayed two or more times
- Hannah had once been young, desirable, perhaps, swayed by those forces which had swayed her. [9]
More example sentences with the word swayed in them
- He swayed and would have fallen, but Madelinette caught him, helped him to the sofa, and, forcing him gently down on his side, adjusted a pillow for him, and turned to the wounded man again. [11]
- And the lawyer who defends such cases, whatever his personal feelings may be, cannot afford to be swayed by them. [9]
- A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
- That curly grass which always grows by country roadsides became clearly visible, still wet with the night's rain; the drooping branches of the birches, also wet, swayed in the wind and flung down bright drops of water to one side. [2]
- The last two verses of the song kept drowning his sense of the actual, and he was swayed by the superstition of bygone ancestors: "Whereaway goes my lad--tell me, has he gone alone? [11]
- Ingolby had listened to the music with a sense of being swayed by a wind which blew from all quarters of the compass at once. [11]
- He was about to say something to her, but she suddenly swayed and would have fallen, but that he caught her and supported her. [11]
- Petya's eyes began to close and he swayed a little. [2]
- Her body swayed to and fro. [11]
- The reporters took their places and were all attention; the judge and lawyers were in their seats; the crowd swayed and pushed in eager expectancy, as the jury walked in and stood up in silence. [5]
- They babbled, shook their heads, and waved their hands excitedly, and swayed and craned their necks to see the offender. [11]
- She was conscious that on the other side of Rudyard was a tall figure that staggered and swayed as it moved on, and that two dark eyes were turned towards her ever and anon. [11]
- Then, too, at table once she grew suddenly pale and swayed against Edward Lambert, who was sitting next to her. [11]
- At that she swayed, but when I would have caught her she motioned me away and turned to Antoinette. [9]
- 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]
- His big head swayed upon his thin neck; his droll, though emaciated features constantly changed their expression, and even when he was not coughing, his mouth was continually in motion. [10]
- Kutuzov groaned and swayed his head. [2]
- The shaft horse swayed from side to side, moving his ears as if asking: "Isn't it time to begin now? [2]
- Banners drooped and swayed as the men holding them were lost in the excitement. [11]
- Inside, she suddenly swayed and sank fainting to the ground, as Kate Heaver ran forward to her. [11]
- Suddenly her sight swam, she swayed and would have fainted, but resolution steadied her, and a low exclamation broke from her lips. [11]
- Lassiter mounted the steps with Fay, and he swayed like a drunken man, and he too disappeared. [13]
- At my first step she gave a little cry and swayed, and had I not taken her in my arms I believe she would have fallen. [9]
- As he did so, he felt a sudden twitch at his side, and Barre swayed in his saddle with a spear in the groin. [11]
- As she did so a wave of weakness passed over her, and she swayed as though she would fall; but she put a hand on herself and fought her growing agitation. [11]
- As she passed slowly, the would-be regicide swayed and fell from his horse, and stirred no more. [11]
- He swayed from side to side. [11]
- The sombre pines showed up, a wall all round, and in the open space, turreted with fantastic fires, the Indians swayed in and out with weird chanting, their bodies mostly naked, and painted in strange colours. [11]
- The tempest which shook her shook him also, and he swayed from side to side like an animal uncertain if the moment had come to try its strength with its foe; and in truth the man was fighting with himself. [11]
- Startled and overcome, she had swayed, and would have fallen, but that with an effort of the will she had caught at the table and saved herself. [11]
- Then, as the Seigneur suddenly swayed and would have fallen, the instinct of effective courtesy, strong in him, sent him with arms outstretched to lift him up. [11]
- She recoiled, but seeing how he swayed with weakness, and that his clothes had blood upon them, she helped him to a chair. [11]
- He had always secretly admired that old Roman quality (which the Goodriches --their connections--shared) of holding fast to their course unmindful and rather scornful of influence which swayed their neighbours. [9]
- Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmine and amber, which had been presented to a stadtholder of Holland at the conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers. [4]
- His eyes ran rapidly over the wide space, but he only saw that the hitherto motionless masses of the French now swayed and that there really was a battery to their left. [2]
- With a moan Philip swayed and fell forward into the arms of Damour, still grasping his weapon. [11]
- Al'mah's face turned paler, and she swayed slightly, then she recovered herself. [11]
- A rainbow springing out of the centre of the caldron arched clear over the American cataract, and was one moment bright and the next dimly seen through the mist, which boiled up out of the foam of waters and swayed in the wind. [4]
- On the day of the trial, however, she fell wholly under that influence which had swayed judge, jury, and public. [11]
- The bare branches of the trees swayed in the gusts. [9]
- The left side of the forest was dark in the shade, the right side glittered in the sunlight, wet and shiny and scarcely swayed by the breeze. [2]
- The very tone of his voice was changed by passion; creation spoke through him, and she heard and thrilled and swayed and soared, forgetting heaven and earth and hell as he seized her in his arms and covered her face with kisses. [9]
- To a man not swayed by passion that welfare is never certain, but he who commits such a crime always knows just where that welfare lies. [2]
- The tall youth moved his lips and swayed from side to side. [2]
- On a dazzling morning in March, with the brigantine running like a beagle in full cry before a heaping sea that swayed her body,--so I beheld for the first time the misty green of the high shores of Ireland. [9]
- A kind of mist filled the dark eyes, and the slim, beautiful figure swayed slightly. [11]
- The Little Gentleman leans towards her, and she again seems to be swayed as by some invisible gentle force towards him. [6]
- It changed form; it swayed it nodded darkly; and at last, in his heightened fancy, he saw it heave and roll. [13]
- But human nature is a queer thing, he admits; sometimes jurors are unaccountably swayed, be as careful as you can in choosing them. [5]
- Heavy clouds gathered in the north, and wreaths of mist, like a hot vapor-bath, swayed over the crisply-foaming wavelets that curled the lustreless waters of the Mareotis Lake. [10]
- He was lost in it, swayed by it. [11]
- He spoke slowly in a loud voice and throwing out his chest slightly swayed one leg. [2]
- So far as I can see, they are as easily swayed to-day as the crowd that listened to Mark Antony's oration about Caesar. [9]
- The current swayed him out, but he plunged forward, catching at the bole. [11]
- How lovely were her face and form, how peculiar her way of walking--she did not limp--no, she swayed along the garden. [10]
- Kutuzov swayed his head, as much as to say: "How is one man to deal with it all? [2]
- Alpatych swayed his head and went upstairs. [2]
- He swayed as he walked, but by the time they reached his cave-house he was alert again. [11]
- At another spot he noticed a Russian soldier laughingly patting a Frenchman on the shoulder, saying something to him in a friendly manner, and Kutuzov with the same expression on his face again swayed his head. [2]
- He swayed as he did so, and would have fallen, but I caught him as he lost consciousness, and laid him on the cabin sofa. [11]
- It may well have been my own weakness which made me think her body swayed, which made me reach out as if to catch her. [9]
- I held her hand unconsciously--she seemed to be drawing me to her, I thought she swayed, and a sudden dizziness seized me. [9]
- Yes, his mother had judged her rightly: she allowed herself to be swayed in a most extraordinary manner by her moods; and now even he was to feel the insolence of her haughtiness, of which he had as yet seen nothing. [10]
- Scattered and disorderly groups of men swayed here and there, and just before the entrance of the Palace was a wailing group, by which stood two priests with their yellow robes and bare shoulders, speaking to them. [11]
- For a moment Ferrol swayed back and forth, stretched out his hands convulsively and gasped, trying to speak, the blood welling from his lips. [11]
- It swayed and fell, but caught on the muskets of the nearest soldiers. [2]
- It swayed and fell clattering to the ground, bringing the irons with it. [10]
- He puckered his face, screwed up his eyes, and pensively swayed his head. [2]
- Hence indignation rocked Euphrasia, and doubts swayed her. [9]
- The old man drew himself to a sitting posture, then swayed slightly. [11]
- And unconsciously I contrasted his strength, which reinforced the atmosphere of the room, with that of Ralph Hambleton, who was, a greater influence over me than I have recorded, and had come to sway me more and more, as he had swayed others. [9]
- For a time, clinging with her hands to the uninjured rope, she swayed between heaven and earth. [10]
- A strong wind came rushing up the valley through the clear sunlight, the great trees beneath the castle swayed, and the flapping of the tricolour could be heard within. [11]
- Had it not been for his dog he would probably have walked into the Sagalac; for though he seemed to have an instinct that was extra-natural, he swayed and staggered in the delirium driving him on. [11]
- Here came a beautifully dressed woman in a roomy litter, over which waved a canopy entirely of white ostrich-plumes, which the evening breeze swayed like a thicket of fern-leaves. [10]
- We sat gazing at the building, which was bathed in the early sun, at the deer and sheep grazing in the park, at the changing colours of the young leaves as the breeze swayed them. [9]
- Her body swayed as though she would faint, and her eyes closed, and stayed closed for so long a time, that Corporal Shorter, who drove the rough little pair of Argentines, said to her sympathetically: "It's all right, ma'am. [11]
- The boat swayed as the others leaped, and he held her close meanwhile. [11]
- A red glow as of a conflagration spread above the horizon from the rising full moon, and that vast red ball swayed strangely in the gray haze. [2]
- They half closed as her body swayed slightly towards him. [11]
- He swayed slightly as he went, then a trembling seized him. [11]
- He sat heavily and swayed limply on his brisk little horse. [2]
- Lassiter released Jane and like a dizzy man swayed from her with a hoarse cry and leaned shaking against a table where he kept his rider's accoutrements. [13]
- He had succeeded, and his belief that Manitou could be swayed in the right direction if properly handled, was correct. [11]
- He swayed to and fro, even as he did when his hand left the lever and he let the master-carpenter go free. [11]
- It swayed back and forward like a stalk of rye or a cat-o'nine-tails (bulrush) with a bobolink on it. [6]
- Then she swayed and fell fainting at the feet of Ba'tiste. [11]
- He swayed, groaned and fell back into the open door of the coach. [11]
- Lacey's pistol snapped, and an Arab fell; again, and another swayed in his saddle. [11]
- The stage whirled along at a spanking gait, the breeze flapping curtains and suspended coats in a most exhilarating way; the cradle swayed and swung luxuriously, the pattering of the horses' hoofs, the cracking of the driver's whip, and his "Hi-yi! [5]
- The grass was all a yellow-brown, but the north wind which swayed the bare trees brought a touch of color to Anne's cheeks. [9]
- He crashed against a table, swayed, missed a chair where rested the Sarasate violin, then fell to the floor; but he staggered to his feet again, all his senses in chaos. [11]
- He swayed like a drunken man, taking some steps forward and back to save himself from falling. [2]
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