Use tied in a sentence
Sentences starting with tied
- Tied up to the Manitou shore were a half- dozen cribs or rafts of timber which should be floating eastward down the Sagalac. [11]
Sentences ending with tied
- She got no satisfaction out of us, our tongues being tied. [5]
- The sun was nearing the western hills beyond the river, and people had for some time been wending their way towards the field where the horses were tied. [9]
- He tried to lift imploring hands, but they were crossed upon his breast and tied. [5]
- Then she burst into a soft laugh, for his hands were tied. [11]
- Then she mounted, and he never budged, any more than if he had been tied. [5]
Sentences containing tied two or more times
- When Lady Dargan saw the ribbon, which Gaston in his hurry had not disturbed, tied exactly as she had tied it, a weird feeling came to her, and she felt choking. [11]
More example sentences with the word tied in them
- Ah, I see-- your hands are tied, they cannot aid you. [5]
- Somewhat thus a young rose-tree might feel, which for the first time receives the support of the prop to which it is tied by the careful gardener. [10]
- When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers. [6]
- I could lick you with one hand tied behind me, if I wanted to. [5]
- When I leave you I step into a pirogue which is tied to the river bank. [9]
- But what, Ruth wrote, could a woman do, tied up by custom, and cast into particular circumstances out of which it was almost impossible to extricate herself? [5]
- She bathed the wound--the bullet had passed clean through the fleshy part of the arm--and then carefully tied the scarf round it over her handkerchief. [11]
- Withered laurel-wreaths, tied with long ribbons, fluttered over the mantel-piece; one had fallen, dropped over the bald head of Julius Caesar, and rested on the breast. [10]
- Pauline and she, who lived in different worlds, and yet were tied to each other by circumstances they could not control, would each work out her own destiny after her own nature, since John Alloway had come a-wooing. [11]
- The people were white with wrath, and it tied their tongues for the moment, and they could not speak. [5]
- With an instinct, which proved correct, he opened the door leading into the old kitchen, and there, tied, and with pale faces, but in no other sense disordered, were Sheila and her mother. [11]
- No one knows whether Uncle Jim could hear the cries from the torture- chamber, but, after standing for a time mumbling to himself, he wrapped himself in a heavy coat, tied a muffler about his face, and went out. [11]
- My arms were well fastened down, and I was tied about till I must have looked like a bale of living goods of no great value. [11]
- We tied the week's washing astern of our boat, and sailed a quarter of a mile, and the job was complete, all to the wringing out. [5]
- One evening, when we were tied up under the oaks of a bayou, I told him. [9]
- After a time we were able to do that which should have been done at first, and fixed rope to firm rocks, in addition to being tied together. [5]
- You remember when we sleep on the ledge of the Voshti mountain--so narrow that we were tied together? [11]
- During this walk we gathered blue cornflowers and scarlet poppies from the fields, bluebells, daisies, ranunculus, and snapdragon from the narrow border of turf along the roadside, and tied them into bouquets for the graves. [10]
- Short led the way; with the flat box, the private luggage (which was not extensive) tied up in a bundle, and a brazen trumpet slung from his shoulder-blade. [12]
- His fair skin was tanned by the weather, and he wore his own wavy hair powdered, as was just become the fashion, and tied with a ribbon behind. [9]
- One of these was leaned against the rock, and the men went up it tied together in couples. [5]
- At last he was about to lay his hand on the lad's shoulder, but paused as by the moonlight he saw Ephraim raise one arm though, before he lay down, both hands were tied more firmly than before. [10]
- He said it was a sight better than lying tied a couple of years every day, and trembling all over every time there was a sound. [5]
- Venters did not want the burros to stray, so he tied them with long halters in the grass near the spring. [13]
- By and by Venters rolled up his blankets and tied them and his meager pack together, then climbed out to look for his horse. [13]
- Strips of dresses, vainly tied around the handles of the doors, signified the contrivance to which feminine despair had resorted as a means of keeping out the murderers. [5]
- I bought the usual paper-cutter to remember the place by, and had Mont Blanc, the Mauvais Pas, and the rest of the region branded on my alpenstock; then we descended to the valley and walked home without being tied together. [5]
- Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again. [5]
- He drew them up quickly, tied them together firmly, and let the great coil down. [11]
- Barges were tied up at the long wharves, and these were piled high with wares and flanked by squat warehouses. [9]
- After labouring for two or three years in their precious scheme, to find that they've got a beggar at last, and one of them tied for life. [12]
- Three miles below town the ferryboat stopped at the mouth of a woody hollow and tied up. [5]
- And yet her tongue seemed tied, and it was only by the utmost effort of her will that she could bring herself to express her astonishment at his rapid return to health. [10]
- And yet, next to the necessity of waiting at Memphis for the return of her messenger, nothing tied her to the place so strongly as her interest in watching the future course of his life, at any rate from a distance. [10]
- Tom was introduced to the Judge; but his tongue was tied, his breath would hardly come, his heart quaked--partly because of the awful greatness of the man, but mainly because he was her parent. [5]
- He tied Wrangle to the hitching-rack and turned to the court. [13]
- Jim he spoke to the duke, and said he hoped it wouldn't take but a few hours, because it got mighty heavy and tiresome to him when he had to lay all day in the wigwam tied with the rope. [5]
- We tied up to the bank when we saw the tempest coming, and everybody left the pilot-house but me. [5]
- The boat came to shore and was tied up for the night. [5]
- Gabord began humming to himself as he tied the bandages, and then he reached down for the knife to cut the flying strings. [11]
- This never failed to draw a substantial "bill" from the wad which Jean Jacques always carried in his pocket-loose, not tied up in a leather roll, as so many lesser men freighted the burdens of their wealth. [11]
- There was no time in his life when he had leisure to marry, or when it would have been consistent with his schemes to have tied himself to a home. [4]
- My hands are tied with regard to you, and yet they must be everywhere and always at work if the hundreds committed to my care are to be kept from harm. [10]
- Towards daybreak we tied up, and Jim was mighty particular about hiding the raft good. [5]
- The plants are tied up in the gardens, the fountains are covered over, and the inhabitants go about in furs and the heaviest winter clothing long before we should think of doing so at home. [4]
- His mother had tied up his hand, which Rameri had severely hurt; it was extremely painful, but he would not have missed the banquet at any cost, although he felt some alarm of the solemn ceremony. [10]
- Our leisurely steamboat tied up here in the afternoon and spent the night, giving the passengers an opportunity to make thorough acquaintance with the town. [4]
- Presently a bull, tied to the end of a rope, was fiercely baited by dogs. [4]
- Each line was tied to a stake at each end. [4]
- The South was tied to a republic, but it was not republican, either in its politics or its social order. [4]
- Two horses were tied to a post. [11]
- He caught one, tied its legs together, passed the rope over his head, and started for home. [6]
- To these were tied (how reverently! [9]
- And I can tie better than those that did this; if I had tied him the ropes had not cut his flesh. [5]
- Having disposed of this temperate refreshment, she arose from her stool, tied her papers into a formal packet with red tape, and taking them under her arm, marched out of the office. [12]
- She seems to think Faith must go with her face tied up, as if she had the toothache,--and that if she opens her mouth to the quarter the wind blows from, she will catch her "death o' cold. [6]
- They were armed; they sprang upon me and tied me. [11]
- Six horsemen, among them the leader of the party, were now seen to dismount; they tied their horses up, and then proceeded to fell three tall palms with their battle-axes; the other five went off southwards. [10]
- Then two of the young men rose, suddenly pinned him in their arms, carried him out, and tied him in a lodge. [11]
- Macavoy, stripped to the waist, and carrying only a hatchet and a coil of rope tied round him, started away alone up the river. [11]
- The lictors of the town marched before him with their fasces, on to which they had tied palm branches in token of a friendly embassy. [10]
- I put on the sun-bonnet and tied it under my chin, and then for a body to look in and see my face was like looking down a joint of stove-pipe. [5]
- After speaking to the senior French officer, who came out of the house with a white handkerchief tied to his sword and announced that they surrendered, Dolokhov dismounted and went up to Petya, who lay motionless with outstretched arms. [2]
- As soon as the rope was tied, the Expedition moved forward with that alacrity which the thirst for vengeance usually inspires. [5]
- We were in the post of danger in the extreme rear, and tied securely to five guides apiece. [5]
- He carried also the paternal watch, a solid silver bull's-eye, and a large pocketbook, tied round with a long tape, and, by way of precaution, pinned into his breast-pocket. [6]
- In 1880, in the night, he tied his young wife to a tree by the public road, cut her across the face with a cowhide, and made his dogs tear her clothes from her, leaving her naked. [5]
- Then he forgot the music and looked long at the face, and at last rose, and stole silently to where his horse was tied in the scrub. [11]
- As we passed the light-ship I added an ulster and tied a handkerchief around the collar to hold it snug to my neck. [5]
- The legs of the heavy animal were tied together with ropes, and Marx was obliged to take the ends of the knot between his teeth like a bridle, and drag the carcass to the castle. [10]
- While some of the guards dragged the prisoners together, counted them, and tied them with ropes, their commander, with the others and his dogs, set off on the track of the fugitive. [10]
- They went across the green to Cousin Ephraim Prescott's harness shop, where Jethro had tied his horse, and it was settled that Cynthia liked books. [9]
- As they took the gag from his mouth and tied their handkerchiefs round his bleeding wrists, Jopp sobbed aloud. [11]
- When he reached the first cedar-tree, he tied his scarf upon a dead branch, and then hurried toward camp, having no more concern about finding his trail upon the return trip. [13]
- She tied to the end of it three loose ropes she had brought from the Post. [11]
- As a result, the city government not only stood still, with its hands tied, but everything it was created to protect and care for went a steady gait toward rack and ruin. [5]
- There's no tongue that's so tied, when tying's needed, as the one that babbles most bewhiles. [11]
- They have decreed that the pilot shall remain at his post, and stand his watch clear through, whether the boat be under way or tied up to the shore. [5]
- At the time that Mrs. Eddy had unloaded that dismal gift on to her National Association, she had followed her inveterate custom: she had tied a string to its hind leg, and kept one end of it hitched to her belt. [5]
- She remembered at that moment the time that a horse had struck Val with its forefeet, and torn the flesh from his chest, and how he had been brought home tied to a broncho's back. [11]
- Even the lie that had created its reputation was not miraculous; I could have told it myself, with one hand tied behind me. [5]
- My reading had taught me that many serious accidents had happened in the Alps simply from not having the people tied up soon enough; I was not going to add one to the list. [5]
- Morel, a short sturdy Frenchman with inflamed and streaming eyes, was wearing a woman's cloak and had a shawl tied woman fashion round his head over his cap. [2]
- Having unwound the string that tied the band on one leg, he carefully coiled it up and immediately set to work on the other leg, glancing up at Pierre. [2]
- I tied a strap round his legs, and shot him with a revolver. [5]
- Mazarine's wagon and steaming horses were tied up outside the station, and inside on the platform Moses-not-much, as Mazarine had been called by Jonas Billings, marched up and down, his snaky little eyes blinking at the doorway of the station reception-room. [11]
- Some kind of spiritual anaesthetic he must have, if he holds his grief fast tied to his heartstrings. [6]
- He had no sooner seen Mr. Clement comfortably installed, therefore, than he presented himself at the door of his chamber with the book, enveloped in strong paper and very securely tied round with a stout string. [6]
- But an English soldier broke a stick in two and crossed the pieces and tied them together, and this cross he gave her, moved to it by the good heart that was in him; and she kissed it and put it in her bosom. [5]
- She had been so long inactive, tied by the leg, with wings clipped; now her mind roamed into pleasant places of the imagination where life had freedom, where she could renew the impulses of youth. [11]
- Clean shaven, with snowy linen and lace, his own natural hair, silver white, tied in a queue behind, he had large eloquent wondering eyes that seemed always looking, looking beyond the thing he saw. [11]
- It held a silver buckle tied by a velvet ribbon. [11]
- They tied the sick man on the horse and trudged back to the station in a bad plight. [11]
- The other, a short sturdy soldier with a shawl tied round his head, was stronger. [2]
- The thick sandals she had tied on to her feet roused loud echoes in the empty rooms as they fell on the stone pavements, and terror possessed Selene's anxious soul. [10]
- And if a sentimental squeamishness held one or two of them back from taking a less rosy view of Napoleon, our hospitalities tied his tongue, at least, and he said nothing at all and so did us no harm. [5]
- But she has seen men tied to their horses ride as that man is riding, when stricken with fever, bruised by falling timber, lacerated by a grizzly, wounded by a bullet, or crushed by a herd of buffaloes. [11]
- I think I see the little cloud in the horizon, with a silvery lining to it, which may end in a rain of cards tied round with white ribbons. [6]
- He roped one, securely tied its feet, and swung it over his shoulder. [13]
- A loosely tied scarf round my arm showed that some one had lately left me, and would return to finish the bandaging. [11]
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