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Sentences ending with trunk

We grounded, and Xavier, seizing a great tow-rope, leaped into the shallow water and passed the bight around a trunk. [9]
The other great work which fascinated me was Bassano's immortal Hair Trunk. [5]
I'll get the trunk. [9]
It was adjusted to crack an egg-shell or smash an iron-bound trunk. [4]
It is customary to carry large sums of money in bank bills about your person or in your trunk. [5]
He even gave the elephant in the menagerie a plug of tobacco, and the elephant didn't knock the top of his head off with his trunk. [5]
This shortening of that part of the limb which is nearest to the body, appears to be, as suggested to me by Mr. Forbes, a case of compensation in relation with the greatly increased length of the trunk. [1]
Ferrol shrugged his shoulder with a stoic ennui, and put away the pistols in the trunk. [11]
Honora sat down on the wall with her back to a great trunk. [9]
She took a little lamp from the shelf, and went up the narrow stairs to her own room in the gable, where Lemuel had deposited the rawhide trunk. [9]

Short sentences using trunk

And with the trunk, too. [9]
Her trunk was opened. [4]

Sentences containing trunk two or more times

If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
From that moment no other thing in those forty feet of canvas has any charm; one sees the Hair Trunk, and the Hair Trunk only--and to see it is to worship it. [5]

More example sentences with the word trunk in them

An old trunk with letters and account-books, some of them in Dutch,--mere curiosities. [6]
The great hall, with its gallery, and its hangings, and the long table made from the trunk of a single tree, carries one back into the past centuries. [6]
She was standing with her hands behind her, her back against a great walnut trunk, the crusted branches of which hung over the bluff. [9]
She did not weep passionately, but the big salt drops welled slowly from her eyes and ran down her young cheeks, as drop after drop of shining sap flows down the trunk of a wounded birch-tree. [10]
Now what a way to talk that is: What do you suppose that trunk is worth? [5]
The anti-temperance mass-meeting was in session; he put his trunk in at a window and washed it out with water from cistern. [5]
He was very warm, and well he might be; for, not to mention the exertion of getting the trunk up stairs, he was closely muffled in winter garments, though the thermometer had stood all day at eighty-one in the shade. [12]
He hoists me up with his trunk, but I can get off myself; when we are ready to camp, he sits and I slide down the back way. [5]
They were sent up in a trunk to London, with divers fruite, conserves, and preserves, which I did sett in Mr. Crofts his house in Ratcliff. [4]
Hid away close under the eaves she found an old trunk covered with dust and cobwebs. [6]
The wild vine twined boldly up many a trunk, fruit was already forming on the bilberry bushes, though it still glimmered with a faint pink hue amid the green of May. [10]
He had a trunk, two small satchels, and an umbrella. [5]
Peter checked Honora's trunk, and Peter had got the permission--through Judge Brice--which enabled them all to pass through the grille and down the long walk beside which the train was standing. [9]
She closed her trunk with a pleased smile, for the motto round the star was, she felt, of good augury. [10]
Around the gnarled trunk was a seat. [9]
She drew the trunk towards her, put the key in the lock, and opened it. [6]
He lost a trunk in Switzerland, and consumed a whole day in looking it up. [4]
In time the trunk and every branch and twig are incased in hard pure ice; so that the tree looks like a skeleton tree made all of glass--glass that is crystal-clear. [5]
I had a trunk about half full of "stock. [5]
I was curious to know how the size of the trunk of this tree would compare with that of the trunks of some of our largest New England elms. [6]
Burke instantly arose to his feet, seized the tail, and exclaimed joyfully, "I claim the re--" but got no further, for a single blow of the huge trunk laid the brave fellow's fragments low in death. [5]
My trunk used to get loose in the stateroom and rip and tear around the place as if it had life in it, and I always had to take my clothes off in bed because I could not stand up and do it. [5]
Then leaning against the trunk of the ancient tree, while he sank down on the bench, gazing alternately at the ground and into her face, she began: "Childhood already lies behind me, and youth will soon follow. [10]
The top of the Trunk is arched; the arch is a perfect half-circle, in the Roman style of architecture, for in the then rapid decadence of Greek art, the rising influence of Rome was already beginning to be felt in the art of the Republic. [5]
The lid of the trunk flew open. [10]
I leaped on the trunk and made my way along it, stepping over him, until I reached and hid myself in the great roots of the tree on the bank above. [9]
To these remonstrances, the single gentleman answered not a word, but when the trunk was at last got into the bed-room, sat down upon it and wiped his bald head and face with his handkerchief. [12]
He only acknowledged the shots by a salaam-like movement of his trunk, with the point of which he gently touched the wounds with a striking and peculiar action. [5]
Somehow or other, the rootlets, which are its tentacles, find out that there is a brook at a moderate distance from the trunk of the tree, and they make for it with all their might. [6]
On the continent the railway fare on a trunk is about the same it is on a man. [5]
No rocks, across the pathway lie, --No fallen trunk is o'er it thrown, --And yet it winds, we know not why, And turns as if for tree or stone. [6]
So perfect is the Hair Trunk that it moves even persons who ordinarily have no feeling for art. [5]
The handle on the end of the Trunk has evidently been retouched--I think, with a piece of chalk --but one can still see the inspiration of the Old Master in the tranquil, almost too tranquil, hang of it. [5]
Farther back beyond the dark trees a roof glittered with dew, to the right was a leafy tree with brilliantly white trunk and branches, and above it shone the moon, nearly at its full, in a pale, almost starless, spring sky. [2]
What a sound that is,--the banging down of the preliminary trunk, without its claimant to give it the life which is borrowed by all personal appendages, so long as the owner's hand or eye is on them! [6]
Why there, in that ebony trunk, lies the rescript of Euergetes which confers the stewardship of this residence on my ancestor Philip, and as a hereditary dignity in his family. [10]
The dirty maidservant stepped from behind the trunk, put up her plait, sighed, and went on her short, bare feet along the path. [2]
Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table. [12]
Crack after crack sounded from the forest--from here and there and everywhere, it seemed--and with a song that like a hurtling insect ran the scale of notes, the bullets buried themselves in the trunk of our oak with a chug. [9]
It was the shock of the heavy Indian falling on Polly Ann and me as we cowered under the trunk, and even then there was an instant that we stood gazing at him as at a worm writhing in the clay. [9]
Panting for breath, she stood leaning her weary head and tangled hair against the trunk of the tree, a wine-cup upside down in her right hand. [10]
Holding her breath, she nestled close to the trunk of the ancient tree to listen, and the first word she heard was the name "Nemesis," which had just reached her from the tent. [10]
With frantic haste she closes the trunk, which Ephum and Jackson carry downstairs and place between the seats of the carriage. [9]
And let a servant bring the trunk here that the owner may open it in the presence of us all and before any one else touches the contents. [10]
There was a seedy old chest, and an old hair trunk with the hinges broke. [5]
The Celebrity had seated himself on the trunk of a tree, and was blowing out the smoke in clouds. [9]
I took a seat (uninvited) on the trunk platform behind, and we drove briskly off. [5]
At last Nilus referred to the trunk, which had been brought from Paula's room under her own eyes, informing her that the assembly were ready to hear and examine into anything she had to say in her own defence. [10]
So her thoughts ran, and her cheeks flushed as, with swift decision, she opened her trunk, took out papyrus, writing implements and a seal, and seated herself at a little desk which Rufinus had placed for her in the window, to write her answer. [10]
And the stage proprietor, the stage-driver, and the hostler mull over the problem, and sit down on the woman's hair trunk in front of the tavern to reason with her. [4]
A string was procured and carefully carried round the trunk, above the spread of the roots and below that of the branches, so as to give the smallest circumference. [6]
Then an inconvenience presented itself which we had not properly appreciated before, namely, that one cannot make a heavy traveling trunk stand for twenty-five pounds of baggage --because it weighs a good deal more. [5]
My passage is paid, and if the ship sails, I sail in her--but I make no calculations, have bought no cigars, no sea-going clothing --have made no preparation whatever--shall not pack my trunk till the morning we sail. [5]
My bag was packed, my steamer trunk closed. [9]
The Turks came out and took the headless trunk, and Smith, according to the terms of the challenge, appropriated the head and presented it to General Moyses. [4]
He seated himself on Tom's trunk and added: "Welcome to old Harvard! [9]
In the midst of their cries she heard her aunt calling from the carriage, where, beside the trunk, there was just room for her to squeeze in. [9]
A little examination of the trunk of a tree which may be nearly covered with the scratches of opossums ascending and descending is sufficient to inform him whether one went up the night before without coming down again or not. [5]
The massive arches of some of these ruins rest upon piers that are fifteen feet square and built entirely of solid blocks of marble, some of which are as large as a Saratoga trunk, and some the size of a boarding-house sofa. [5]
Not a muscle of his body appeared to move; he was as motionless as the trunk of a tree. [11]
Once he heard of him at a hotel in Washington; but the man departed, leaving an empty trunk, the day before the major went there. [5]
This chute was not more than twice as wide and high as a Saratoga trunk, and was walled, roofed and floored with solid blocks of Egyptian granite as wide as a wardrobe, twice as thick and three times as long. [5]
The hair on my trunk was soft and thick and youthful, when I got it ready for shipment in Hamburg; it was baldheaded when it reached Heidelberg. [5]
It had a mighty trunk and a mighty spread of limb and foliage. [5]
A dirty, barefooted maid was sitting on a trunk, and, having undone her pale-colored plait, was pulling it straight and sniffing at her singed hair. [2]
And when a mad elephant goes raging through, belting right and left with his trunk, how do these swarms of people get out of the way? [5]
After securing the little trunk, and settling certain matters with Mr. Holt, they said good-by to her late kind protectors, and started off for the nearest street-cars, Honora pulling Uncle Tom's mustache. [9]
I hoped to leave my headaches behind me at Haworth; but it seems I brought them carefully packed in my trunk, and very much have they been in my way since I came. [14]
While she listened, leaning against the trunk of the sycamore, he paced to and fro, urged by longing and impatience, sometimes pausing directly in front of her. [10]
But one fine June morning there rumbled up to the door of our boarding-house a hack containing a lady inside and a trunk on the outside. [6]
As he came into the room, she gathered the papers together and replaced them in the trunk, which she locked, throwing an unfinished piece of needle-work over it, putting the key in her pocket, and gathering herself up for company. [6]
I had it in the bottom of my trunk, and I guessed you'd like it. [9]
I put it in my trunk. [5]
I be bound, if I have to take a-holt of you I'll--" "They're in the trunk. [5]
Then suddenly a hundred axes appeared in the air, wielded by unseen hands, and struck the poor tree with such violence that the branches one by one fell to the ground, and at last the trunk itself was felled. [10]
When the White House was burned in Virginia City, I lost my home, my happiness, my constitution, and my trunk. [5]
Dick had sent his trunk to the nearest town through which the railroad leading to the city passed. [6]
Dick found in his trunk a string of gold beads, such as are manufactured in some of our cities, which he had brought from the gold region of Chili,--so he said,--for the express purpose of giving them to old Sophy. [6]
I've come to hire you; get your trunk aboard right away. [5]
The freedman beside him washed his master's headless trunk. [10]
Yet it gave him pleasure; surely it was a piece of good fortune that this withering trunk was again putting forth such fresh buds. [10]
He takes with him one or more boxes--["Box" is English for trunk. [5]
He appeared before her like a fine proud tree struck by lightning, whose riven trunk, trembling to its fall, must be crushed to the earth by the first storm, unless the gardener props it up. [10]
She got a heavy fall yesterday evening and was pretty stiff and lame this morning, but is working it off trunk packing. [5]
Out from her healthy commercial heart issue five trunk lines of railway; and a sixth is being added. [5]
The next morning he was missing, as were his limited wardrobe and the trunk that held it. [6]
It wouldn't be hard to open my trunk. [11]
Stripped of the green magnolias and the cane, the banks of clay stood forth in hideous yellow nakedness, save for a lonely stunted growth, or a bare trunk that still stood tottering on the edge of a banks its pitiful withered roots reaching out below. [9]
Then he--he the grave, just man, on whose support Paula had confidently reckoned--went up to her and with a regretful shrug asked her whether the other necklace with the setting of which she had spoken was in the trunk. [10]
It is a grand elm for size of trunk, spread of limbs, and muscular development,--one of the first, perhaps the first, of the first class of New England elms. [6]
A rich cathedral gloom pervades the pillared aisles; so the stray flecks of sunlight that strike a trunk here and a bough yonder are strongly accented, and when they strike the moss they fairly seem to burn. [5]
Every man groped for a trunk or a bed, and jumped on it. [5]
When all was finished--the trunk packed, the morning's breakfast arranged, the wedding-dress laid out,--just at bedtime, Mr. Bronte announced his intention of stopping at home while the others went to church. [14]
The great trunk filled itself until it bulged with its contents like a boa-constrictor who has swallowed his blanket. [6]
It was his father's trunk, and the first thing that went into it, as the widow lifted the cover, and the smothering shut-up smell struck an old chord of associations, was a single tear-drop. [6]
Two Negro men entered, each carrying a trunk, and proceeded upstairs toward the guest room. [5]
Freed of these encumbrances, he went on to divest himself of his other clothing, which he folded up, piece by piece, and ranged in order on the trunk. [12]
So much for earthly power Cynthia brought the little rawhide trunk this time, and came to Coniston for the March vacation--a happy two weeks that was soon gone. [9]
First, she had down from the garret a capacious trunk, of solid wood, but covered with leather, and adorned with brass-headed nails, by the cunning disposition of which, also, the paternal initials stood out on the rounded lid, in the most conspicuous manner. [6]
Everywhere canals and ditches dividing the small fields instead of fences; trees planted in straight lines, and occasionally trained on a trellis in front of the houses, with the trunk painted white or green; so that every likeness of nature shall be taken away. [4]

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