Use walks in a sentence
Sentences ending with walks
- I often used to wonder, as I looked through the iron railing at nightfall, what might go on there and whether historic shades might not flit about in the ghostly walks. [4]
- The gardener uses the waste of the arsenic furnaces to kill the weeds in his walks. [3]
- I feel persuaded that in the matter of psychologizing, a professional is too apt to yield to the fascinations of the loftier regions of that great art, to the neglect of its lowlier walks. [5]
- A. Hail, ye solitary ruins of antiquity, ye sacred tombs and silent walks! [5]
- We went, not purposely, but accidentally, to see various poor people in our distant walks. [14]
- But my present purpose is not to expatiate upon my walks. [12]
- On either side of it, on the elevated bank of the river, stretch beautiful grounds, with green lawns, fine trees, and well-kept walks. [4]
- You and I have been as thick these twa months as men can well live, and never a word out of you of the most sublime creature that walks. [9]
- I am not afraid of any woman that walks. [5]
More example sentences with the word walks in them
- No one walks with that bearing who is on the eve of renouncing the world. [10]
- Presently a man with a gnawed yellow mustache and a shifty eye walks out of one of the offices, and perceives our friend. [9]
- He dwelt upon what she did; the walks she took in the park, those hours in the afternoon when, with Mackenzie or Colvin, she vanished into the beeches, making friends with the birds and deer and swans. [11]
- Frequently their walks were extended tramps, and once in a daring moment one or the other of them proposed to walk to Boston. [5]
- All of this went on at frequent intervals during the winter, and while I was organizing the Elkington Power and Traction Company for George I found time to dine and sup at Maude's house, and to take walks with her. [9]
- Cynthia loved these walks, for she sadly missed the country air,--and they had kept the color in her cheeks and the courage in her heart that winter. [9]
- But since she walks where I am fain to sing, Since she has said, "I listen, O my friend! [11]
- When a lady walks the streets, she leaves her virtuous-indignation countenance at home; she knows well enough that the street is a picture-gallery, where pretty faces framed in pretty bonnets are meant to be seen, and everybody has a right to see them. [6]
- Even if she walks the lonely road of life, she has this advantage, that she can whistle to keep her courage up. [4]
- If Mr. Carvel walks out of an evening, Grafton's arm is ever ready, and my uncle and his worthy lady are eager to take a hand at cards before supper. [9]
- In his long walks it was not on the law that Philip was ruminating, nor was the fame of success in it occupying his mind. [4]
- With fear she walks in the sun, For Raoul is ninety year, And she not twenty-one. [11]
- In the public walks and lounges of a town, people go to see and to be seen, and there the same expression, with little variety, is repeated a hundred times. [12]
- Sometimes, on her walks and drives, she saw people bowing to her, and recognized friends or acquaintances of what seemed to her like a former existence. [9]
- Her walks were usually directed toward the palace, to inquire how the recluse in San Yuste was faring, and whether any rumour mentioned her imperial son. [10]
- So he walks up and down for three eternal hours. [9]
- In summer he took us on long walks, frequently to the country seat of Herr Korte, who stood high in the estimation of farmers. [10]
- It sounds odiously to us to hear him recommend for dysentery a powder made from "the sole of an old shoe worn by some man that walks much. [3]
- He walks up to the soldiers, opens his coat, and says, 'Soldiers, comrades, is there one of you will kill your Emperor? [11]
- So she liked to pass through Lion Street in her walks, for it led her by his house. [10]
- On we went through the stiff, box-bordered walks of the garden, past the weather-beaten sundial and the spinning-house and the smoke-house to the stables. [9]
- They are like those persons whom we meet in our daily walks, with whose faces and figures, whose summer and winter garments, whose walking-sticks and umbrellas even, we feel acquainted, and yet whose names, whose business, whose residences, we know nothing about. [6]
- Insall was often there, and on Saturdays and Sundays he took Mrs. Maturin and Janet on long walks into the country. [9]
- Those who go there year after year converse a great deal about their liking for it, and think the time well spent in persuading new arrivals to take certain walks and drives. [4]
- In the garden there was not a weed to be seen, and to judge from some dapper gardening-tools, a basket, and a pair of gloves which were lying in one of the walks, old Mr Garland had been at work in it that very morning. [12]
- To be sure, there is a lovely little lake and a pretty artificial cascade, and the roads and walks are good; but the trees are all saplings, and nearly all the "wood" is a thicket of small stuff. [4]
- Clarence looked, and then he turned away toward the door to the stairway, as one who walks blindly, in a sorrow. [9]
- Their walks took them, too, into quainter, forgotten regions where history was grim and half-effaced, and they speculated on the France of other days. [9]
- Wearied out by the vividness of her sorrowful recollections, she sought relief in long walks on the moors. [14]
- The crowd in the rotunda makes a lane, and Mr. Crewe, glancing neither to the right nor left, walks upstairs; and scarce is he installed in the bridal suite, surrounded by his faithful workers for reform, than that amazing reception begins. [9]
- On passing through the gate one entered a wide, paved court-yard, at the sides of which walks extended, closed in at the back, and with roofs supported on slender painted wooden columns. [10]
- The father walks the floor as he talks, and his talk shows that his temper is away up toward summer heat. [5]
- The avenues of the Bois were crowded with carriages, and the walks with footpads. [4]
- The Saviour rebukes the angry waves, and walks securely upon the bosom of the deep! [5]
- No, I see that I have nothing to hope for, but everything for fear, which tends to drive me from the walks of time. [5]
- The 'primo tenore' statue of Garibaldi had already taken possession of the place in the name of Latin progress, and they met Italian faces, French faces, Spanish faces, as they strolled over the asphalt walks, under the thinning shadows of the autumn-stricken sycamores. [8]
- Meanwhile, she had resumed her walks through the grove with little Fay. [13]
- The walks are pleasant, but the walls seem to me unnecessarily high. [6]
- She would be permitted to walk and to use her horses exactly as she pleased, only the object of her walks and rides must be one which she could mention to her royal lover without timidity. [10]
- Romance walks with parted lips and head raised to the sky; and let us follow her, because thereby our eyes are raised with hers. [9]
- Mr. Bernard found out their project accidentally, and, wishing to have his share in it, brought home from one of his long walks some boughs full of variously tinted leaves, such as were still clinging to the stricken trees. [6]
- She moved like one of those bright beings pictured in the sunny walks of fancy's Eden by the romantic and young, a queen of beauty unadorned save by her own transcendent loveliness. [5]
- One walks from one end to the other of these spacious streets, under shelter all the time, and all his course is lined with the prettiest of shops and the most inviting dining-houses. [5]
- You see that old beau there, the one smiling and bending towards her as he walks with the belle of Macon? [4]
- Are the handsome officers still sipping their coffee in the Cafe Maximilian; and, on sunny days, is the crowd of fashion still streaming down to the Isar, and the high, sightly walks and gardens beyond? [4]
- On both sides of this centre-way were concrete walks, with cross-walks from the curbs to the houses. [9]
- When he was not sawing and hammering and planing, he took long walks up and down Coniston Water, and was surprised deep in thought at several places. [9]
- That it was not literature alone that inflated his dreams was evidenced by the direction his walks took. [4]
- It is a noble park four miles in length, and perhaps a quarter of that in width,--a park of splendid old trees, grand, sweeping avenues, open glades of free-growing grass, with delicious, shady walks, charming drives and rivers of water. [4]
- But now we never have these walks, and though it is the same house it is darker and much more gloomy than it used to be, indeed! [12]
- These walks which Myrtle had taken with her reverend counsellor had given her a new taste for the open air, which was what she needed just now more than confessions of faith or spiritual paroxysms. [6]
- But is a mountain sooner found out than a valley, or is there a want of internal resources, away from business, that the men presently become rather listless, take perfunctory walks for exercise, and are so eager for meal-time and mail-time? [4]
- It is a most comfortable town on a rainy day; for all the principal streets have their houses built on arcades, and one walks under the low arches, with the shops on one side and the huge stone pillars on the other. [4]
- Too many young men born to shine in social life, to sparkle, it may be, in conversation, perhaps in the lighter walks of literature, become agreeable idlers, self-indulgent, frivolous, incapable of large designs or sustained effort, lose every aspiration and forget every ideal. [6]
- Once he spied me at the window and shook his cane pleasantly, and in he walks to the room where I sat reading of the victories of Blenheim and Malplaquet, for chronicles of this sort I delighted in. [9]
- Sometimes when a mastodon walks across the field of its vision it takes it for a rat; at other times it does not see it at all. [5]
- As to the make-up of the House, it is this: the deputies come from all the walks of life and from all the grades of society. [5]
- Even in the lowest walks of life, skill and ability must be of some advantage; though in many occupations, owing to the great division of labour, a very small one. [1]
- I have my long walks, my fishing and rowing, and sometimes hunting, with Juste and my sweet sister Georgette, my drawing, painting, music, and needlework, and my housework. [11]
- And he took long walks with the lovers on moonlight evenings--sometimes traversing ten miles, notwithstanding he was usually suffering from rheumatism. [5]
- I have taken long walks on the crackling snow, and felt the frosty air bracing. [14]
- Yet he always liked to go alone, and consequently her affectionate care could be no check upon the length of his walks to the more distant hamlets which were in his cure. [14]
- But two hours later, when he had returned from one of the long walks which he and Twichell so frequently took together, he told a different story. [5]
- The world is large and it belongs to other people, and one has to endure much when one walks abroad; but this house is my own place, a little spot all my own, and I cherish it. [11]
- A trap is laid for Launcelot, by the king's command, and Sir Launcelot walks into it. [5]
- Sincerely Yours, S. L. C. "Helen" of this letter was Mr. and Mrs. Allen's young daughter, a favorite companion of his walks and drives. [5]
- You can see it in her air the moment she walks away from the altar, keeping step to Mendelssohn's tune. [4]
- After his health is proposed, he makes his adieux, and leaving the club, walks away towards a West-end square. [11]
- Nor did they intrude on my walks in the night watches, to see me slipping a locket from under my waistcoat--ay, and raising it to my lips. [9]
- The walks shrunk into stripes again at the sound, and raising himself a little in the bed, and holding the curtain open with one hand, he looked out. [12]
- So everybody walks in the street--and where the street is wide enough, carriages are forever dashing along. [5]
- And the walks in the avenues? [2]
- They well understood how to mark out neat flower-beds, plant groups of trees and shrubs in regular order, water the whole by aqueducts and fountains, arrange arbors and summerhouses, and even inclose the walks with artistically clipped hedges, and breed goldfish in stone basins. [10]
- Harriet's walks with Hogg "commonly conducted us to some fashionable bonnet-shop. [5]
- After a while his walks fatigued him, and he was tired, and breathed hard after going up a flight or two of stairs. [6]
- With him walks his sister Artemis and behind them the mother of Hebe, accompanied by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, as the envoy of Zeus. [10]
- Shelley's happiness in his home had been wounded and bruised almost to death, thirdly, because Harriet's walks with Hogg commonly led to some fashionable bonnet-shop. [5]
- He throws out his company of two dozen turkeys in a crescent-shaped skirmish-line, the number disposed at equal distances, while he walks majestically in the rear. [4]
- He had met her now and then in her walks to and from school and meeting, and had been taken with her beauty and her apparent unconsciousness of it, which he attributed to the forlorn kind of household in which she had grown up. [6]
- Then I accompanied her in her walks on the sweeping moors the heather-bloom had been blighted by a thunder-storm a day or two before, and was all of a livid brown colour, instead of the blaze of purple glory it ought to have been. [14]
- Natural beauty it has none: it is simply a long, narrow strip of ground inclosed in walls, with straight, parallel walks running the whole length, and narrow cross-walks; and yet it is a lovely burial-ground. [4]
- Since yesterday she had felt like one who walks along the edge of a precipice, and whose enemy is close at his heels; and the sense of freedom from the ever threatening danger, soon got the upperhand of her maternal grief. [10]
- The minister had got into the way of taking frequent walks with Myrtle, whose health had seemed to require the open air, and who was fast regaining her natural look. [6]
- He began to frequent the picture-galleries, where there was at least an attempt to express sentiment, and to take long walks to the confines of the city-confines fringed with all the tender suggestions of the opening spring. [4]
- He holds himself erect, and walks on the balls of his feet, quietly. [9]
- The door moved easily on its hinges, and when Boges had shut it again and strewed a few of the river-shells from the garden walks over it, it would have been difficult to find, even for any one who had come with that purpose. [10]
- The captain put down the glass: "Lord how she walks up on us! [5]
- The weather is cool in summer, and the walks and drives are all pleasant and none of them fatiguing. [5]
- He doesn't seek company, and he walks sometimes endless miles talking to himself, going as hard as he can. [11]
- Whenever the third caryatid comes to life and walks from beneath its burden, the capitals of Europe will be filled with the broken furniture of palaces. [6]
- I had had but little to do these ten days, so I spent them mainly in walks about the town with Noel. [5]
- Now begins the bustle of enjoyment, when the citizens pour forth to breathe the evening air, and revel away the brief twilight in the walks and gardens of the Darro and Xenil. [4]
- The walks, the bridges, the quadrangles, the historic college buildings, all conspired to make the place a delight and a fascination. [6]
- The good old bishop walks humbly in the rear, in full canonical rig, with crosier and miter, his rich robes upborne by priestly attendants, his splendid footman at a respectful distance, and his roomy carriage not far behind. [4]
- A few days before the wedding Edward Lambert and his wife arrived, and he, Captain Vidall, and Frank Armour took rides and walks together, or set the world right in the billiard-room. [11]
- Her mother had been especially fond of some of them, and was always pleased when she brought them home from her walks with the abbess or Sister Perpetua, the experienced old doctress of the convent. [10]
- Perhaps it is because a bird flies with his white-fleshed limbs and walks with the dark-fleshed ones. [6]
- It was a beautiful garden, with hedge-bordered walks and flowers wondrously massed in color, a high brick wall surrounding it. [9]
- Sometimes he would be seated in the gallery, tapping his foot on the floor, and sometimes pacing the garden walks with his hands opening and shutting. [9]
- He is much at our home, and sometimes walks with Juste and me and Georgette, and accompanies my mother in the streets. [11]
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