This King, who makes earth what it is,-- King David bending to his toil!
The shadowed stream rolled far below, Where men moved noiseless to and fro As in some vast cathedral, when The calm of prayer comes to men, With benedictions, bending low.
The door stood wide open, framing in a vivid picture of the hearth fire, the big empty chair, Mere Lunde bending over some cookery.
Monsieur Laflamme wished her good-night and happy dreams, then bending low, whispered: "But they must be of me.
The girls now settle down to their needlework, quite as if they had never laughed or danced or woven garlands, bending over their embroidery in perfect silence.
The dreamer opened her eyes to behold a youth bending over her and gently pulling her robe, as a suitor is permitted to do to awaken his beloved.
A few sticks had been laid upon the ends of the bending rose-bushes, and this flimsy, inadequate platform was literally covered by the five dirty-white eggs.
The trees were bending and writhing, and the loud crashes we heard told us that every instant some were hurled to the ground.
When she saw Faith bendingover her she smiled very happily.
She was bending forward, staring at Faith with a strained expression upon her features.
Mr. Gibson, the manager, was bending over her with a glass of water in his hand, and was giving orders right and left in an excited manner.
The deacon magnanimously granted both, and whilst bending over the devout lady, whispered one word: 'Patience!
My duty is to my lord,' answered the man, bending his head.
Assuredly,' answered Maximus, bending his head, whilst his eyes watched the distant sail.
Out they darted, crouching and bending low, driving a few shots first at the skulking warriors nearest, then scattering along the ground at the edge of the low platform crackling fiercely from the flames underneath.
A transport," said his father, who had been bendingover Inez.
He did not know just what to make of things when he found daddy bending over him at sunset, with anxiety in his face, and young Dr.
In the stillness he could hear the big trees shedding their drops from leaf to bending leaf and the musical tinkle of these as they took their last leap into little pools below.
After a little while, bending over and looking at the earth and speaking in a tone of unconscious humility, he added: "The most that we can do is to begin a strain that will swell the general volume and last on after we have perished.
Whatever may have been the cause, the effect is clear: about Ravenglass cleavage took place, and a flow to northward and to southward, each bending easterly.
She saw him sitting there again, bending slightly forward in her direction, his hands folded and hanging between his knees, as he looked up to her.
He looked up at her; he saw her beseeching him with her eyes, with the expression of her face, with her whole attitude, as she stood bending slightly forward.
Pete, Bill, and Jake sprang to the wooden lever that extended from the base of the ninety-foot mast; and they threw their weight against the bar, bending it as a bow.
He looked again at the crowd, bending toward him in attention.
He was accustomed to the bending of circumstance to his will; in the end he would prove stronger than any hesitancy she might, perhaps, reveal.
Polder held open the screen door; and as, without her jacket, she went out, Howat Penny had a final glimpse of the man bending at her side.
Then he turned to Evelyn's grave, and bending down, tried to read her name on the mossy stone.
Hortense had drawn aside, and was bendingover Anne Purcell.
He beheld a transfiguration—love bendingtoward love, beautiful with the beauty of sacrifice, pity, and desire.
John Gore was out of the saddle and bending over Captain Grylls.
Suddenly, as though bending beneath some great weight of humiliation and utter helplessness, she sank down on the bed with her head resting against the wall.
He was bending forward and looking at her with an intentness that betrayed his ignorance that she had him at a disadvantage, in that he saw only the curve of a cheek, while Barbara had everything before her.
Mrs. Winnie came to hang the kettle on the chain, and while she was bending forward with the firelight on her face John Gore sat forward in his chair and laid a hand upon her shoulder.
She stretched out her hands to him, and then drew them with a sharp sob into her bosom, bending down her head and feeling the old despair taking possession of her heart.
For the thought of his mother bending her pale, serious face over the rose-bushes and the green ferns where the roach pool lay seemed more dear and vivid to him because of that other thing that had taken birth within his heart.
He awoke to find himself on the bank, with Susan bending over him and kissing him.
Its lofty head it proudly rears To greet the summer sky, Whilst, bending with the weight of years, I feebly totter by.
Loud roaring through the bending tree, There's sorrow in man's darksome dwelling, There's rapture still with thee!
To Thee I dedicate my soul and song; In humble adoration bending low Before thy footstool.
The desolating tempest had swept by; and so brilliant was the sunshine, and so clear the bending azure, that night and storms were both forgotten.
I could see her beautiful head bending over her table as I came down the terrace steps in the Abbey garden when I brought you in these roses.
Retracing her steps, she saw the whole massive building before her shine out at once in a flood of warm yellow light; then she stopped short, bending forward with her hand outstretched, and listening eagerly.
Bending over her work, the Queen’s blushes come and go with a degree of graceful embarrassment that is not unmarked by her attendants.
But I need not give my answer until the very day, mon pere," murmured Marie, bending low over the work in her hand.
Sometimes bending down to the ground, like a black panther, she leaped up to some worshipper, and halting before him touched his forehead with her finger, while her long, thin body shook with inaudible laughter.
A match was drawn across a matchbox, and I saw the boy bending over a candle waiting for the wick to catch.
It was while bending over them, examining, that again he heard the eery chant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bending" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
