Then they carried me to a shady spot beneath some shrubbery, and laid me gently down.
Cheating and lying were essential to the whole system; drunkenness accompanied it; contempt for all law grew up under it; honest industry perished beneath it; and it was crowned with murder.
She buried herself beneath the bed-clothes, and trembled from head to foot.
Still Rust sat where he was, with his black eyes peering from beneath his heavy brows, and glancing from face to face.
Droop we beneath the cloud despondingly, Thy voice its cheering influence imparts, And we arise, and, girding up our hearts, Go forth in hope to win eternity.
Beneath thy chilling breath The sweet-voiced brooks, that bounded on their way Gleesome and frisk, as children at their play, Lie stiff in death.
AFTER a long day's journey, I descended the last of the Canigou mountains, and although it was now past sunset, I distinguished in the plain beneath me the houses of the little village of Ille, toward which I was now directing my course.
There are none so low, none so degraded, as to be beneath consideration.
The Countess wears a robe of boldly flowered brocade, from beneath which emerges the richly bullioned sleeve of her vest.
Just as a locust by the sun struck down, So perished in their prime his fancies vain, Despite the projects hatched beneath the shade Of his red hat.
He was beneath the same roof with an old lady who belonged, as his suspicious eye told him, to the same clay as that out of which the landlady is modelled, only circumstances had not developed in her the pugnacity and acridity of the class.
Philip, again looking at Mrs. Cusworth, and his face clouded with the blood that suffused it, but so far beneath the skin that it did not colour, it only darkened it.
Jameson's servant, remained my faithful attendant during the siege; beneath his dusky skin beat a heart of gold, and to him I could safely have confided uncounted treasures.
If our chairs had been drawn up to the table, we should probably have been buried beneath this mass.
Loud hissed the sea beneath her lee; my little boat flew fast, But faster still the rushing storm came borne upon the blast.
In this manner the swab, floating about, penetrates beneath the rocks where the coral is found, and is hooked on to it.
But for these developments, how could one hope to recover anything large or valuable that had once disappeared beneath the waves?
The upper part of the head and shoulders appeared of a dark brown colour, and beneath the jaw a brownish white.
The sun glared down upon us pitilessly, and I thought how pleasant it would be to throw myself into the sea, and sink calmly to death beneath its waves.
Cuffee and his companions, who have been gossiping and story-telling beneath their cocoa-leaf roofs until half asleep, appear to become most violent and incurable lunatics, on suddenly becoming aware of the nocturnal exodus.
Beneath her white bowsprit the gaudy image of a woman served as a figure-head.
It was explained to me that 'they' could not possibly get across the trenches, or break the boom, or escape the torpedoes, or live for an hour beneath the blaze of the guns.
There was a boom to be placed across the harbour, and a whole world of torpedoes ready to be sunk beneath the water, all of which were prepared and ready for use in an hour or two.
The body of the Sea-anemone is "cylindrical in form, terminating beneath in a muscular disc, which is generally large and distinct, enabling them to cling vigorously to foreign bodies.
The moment the wave recedes, the vacuum beneath causes the wind to rush into the two apertures with a loud humming noise, which is heard at a considerable distance.
Around her were clouds and beneath her the mountains of Mexico were stretched out.
The fighter closed in and then drew back to make the lunge, but there was blood on the ground beneath his feet and he slipped.
She liked everyone and had always had some sort of sixth sense that made her look beneath surfaces and find the true person.
A few hours later, after an afternoon siesta and a long cool refreshing drink of fruit juices beneath the palms of the courtyard, everyone felt better.
I only know that we found it in his desk, hidden beneath some old letters and papers.
They do not often enough 'Feel their burdened breast Heaving beneath incumbent Deity.
Escaped that heavy stream on pinion fleet, Beneath the mountain's lofty frowning brow, Ere aught of perilous ascent you meet, A mead of mildest charm delays the unlab'ring feet.
Beneath that tree, while yet it was a tree He found a baby wrapt in mosses, lined With thistle beards, and such small locks of wool As hang on brambles.
Myrtle-leaf that ill-besped, Pinest in the gladsome ray; Soiled beneath the common tread, Far from thy protecting spray!
And for the line, 'Beneath this roof, if thy cheer'd moments pass.
I could not endure to live if I had not a firm faith that the life within you will pass forth out of the furnace, for that you have borne what you have borne, and so acted beneath such pressure--constitutes you an awful moral being.
Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seemed he-- O, lift a thought in prayer for S.
When beneath the umbrella they lay so close that they were frequently taken into a bucket with the Medusae.
Mr. Sowerby once saw an unwary bluebottle walk beneaththe body of the apparently sleeping Bat into the sensitive bag, in which it was immediately imprisoned.
At last, when the reptile was fatigued by its efforts, she again seized it by the head, which she ground beneath her teeth, compressing the fangs and glands of poison, and then devouring every part of the body.
When the tide is down, this little creature, if stealthily watched, may be seen creeping up a hole in the sandy shore, taking up rapidly particles of the loose powdery sand in its claws, and depositing them in a groove beneath the thorax.
After more than three weeks, the former Toad reappeared, but how he came up from beneath the floor I never could conceive, or how he had picked up a living in the meantime.
That it will eat vegetables is shown by White of Selborne, who relates how it eats the root of the plantain by boring beneath it, leaving the tuft of leaves untouched.
In the long-styled form the stigmas project above the anthers, and the styles are nearly twice as long as those of the short-styled form, in which the stigmas stand beneath the anthers.
In the long-styled form the apex of the stigma stands just beneath the bases of the hairy lobes of the corolla; whilst the summits of the anthers are seated about halfway down the tube.
In the short-styled flowers a similar brush of hairs is situated low down within the tubular corolla, above the stigma and beneath the anthers.
In several cases the young capsules bury themselves beneath the ground, and the seeds are there matured.
The stigmas of the short-styled form are seated beneath the anthers, and they are considerably shorter than those of the long-styled form.
It stands rather beneath the level of the anthers of the shortest stamens in the long-styled and mid-styled forms.
These stand just above the numerous anthers and a little beneath the tips of the petals.
These flowers may be ranked as cleistogamic, as they are developed, and not merely drawn, beneath the ground.
In the long-styled flowers beaded hairs almost fill up the mouth of the corolla and project above it; they therefore stand above the anthers and beneath the stigma.
The short-styled plants have a short pistil, half the length of the tube of the corolla, with a smooth depressed stigma standing beneath the anthers.
He states that the peduncles of the cleistogamic flowers curve downwards and bury the ovaries beneath the soil.
Subularia, however, sometimes has its flowers fully expanded beneath the water, see Sir J.
The stigma of Gesneria pendulina sometimes protrudes far beyond, and is sometimes seated beneath the anthers; so it is with Oxalis acetosella and various other plants.
If you have to do something beneath your or my dignity, you cannot; that I know.
For many months many thousands of the world's choicest blackguards had slept between his blankets, worked with his tools, eaten his food and shelteredbeneath his roofs.
I'm vain enough to think I can make almost any man want to live with me," she said, darting a glance frombeneath lowered eyelashes.
Yet, beneath all our confidence ran a chilling current of doubt.
Beneath the bald forehead the eyes were like two gleams of light; the dead man rose as if impelled by some superior force or will.
Are you going to let monsieur box your ears in that way and accuse you of wickedness that's beneath you?
He walked slowly in a direction from which he could see the procession of communicants, and distinguish his little Ursula brilliant with exaltation beneath her veil.
The post master, a living proof of that axiom, presented a physiognomy in which an observer could with difficulty trace, beneath the vivid carnation of its coarsely developed flesh, the semblance of a soul.
After an enmity of forty-four years the two antagonists met beneath a porte-cochere in the Rue Saint-Honore.
None but a post master could feel impatient within sight of such meadows, filled with cattle worthy of Paul Potter and glowing beneath a Raffaelle sky, and beside a canal shaded with trees after Hobbema.
Beneath the little gloves of a light color it was easy to imagine her pretty hands.
Then she unfastened her cloak, and drew up from beneath the bosom of her dress a silk cord, to which was fastened a hoop of gold wire.
She had refused to share with any one the secret of her costume; and even Flossy was ignorant, that beneath the long cloak which completely enveloped her cousin was concealed male attire.
Something in Patty had instinctively recognized the innate nobility of Mr. Putnam's character, hidden beneath a somewhat cold exterior.
One of his first requests on recovering consciousness had been for this pocket-book, which since he had guarded beneath his pillow.
A white-haired man, with small, shrewd eyes which twinkled beneath bushy brows, looked up from the letter he was writing.
The sick man drew from beneath the pillow a black and oily-looking pocket-book, long and flat, and apparently empty.
Peter Mixon was safely bestowed beneath the sod before Patty remembered the pocket-book which he had confided to her care.
With a cautious, cat-like movement, the woman slid her hand beneath Mixon's pillow, searching for something which Frank Breck had assured her was to be found there.
The lady was full of a thousand affectations and kittenish wiles in her leisure hours; but, when attending to business, she showed the hard, shrewd nature which lay beneath this soft exterior.
The only sound which came to the maiden's ears was the soft purling of the brook beneath her feet as it flowed among the sedges and alders.
Fate, however, had her purposes in their going, and interposed by breakingbeneath the wheels of their carriage a decayed culvert.
The skin beneath the patch of white hair was in each animal like that beneath the neighboring normally-pigmented hair.
All nests were one foot beneath the surface of a pile of coal-ash, which was about three and one-half feet high and five feet in diameter.
The mouse, swimming less than a foot beneath the surface, was vigorously using both forefeet and hind feet, but the long tail trailing limply behind, contributed in no way to the animal's movements.
Then we saw that beneath the upturned collar of the overcoat one cheek was all red and bleeding.
A great tube came down through the roof and disappeared beneath the open grating of the floor.
He wrote on, and the boy beneath the bed fainted dead away.
There was a tension both of physical atmosphere and mental excitement, strange and unnatural to me, but which those who go beneath the waters and explore the mysterious deep always have with them.
Then a word is chosen as a key, written down in separate letters and the remaining letters of the alphabet are written in order beneath it.
Once, it nearly slipped away from beneath our feet and my brother crouched down again and caught at a great clump of barnacles, motioning me to listen.
These vertical grooves should at their lower end be a little over ΒΌ inch deep, in order to admit of the wires being introduced beneath the carbons.
The carbons having now been fitted in their beds, the distal end (coil) of the head wire is placed beneath the carbon, and the wire itself continued up along the vertical groove to either one of the gimlet holes.
To slake one's thirst at this fountain, is a foretaste of the river of life that flows from beneath the throne in the eternal city of God.
All this may be but the gilding of barbarism; beneath this external glitter there may be a heart and character steeped in moral rudeness and degradation.
He but gathers a few pebbles on the shores of the river of time, then sinks beneathits wave.
There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins; And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains.
Beneath the branches of the tree of life, have they also sat and plucked its leaves for the healing of the nations given.
His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade.
Is that, which ever was a cause of life, Now placed beneath the basest circumstance, And modesty an exile made, for money?
And I beneath that white snow buried lay, And slept the cold and lonely sleep of death.
My child, we two were children, As lively as ever you saw, We crept into the hencoop, And we hid there beneath the straw.
But beneath the earth 'tis frightful, In the grave so cold and darksome.
But, nevertheless, I find it beneath my dignity and a taint upon my honor, to allow myself to be baptized in order to hold office in Prussia.
Beneath St. Peter's Bascilica, you will find there the tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul.
Suddenly we hear the deep underground reverberation that reveals the unsuspected depth of some abyss of thought or passion beneath us.
If a native, she had fallen beneath the ban of respectability, and was an outcast alike from hope and from good society.
Remembering Belisarius, he probably thought it notbeneath his own dignity to ask for an obolus.
I mourn no more my vanished years: Beneath a tender rain, An April rain of smiles and tears, My heart is young again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beneath" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: below; subordinate; under; underneath
