He did not see us at first, but when we got a little nearer, off he flew, with his long legs stretched out behind, and his head bent close to his shoulders.
Do you notice some of the ribbons to be bent and folded here and there?
Wood, we knew, could be easily bent without breaking if boiled or steamed for a while; but we had nothing large enough in which to boil a strip of wood 8 feet long.
The latter was bent double to receive the cord which was wedged in between the two arms of the needle.
Then a second pair of opposite poles were similarly bent inward and tied, and so we proceeded until the entire stockade had been converted into a dome-shaped cage.
The cross ribs were made of barrel hoops which we had soaked in water for a day or so to render them pliable enough to be bent into place.
To brace the bottom a 3/4-inch board was placed at the center, inside the boat, and bent down against the floor, to which it was nailed with wire nails.
He had stretched the canvas so tightly across the hoops that they were bent to an oval shape.
They were held in brass bands, or clamps, bent around them and secured to the bulkheads, as shown in Fig.
A groove was cut in the side of one of the pins to receive the ring of a completed link, while the wire was passed through this ring and bent around the peg to form the ring of the new link.
At the end of the backbone we fastened hooks made of brass, bentto the form shown in Fig.
A still later improvement consisted in making ties of stout galvanized iron wire, bent to the form shown in Fig.
The end of a rail was bent in far enough to catch the flange of one of the car wheels, and in a moment Dutchy, car and all, was slung head over heels into the mill-race.
The hickory strips had beenbent up at the forward end, as shown in Fig.
Care was taken to do this hammering very lightly, otherwise the end would have been bent over instead of being flattened.
A strip of brass was bent over the crank, or U-shaped bend in the shaft, and its ends were fastened to the rod.
Rolfe murmured his assent; whereupon Sibyl rose, just bent her head to him, and moved with graceful indolence away.
She rang the bell, and Mrs. Strangeways, having no alternative, slightly bent her head and withdrew.
The question was asked with infinite delicacy, head and body bent forward, eyes floatingly averted.
Hugh had never bent over books since the day when he declined the university and got leave to join Colonel Bosworth's exploring party in the Caucasus.
Harvey reflected, his head and body bent forward, his hands folded together.
Once or twice he imagined a movement of Redgrave's features, andbent to regard them closely; but in truth there was no slightest change.
Alma lay back in a chair, sobbing quietly, with head bent aside.
I thought,' said Dymes, as he bent forward familiarly, 'that my silence would let you know how matters stood.
He showed neither surprise nor excessive pleasure, but bent his head with a grave approving smile.
Impatient with what he thought the slow progress of the vehicle, Hugh sat with his body bent forward, straining as did the horse, on which his eyes were fixed, and perspiring in the imaginary effort.
She bent her head with a half-smile, stopped, and spoke in a low voice, without sign of embarrassment.
Ma consented, and they accordingly passed through the hall, where he saw the young lady sitting down with her head bent forward while some one was scratching her back.
Miss Li bent her head in acknowledgment of her guilt, and Lien-hsiang continued, "How is it that a nice girl like you can thus turn love into hate?
Shang's father was likewise very pleased, and kept his guest to dinner; but the young man himself was sadly dejected, and approaching the bottles unperceived, bent his ear to listen.
This made her blush very much, and she bent her head down and made no answer; by-and-by rising up and going away.
But he spent no breath in reply, and fought on with fury, bent on pressing his unknightly vantage to the utmost.
De Longville gazed first at the floor beneath his feet then at the ceiling overhead and bent his brows in a painful frown.
My father bent his brows upon this for a moment, then exclaiming in wrath, bade me read it to the assembled company.
Plain to see, he had recovered from his wound and was as bent as ever on Mountjoy's fall.
If we grant your lives and arms, you shall give us knightly word to retire from the lands of Grimsby, and give o'er this bloody hunting you were bent upon.
For an hour we had debated of our wrongs and the measures that should put an end to them, each speaker being fiercely bent upon the thing that should lift the oppression that had borne most heavily upon him and caring little for aught else.
He had been ordained early in life to a curacy, having probably followed, in choosing his profession, the bent given to him by his family connections, and had thus from circumstances fallen into the household of his present patron's uncle.
And they were the more unacceptable because the mother's tone of mind had always taken something of the bent which appeared so strongly afterwards in her son.
And always I have had a frail body which seemed bent on collapsing at the wrong time.
With my bent for delving into the effect of land rulings on the settler, I made inquiry regarding certain provisions of the Mondell Act.
Now you all go and coast, while Prue and I set the table and get out the best chiny," said Tilly, bent on having her dinner look well, no matter what its other failings might be.
I was so bent on outdoing the polypes that I didn't much care what happened; and so I went to work in my clumsy way.
Prue retired to the hearth as if bent on dying at her post rather than desert the turkey, now "browning beautiful," as she expressed it.
It took some time to find her thimble and needles and spools, for Polly wasn't a very neat little girl; but she got settled at last, and stitched away as if bent on beating her dumb friend.
Looking up the hilly road, they saw the three shadows trudging along, as if bent on getting home in good time.
Fancy; for, as she bent to lay the crown on the other's head, she saw that she was looking wistfully down into the water that kissed her feet.
Twice again we hear of the setting out of lawless troops, bent even more openly on plunder than their predecessors, and twice again we hear of the Danube running red with the blood of those slain by the hosts of Carloman of Hungary.
It was but too clear that Mohammed, from a calm and peaceful prophet, had been transformed into a warlike chieftain, bent on subduing all others to his will.
My whole soul is bent on coming thither again, most of all if I can appear in lofty place, a king's ambassador.
Why have they bent to the yoke, and not defied the tyrants to the last?
The official teachers of the Hegelian school, he declared, were bent only on obtaining positions for themselves by an appearance of supporting Christian dogma; and they resented openness on the part of any one else.
In science his distinctive bentwas to the borderland between psychology and physiology.
Old Grimstone bentslightly forward, staring in a puzzled fashion at the trim, khaki-clad figure before him.
He did not raise his eyes above the third button on the captain's coat, and so he missed the look of pride and approval the man bent on him as he pinned the silver cross upon the boy's left breast.
Two of the three windows were tightly shuttered, so that Dale could barely make out the bent figure seated in a rocking-chair beside a rusty, decrepit cook-stove.
Under the rolled-up flap he could see the scoutmaster sitting on his cot, his head bent intently over an outspread paper.
As he bent over to pick up his bag, the movement set his head to throbbing afresh.
Turning up the collar of a rather shabby coat, he thrust both hands deep into his trousers' pockets and hurried whistling along, bent on delivering his papers in the quickest possible time.
I just want you to let me--" She bent over suddenly and kissed him on the forehead.
Dale's heart was beating unevenly as he bent to pick up the tiny broken twig.
Dale drove forward, bent on clearing the way for Sherman.
One of the dogs, still licking his chops from the dish of scraps that Dale had given them in the shed, trotted after him, and the boy bent to pat his head without a touch of nervousness.
It was the first time the boys had had the freedom of Crystal Lake, and practically every scout who did not know how to swim seemed bent on learning before the summer camp started.
His head was bent a little, and he stared blankly, unseeingly, at a knot in the board at his feet.
A moment later the pale lips moved, and he bent swiftly to catch the words.
A battery of eyes, eager, expectant, pleading, was turned upon the old man, whose bent shoulders straightened a bit.
Heedless of a warning shout from one of the men, he bent swiftly forward and caught the child by one shoulder.
Mansvelt was very much bent on keeping these islands, as they were conveniently situated for piracy, and easily defended.
In an instant we all lost our footing, the masts bent with the impetus, and the cracking timbers from below bespoke a pressure which was calculated to awaken our serious apprehensions.
In the year 861, Naddodr, a Norwegian Viking, bent on a piratical trip to the Faroe Islands, was driven by an easterly gale so far to the north-westward that he reached an utterly unknown island.
It has little trace of Manoelino except in the bent curves of the upturned drip-mould, and in the broken lines of the two smaller doors which open under the plain tympanum.
But leaf carving is not common; usually the caps are merely moulded, one or two of the mouldings being often like a rope; or branches may be set round them sometimes bound together with a broad ribbon like a bent faggot.
At the end of about two feet on either side of the centre the moulding forming these curves is bent sharply down for a few inches to a point, and is then united to the jambs by a curve rather longer than a semicircle.
They have no abacus proper, but instead two branches are bent round, bound together by a wide ribbon.
The outer shafts of the jambs are carved like tree trunks, and the hood moulding like a thick branch is bent and interlaced with other branches.
The servantbent and taking the hem of the woolen tunic pressed it to his lips.
At times the gaze he bent upon the long lazy shape half buried in the raw-edged grass was malevolent with uneasiness and hate.
The shepherd made a little sign and bent his knee.
The voice of the prophetess swept on: "Ye have bowed to tyrants and bent your necks to murderers; ye have waged wars for pillagers and shared not in the spoils.
Do not show me, yet, that you are only bent on being queen!
Amaryllis bent so she could whisper in Laodice's ear.
For a moment the awful gaze he bent upon Aquila seemed to show that the gentler spirit had been dislodged from his heart.
Over her, now, bent a face characteristic of a great spirit, yet one which was coeval with the times--times of violence and the supremacy of force.
On a slope to the west as a wady bentupon itself abruptly before it debouched upon the hillside, there was a deep glow illuminating a space in the depression.
Julian bent hastily and snatched the signet from the nerveless hand and fumbling in the bosom drew forth the wallet there.
Aquila dismounted and the three men bent over the woman.
When he was gone a strange, bent figure with long white hair and a gray distorted face came from the shadow of one of the towers and plucked the old Christian's tunic.
So he bent gracefully forward and kissed Queen Alicia's white fingers.
So there in the morning sunshine They knelt about the boy, And every head was bared and bent In tearful, reverent joy.
Then as he bent his head in affirmation, she asked, "Is there anything to be done?
Bent on getting all they could while they could," he said, quite unjustly as to the vicar, and hardly fairly by the sister, whose demands were far exceeded by those of her champion.
She is too well off for the drudgery, but she is bent on making researches of some kind, and I think I heard of some plan of her going to attend lectures, to which her degree may admit her, but I am not sure where.
You need not be afraid," was the muttered answer, as David bent down his head over the exercise he was correcting.
Medlicott and Lord Fordham and his man had not all been bent on saving her whatever they could.
It was all that Jock could do by his good-humoured banter and repartee to keep the peace between the other two who, when unchecked by regard to their mother and Babie, seemed bent on discussing everything on which they most disagreed.
Johnny bent his head, and the young physician, somewhat surprised at finding himself saying so much on such points, left that branch of the subject, and began to talk to him about his uncle.
There Cecil was benton giving a great house-warming, a full family party.
The master of the horse gave him sad news of the insubordination of the army; and his great white horse was dead, they told him; and his sword had lost its temper: it bent double the last time he tried it!
Then first the lord chamberlain discovered that his tormentor had bent and twisted the bedstead, legs and canopy and all, so about him that he was shut in a silver cage out of which it was impossible for him to find a way.
Every head went up and three pairs of flashing eyes were bent upon him.
It was a gathering of stern, determined men, bent on a terrible vengeance.
He did that,' observed Mr. Thornton, now bent on a toadying match.
He was a little, soft, rosy, roundabout man, with stiff resolute legs that did not look as if they could be bent to a saddle.
With his head bent that way, and holding her hand with hand and arm both at once, he might have been his father over again.
Then she turned back and bent low to look at the coals under her pot.
If Langdon Chester is upset and benton trouble, I'm the cause of it.
He took one of her hard, thin hands and bentover her.
Mrs. Bruce bentforward and peered into King's motionless face and smiled and slyly winked, then she glanced at the serious faces of the others, and broke into a childish laugh of genuine merriment.
Never had Carol bent his head before King or Communes, the Church or Finance.
His eyes were bent fixedly before him, and throughout his whole countenance there reigned a stony rigidity.
He here paused abruptly, bent his head to his bosom, and seemed to listen to a sound which I could not hear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
