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Example sentences for "bridling"

Lexicographically close words:
bridges; bridging; bridle; bridled; bridles; bridoon; brief; briefcase; briefe; briefed
  1. In bridling the young mule, it is necessary to have a bit that will not injure the animal's mouth.

  2. Throw the noose over the head of the unruly mule, then draw him carefully up to a wagon, as if for the purpose of bridling him.

  3. After the tallow and wax has cooled on the twine, the bridling may proceed.

  4. The bristle brushes used for priming, lead, and roughstuff require bridling until worn down somewhat.

  5. The twine used for bridling paint brushes--and the twine bridle is the favored kind in the carriage paint shop--should be run through melted tallow and beeswax before put to use.

  6. I am sure nobody who knows him, knows anything bad of him," said the widow, bridling up at the mysterious air with which Tom had spoken.

  7. And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

  8. Of bridling the tongue and of pure religion.

  9. There was a little proud bridling of her head.

  10. His mother smiled, with a quick bridling of her head--he was complimenting her!

  11. Yes, and I believe keeping a light word that has turned out heavy, is the best help in bridling the tongue.

  12. Yes, in the country," said Pierre, evasively, and bridling his ire.

  13. At first he thought, that bridling their impulsive fierceness, they were resolved to take the slower, but perhaps the surer method, to wrest Lucy back to them, by instituting some legal process.

  14. She came away filled with a bridling vanity, feeling herself a siren, a queen of men.

  15. They walked back together, or rather Mark walked and Tito circled round him, curvetting in bridling ecstasy.

  16. Julian frowned, bit his lips, bridling his anger with difficulty.

  17. I am sure nobody who knows him, knows anything bad of him,' said the widow, bridling up at the mysterious air with which Tom had spoken.

  18. But the Emperor considered the confiscation of estates as the most efficacious means of bridling the royalists; and he persisted obstinately in not giving it up; reserving the power of relinquishing it, when circumstances would permit.

  19. With a view of bridling Desmond, MacCarthy More was created Earl of Clancare, and Sir Owen O'Sullivan received a grant of his country subject to such rents and services as the new-made Earl could prove himself entitled to.

  20. Sidney lost no time in trying to realise his idea of bridling the North with forts and bridges.

  21. Then, bridling up, she added, 'A pretty fine thing, indeed!

  22. Sairy, who had begun by bridling and looking askance at the two who talked so easily about things with which she was not conversant, soon tossed her head and began to talk with others who gathered around.

  23. The rather stout, ruddy-faced man reading the Sunday paper dropped the sheet and gazed across at the bridling old lady.

  24. Lady Glistonbury, with the same inflection of voice, and the same bridling and smiling.

  25. Very unfashionable books, Mr. Vivian," said Miss Strictland, bridling and smiling as in scorn.

  26. She used to hunt out passages that spoke of forgiveness and kindness and the management of the tongue and the bridling of anger; and then she used to pray over them, and not once or twice.

  27. You speak as if it was an honour to be queer," said the young lady, bridling her pretty head.

  28. Bridling softly, she was turning away, when the young King threw up his hands in good-humored surrender.

  29. And whether he did not see her bridling displeasure, or whether he saw and no longer cared to appease it, the result was the same.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bridling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.