He only sat it out by pulling so many hairs out of his beard that they made an audible frizzle in the fire when he brushed them off his knee, and stood up, saying gruffly, "You are very good; he deserves it.
Her dark hair, brushed low over the temples in the fashion of the day, was fresh and glossy.
The gray hair brushed back from a heightening forehead might have proclaimed him even beyond middle age, and his stature, of about medium height, acknowledged easy living in its generous habit.
Barbara calmly withdrew it from his grasp and brushed an imaginary curl out of her eye.
As he brushed his hair in front of the window, Desmond saw the peewits running about in the sunshine on the fields by the road.
Strangwise brushed past her and caught Nur-el-Din by the arm.
The neatly brushed but thinning locks carefully arranged across the top of the head testified to the fact that Mr. Marigold had sacrificed most of his hair to the vicissitudes of his profession.
The unkempt hair brushed down across the forehead, the thick glasses, the heavy moustache still formed together an impenetrable mask which Desmond's eyes failed to pierce.
Mr. Crook, who continued his study of his assortment of photographs without taking the slightest notice of Desmond, was a much more alert looking individual, with a shock of iron gray hair brushed back and a small pointed beard.
After a good wash webrushed our hair for the first time for five weeks.
As for him, he slowly moved his face round towards the mob, and as he brushed the dirt from his coat with his kerchief, he be, stowed on them one look so full of immeasurable heartfelt contempt that they actually quailed beneath it.
Mme Burle, cold and erect, brushed past the major without the least sign of emotion or recognition.
She was dropping with sleep, but her hair had been brushed anyhow, and her eyes were deeply sunken.
Some sceneshifters who came out smoking their pipes between the acts brushed rudely against them, but neither one nor the other ventured to complain.
Nathalie brushed out her long, shining, showering curls, bathed her face, and said her prayers.
Ann opened the door, and Cherrie, her vail still down, brushed past her without saying a word, and flitted up the staircase to her own room.
Lloyd flung away her nut-shells, and standing on the top of the stile brushed her dress with her handkerchief.
As she stood there listening, about to strike a match, something in white brushed down the stairs past her.
He almost sprang at her at these words; indeed, he came so close that his hot breath brushed her face.
The thought brushed his mind, his face softening for the instant with it, that Ruth would be so sorry to have that true.
She did not hear the porter speaking to her about being brushed off; she was peering hungrily from the window, looking through tears at the town she had not seen since she left it that awful night eleven years before.
He now recalled that for some time he forgot all about the boy at the grating but when he did think of him again he remembered seeing the boy as if he were just rising from his knees, which, as he stood, he brushed with his hand.
At times no sounds were heard save the whisperings of the breeze, as it brushed against the spread canvas, or a slight "swashing" in the water as it was broken by the rough timbers of the craft.
Then she offered Touquet her candid forehead, and the barber approached her and brushed it lightly with his lips.
Soon the carriage rolled along a road bordered only by trees and hedges; the branches of some old trees from time to time brushed the top of the carriage, and this unexpected sound made the inexperienced traveller tremble.
His hand brushed hers and he felt her fingers close firmly around his palm with a squeeze.
Her lips brushed against his ear and her arm tightened convulsively around him.
Higher in the trees, a few vines smoldered fitfully where the fires had brushed them, then hissed into smoky wet ash as their own glutinous sap smothered the urgent embers.
Ready with that first tape again," Bob Ryder said as Jerry removed the Contact helmet and brushed his snow-white hair back from his tanned, youthful face.
On Tuesday morning, at breakfast, I brushed away a fly that was just going to taste your chocolate.
She brushed my hand off, and the dreadful {458}reality was before me that for the first time she did not know the child she had ever received with such tender smiles.
The sea was a more vivid blue, the sky more brilliant, than on most days, the trade wind was fresh, and there was a ripple on the lagoon as the breeze brushed over it like velvet brushed the wrong way.
The king and the knight have been brushed aside; and the old chess-board, Mellifont, alone remains.
Hair and moustache were his own, dyed and brushed cunningly.
And the man, for his part, felt his oppression brushed away by anger at her readiness to judge him.
From it abundant white hair was brushed straight back.
Her breath brushed his cheek, his arm was round her as she sobbed.
For a moment he brushed his hand over his eyes, as though to remove the object upon which he glared; then he looked again--to find the lane empty and Ganns gazing at him.
Two large tears fell upon her work, but she brushed them hastily away, that Gretchen might not see them.
He brushed away her tears, and she smiled at him again.
The sick child instantly brushed the tears from her eyes when she saw the picture.
The cobwebs of September were brushed away by the most vivid lightning, and the floor of heaven was well washed for Jenny’s return.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brushed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
