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Example sentences for "carline"

Lexicographically close words:
carkases; carking; carkiss; carle; carles; carlines; carlins; carlish; carload; carloads
  1. Thereafter Thorbiorn Angle let put forth a ten-oared boat, and he went thereon with eleven men, and the carline was in their company.

  2. Thereafter she went back home to Woodwick; and Thorbiorn said that he knew not if that would come to aught; but the carline answered that he should wot better anon.

  3. With that they came home, but the carline was laid in her bed, and abode there nigh a month; by then was the hurt thigh-bone grown together again, and she began to be afoot once more.

  4. Then spake Grettir, "Let us make up our minds to it, that this sickness which I have gotten is not done for nought, for it is of sorcery, and the carline is minded to avenge her of that stone.

  5. Now wore away the time of autumn till it wanted but three weeks of winter; then the carline bade bear her to the sea-shore.

  6. The Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris), as its name shows, does not belong to the same genus as the others, from which it differs principally in having its inner bracts coloured and spreading.

  7. The spines of this thistle, like those of our Carline and the Centaurea calcitrapa (thistle of the Bible), spring from the bracts surrounding the flower.

  8. It occurred to Carline that he wished he could talk to someone, to any one, about anything.

  9. A proud Carline had no call to be treated thataway by any woman, especially by the daughter of an old ne'er-do-well whom he had condescended to marry.

  10. Carline looked at the stand of guns in the cabin corner and started with surprise.

  11. When they sat down to eat, Carline confessed that he hadn't had a real meal for a week except one he ate in a Cairo restaurant.

  12. Terabon looked at him; Carline had learned nothing.

  13. Gaiety had never been a part of her childhood or girlhood; she had withstood the insidious attacks and menaces that threatened her down to the day when Gus Carline had come to her.

  14. Old man Carline left his first wife and two babies up in Indiana--I know all about that family!

  15. As she did so, she discovered Terabon's skiff around at the far side where Carline could not see it.

  16. The savage swing of a half pound of fine shot braided up in a rawhide bag, and a good aim, reduced Carline to an inert figure of a man.

  17. Carline would have been the most astonished man on the Mississippi had he known that nearly all his money was in the pockets of his guest.

  18. Five or six miles below he offered the supine and helpless Carline the information: "There's Yankee Bar.

  19. The three men carried Carline to a bunk and dropped him on it.

  20. God preserve us, Jeanie, that carline has a fearsome face!

  21. I wonder how Queen Carline (if her name be Carline) wad hae liked to hae had ane o' her ain bairns in sic a venture?

  22. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word cam' to the carline wife That her sons she'd never see.

  23. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word cam' to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.

  24. But the rest of her talk with the carline she remembered, and also the vision of the beautiful woman who had kissed and embraced her; and she knew that it was her very mother.

  25. Spake the Carline and her face was soft and kind: "Nay damsel, long would I hearken to thy voice this summer day.

  26. Then smiled the carline and said: "Yea, he is thy foster-father, and yet a fond one.

  27. Carline Dodge, get under the bed and develop like a film," decreed the leader finally.

  28. Go on, Carline Dodge," ordered the tall ghost imperturbably.

  29. Babbie Hildreth crumpled all up when Carline Dodge called out her crush's name.

  30. Hinsdale's expression softened, and when she repeated Carline Dodge's absurd retort, he laughed like a boy.

  31. It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o' the birk.

  32. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.

  33. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carline wife That her sons she'd never see.

  34. And no one heard the carline Thurid, who sang to herself when she heard Ondott boast: "He laughs too soon Who doth forget, Soursop blood Binds kinsmen yet.

  35. Then after a while the carline sang again.

  36. Beware suits at law," said the carline again, and she turned to go.

  37. And the carline sang once more: "Take what is given.

  38. Now in Iceland all men loved the singing of skalds; but though Hiarandi had heard the carline sing many times before, never had he heard rhymes from his wife.

  39. Within were Asdis, and Frodi, and the carline Thurid; but no sign of Rolf was to be seen.

  40. Then the carline rose, and her eyes were strange, as if they saw beyond that upon which she looked.

  41. Said she, "Nothing save that the carline Thurid was here yestreen, and I am the first that has heard her speak since she left here in the spring.

  42. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, Whan word came to the carline wife That her three sons were gane.

  43. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word cam' to the carline wife, That her sons she'd never see.

  44. They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely ane, When word cam' to the carline wife, That her three sons were gane.

  45. The plant upon which the arrow alighted was the Carline Thistle, and, as Gerarde tells us, Charlemagne's army was, through the benefit of the root delivered and preserved from the plague.

  46. The Carline Thistle is under the dominion of Mars.

  47. The carline took them with a goodwill, and set them away surely, and said that she would speak with the lady.

  48. But the carline sent after Sir Raoul, and he came.

  49. Then the carline let bathe the lady the Thursday before, and the bath was in her chamber, and the fair lady entered therein.

  50. So much spake the carline by her words that the needle of nature stirred somewhat.

  51. The carline took the silver, and spake with the lady often, but nought it availed.

  52. Carline Gallup was a manty-maker--What, Kier?

  53. Oh, that reminds me: I was a-gwine to tell what Carline Gallup said about Kesier Winkle.

  54. But I was gwine to tell what Carline Gallup said.

  55. Oh, I was a-gwine to tell what Carline Gallup said about Kesier Winkle.

  56. The carline babbled the whole summer about the vetch-stack that it should be got indoors, but something always hindered it.

  57. There was a carline at Bergthorsknoll, whose name was Saevuna.

  58. She herself was a mumbling, fumbling carline of a sour spirit and fierce temper.

  59. My mind misgave me when the carline urged this flitting to-night, and only for my oath's sake I would have foregone it.

  60. III They hadna been a week from her, A week but barely three, When word came to the carline wife That her sons she’d never see.

  61. V It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife’s three sons came hame, And their hats were o’ the birk.

  62. The carline babbled the whole summer about the vetchstack that it should be got indoors, but something always hindered it.

  63. But every dog has his day, and Carline may be as grate a airass as no other guess parson.

  64. Deil a word said Leddy Carline tae me for a gey while, as she vrought an' vrought tae gar the saumon quit his neuk.

  65. Carline is a very decent fellow," he continued, as soon as the messenger had vanished.

  66. There was a pestilence in his army, and in answer to his prayer an angel appeared and shot, from a crossbow, a bolt, which fell on the Carline thistle with which the Emperor proceeded to conquer the pestilence.

  67. The Carline thistle is named after Karl the Great, better known as Charlemagne.

  68. The after edge of the carline at C is bevelled off (Fig.

  69. Each carline has a piece cut out of its end (see Fig.

  70. Each foot has a light board abutting on the carline above and the timber below, so that ample room is given for the luggage bag, and much strength is combined with extreme lightness.


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