Seen some funny corners of the world, too, Louise.
He would peer around corners at Cap'n Amazon, stare at him with wide yellow eyes through open doorways, leap upon the window sill and glower at the substitute storekeeper--in every way showing his overweening interest in the man.
I have before heard people tell about queer corners of the world--and been in some of them myself.
I dunno for sure that I've got any nerves," Cap'n Abe said, the corners of his eyes wrinkling.
The network of fine wrinkles at the outer corners of his eyes was scarcely distinguishable.
Thank you, Betty," he returned, with the ready smile that crinkled the corners of his eyes.
Her eyes flew to Dave's uniform, and the corners of her thin mouth tightened, and stark fear flickered in her eyes.
The corners of the corporal's mouth went down, and sneering disgust glittered in his eyes.
He streaked along like a bolt of lightning and took corners on one wheel.
Then cut out the spots very neatly and paste them on two of the blank cards, taking care to get the pips at the corners in the right positions.
If your cards have no index corners you can use the ace for this card.
If the cards have no index corners you need prepare only two trick cards--one with four spots on it and one with three.
Nature, in her open paths of sunshine, no longer busied them, while they stole into the bye-corners of abstract ideas, and roved after glittering conceits.
It appears that in his day, notwithstanding some fairies still lurking in the bye-corners of our poets, the whole fairy creed had in fact passed away.
Then he passed to boisterous tricks; springing out on the maids from dark corners or the turns in the corridors.
Press air from bag, fold open end over three times, fold sides and corners close to fish, first moistening the bag on corners and edges; lay in a dripping-pan and place in a hot oven.
Lay a double square of cheese cloth over a bowl, turn in the milk, lift the edges andcorners of cloth, draw them together, tie with a piece of twine and hang it up to drain.
On the other hand, I know that I have discovered many delightful nooks and corners in Britain that even the guide-books have overlooked.
A chronicle of the extensive wanderings by motor car of an American in rural England and a record of his discoveries in the out-of-the-way corners of the Island; also of delightful incursions into Scotland and Ireland.
But York, while of first rank as an ecclesiastical seat and famous for its quaint corners and antiquity, is not of great commercial or manufacturing importance.
There is scarce an historic shrine of importance in the Kingdom that has escaped us and we have visited hundreds of odd corners not even mentioned in the guide-books.
A walk round the walls or ramparts of St. Malo affords a wonderful view of the sea and surrounding country and also many interesting glimpses of queer nooks and corners in the town itself.
Even wagon-roads are not numerous and the enthusiast who wishes to thoroughly explore the nooks and corners must do much journeying on foot.
There are some quaint old houses along the river and many odd corners to delight the artistic eye.
There are many odd corners that are worth the visitor's attention and one is sure to have them brought to his notice as he rambles about the town.
Jelley, exhibited in 1910 Royal Academy] We enjoyed our excursions about the town, for among the network of narrow lanes we came upon many odd nooks and corners and delightful old shops.
But for all this thrift is evident everywhere; nothing is allowed to go to waste; there are no ragged, untilled corners in the fields.
The Castle, with its rambling corridors, its oddcorners and plain though substantial furnishings, is far more to our liking.
He shows us many odd corners and relics which we missed before and tells us the story of the house, with every detail of which he is familiar.
When we resume our journey over the highway to the south we are well out of the confines of English Lakeland and I may as well close this chapter on the lesser known corners of this famous region.
And then the strange home will at once be accepted, and its remotest corners explored; its position in the apiary, its form, its colour, are grasped and retained in these thousands of prudent and faithful little memories.
For their pleasant slumbers they select the snuggest corners of the hive; then, rising carelessly, they flock to the open cells where the honey smells sweetest, and soil with their excrements the combs they frequent.
One of the corners of the palace joined the irregular buildings connected with St. Mark's, and is not generally seen.
Four spandrels from the cornersran up to join a sharp cup-shaped roof.
Along these, huddled in the corners of the hills and the sea line, lie the cities and the larger towns.
The clouds have come up from all corners of the soul.
In the middle was the bronze statue of some unknown Grand Duke in the costume of Louis Philippe, on a pediment adorned at the four corners by allegorical figures representing the Virtues.
An imperceptible smile was enough, a little movement of the corners of her mouth: Christophe was hypnotized by her.
It was only a flash: sometimes others would come in quick succession: each lit up other corners of the night.
The designs are many, but for all practical purposes the plain cornersseem best, as they are more sanitary.
The corners must be driven down even so that the lid will fit on the top of the box; otherwise the ink will evaporate.
Knock the four corners down, bevelling them as shown in the sketch, and trim the end off rounding for the head.
In making corners for the lid, make the same pattern and trim it down to suit the depth of the lid.
The stock left on the corners forms the feet when the sides of the base are bent into shape.
Corners are sawed out and riveted hinges are placed on the top.
It is necessary to rivet these corners to the card-board to prevent their slipping off easily.
Drive the four corners down, and you have an 8-sided bar.
File up the corners smooth and square up the box with a steel square.
Corner plates: These plates go on the four corners of the chest.
However, where the set hammer is fullered on the corners the hot chisel is fullered on the two sides, and the end is drawn out tapering.
The leather corners are cut slant-wise at the outset, and the paring is done so that the thinning begins exactly at the edge of the board.
Whole-cloth bindings are turned in in the same way, but in this case the corners must be first cut off obliquely as shown in the illustration.
All edges and corners are well rubbed down with the folder and left smooth and sharp, but, on the other hand, the grain on the board side must be left uninjured.
Illustration: Cover corner shapes, 1 Illustration: Cover corner shapes, 2 Books not wholly covered with cloth or leather get corners of the same material as is used for the back.
First of all, the lappets of the top and bottom edges are turned in, the corners nipped in the manner shown, and then the lappets of the fore-edge are also turned in.
The corners are turned down in half right-angles according to the size of the cloth or leather corners and somewhat smaller than these, and cut off with the shears as shown in the illustration, using the fold as a guide.
The material is fixed with pins at two corners of one side, stretching it firmly at the same time.
The cloth is cut off at the corners so close that only as much as the thickness of the board remains.
The design is thus made to join together at the corners without crossing, because the roll will only leave its impression as far as the gold goes.
As piles of pieces of cloth shift about in glueing, a touch of glue is given to two corners of the pile and left to dry a little.
Leather corners are treated in the same way, but these are cut from waste pieces according to the zinc stencil plate kept for the purpose, and then pared down.
The strips for the other two sides are cut to size, at the same time cutting off the corners obliquely at both sides, then pasted and drawn over the edges.
With respect to the allied feeling of sympathy, this was clearly shown at six months and eleven days by his melancholy face, with the corners of his mouth well depressed, when his nurse pretended to cry.
Opposite one of the corners of the camp, and outside of it, was situated the parcel office.
Turning sharply to the north we made for a wood a mile or so away, and watching them carefully out of the corners of our eyes we slunk along rapidly.
The corners of her sensitive mouth twitched uncertainly.
This dreamlike spot of beauty was occupied by an incessantly restless throng of lean, sallow-faced men in sack-coats, with hats on the backs of their heads and cigars in the corners of their mouths.
The mare, which had been drinking deeply, now lifted her head, the water running from the corners of her mouth.
Dyke observed the mark of a sword cut on his forehead, the saliva at the corners of the brown lips, and the spasmodic flicker of his hairless eyelids.
I was heating a big poker red-hot, and burning holes into the four corners of a board so father could put legs in it to make me a bench.
There are a whole lot of unpleasant things that peep around corners occasionally," said Laddie.
So he left mulberries in the fields and fence corners and wild cherries, raspberries, grapes, and every little scrub apple tree from seeds sown by Johnny Appleseed when he crossed our land.
All down that side of the orchard the fence corners were filled with long grass and wild flowers, a few alder bushes left to furnish berries for the birds, and wild roses for us, to keep their beauty impressed on us, father said.
Besides, if I didn't look in the fence corners that I passed, maybe I wouldn't see anything to scare me.
None who could sing the notes, do the queer sums with letters having little figures at the corners in the college books, read Latin as fast as English, and even the Greek Bible.
My intimacy with Leandro was accepted as an excuse for my intrusion, and we were each accommodated with a truckle-bed, quickly set up in the two opposite corners of the Colonel’s sitting-room.
Near one of the corners of the stage was pitched the challenger’s tent of black and brown silk, and in it a seat covered with black velvet.
The new home will at once be adopted, and its furthest corners explored.
Pedronez and Lucina backed into corners and chattered crazy.
Instead of having it out then, they had all gone off to different corners of the island, the same as they used to do, and that suddenly.
To Simon, Jesus' question was like a powerful beam of light shining into the darkest corners of his mind, driving away the last black shadows of doubt.
He examined the shadowy corners where the light of the candles did not reach.
This curl gave to him sweetness, as the minute puckers at the corners of the eyes gave him laughter.
Less often appeared the playful curl of his lips, the smile in the wrinkling corners of his eyes.
But their harshness was retrieved by the upward curl at the corners of his mouth.
It was stiff street fighting, the Germans being hidden away in all sorts of corners with plenty of machine guns.
His name and achievement had been flashed to the four corners of the earth.
The Theatre National and the Club Union," he said, "face the Palace from the oppositecorners of this street.
Mr. Langham and his daughters, and Clay, were standing on the steps, and the servants were peering around the corners of the house.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
