He sat back and waited, his fingers curledround his glass.
The man lay quite still, with his head curled under his body in a cramped position.
And just beyond the fallen horse Frank was curled in a heap upon the hard ground!
As regarded Feathertop, all this resulted in a wild, extravagant, and fantastical impression, as if his life and being were akin to the smoke that curled upward from his pipe.
He curled himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird.
He wanted the money back afterwards; the link died in about two weeks," said the dealer in wild animals, with a smile that curled his mustache into his ears, and a glance at Colonel Ellison.
He chased them till he was tired, and then he curled himself up and went to sleep on the hollows of the ground swell that sets in to Copper Island.
What would the jungle think if I, the Black Panther, curled myself up like Ikki the Porcupine, and howled?
I was not a day too soon," he said, for he could see the baby cobras curled up inside the skin, and he knew that the minute they were hatched they could each kill a man or a mongoose.
Then he curled up ready for any accident, his head lowered.
Rikki-tikki curledhimself up in the grass and slept where he was--slept and slept till it was late in the afternoon, for he had done a hard day's work.
She waited, irritated and nervous, until her room-mate, undressing in the pale reflections, had noiselessly curled herself on the couch.
She glanced uneasily into the room where Snyder, curled up in a ball on the bed, was sleeping the heavy sleep of those who consume the night six days of the week.
And there was a young woman beside him, fine and noble, and with curled hair, and she said, "Surely there is a welcome before you from me.
To be sure, he leaves the category of excelsior very far behind and approaches very nearly to the best grade of curled hair, but, in spite of all this, he is simply a sort of social filling.
And all thou dost enumerate Of power and beauty in the world, The mightiness of love was curled Inextricably round about.
In less than a minute Dot and Tot were fast asleep, curled up side by side, with their arms entwined.
She was mounted astride, and Presson had to look twice at her to make sure she was a girl, for she wore knickerbockers and gaiters, and her copper-red hair curled so crisply that it seemed as short as a boy's.
There was a curled moon high up in the air like a feather, and a moon-white tusk glinting here and there, where the herds drifted across the flats.
So Tse-tse-yote spent the three nights following in a corner of the terrace with me curled up for warmth beside him.
I would look out of my cave and see him there curled up in a corner, or pacing to and fro with the dew on his blanket and his face turned to the souls of the prayer plumes drifting in a wide band across the middle heaven.
We stayed on in the ravine, waiting on Ongyatasse's knee, until we saw the new rim of the Halting Moon curled up like a feather.
Her tail bristled a little as it curled at the tip like a snake.
She was no curled darling, to be kept on exhibition in white dresses and broad sashes, and she had been sedulously instructed in the orthodoxy of Dr.
She brushed and curled her hair till she took all the curl out of it, and washed all the paint off her cheeks in the zeal of motherly ablutions.
She was so tired and so sound asleep that she did not wake when the service ended, lying serenely curled up, and having perhaps pleasant dreams.
The tail is generally long, and is curled upwards.
The pods are about 1 inch broad and 3 inches long, but are generally bent orcurled up; are excessively astringent, containing a large proportion of tannic and gallic acid, for which reason they are used by tanners and dyers.
She hid herself from her playmates, and curled herself up where the shadows were deepest, like a lily amongst its leaves.
She shrieked and threw herself backwards, and Gon, who had been curled up on a stool at her feet, understood her terror, and with one bound seized the snake by his neck.
When they had eaten a great many pebbles they thought they had done enough for that day, and all went home together and curled themselves up to sleep.
Her hands were cold, her eyes had foreknowledge of the end; but, moved by his touch, her mouth curled unaware and shaped itself for kissing.
Peggy had been taken into Anne's bed, and had curled herself close up against her mother's side.
Her face curled all over with its soft and sensual smile.
But how do you suppose I'm going to say it if I've got to stay here, all curled up like a blessed Buddha, and you're planted away over there like a monument of all the Christian virtues?
Her eyelids dropped ever so little, but their dark lashes (following the upward trend of her features) curled to such a degree that the veil was ineffectual.
Her head rested on his arm, and her hair curled over his rough coat-sleeve.
Her tiny face curled in its white, angelic smile as soon as he lifted her in his arms.
Then, when sharp streaks of orange along the eastern horizon were beginning to shed a mystic colour over the lake, he drew back into the woods and curled himself up for sleep behind the trunk of a big hemlock.
Then she backed down close to the water's edge, thrust her long, slender abdomen a good inch into the water, and curled it under her as if she were trying to sting the hidden surface of the log.
On the topmost hillock he took his stand proudly, his massive head and broad, curled horns in splendid relief against the amber sky.
Curled fresh-water snails moved up and down the stems of the lilies.
How it curled away luxuriously from his gray, firm-feathered breast!
The melancholy autumn shook down the once green leaves, all curled up in withering death-convulsions, from the branches of the trees now tossing in chill wind and weeping mists of rain.
Becky curled herself up in the Judge's big chair like a tired child.
You needn't think you have to get your hair curled to make me love you," said her tall son; "you are ducky enough as you are.
His lip curled as he studied the pallid features of the heir to the Van Cleft millions.
Helene Marigold, ensconced in a big library chair, her feet curled under her, pink fingers supporting the oval chin, dreamily watched Shirley's absorption.
A vigorous and unusually broad moustache curledupward above his sensual mouth.
Claude felt as if something in him suddenly curled up.
Claude went to open the big window, pulling aside the blind, while Charmian lighted a cigarette, and curled herself up on the padded sofa.
Dublin lay curled about the Bay, covered by smoke that was pierced here and there by the chimney-stacks of factories.
Sure enough Jimmy was curled up close to the rock, with his hands tucked under his arms, his waddy in one fist, a hatchet in the other.
Jimmy was possessed of a very long tongue, unusually large for a human being, and this he shot out, turned down, curled up at the end, and wagged from side to side as a dog would his tail.
Jack Penny did not speak for a few minutes, and I sat thinking bitterly of my weakness as I stroked Gyp's head, the faithful beast having curled up between us and laid his head upon my lap.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crisp; kinked; kinky; tortuous
