Indeed, once on the doctor's knee, the baby nestled weakly to the curve of his rough coat sleeve, the heavy lids lifted and the weazen face lighted with the ghost of a tired little smile.
Dolph's going was only just in time to prevent his meeting Olive who came around the curve of the street, just as he was leaving the Opdyke grounds.
Scott, his head ostentatiously averted, was gazing at something he had dug up out of his trouser pocket, something concealed within the curve of his smudgy hand.
The curve of magnetic disturbance followed with its usual strict fidelity the anomalous fluctuations of the sun-spot curve.
This was a narrow straight ray, forming a tangent to the strong curve of the primary tail, and reaching to a still greater distance from the nucleus.
It traces the downward curve of decay, but gives no account of the slow ascent to maturity.
On October 10 it stretched in a magnificent scimitar-like curve over a third and upwards of the visible hemisphere, representing a real extension in space of fifty-four million miles.
We turned the curve also, the forward car something more than a quarter of a mile ahead of us.
Her dress looked like a form into which she had been poured, every line and curve being just as it should be, having "set" as if she had been made of reinforced concrete.
In a curve between landings he had kicked something and had bent down to pick it up.
It made no difference, if he did, for, the curve passed, he was evidently feeding the gas faster than ever.
The curve of his arm seemed to be all ready for her.
His knees were all cuddled up into the curve of his arms.
Then she looked at the silver hair; the firm mouth, with a shrewd curve at either corner; the thoughtful brow.
She could see the cleft in his chin, the firm curve of his lips.
Then taking the large hook, he passed it in at the tail, drew the pilchard carefully up the shank, and then held up the hook for Arthur to see, with the broad flaps hanging down on either side of the curve and barbed point.
Larry was on the piazza when the car bearing her swept into the white-graveled curve of the drive.
The instant the taxi made the curve Lefty's car was cut from view; and that instant Larry sprang from the running-board, slamming the door behind him, landed on soft earth and scuttled in among the trees.
Rounding a curve of the beach she came upon a dirty, half-tumbled down tent.
She stared intently after her until her visitor turned the curveof the beach and was lost to view, then, leaning her head against the side of the tent, she burst forth into low, despairing sobs.
She studied every curveand line in the girl's exquisite face.
The flare of light grew brighter; a great flame leapt up and then a snake-like curve of fire followed the oil-soaked wood.
Then round the curve of the beach darted the object of their morning's search.
Lau finds that the short-period variable star [Greek: d] Cephei varies slightly in colour as well as in light, and that the colour curve is parallel to the light curve.
Thus the light curve and the spectroscopic velocity curve are very similar in shape, but one is like the other turned upside down.
This is quite correct, and this fine curve of bright stars may be seen at a glance on a clear night in September, when all the stars are high in the sky.
As fixed as marble; with thin lips, and a curve at the nostril.
There was an angry curve in Feltram's eyebrows, and a cynical smile, and something in the tone which to the satirical Baronet was almost insulting.
In this immense proboscidian, whose skull was three feet long, the upper pair of tusks had disappeared, and those of the lower jaw were bent down with a backward curve in walrus fashion.
From near the mouth of the Rio Grande a continuous sand reef draws its even curve for a hundred miles to Corpus Christi Pass, and the reefs are but seldom interrupted by inlets as far north as Galveston Harbor.
The shore takes a curveof equilibrium, along which the hard rock of the exposed headland and the weak rock of the protected cove wear back at an equal rate.
I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
No, you must make a curve up towards the dam or you will get into deep water, and there are boulders too, you must avoid, or your horse may fall down.
And if I could steer for some given point on the opposite bank, I could hit it if the current did not take me down stream; but a curve is awfully uncertain, and my mind was in a state of perturbation.
What had happened was this: Every shell describes in its course a parabolic line, with the first half of the curve ascending and the second one descending.
The reader must not consider the two blemishes on each upper curve of the D as shown on fig.
But you will observe how very careful I am as I prepare to turn the saw from straight to right angle (which is really at left curve at the button).
Kenkenes rounded a curvein the valley just ahead of her.
She tinctured her voice with them; she made her eyes languid with them; and the touch of her hand, the curve of her lips and the droop of her head were eloquent of them.
That there was more hopeful expectancy than despairing insistence, was proved by the curve of the ready fingers and the uncertain smile on the lips.
There was a pronouncedcurve of her mouth, a slight tension in the chiseled nostril--in fact, an indefinable disdain that had not been there before.
For at the same time the bones begin to curve under the influence of the flexor muscles, which are always stronger, as they do in later months under the weight of the body when the child begins to walk.
This is very common at the umbilicus, where a little bladder is lifted half an inch or more above the general curve of the abdomen.
The concavity of this curve looks {845} toward the mesenteric edge of the invaginated portion of bowel, and the convexity toward the opposite side of the receiving portion.
The curveof the path down toward the rocky shore made a striking perspective.
There was a sudden rush, and the squirrel ran up her arm, across her shoulders, and fairly nestled in the little curve below her ear.
The superciliouscurve left his lip, his keen eyes softened.
There was a much closer resemblance to Jew than to Gentile; indeed, the peculiar curve of the nose, and the Syrian leer of the eye, disclosed an Israelitish ancestry rather than an American.
This curvebegins at Prairie du Chien, where the Wisconsin joins the Mississippi, and ends at New Orleans, where the Mississippi is about to join the sea.
The curve of the slope hid all but the nearest: but above them I saw a steep earthwork, and thereon three or four brass pieces of ordnance glittering whenever the smoke lifted.
I believe I was twenty minutes taking as many steps, when at the point where the ledge broke off I saw the ends of an iron ladder sticking up, and close beside it a great hole in the rock, which till now the curve of the cliff had hid.
The Euphrates, in the great curve described by it across Naharaim, after issuing from the mountains of Cilicia.
The smooth white beach before us, upon which the long-rolling waves broke in even succession, retired in a graceful curve to the right and was broken on the left by the wooded point already mentioned.
Presently, a glittering Albatross shot from the water, close in the tract of the fugitives, descending again in the graceful curve peculiar to his active and beautiful, but rapacious tribe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curve" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
