The elbows drop down until they almost touch the knees, which is partly accomplished by curving the back.
The next step is to take a thread and tie the elbows together, fastening to each humerus just above the elbow-joint.
An out-at-elbows scholar which Geoffrey met at Oxford and keeps out of charity.
That they mock me for being out at elbows I swallow well enough.
His elbows rested on his knees and his head was supported by his hands.
To one he would say, "Heavens, how red your elbows are!
Striking elbows against walls to elevate the mercury in the thermometer.
The patient was able to diminish the trembling of the arms somewhat by keeping the elbows flexed at a right angle and held firmly to his body.
He crawled along on elbows and knees about a kilometer and a half to some Frenchmen in a wood.
To diminish the effect of the trembling, the patient held his forearms flexed and kept his elbows close to his body.
The roundels at the elbows are fixed by arming-points, the helmet is less elaborately decorated, the method of fastening the sword is old-fashioned, and he wears pryck spurs and not roundels as shown in the Creke brass.
Vienna rose on her elbows and bawled hoarse cheers.
When he jogged past the judges' stand to get position, elbows on his knees and shoulders hunched up, the glare that he levelled on Bickford from under his scoop visor was absolutely demoniac.
He sat with elbows on his knees, gloomily surveying a dim reflection of himself in the dasher of Hiram's wagon.
The tall horse galloped down the hill, but the Colonel stood up, and, with elbows akimbo and hands under his chin, yanked the animal to a standstill, his splay feet skating through the highway dust.
I, putting my small elbows on the table to argue the point.
Mr. Mell, with hiselbows on his desk and his face in his hands, sat for some moments quite still.
The result was that she soon began to look very much like the well-dressed women with whom she touched elbowson the avenue.
Perhaps they find a melancholy pleasure in the company of ghosts who have escaped from similar defeats; perhaps they seek to read the riddle of the universe, as they stand, elbows on rail, studying the turbulent waters below.
True, true," said the bishop, his elbows on the arms of his chair, and his fingers tapping each other meditatively.
All this while he had been sitting on the low threshold, with his elbows in the hollows of his thighs and his left hand across his mouth.
With her shawl spread out full and her elbows sticking akimbo, she caught the lad in her arms and began dandling him to right, and left, humming some nursery ditty.
He did not answer, but leaned forward with elbows on his knees, rubbing his chin vigorously first with one hand, then the other, still studying the fire.
For the matter of that, all the elbows were clashing in the crowded circle.
Persis saw to it quite casually that Forbes sat close to her; and that was very close, since the little clique was crowded so snugly about the table, that half of those who ate had to convey the food across the elbows and knees of the others.
Winifred ran her own roadster, nursing the steering-wheel to her bosom, while her fat elbows harried Ten Eyck's cramped form.
Persis sat with both elbows on the table, and raised her bouillon cup with both hands.
She was sitting on a log by the fire, with her elbows on her knees and her face in her hands.
They talked of the weather, wrecks, and things, Steelman leaning with his elbows on the balcony rail, and Sharper sociably and confidently in the same position close beside him.
There you smoke at your ease, put your elbows on the table and dream dreams of your student days when the dinner coat vexed not your peaceful spirit.
At a table next to us, so near that we could almost rub elbows with them, sat a white man and a white woman.
He placed his elbows on the board, buried his head within his hands, and remained there brooding over his woes.
The old man put the bit of cardboard before Vranic, who leaned his elbows on the table and his head between the palms of his hands, and stared at the drawing.
He, therefore, laid his elbows on the table, and his head between the palms of his hands, and stared at the Princess, whom he fancied looked very much like the sleeping beauty at the waxworks.
Paramor put his elbows on the desk, and lightly pressed his finger-tips together.
In the cream-panelled drawing-room she was sitting with her elbows on her knees, and her chin on her clasped hands, in front of a white camellia plant which filled the fireplace.
There was little furniture save an old red sofa, and on this was seated a stoutish man in the garb of a Belgian soldier, with his elbows on his knees and his bearded cheeks resting on his doubled fists.
His elbows rested along the arms of his chair, so that his clenched palms were upwards; it was as if he knew that he was holding those two, gripped one in each hand.
He looked no longer, but hunched his shoulders, holding his elbows stiff, that none might see what he was feeling.
To his left a man sat reading, with his elbows on the corners of a journal, and his gaunt shoulders raised almost to his eyes.
She sat there resting her elbows on the bare wood, crossing her finger-tips, gazing out into the moonlight, her mind drifting on a stream of memories that seemed to have beginning only from the year when he came into her life.
If I were to hold her elbows from behind,' the girl used to think, 'I believe she'd die.
On their way up the aisle they passed Gregory Vigil leaning forward with his elbows on the desk and his hand covering his eyes.
Christian rose, and, turning very softly, stood, leaning her elbows on the back of a high seat, looking at her husband.
She went as far as the Embankment, and stood leaning her elbows on the parapet.
They were now round Tod so close that Billy was standing on one of his large feet, Susie leaning her elbows on one of his broad knees, and Biddy's slender little body pressed against his huge arm.
Impressed even in her agitation, she leaned her elbows on the table, her chin on her hands.
And, sitting down on a log, her hands pressed to her cheeks and her elbows to her breast, she stared at the sunlit bracken and the flies chasing each other over it.
Throws himself into a chair, rests his elbows on the table, and hides his face in his hands.
Rosmer (resting his head on his hands with his elbows on the table, and looking straight in front of him).
Arkansas played with his glass a moment, lolling on his elbows on the counter.
Arrived at the little thatched lookout house, we rested our elbowson the railing in front and looked abroad over the wide crater and down over the sheer precipice at the seething fires beneath us.
Charmian rested her round elbows upon the table, and, setting her chin in her hands, stared squarely at me.
She put her elbows on the table, and framing her face with her hands looked at me, and shook her head.
Carlotta, as soon as she had taken her seat, leaned both elbows on the front of the box and surrendered her senses to the stage.
With her elbows on the marble table, the glass held in both hands, she drinks sensuously, in little sips.
All at once she turned away, leaning her elbows against the railing and burst into tears.
I noticed her a good way off; she was standing as she had been that first time, with her elbows on the railing, and she did not hear me coming up to her.
The boy crept out from under the table and wiped his elbows and his knees.
Leaning on the canal railing stood a woman with her elbows on the rail, she was apparently looking with great attention at the muddy water of the canal.
But the amusing play attracted me to move forwarder and forwarder, and unconsciously I made my way to the first row, where I stood at last leaning my elbows on the back of an armchair, in which a lady was sitting.
He thought to himself that he might put his elbows on the table as much as he liked, and nobody would care.
Geoff did not budge from the table for some time after, but sat with his elbows on it and his head in his hands, in the attitude which he had so often been scolded for, with nobody to scold him or take any notice.
The young man at whom he stared was worth a second look, as he leaned forward with his elbows upon the table and his head on one side, his cheek leaning upon his clasped hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elbows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
