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Example sentences for "head and"

  • Now highwaymen had followed him that they might rob him of his monies, but succeeded not in aught: wherefore he went up to the old woman and kissed her head and exceeded in bounty to her.

  • When the merchant heard her words, he knew her and rising to his feet, rent his raiment and beat his head and said to his wife, "By Allah, I have destroyed my children with mine own hand!

  • So he said to the Eunuch, "Turn the mule's head and return, for I am King Azadbakht and in very sooth I will marry her myself, inasmuch as Isfahand her sire is my Wazir and he will accept of this affair and it will not be hard to him.

  • The lamp on the table burned low, and showed writing materials open beside it; the chief light came from the fire, the direct rays of which were obscured by a sweet familiar outline of head and shoulders--still as precious to him as ever.

  • The little girls joined us and looked so hard at my head and stump of a tail, and my fine collar, that I felt quite shy, and walked with my head against Miss Laura's dress.

  • When he finished he always looked up for more, and Miss Laura would shake her head and say: "No, Billy: better longing than loathing.

  • He fired close to me, a number of times over my head and under my body.

  • The Princess answered not a word, but after long silence raised her head and looked up at her brothers; then casting down her eyes she said in curt phrase that naught was amiss with her.

  • Thereupon she returned home wagging her head and saying in her mind, "Whence can my poor boy procure these platters and such jewels?

  • Then Brant, facing the astonished warriors, laid his hand on Boyd's head and then on Parker's.

  • Her husband is a fussy fat-head and she's a basalisk," he whispered.

  • Campbell, on the contrary, knew that the Dewan was the head and front of the whole system of annoyance.

  • I'll write it straight; The matter's in my head and in my heart; I will be bitter with him and passing short.

  • If Caesar move him, Let Antony look over Caesar's head And speak as loud as Mars.

  • All his offences live upon my head And on his father's.

  • Like the My, That once was mistress of the field, and flourish'd, I'll hang my head and perish.

  • A turkey’s head and neck is but a small mark for a new hand and a lame shoulder.

  • This is better than shooting at a turkey’s head and neck, old fellow.

  • We saw the great sword flash high above Bernenstein's head and heard it whistle through the air.

  • There was a moment's silence; Rudolf drew his shirt over his head and tucked it into his trousers.

  • I saw Rupert of Hentzau; his hand was raised above his head and held a stout club.

  • The best he could do was to get Elijah's head and shoulders on top the gunwale.

  • Again he got the helpless man's head and shoulders on the gunwale.

  • With equal suddenness she lifted her head and looked at him.

  • The first thing I remember was some one stroking my head and kissing me, and I heard Mary saying, 'My poor boy!

  • I rubbed my head and looked at the buggy again.

  • Then she started to pull grey hairs out of my head and put 'em in an empty match-box--to see how many she'd get.

  • Deepest shade on head and neck; lightest above tail, which is more rufous.

  • Male -- Top of head and streaks in wings yellow.

  • Male and Female -- Brown above, reddish on head and shoulders, shading into olive-brown on tail.

  • Male -- Upper parts slate-colored; darkest on head and neck, which are sometimes almost black and marked like a cowl.

  • Male and Female -- Steel-blue above, shading to blue-black on crown of head and on wings and tail.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "head and" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    armed troops; child will; city called; common source; ecclesiastical authority; feet from; floating bodies; head aches; head black; head chief; head clerk; head court; head down; head first; head full; head lettuce; head over; head quarters; headed arrow; headed people; headed woodpecker; headquarters were; intense desire; our opinion; publication office; wife will