Let us ride again and forget the heads tumbling into the baskets and those horrid women knitting and singing.
At last the red beams struck level across the water, and all the heads of Sercq and the black rocks of Brecqhou were touched with golden fire.
The great granite cliffs stand out like the frowning heads of giants, seamed and furrowed with ages of conflict.
There were many such meetings, for we could see the riders' heads bobbing in every lane.
It is like old times to see you with your heads together.
In among the ragged heads and weltering white surf of the Pierres-à-Beurre; past the sounding cave where the souffleur blows his spray a hundred feet into the south-west gale.
I confided to him my plans for escape, and we laid our heads together as to the outer stockade, but with all our thinking could not see the way across it.
So we drew in the oars, and hoisted a bit of our lug, and ran straight out past Les Dents, whose black heads were sheets of flying foam, to make a long tack round Brecqhou.
About a score of heads floated in the belching bubbles of the sunken ship, but even as I looked the number lessened, for the Island men of those days were no swimmers.
And there, among a tumbled heap of rocks, whose heads just showed above the water, I saw my boat mopping and mowing at me in the grip of the tide.
We drank too as we ate, but sparingly, lest ourheads should go completely, though we could not believe such hospitality a trap.
I saw the heads of my struggling shipmates disappearing one by one under those felon shots from the schooner.
Then he caught up the ear of corn and made off with it over the heads of the people and the tops of the houses, crying.
So he swooped down over their heads until they cried from fright.
At easy range Andy had no difficulty in clipping the heads from five of the birds with his rifle bullets before the remaining ones took flight.
Lady Juliana had fallen into an error very common with wiser heads than hers that of mistaking the effect for the cause.
It puts things into their heads that never would have been there but for books.
Mr. Downe Wright was now Lord Glenallan, with an additional fifteen thousand per annum, and by wiser heads than hers would have been thought an unexceptionable match for any young woman.
Do you imagine I will allow Lady Juliana to stand here all day, to answer all the absurd questions that come into the heads of three old women?
Another wag says they are like sermons, they require two heads and an application.
Kissing was resorted to by husbands as the most courteous process to ascertain the quality of their wives’ libations; and Cato, the elder, recommends the plan to the serious attention of all careful heads of families.
But do not let us lose our heads in face of that reaction.
Granted that some of them have done excellent work at the heads of their several departments--I think it would not be fair to deny that.
It poised for a while over the heads of the revelling crowd in the Grande Place, and then burst with a prodigious explosion, sending forth rockets and other fireworks in every direction.
Death seemed to hover over our heads to seize one of us, and we were alone in contending with him for his prey.
In the glare of midday the long row of well-watered camels, heavy laden with riches of the West, swayed to their feet, on the mainland of Tyre, and turned their heads in the direction of Damascus.
The throng was dense, and the Greek by no means tall enough to see over the many heads in front of him.
But the eunuchs at her horses' heads did not move, and Belshazzar stood motionless on the first step, his head slightly bowed, but his strange eyes fixed as eagerly as Charmides' own.
They had ceased to eat and were standing quiveringly still, heads up, nostrils distended, fore-legs stiffening for the leap and race which would follow the first thunder-clap.
Nebo-Ailu left the horses' heads just as Belshazzar's ringing cry sent them plunging up the A-Ibur-Sabu.
The driver, at his master's approach, leaped to his place, drawing up theheads of the powerful black animals.
Come, each happy young maiden, Your lesson prepare, With heads freely laden With Learning's sweet fare.
In winter it imparts its generous warmth to roast chestnuts and apples, and in summer it serves as a graceful pedestal for flowers, while its long funnel, raised over theheads of those below, seems like a protecting arm.
The headsof the diaboli in this print are more laughable than terrible, and suggest the make-up of a pantomime rather than the demons who are messengers of the Evil One.
The Le Noirs used devices in which the headsof negroes figured prominently.
The three men stopped, and moved their headsas though they were looking about them.
They were great driving things shaped like spear-heads without a shaft, with a propeller in the place of the shaft.
They stood all alert, with their headson one side, and bent ears towards him for what he would do next.
To set against these inconveniences we had only our liberty and our comradeship; and although our bellies were like to go empty, and our heads unpillowed that night, and for full many a weary one to come, we did not rail against our lot.
We were very polite at first, and nodded our heads in deep interest at the mention of the first Punic war, and kept saying, "Ah, to be sure!
And so susceptible is the mind to the opinion of others, that on the strength of the landlord's disposition, we began to hold up our heads again in the world, and to take a rose-coloured view of our affairs.
You are a well-favoured well-mannered pair, with rare goodheads on your shoulders.
For we did not know how our next meal would be come by, or what would be the next shelter for our weary headswhen nightfall overtook us.
Soon a few heads were thrust out to ascertain what the unusual departure portended.
For a few seconds Hector sat motionless, gazing over their headswith eyes blurred with tears, and then, as if fire were running through his veins, he threw back his head and spoke.
Their aimless wanderings ceased, the outlying groups drew in, till the herd became one solid mass, and their heads were turned away from her towards the rise, beyond which the road dipped and was lost to sight.
More heads appeared, followed by bodies, and then there was a general exodus from the tents.
Only hope he won't show it about, though it wouldn't matter much if he did, their thick heads wouldn't make anything out of it.
The tasselled heads of the large anemones, long since gone to seed, were conspicuous everywhere, and they are always a beautiful object among the meadow grass as the summer breezes make gentle waves over these seas of verdure.
They appeared to stare at me occasionally with some little astonishment, stretching up their immense heads and looking around; but finding all still (I suppose they considered me a mere rock), they composed themselves to sleep again.
At one place we saw over our heads what appeared to be a waterfall of the most beautiful kind.
The awful rocks present their everlasting butments, the water murmurs and foams far below, and the two mountains rear their proud heads on each side, separated by a channel of sublimity.
Full-blown roses hung their heavyheads over crystal vases that opened like diamond lilies on a golden stem, similar to those standing behind the Virgin in the tondo of Botticelli in the Borghese Gallery.
Mendelssohn's Minuet called up before them a vision of the villa by the sea, of rooms filled with the perfume of the terraced garden, of cypresses lifting their dark heads into the soft sky, of flaming sails upon a glassy sea.
Up and down the Via Nationale ran the tram-cars, drawn by horses with funny white caps over their heads to protect them against the sun.
Their voices and laughter reached him over the heads of the perspiring people through the suffocating heat.
The horses went on down the hill at a walk, side by side, snorting noisily from time to time, and putting their heads together, as if exchanging confidences.
He could see the heads of these unknown men bending over her and drinking the wine.
The wave of music passing over these motionless heads spread out into the golden light, a light that filtered from above through faded yellow curtains and was reflected from the bare white walls.
This hardy and ornamental herbaceous plant bears heads of bright yellow flowers, resembling small sunflowers, from June to August.
Pinch them back so as to produce a bushy growth, and give support to the heavy heads of bloom.
This tender annual is well known for its clover-like heads of everlasting flowers.
A hardy perennial which produces a profusion of heads of blue flowers in June, and continues to bloom till August.
When the heads appear break some of the large leaves down over them to afford protection, and during the whole of their growth pour plenty of water round the stems in dry weather.
Encourage well-balanced headsto the bushes by cutting back any branch that grows too vigorously, and remove all suckers as they make an appearance, except they are required for transplanting.
It bears large heads of pure white flowers, and is suitable for borders, pots, or forcing in a cool house.
It throws up large heads of starry flowers, which are produced in great abundance.
These beautiful summer-flowering hardy perennials produce large heads of lily-like blossoms in great profusion, which are invaluable for cutting for vase decorations as the bloom lasts a long time in water.
Over our heads the seagulls were lazily drifting and wheeling, the quiet sea stole almost noiselessly up the firm yellow sands.
I saw theirheads close together in earnest conversation.
A white-winged bird floated over our headsand drifted away skywards.
The captain went down into the cabin, and we walked forward and put our heads down the forecastle, where we found the men at supper.
They had just got to sleep toward morning, when they were turned-up with the rest, and kept at work all day in the water, carrying hides, their heads aching so that they could hardly stand.
The topsails came to the mast-heads with ``Cheerly, men!
I was near the mate, but sprang past several, threw the downhaul over the windlass, and jumped between the knight-heads out upon the bowsprit.
Over ourheads was another small room, in which Mr. Russell lived, who had charge of the hide-house, the same man who was for a time an officer of the Pilgrim.
Two long-winged baby-swallows were sitting on their breasts on the sunny flagged path, resting, turning their sleek heads to right and left.
Henceforth our eyes are fixed not on the heads that reign but on the heads that think, and the whole country is affected when one of them disappears.
Both heads are covered with long hair, dark and silky, and divided into an infinity of small plaits.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
