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Example sentences for "her arms"

  • He kissed all her fingers, her arms, her feet, and the long tresses of her hair from one end to the other.

  • The child quailed, went out, and presently returned, hugging the Recording Angel in her arms.

  • Her arms hung by her sides, her fingers twisting the folds of her dress.

  • The affliction was ascribed to the curse of a poor woman who, holding twins in her arms, approached the Countess for aid.

  • The mother was present with the remarkable twins in her arms, crying at the top of their voices.

  • Shortly after, the placenta was expelled, and she proceeded on her journey, carrying the child in her arms.

  • She took her child, lay down with it for some time, and feeling easier, hailed a cab, drove to a hospital with the child in her arms, and wanted to walk upstairs.

  • At him, Mary Donahue, standing on her front stoop, her child in her arms, had hurled such vile abuse that it had brought the blush of shame to Saxon's cheeks.

  • Tears were in her eyes as she stooped and gathered the mite of an animal in her arms.

  • One day, on the Eighth street cars, a young mother sat beside her, a crowing infant in her arms.

  • He had dropped her hands, and she leaned close and lifted her arms to his neck with one of her rare gestures of surrender.

  • A moment before, at the moment when she had lifted her arms to his neck, she had been wrapped in a sense of complete security.

  • An hour passed and he slept heavily in her arms, and in agony she watched to see the colour steal back into the olive cheek and white lips.

  • The Dainagon looked at him with fear and compassion; "Augustness, how should such a lady carry in her arms a bundle of firewood?

  • She pretended to stumble--and caught the thing up in her arms.

  • At that moment Mme Bron, the portress of the theater, passed by the door with an immense bouquet in her arms.

  • With a rapid movement of the shoulders she had let her furs slip from her, and Mme Jules, standing behind, had caught them in her arms.

  • But as he passed out she took him in her arms again, became meek and coaxing, lifted her face to his and rubbed her cheek against his waistcoat, much as a cat might have done.

  • After which, with tranquil immodesty, she came out and undid her little linen stays and held out her arms to Mme Jules, who drew the short-sleeved tunic over them.

  • Once more I felt myself in her arms as she clothed me in various garments.

  • Grossmutter Pflugel had sat at that window many a bitter winter night, with her baby in her arms, watching and waiting for the young husband who was urging his ox-team across the ice of Lake Michigan in the teeth of a raging blizzard.

  • There came a little shivering moan from the figure crouched in the corner, and Frau Nirlanger, her face queerly withered and ashen, crumpled slowly in a little heap on the floor and buried her shamed head in her arms.

  • The next moment my own sister Norah came quietly into the room, and knelt at the side of my bed and took me in her arms.

  • Frau Nirlanger's white face was lifted from the shelter of her arms.

  • Love steals artillery from her eyes, The Graces point her charms; Orpheus is rivall'd in her voice, And Venus in her arms.

  • Out went the servant, and in came the nurse, with a remarkably small parcel in her arms, packed up in a blue mantle trimmed with white fur.

  • On the other side sat the mother with an infant in her arms, which cried till it cried itself to sleep, and when it ’woke, cried till it cried itself off again.

  • She rose up immediately, and taking one of her children in her arms, gave the other to her husband; and making her reverence to the altar of the goddess, went out and followed him.

  • She fancied at that time she was weeping over Caesar, and holding him butchered in her arms.

  • Tom stood for some moments in deep thought, gazing at the fire, her arms akimbo.

  • The woman lifted the little fellow in her arms, pushed back his cap and smoothed his hair with her fingers, her whole face beaming with tenderness.

  • A woman rushed up, caught the boy in her arms, and sank on her knees.

  • She remembered how he laid her boy in her arms, and she still saw the deathly pallor in his face as he staggered and fell.

  • Wizard drew the buggy down the bank and out upon the broad river, for Dorothy was still seated in it with Eureka in her arms.

  • Dorothy sprang forward and caught the fluffy fowl in her arms, uttering at the same time a glad cry.

  • Dorothy carried her in her arms back to where the others sat in grieved and thoughtful silence.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already referred; her being; her bosom; her brain; her carriage; her chair; her chamber; her dressing; her grandfather; her hands; her husband; her nephew; her niece; her only; her room; her uncle; here and; here called; here figured; here given; here said; hereafter shall; hereby amended; hereby declare; hereditary transmission; hermetically sealed