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Example sentences for "her body"

  • If her body be so fair as they say, my best friends shall never rue it.

  • She proved to him the mastery of her body, and carried him by force, since there was no other way, and squeezed him hard against a press that stood by the bed.

  • But he gripped her till the joints of her body cracked.

  • A stone of a hundred pounds weight is put on her body, and beat to pieces with a hammer.

  • An anvil is put on her body, on which two men strike with large hammers.

  • She puts her head on one chair, and her feet on another, in an equilibrium, and suffers five or six men to stand on her body, which after some time she flings off.

  • To Mr Alf she commonly talked of her mind; to Mr Broune, of her heart; to Mr Booker of her body--and its wants.

  • Marie gradually recovered herself; and crouched, cowering, in the corner of a sofa, by no means vanquished in spirit, but with a feeling that the very life had been crushed out of her body.

  • Every look of her eyes, every movement of her body, seemed pleading with him to keep silence.

  • Now and then she stroked herself, getting strange comfort out of the presence of her body.

  • The great silver buckle of her belt seemed to depress the centre of her body, catching the light stuff of her white blouse like a clip.

  • The warmth, fragrance and colour of her body appealed to his senses.

  • But now, after the kindling again of so many memories, the first touch of her body, musical and strange and perfumed, sent through him a keen pang of lust.

  • Her body became a drift of melting snow, above which her knees rose in huge peaked mountains of bare bone.

  • He noticed that she was wearing a dress of deep blue colour, made of a soft thin cotton stuff, which clung to the shape of her body.

  • But for long spaces of time she would merely lie conscious of her body floating on the top of the bed and her mind driven to some remote corner of her body, or escaped and gone flitting round the room.

  • Unconsciously she had been walking faster and faster, her body trying to outrun her mind; but she was now on the summit of a little hillock of earth which rose above the river and displayed the valley.

  • Visions of Irene, almost the solid feeling of her body, beset him.

  • And in his feverish exhaustion, which was almost sleep, Lennan hardly knew whether it was the thrum of music or Sylvia's moaning that he heard; her body or Nell's within his arms.

  • For a moment he thought he had better climb up again and slack off the cord, but he could see by her face that she was getting frightened; he could feel it by the quivering of her body.

  • After that she studied other parts of her body with an amused expression and much of the vicious curiosity of a child.

  • He felt a jealous passion for the woman and was haunted by longings for her and her alone, her hair, her mouth, her body.

  • She had on her body a gown of rich web, but nought else: she had been bruised and sore mishandled, and the Burgdale carles wept for pity of her, and for wrath, as they straightened her limbs on the turf of the little valley.

  • She was clad like himself in a green kirtle gaily embroidered and fitting close to her body, and had no gown or cloak over it; she had a golden fillet on her head beset with blue mountain stones, and her hair hung loose behind her.

  • There were still the radiant curls to hide his nose in, the gentle hands, the sweet voice, the warm thrill of her body as she hugged him in her arms.

  • That afternoon, in the hidden jackpine open, with its sweet-scented jasmines, its violets and its crimson strawberries under their feet, the soul of a woman had taken possession of her body.

  • There was the same lithe slimness in her body, the same brown glint in her hair, and the same--but he saw then that it was not Nada.

  • Restless and listless by turns--her body in one place, her mind in another.

  • Her body seemed on the point of sinking, and her mind of yielding.

  • She sprang back with terror, her body trembling in pitiful weakness.

  • The blow must fall that would crush the soul out of her body at one stroke.

  • The touch of his hand thrilled to the last fiber and nerve of her body.

  • The power and ardor of her soul overcame the weakness of her body; it found energy and strength.

  • The princess suffered not only from mental anguish; her body was as sick as her soul.

  • Last year she gave a ball to her body-guard.

  • But now the foam came to her mouth, and fire sprang from her eyes, and the muscles of her body worked as though she had been trained to deeds of violence.

  • Though shapely flesh clothed delicate frame, her body was a seat of strength.

  • It was the Willow's voice which Baree had learned to understand, and the movement of her lips, her gestures, the poise of her body, the changing moods which brought shadow or sunlight into her face.

  • Napanao's wings relaxed, and the throb went out of her body.

  • Her body was as long, but she was slimmer; she stood on slender legs that were almost like the legs of a fox, and the curve of her back was that of a slightly bent bow, a sign of swiftness almost equal to the wind.

  • He felt the wild terror of her body as it throbbed against him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    curious fact; foreign wars; her aunt; her book; her breast; her brother; her brow; her course; her crew; her daughter; her for; her grandfather; her maid; her native; her niece; her nose; her pocket; her return; her seat; her tone; her turn; here made; here translated; heroic picture; herself again; responsible authority