You see in him an empty thing, which has lived, God knows how many years, hugging the warmth of his blood--a creature who knows that to die means the swift disintegration of an evil principle.
She awoke crying, and hugging the tiny pillow which the Pullman Company furnishes its patrons as a sample--the real pillow never materializes.
And there was no hugging and kissing to make up for it possible.
He was hugging a little ship, which he proudly exhibited, while his father's brow had darkened at the message.
Stanley determined to reach this spot before dark, and so, manning his seventeen remaining canoes, he led the way, hugging the shore, so as not to get into the suction of the water above the falls.
I unlocked the door; crept into the room, and without looking again locked it; taking out the key, and hugging it close.
Ellen, and hugging her up in an ecstasy of delight.
The dancer finished by hugging and kissing her with all her heart, declaring she was so glad, she didn't know what to do.
And what are you hugging that old piece of paper to death for?
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
With that, of course, they began just leaping up and down for joy, hugging one another; and a couple of them started in to tackle the old locomotive.
Turn round to the light, and let's have a look what you're like; don't keep huggingthat pillar as though it was your ma.
It gave me quite a start when I saw you hugging that pillar as though you loved it.
The first was that the enemy, no longer hugging the shore, had every chance of throwing me out by the sudden and unexpected use of her canvass, and the second (here Gerald slightly colored, while more than one emphatic hem!
There is also a grotesque image on the wall, of a childhugging a cornucopia, &c.
Hugging the ground at the extreme end of the field wall, Dave and Freddy stared at the German plane not thirty yards away.
He was hugging the Dep wheel now all the way back against his stomach to bring the nose up just a few more inches before the ship stalled and dropped.
His eyes were shut and he was shivering violently, hugginghimself in his arms.
They were hugging themselves with the thought of a month of this.
There was no hugging of grief when our best friend fell.
I lay on a bench upon deck, huggingmy executioner's sword, and faintly calling: "A basin please!
Under the eaves of his observatory he had his negro sculptured hugging his money-box, and a little beyond an angel exhibiting his newly-acquired coat-of-arms.
He entered the West Indies by Deseada, which is just off Guadaloupe to the east, and then, hugging the leeward side of the islands, got safe into Fort Royal.
Hugging the land closely he slipped along the shore inside of the English squadron.
Hugging the two volumes of Les Miserables against her breast, she walked home more light hearted because of this evening with ghosts--more light hearted than she had ever been before.
She had been hugging her little bundle as if it had been a life-preserver.
Aunt Melinda had taken everything off the kitchen stove and put everything back again, and here now was Mrs. Ogden back again, hugging her son.
I shall have to go on hugging you all the evening.
With eager fingers Paddy got hers open first, and then uttered a little cry of amazement, and in two seconds was hugging both aunties at the same time with a vigour that added consternation to their discomfort.
And then, just to relieve her feelings, she started hugging everybody over again, until the two poor little ladies' caps were at such an impossible angle they were obliged to retire to put them straight.
How should you like it, aunties, if every one wanted to keep hugging you every time they saw you, and couldn't help themselves!
He made no reply but kept on hugging the exchequer, rocking back and forth, and timing his monotonous croon to the rattle of treasure in the king's strong rooms.
Hugging the exchequer in his arms, he rocked back and forth and began to sing.
Splitting into two sections, we began working down Customs Street towards the Austrian Legation, tightly hugging the walls and expecting a surprise every moment.
A German officer stood on the parapet looking out in our direction, probably trying to locate the British infantry advance which washugging a fold in the ground and resting there for the time being.
Shrapnel bullets were hissing into the mouths of dugouts; death was hugging every crevice, saying to the Germans: "Keep down!
Meanwhile, they were on one side of the street and the Germans on the other, hugging débris and sniping at one another.
I was near enough to see the operations; to have gone nearer would have been to face in the open the sweep of bullets over the heads of the British front line hugging the earth, which is not wise in these days of the machine gun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hugging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: caressing; dalliance; fondling; nestling; petting
