And because he knew she would be as good as her word, he desisted from hostilities, and instead proceeded to strap a ragged saddle on to the lean old horse.
A woman, lean and shrewish of aspect, was mounted on the first animal, in company with many bags and bundles, among which a fryingpan and two new tin saucepans showed conspicuously.
There would be nothing for you to do, only to lean back in a rocking-chair and be comfortable.
Here and there a man fell heavily to the deck, or staggered to the rail, there to lean against it while his hands clasped the wound.
Surround the prisoner; and, Juan, do you lean well forward in the saddle, so as to stretch the prisoner and make movement difficult.
Those lean years were doubtless followed by seven fat years; for it is not until 1203, the fourth year of John, that we again meet with the records of famine and pestilence.
The year 1234 was the third of a succession of lean years.
The old Count raised his thin, white hand--his leanface flushed, the fine fire of a hotspur youth glowing in his eyes.
At first even the imperturbable Prime Minister had been too astonished to act; now he came slowly forward, his old, lean face aglow with the joy of the combat and the music of the steel.
Occasionally a face, usually a woman's, wouldlean close to the door and look at the Epsau curiously--it housed the man who was likely to be King.
He was both leanand hungry, and far from being a beautiful animal; for he was almost black, and had a grim face, striped with dark brown.
Dampier describes them, at the close of the last century, as "beasts like the hungry wolves, lean like so many skeletons, and being nothing but skin and bone.
If one should lean towards the other, it absorbs some of the qualities of the mount which it invades.
His features were sharp and lean as was his body, and wore every appearance of a cross-grained temper.
I observed that the stranger was timid and slow--a singular fellow, with a lean face and nervous hands and clear but most unsteady eyes.
Girls and women lean out through the windows and call out the numbers they wish to have--in this respect they are boundlessly credulous.
The master of the house was a lean and silent man, who always looked handsome, and was always dignified; he had honourably filled an exalted official post.
We passed lean pastures which were trying very hard, but in vain, to look green; yellow came out best.
All generous natures lean towards this side, and to their honour, but at times also to their very great danger.
In build he was lean and wiry: in carriage amazingly dignified for one who (to be precise) stood but 5 feet 5 and a half inches high.
On the instant she felt so weak and shaken and lonely that she wanted to lean upon some one stronger than herself; as she used to lean against her father, while he sat with one arm round her studying his railway problems.
Presently the door of the bank opened, and Sibley saw Studd Bradley lean forward eagerly, then draw back and speak hurriedly to his companions, using a gesture of satisfaction.
The flabby hand laid the weapon in Crozier's lean and strenuous fingers.
Does not the name suggest a man lean and flat, sinewy, angular and isolated like a figure in one of El Greco's pictures in the Prado at Madrid?
You might let me leanback against your knee; I was sitting so comfortably before.
They were lean with wandering through the wilderness, but they were just in the mood for a fight.
Lasse had to lean back in his chair while she lit the pipe.
Pelle had to lean right out of the window, and bend over as far as he could, while Emil, as the oldest apprentice, laid the waxed-end over his neck.
Were they really so cheerful just because they were going to have a bit of a feast, while to do so they were making a succession of lean days yet leaner?
His faith, however, merely shifted from the Cause over to Pelle; he saw him alive before him, and could lean upon his youthful vigor.
The poor were busy again; they lay huddled together no longer, but came out into the light of day, their lean faces full of sunlight.
His step faltered and he had to lean for support against the wall; he looked as if he were about to go back again, but he drew a deep breath and went out on to the open ground.
He had a certain grim humor rather than a cheerful mind; he felt gloomy, and as though things were going badly with him; and he had no one to lean upon.
Madam Johnsen continued to lean on him affectionately, and she often came over for a little conversation; she could not forget the good times they had had together.
Mélisande, do not lean out so at the window; you will fall.
Do not stay in the shadow, Mélisande; lean forward a little till I see your unbound hair.
Let us go to the end of this overhanging rock, and do you lean over a little.
Lean out a moment from the open window, and look once more at the sweet green things.
The image of George Frederick Cooke, pointing with his long, lean forefinger and uttering Sir Giles's imprecation upon Marrall, never fades out of theatrical history.
She'd jes' as soon lean her head on de Boss's shoulder en ax him fer a drink er de loan ob his cee-gyar.
Then he pushed her away from him almost roughly, and Flora laughed a low, tantalizing laugh, and crept back to him to lean her head on his shoulder, and lay her arms around his neck.
On the other hand, too long a stirrup is equally objectionable, as it causes the body to lean unduly over to the near side in order to retain hold of it, depresses and throws back the left shoulder, and destroys the squareness of position.
Sit straight, or, if anything out of the perpendicular, lean a little back.
Then lead him out for half an hour or so occasionally, pulling up to lean a good bit of weight on his back.
The slipper has been objected to, as it, from being so comfortable, encourages ladies to leantheir whole weight on it and thus throw themselves out of balance; moreover, it is out of fashion.
She too was sensible of the influences of music; her heart throbbed as she let herself lean against her husband.
The conversation had so wearied Michael, that in returning to the house he had to lean on his companion's arm.
The one is pale and fat, the otherlean and ruddy: the one walks as if she were straddling after a go-cart, and the other takes too masculine a stride.
You would wonder what carking and caring there is among us for small beer and lean mutton, and starved lamb, and stopping gaps, and driving cattle from the corn.
A companion with news, A great want of shoes; Eat lean meat, or choose; A church without pews.
Rayner is right to cry out: I think I have tipped him fair and foul copy, a lean rabbit and a fat one.
The men here have generally high cheek-bones, and are lean and swarthy, fond of action, dancing in particular.
The floor of this, being only about a foot above ground, made a convenient seat and those who wished had cushions to sit on or lean against.
Immediately Pantaloon put his long, lean fingers to his month, and gave such a piercing crow that it rang as if a hundred little trumpets had been sounding lustily.
He had to lean against a pillar close before the indicated gallery.
She dipped her long lean arms down to the ground, fingered up the down-trodden heels of her slippers, and trotted off, half frightened and half delighted.
I tell yer what it is, Buddy, I believe sometimes all he does is to lift his legs up, one at a time, an' leanup agin his collar.
They lie about five miles south of Elgin, not far distant from where the palæozoic deposits of the coast-side lean against the great primary nucleus of the interior.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lean" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
