Very slowly, as if a sudden movement might interrupt the melody, he raised himself and leaned on the elbow of his bent arm.
The taste was not unpleasant; and, as it gave rise to no immediate effects, I leaned back in my chair and composed myself for what was to come.
Against the wall leanedhis bow and quiver of arrows.
In a corridor by Lu-don's chamber a hideously masked priest leaned close to the curtained aperture that led within.
The book says that the Indian 'leaned against the tree.
He leaned over, fully to observe this fact, and saw the cider shooting out in an amber stream and flooding all the ground.
When Neil did not answer she leaned forward on the ebony stick, and her eyes grew soft and luminous.
When the door had closed upon them Isla leaned her head against the black oak of the window shutters, and a little sobbing breath that was almost a cry, broke from her lips.
She sprang up, threw her window open to the sun, and leanedover it for a moment to inhale the delicious breath of the morning.
She leaned her elbow on her knee, dropped her chin, which had become sadly sharpened of late, on her hand, and looked across the space of the fireplace at him with the same wistful expression in her eyes.
She leaned back, and a small, very dismal smile just hovered about the corners of her sad, proud mouth.
When the train fairly moved out Isla leaned out of the window to wave to him, and when she drew back to her seat her eyes were still wet.
She dropped his hand and rose to a sitting posture, and for a moment, yielding to the physical relief of the broken clasp, he leaned back in his chair and drew a hearty breath.
She dropped into a chair and leaned her head back with ostentatious weariness.
One spring twilight Mrs. Withington was putting out her geraniums, while Ellen leaned over the gate and talked with Susan Long.
Gardener Jim, going home from his work, came up to the fence and leaned on it, eying the garden critically.
She went to the fireplace now, and leaned her head against the corner of the mantel, looking down, with a bitter stolidity, at the hearth.
Aunt Phebe passed coffee, and beamed, and forgot to serve herself in pressing food upon the others; but when the first pause came, she leaned back and smiled at her new niece.
She leaned forward to him, out of the doorway of her beautiful house, and spoke in an assuring tone.
He lay down at full length, and she sank stiffly on the bank and leaned her elbow there.
Elihu laid down his paper from that removed survey and leaned back in his chair.
A chair was beside her, but she only rested one hand on the back of it andleaned her head against the wall.
Then she returned the wing to its place and leaned back in her chair, gazing absently at the shining andirons.
But Amarita leaned forward across the table, her eager eyes upon the paper.
Why merely a contraction of the orbicularis oris muscle; thus," said the student as she leaned over and kissed Mr. Magruder.
She saw a very taking dark countenance making eyes at her, leaned her ear shyly, and pretending to understand all that was said by the rapid foreign tongue, acted from the suggestion of the sole thing which she did understand.
Count Serabiglione leaned out of the window and saw that his horses were safe and the coachman handy.
Lieutenant Pierson leaned over his horse's neck, and looked narrowly at the man Barto Rizzo.
She leanedher cheek to him, whispering, 'I could easily be persuaded to betray you.
Ammiani went up to the window, and leaned there, eyeing the lights leading down to the crowding Piazza.
I had a long talk with Greeley, who, I noticed, leaned towards Douglas.
He neither touched nor leanedon anything for support.
It was attentively listened to by all, but the closest listener was Douglas, who leaned forward as if to catch every word, nodding his head emphatically at those passages which most pleased him.
And she also noticed, in the brief moment that elapsed before the taxi shot toward the Avenue, that the woman seemed to be in tears, and that Richard leaned over with the utmost solicitude and affection and clasped her hand in his.
Duvall leaned over and whispered in her ear the name of an exclusive and very quiet hotel in the upper part of the city.
He leaned out, and directed the driver of the cab to stop at the nearest drug store.
He frowned at her, as she leaned back on the Doctor's shoulder.
He leaned with one hand on the kitchen table; in the other he had clenched his uncle's letter.
The main door at the head of the iron ladder clamped to the stones swung back, and Brand leaned out.
Pyne leaned forward with the air of one about to impart information of great value.
Jim leaned well over and saw their associate, stripped to his underclothing, with a leather belt supporting a sheath-knife slung across his shoulders, climbing down the ladder.
Brand leaned his head on his hands, with clenched fists covering his ears.
I thought I would have sunk to the ground, andleaned against the door for support.
Slowly it drifted away to disclose three fallen men, one of whom, Monty, leaned on his left hand, a smoking gun in his right.
She could just make out Stewart's tall form as he leaned against his horse.
He climbed to a seat beside Link, who pocketed the watch he had been studying and leaned over the wheel.
Stillwell hunched his huge bulk, leaned hands on knees, and roared his riotous mirth.
Madeline Hammond leaned weakly back in her seat, cold and sick, and for a moment her ears throbbed to the tramp of the dancers across the way and the rhythm of the cheap music.
He groaned, and, staggering up to the broken wall, heleaned there with his face hidden.
Pat Hawe leaned against a post and insolently ogled Madeline and then Florence.
Baisemeaux leaned back to ring for Francois, and by a very natural motion turned round towards the door.
Then, just as my governor had leaned over, so leaned I.
Aramis leanedstill more forward, and dipped the ends of his long white fingers in the green limpid waters of the sea, to which he turned with smiles as to a friend.
Aramis leaned his head upon his hands, and made no reply.
He leaned his forehead against the door, and let the feverish throbbings of his heart calm by degrees; it had seemed as if one single additional pulsation would have made it burst.
The latter, looking at Pelisson, leaned upon his wife, and pressed the icy hand of the Marquise de Belliere.
He leaned his head on his hand, thoughtful, scarcely breathing.
D'Artagnan went to the parapet, leaned over towards the steps of the mole, and called the officer, who immediately came up.
Around the bend, out of Shea's sight, she leanedagainst a bowlder.
He leaned back and surveyed Mrs. Crump with interest.
He leaned against one of the wooden pillars that supported the roof, and began to roll a cigarette while he talked.
Her lips parted, she leaned forward, her head on one side so that one of her delicate ears would be nearer the boy's lips.
He leaned against the doorpost and little by little his young legs folded under him like tape, and he sank down, his head against the hard wood.
Mr. Devering strode along more quickly than ever in the lovely late afternoon sunshine, and when we reached the snake fence he leaned over and put Lammie-noo on his own hoofs.
He turned from them all andleaned his forehead against the mantel, gazing with hopeless eyes into the fire.
Indiana put it into the bottle, then leaned back on the soft ground clasping her hands behind her head.
He lit his cigar leisurely, then leaned back with a long sigh of content.
Stillwater leaned back in his chair, watching with evident enjoyment the effect of his words.
Glen leaned against the gate after they had gone, listening to their voices in the distance.
He leaned over his mandolin, watching a little brown bug struggle through the grass, then he gazed upward.
Indiana rose lazily from the grass, also shaking off a shower of blossoms, and leaned against a low-spreading apple tree, extending her arms on the branches each side of her.
Lord Canning closed his eyes and leaned back on the deep green moss.
He leaned back, with folded arms, watching the dense woods which had replaced the craggy mountain-wall, and listening to the growing roar of the falls.
In an instant she leaned forward anxiously to ask-- "Of what then do you now think if not of recall?
Very cautiously Nigel leaned over and called to Blick, whose cheery voice was heard in reply-- "Two dead.
Before the Pastor knew what he did, Nigel had leaned over in his stirrups and, seizing him by the raiment, tumbled him to the ground and struck him two shrewd blows with the flat of his sword, which completed his confusion.
As she spoke, she leaned down, and gave a hand to the little girl, who mechanically took it, and clambered into the carriage.
At the gate of Paris there was an armed soldier standing in a sentry box, and as we slowed down to go through the gate I leaned out and said, "Bon jour, Monsieur.
Sabas leaned his head, a resigned victim, against the maternal bosom.
Then she sat down in a chair near the candle-stand, leaned her elbow on the little table, and her head in her hand, and there she sat in a thoughtful attitude.
She let her needlework fall upon her lap, leaned her forehead upon her hand, and seemed half ready to faint away.
He leaned back in his chair, and holding my attention by his little finger glittering with rings, delivered a complete course in philosophy.
Shorty leaned over and thumped Bert on the back and yelled: "Slow up, Bert, slow up!
Now they were on the last lap, and suddenly Bert leanedforward and advanced his spark to the limit.
Moya placed herself on the settle beside her and leaned to support her, but she sat back rigidly with her eyes closed.
As the three approached the bed Mrs. Bogardus leanedheavily upon her son.
Mrs. Creve, very sleepy and cosy and flushed, leaned over the smouldering bed of coals.
Moya knelt and leaned her head against her father.
But I must get through, I must,” she said to herself, as she leaned over a basin of the coldest water she could get, and tried what bathing her head would do towards lessening the pain.
She was faint, too, from want of food, and so thoroughly chilled that she could scarcely keep her hold on the timber against which she leaned for shelter.
Mrs. Ellis leaned back with her armful of babies and surveyed her young cousin critically.
I think that it must be, seeing that it is a vice to be dishonest,” said Grace, as she leaned her head against Bertha’s shoulder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leaned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
