Another leans forward to see the speaker, shading his eyes with his hand.
I married her at forty, you know, when a woman has reached her perfect development, and leans a trifle more to ceremonies than to substance.
But here comes a man, the boldest and handsomest of his race, and he offers himself to the handsomest and sweetest of yours, and she leans to him, and the family won't have him.
She makes no reply in words, but gently, almost timidly, she puts her rounded arm about him and leans her head on his breast.
Swathed in airy clouds of muslin, sweetly suffering, but resisting the united entreaties of all the rest that she will stay at home, Anastasia leans against the vine-wreathed balustrade of the terrace, a vinaigrette held to her nose.
Meanwhile, Rohritz leans back discontentedly in the corner of an empty coupe.
He leans out of the carriage window, but it is dark, and she is closely veiled.
Katrine, looking up from her crochetting at Rohritz, who faces her as he leans against the balustrade of the terrace.
In these the silent Turk sits smoking his long pipe, the handsome Greek leans against the pillar and gazes at the upraised trophies and lofty masts, memorials of power that is gone.
A ship sails away, quitting the Danish shores; a man leansagainst the mast, casting a last glance towards the Island Hueen.
A girl rests there: she has put down her heavy pails filled with water, the yoke with which she has carried them rests on one of her shoulders, and she leans against the mast of victory.
She moves to the Chesterfield and leans against it, biting her nails.
Valentine Grandissime, of Tchoupitoulas, goes quite down to the bottom of the steps and leansagainst the balustrade.
Ay, the green sea-mountain leaping may lead horror in its rear, When thy drenched sail leans to its yawning trough, Pentruan of Porthmeor!
Our mother has nae mair but us; See where she leans asleep; The mantle that was on herself, She has happ'd it round our feet.
He leans to the opinion that his opponent was an Epicurean of that name who lived 'under Hadrian and later' (i.
Tischendorf also, though as it is pointed out somewhat inconsistently, leans to this side.
Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad Ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rampire's artificial pride.
Behind her, a bearded man, Hermodoros, leans on his staff and looks downwards.
He leans on his left elbow; with his right hand he caresses a panther which fawns on his knees.
The pirate has his left knee bent under him, and leans back on his right elbow: he advances his right foot and left arm to defend himself.
It consists of a male figure, whose left thigh receives the main weight of his body, which leans a little to the right, resting on his left hand.
This figure is turned towards the marshal, and leans heavily on his staff which is seen below his knees.
A notable example of this defect is in a picture by Parmigiano, where the Child leans over and has his head brought close to that of a kneeling Saint who is caressing Him, the effect being most disturbing.
The upper part of her body leansagainst the head of the couch, but the remainder is extended nearly at full length.
Her figure seems more embonpoint than when we last saw her; and as she leans on the arm of old Judge Sleepyhorn, forms a striking contrast to the slender figure of that singular specimen of judicial infirmity.
As the ex-courtesan asks the question, she leans across the little table, and looks the false priest straight in the face.
Now and then she leans over and lifts a broad, black, webbed foot out of the water, holding it up distended, as if to endorse the modern theory that the parent loon teaches her young to swim.
The probability leans toward the side that the foetus is alive, because there is no indubitable history, as physicians say, of maternal symptoms that indicate rupture.
Forms of apparent doubling are common, and in case of doubt as to sex the probability leans toward the {75} masculine side.
In its Paganism of Christianity--which lacks all the manly virtue of genuine Paganism--that portion of the artistic Renaissance which leans towards the world and the flesh is concentrated and is given as in quintessential form.
With Browning for the purpose of mental analysis a dialogue of retrospection may be of higher value than one which leans and presses towards the future.
Honest, when they both leans toward him at once I held my breath, expectin' to see him squeezed out like a piece of lead pipe run through a rollin' machine.
Old Hickory leansup against each other and laughs until their eyes leak.
But as I dashes into a hotel where there's a blue sign out he leans up against a window gratin', sort of limp and exhausted, and it looks like he means to take a sportin' chance.
Piddie leans forward for another look at the flowers, and wags his head solemn, I edges around for a closer view myself, and Old Hickory stares puzzled.
She leans from out our clinging arms To rest herself in Thine; Alone to Thee, dear Lord, can we Our well-beloved resign!
For who that leans on His right arm Was ever yet forsaken?
Now the tired sportsman leans his gun Against the ruins on its site, And ponders on the hunting done By the lost wanderers of the night.
Alice moves forward suddenly and going around to Charlotte leans to her and kisses her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
