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Example sentences for "lifted his"

  • He shrugged his shoulders, lifted his hands, his eyebrows.

  • Now he lifted his eyes, and they were fierce--or so she thought.

  • When he reached her he lifted his hand to his bare head forgetfully, meaning to take off his cap to her.

  • And he lifted his hat, without waiting for an answer, jumped into the boat, and pushed off.

  • Ojen drank; Milde was busy with a spot on his vest, and did not understand a word of what he had heard; he lifted his glass to the Journalist and whispered: "Your health!

  • When he had seen what was in it he lifted his brows, greatly pleased.

  • On perceiving that I had recovered my sensibility, he lifted his head.

  • As he approached me, he lifted his hat, saying: "Miss Dement, may I sit with you?

  • He lifted his head, stared again into those baleful eyes, and was again in bondage.

  • After a while he lifted his head, pointed up the road with the end of the whip, and said-- "The idiot!

  • He lifted his arms, he wondered, he could not believe, he could not understand, he clamoured in his own tongue!

  • Before the sampan passed out of the lagoon into the creek he lifted his eyes.

  • And he lifted his square-topped hard hat and turned away.

  • He lifted his hat, looked inquiringly at her--the look of the enthusiast and connoisseur on the subject of pretty women, when he finds a new specimen worthy of his attention.

  • Susan's eyes met his, he lifted his hat, formal, polite.

  • When, hearing footsteps on the verandah of the big house, he lifted his head, the shadow had passed away and on his face there was an expression of watchful alertness.

  • Then she made a movement forward, but he lifted his finger, and she restrained herself with a long sigh.

  • After shoving off his canoe into the stream he lifted his eyes to the bank and gazed at it long and steadily, as if taking his last look at a place of charming memories.

  • On that he lifted his hands to heaven, scandalized, and then paddled away pretty smartly--to report, I suppose.

  • He saw me, and, with his eye still at the small end of the glass, lifted his arm as if answering a hail.

  • Just then he lifted his head, having felt the draught of air from the open door.

  • Murgh unfolded his bare arms and lifted his head, which was sunk upon his breast.

  • Again he lifted his hand, again the semi-circle halted as though it must, and again he spoke.

  • His relief almost escaped him in a cry, as he lifted his head to give back Draper's look.

  • He was unfolding the paper as if he had hardly heard her; but after a pause, during which the sheets rustled spasmodically between his hands, he lifted his head to say abruptly, "Have you any idea how long?

  • The idea struck him like a revelation: he lifted his head, and eyed her with breathless interest.

  • He lifted his eyes to hers, then lowered them again as if he was ashamed of himself.

  • He lifted his hands in amazement and admiration.

  • His hand trembled a good deal as he lifted his cup of coffee to his lips, which was insipid without the usual morning-dram to put a taste in his mouth.

  • He lifted his head as she came in, and she saw at a glance that all his angry feelings were gone.

  • On the next morning, the trembling hand of her husband, as he lifted his cup to his lips, and the unrefreshed and jaded appearance of her son, told but too plainly their abuse of nature's best energies.

  • On the next morning, the unsteady hand of Jarvis, as he lifted his saucer to his lips at the breakfast-table, made his wife's heart sink again in her bosom.

  • Wait," said his father, and he lifted his hand a moment and dropped it again.

  • He lifted his eyes to hers; the room seemed to have grown darker yet in those few minutes.

  • As Chris came in he lifted his eyes, and saw that the room was arrayed much as it had been at the visit of Dr.

  • Just then he lifted his face--it was that of the Yellow Devil himself.

  • Now, for the last time," and he lifted his glass in his hand and paused.

  • He lifted his head, inhaling the air with great gulps, and saw that the banks of the pool were lined with spectators who shouted and surged in their mad excitement.

  • All at once he stopped short, lifted his head, and looked about him.

  • Then he lifted his head, and nodded it in assent.

  • He lifted his head, and looked up at Celia with an awakened humility and awe in his glance.

  • Presently he lifted his face, turned it toward his dying friend and walked rapidly back to his side.

  • He lifted his head, stared again into those baleful eyes and was again in bondage.

  • As he approached me he lifted his hat, saying, "Miss Dement, may I sit with you?

  • He lifted his hand, it felt cold and clammy, and fell as he let it go; his heart had ceased to beat.

  • Lionel, who was rapid in all his movements, lifted his rifle to fire.

  • He was slowly moving across; now he stopped and looked back at his companions, then he went on again: from the way he lifted his legs it was evident that he was dragging something attached to one of them.

  • Do you know," and he lifted his head, speaking more naturally and looking at her with pride in his achievement, "in the two years I have been in the concern I have doubled the takings in my department?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about latitude; actual observation; coach home; district judge; east course; former volume; glad that; great captain; higher temperatures; incalculable value; keep thee; lifted his; much mischief; negative evidence; pour forth; shall speak; strange thing; studded sword; vital spot; watched the; weel eneugh; wild boar