Hence it is, that the world so often lifts up its voice and weeps.
But the wretched creature, wounded to the death, helplessly lifts its head.
A Spaniard lifts the little glass to his lips, and with a comic, abrupt motion tosses the contents into his mouth, immediately afterwards drinking water, a tumbler of which is always given with the spirit.
The bull digs its horns deep into the horse's side and lifts man and beast right off the ground; they fall with a heavy thud, and as the raging brute is drawn off, blood spurts from the horse's flank.
The magnet lifts up the hot, soft metal without denting it or damaging it and drops it down where it is wanted.
But if it lifts you up high, it drops you down HARD.
The whiskey, with its shiver that tells of a shock to the heart, lifts him up for a second.
He lifts his sword to his lips, quite the play-actor.
How that thought lifts these words before us into a still higher region!
So, as I say, He lifts the question out of the region in which Peter was keeping it, thereby betraying that he did not understand what he was talking about, and tells us that there are no limits to the obligation.
The redwood-fringed crest stands so sharply out against the sky-line that we really can distinguish every tree that lifts its head above the crest, although they are several miles away from us.
Kiss me, child," and Mrs. Carr lifted up her face to be kissed, as a child lifts up its face to its mother.
And so He lifts Himself up, and they have their answer: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
It is when Jesus lifts His true eye to meet ours that the heart sinks humbled, and recognises that apart from all punishment and in itself sin is sin, an injury to God's love, a grievous wrong to our own humanity.
Ethel lifts her eyes) You needn't look so far to see me.
Lifts his sword; suddenly drops it and falls, pressing his heart.
Ninus, alone in front, goes toward his chamber, falls on the steps overpowered with rage and lifts his clenched hands) Nin.
At sound of her voice he lifts his head and looks at her with eager recognition) Sem.
Semiramis stands in despair; then liftsher arms praying) Sem.
Here and there a clump of shrubs lifts itself in the midst of the slabs, which are on a level with the soil, and above which white forms are bending, more undefined than clouds.
She lifts her head towards the sky, and, in spite of the distance, her voice can be heard.
She laughs, and the ape who holds the end of her robelifts it up.
JULIA (sobbing as he rises and coaxingly lifts her with him).
Lifts himself on to the shoulder of the grand piano and sits there swinging his legs and contemplating Craven resignedly.
There in the garden old The bright-hued clumps of zinnias unfold Their formal flowers; and the marigold Lifts its pinched shred of orange sunset caught And elfed in petals.
And there the tangled wild-potato vine Lifts conical blossoms, each a cup of wine, As pale as moonlight is.
In odorous purple, where the falling warble Of water cascades and the plunged foam glows, A columned ruin lifts its sculptured marble Friezed with the chiselled rebeck and the rose.
The poacher now clears his arm and, with a sudden jerk, lifts the fish right out of the stream and lands him on the sward.
Presently, if the poacher but lifts his finger, away dashes the dog, and will miss nothing he comes across.
It steadies the life of the present, elevates and upholds it, and lightens and lifts it up, by the memory of the great deeds, the noble sufferings, and the valorous achievements of the men of old.
His example is so contagious, that all other men are directly and beneficially influenced by him, and he insensibly elevates and lifts them up to his own standard of energetic activity.
The foreign workman lifts his cap and respectfully salutes his fellow-workman in passing.
Thy lips meet ocean here, and in deep joy he lifts his great white brow, and gives his stormy voice a milder tone.
What chance have I against a man that liftsnine hundred pounds?
Name at which tyrants pale, And their proud legions quail, Their boasting done; While Freedom lifts her head, No longer filled with dread, Her sons to victory led By Washington.
It is this that stamps the Bible as divine, and liftsit immeasurably above all other books.
Aided by a strong leather girdle, or belt, and supporting himself by pressing his arms on a railing, he lifts from the ground a stone of the enormous weight of 2,240 lbs.
The visor lifts upward on a hinge, and its position may be further regulated by the screw which slips in the groove above it.
Some people think this service confusing because an occasional guest, in lifting off the finger bowl, lifts the glass plate too, and eats his dessert on his china plate.
He lifts his hat if he asks anyone a question, and always, if, when walking on the street with either a lady or a gentleman, his companion bows to another person.
If he gets on a street car and the car gives a lurch just as he is about to be seated and throws him against another passenger, he lifts his hat and says "Excuse me!
In this service, a guest lifts the finger bowl off and eats his ice cream on the glass plate, after which the glass plate is removed and the china one is left for fruit.
As she makes room for him to pass, he liftshis hat and says: "Thank you!
If he is in the company of a lady in a street car, he lifts his hat to another gentleman who offers her a seat, picks up something she has dropped, or shows her any civility.
In lifting his hat, a gentleman merely lifts it slightly off his forehead and replaces it; he does not smile nor bow, nor even look at the object of his courtesy.
If a man is wearing a soft hat he takes it by the crown instead of the brim, lifts it slightly off his head and puts it on again.
And no gentleman ever keeps a pipe, cigar or cigarette in his mouth when he lifts his hat, takes it off, or bows.
If he passes a lady in a narrow space, so that he blocks her way or in any manner obtrudes upon her, he lifts his hat as he passes.
The weeping woman lifts her head, and her eyes meet Eleanor's.
She lifts her eyes to his with a slow shake of her head.
It lifts the chest and abdomen up, and brings a feeling of exhilaration if done in the open air.
Another exercise may be taken with an assistant; the patient should lie face downward, supporting the body by the chest, and keeping the limbs rigid while the assistant lifts the feet as high as possible without hurting.
Anderson says, "A woman who will do this twenty times each day can never have anteversion, if she dresses properly, for it lifts the organs in place each time.
The rivers that ran in and raised my fortunes Are all dried up, or take another course: What I have left is from my native spring; I've a heart still that swells in scorn of Fate, And lifts me to my banks.
Rainier lifts his white crown unbroken to the only majesty above him, the sky.
Stephen lifts its great wall over a mile of almost perpendicular height, and nearly opposite is the spire of Mt.
He keeps his bed a day or two for a slight indisposition, and a goodly number of ladies and gentlemen visit him, and converse with him in the ruelle;[544] in their presence he lifts up the blankets and spits in the sheets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lifts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: air; azure; blue; canopy; cerulean; ether; firmament; heaven; hyaline; lift; sky; vault; welkin
