Her hair done, she lay back limply in her chintz armchair, haunted eyes fixed on the clock; and, after staring became unendurable, she picked up a book and opened it mechanically.
But had any bride ever before faced that hearth so silent, so motionless, so pale as was this young girl whose fingers rested so limply in his and whose cold palm grew no warmer against his cheek?
They parted with pomp and circumstance, Desboro to saunter back to his rooms and lielimply in his arm chair beside an empty fireplace until sleep overcame him where he sat.
And the coils, at that blow, relaxed, while the figure of Diane Delacouer fell limply to the outstretched, cushioning arms of the man below.
One matched the other for accuracy, and the clawing figure fell limply from sight.
It lay limply across the stone platform, the listless head hanging downward over one edge.
At the same moment the door opened to admit the maid and he drew back quickly, while Nan's outstretched hands fell limply to her side.
I had been leaning limply against the veranda post, for even my strength was giving way, more under the mental strain than the physical tax.
But O'mie, lying limply in my arms, murmured deliriously of the ladder by the shop, and wondered feebly if it could reach from the river up to the Hermit's Cave.
Then he moved apologetically away, leaving Henry backed limply against a board fence.
But then he quietly laid down his spoon, sank rather limply back in his chair, and wanly met Humphrey's gaze.
He lifted the priest's head--it sagged limply back again.
Did he not remember how limply the man's neck and head wagged on the shoulders, and how the body kept falling all over in grotesque attitudes instead of helping him to get its clothes off!
During the evening, Stirling reached the camp; and when the Siwash who had poled his canoe up the river had drawn it out, they sat down somewhat limply on the shingle, for he had as usual traveled with feverish haste.
Once he raised his arm as though he meant to strike the man with him, but a moment later his arm dropped limply at his side.
She held her fork in the air, hovering between her mouth and her plate, while the other three girls leaned back limply in their chairs at the breakfast table.
But his eyes were dejected and his hand hung limply by his side.
Her eyes wandered through the untidy room her handsome ball-dress, hanging listlessly, limply over a chair, at once reminded her of yesterday.
She lost consciousness, and slipped limply to the ground.
He saw that Eugen's body had slipped forward limply over the left arm of his chair; the Prince's arms hung straight and lifeless; his eyes were closed; he was unconscious.
He made no cry, no struggle--the set teeth unlocked, and he fell limply back on the sand, his head lapped by the waves.
The heavy, iron-shod boot landed full in my face, and every sensation left me as I sank limply back, bloody and unconscious.
With a motion like a cat he sprang into the necessary garment which nestled limply on the floor by the bed, and was at the window in a trice.
There was a sound of a thud, and Davis' figure dropped limply to the floor.
Jack staggered back as he felt something like a red-hot iron pierce his right arm; and the member dropped limply to his side.
Her neglected novel lay limply on a bamboo tabour at her side and an open letter lay where it had fallen unrecked on the veranda floor.
As the flame leaped from the muzzle to his breast he numbly lowered the rifle, turned half around, and walking forward a few steps, clutched blindly at the air and sank limply to the ground.
The man smiled wanly, reeled In his saddle, and clutching fruitlessly at the horn, slipped limply down into Douglass's supporting arms.
He saw Richard Travis pitch forward off his horse and slide limply to the ground.
Disqualified long ago from walking, to-day David Verne could hardly raise his hands to lay them limply upon the keyboard of a piano.
There was not a tree within the enclosure of the Fort, and the flag hung limply from the staff, stirring only when the hot wind from the south-west swept over the sandy plains.
They lay down on their faces to smell of the drain, muttered unintelligibly when they came to the subterranean passage, and wondered at the flag, with its fifteen stripes and fifteen stars, that hung limply at the staff.
She allowed her hand to lie limply in his, her head sinking to the back of the chair.
Lorry, turning upon the chief, who had dropped limply into a chair and was mopping his brow.
Then old Caspar's tense muscles relaxed and his arms dropped limply from their crossed position on his breast.
She had gone to the divan and now dropped limply among the cushions, resting her head on her hand.
And that was all, for he gave ground, and his hand fell limplyfrom his dishonoured hilt.
The very air of morn sweated rum; candle-light from the loopholes fell across the bodies, flung limply on the grass.
I hung limply as a wet towel: I felt that this spark of tortured life which had flickered up in me must ere long finally become extinguished.
As I turned and switched on the light Nayland Smith dropped limply into a chair, leaning his head upon his hands.
Carrington's hands dropped to his sides, his knees doubled and he fell limply forward into the dust of the street where he lay, huddled and unconscious, while turmoil raged over him.
Keats stepped to the door, saw Marion sitting limply in the rocking-chair, her shoulders convulsed with sobs, and crossed to her, shaking her with a brutal arm.
And I confess that this desire was increased as I looked at the dead body of poor Dennis, lying limply across the fore-shoulders of Rayburn's horse.
She stood half-turned towards the fire, with her face in profile, and her hands hanging limplyat her side.
Her hands hung limply over the edge of the bed, and she seemed stiffened into musings.
Through a blur of tears, Susie read something of this in his face, and her hands dropped limply to her sides.
She was appalled by the light in which he had placed her; and while the others followed to the harness-house below, she sank limply upon the door-sill, her face in her hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
