Then he weaves a stately moving melody around the bangs and the clashes, marks the whole business "fortissimo," and lets it go.
During the first few years of her life there was nothing to distinguish Helen Louise Leonard from any other baby; but by the time she was two years old, she showed the marks of great beauty, having large blue eyes and golden hair.
When he went to Clinton in 1856 he was probably thirty years of age and showed plainly the marks of early culture and training.
Here, then, were all the sources and marks of prosperity, so far as they depended on importations, in a state of unexampled vigour and efficiency.
That he marks me out from the rest of the nobles of the land, by a prohibition which I may venture to say is unjust and unmerited.
Chiefs of renown and power were flattered by the most trifling presents, which they received either as marks of distinction, or as the instruments of luxury.
The Nile flows down the country, above five hundred miles from the tropic of Cancer to the Mediterranean, and marks on either side of the extent of fertility by the measure of its inundations.
The marks that had been drawn round the blood spots at the scene of the crime were still faintly visible, and Wise knelt down to study them.
Marks had been drawn to indicate the blood spots that were so quickly washed off, and these still showed clearly.
We have said advisedly that the 'St. Teresa' marks an era in metre.
But the poet thought upon his own thought and upheld his line in face of the query marks confidently balanced on the margin of his proofs; he remembered Coleridge's-- As if this earth in fast, thick pants were breathing.
The proofs bear the marks of a critic intolerant of everything in which he detected excess of diction or imagery.
Thompson's wariness about the word marks his respect for it.
All things linked are"; the daisy is the signature of the star; for the poet all terrestrial minutiae were signed, nay, scribbled all over with reference marks and sealed with the likeness of larger things.
His form and face bore, only too clearly, the marks of those grim years of tribulation of soul and torment of body from which he had so recently been delivered.
That he paid a visit and wrote letters and verses to Mr. Hayes were, even if he forgot to despatch one of the letters, unusual marks of consideration.
To shoot wide of such large marks within a distance of ten paces and less would have been difficult, and a man shot from the front anywhere between mouth and brows never requires a second ball.
She sold him the cow and got the mark for it, but when she came to the town she could find no one who would give her sixty marks for a tough lean hen.
All this time our parlor furniture, though of that granitic formation I have indicated, began to show marks of that decay to which things sublunary are liable.
No vulgar touch wore them; they may be called, rather, the marks and indentations which the glittering in and out of the tide of social happiness has worn in the rocks of our strand.
The years between ten and twenty are full of the nervous excitability which marks the growth and maturing of the manly nature.
Such were the terrible marks of an Iroquois visitation.
His administration marks the advent of that official robbery which disgraced Quebec and sapped the remaining vitality of the country.
He is put down at sixmarks a day, or no remission.
We have referred the descriptions of the pictures to one of the very highest authorities in London, who is of opinion that if the marks on the back are genuine, they are the marks of the owner, not of the artist.
Trees are growing in the places of the tents, and time is fast sweeping away the marks of war.
The saw marks in the subflooring above the ground floor center room are vertical, but apparently from a mechanical saw.
The story indicated much about life at Huntley during the era, including the marks left by the Civil War and the life of the Northerners who had moved to the South: To come to Huntley you take the steamer from Washington to Alexandria.
However that might be, we felt more shocked than grieved when one morning the news came that the doctor was found at daybreak dead in his bed, with dark marks upon his neck as from the pressure of a thumb and finger!
One of Washington's visitors wrote: "I was particularly struck with the marks of affection which the general showed his pupil, his adopted son, son of the Marquis de Lafayette.
So his championship of the French Protestants marks the beginning of this new chapter in Lafayette's life, his entrance into French politics.
Natural defects should be spared; but I must not omit the large holes in your ears, and the deep marks of the iron on your hands.
Particular marks of attention were shewn me as a subject of Great Britain, the report of which went over to Italy, and confirmed the conjectures that I was really an envoy.
PUNT'ER, one who marks the points in basset or ombre.
But afterwards, he'll have me out; and then the boys with me will be marks for the gang when it comes back.
Then his eyes caught the bright chalk marks around it--notices to the gangs to keep hands off.
Further: and which concerns our argument: what were likely to be the characteristic marks of such a revelation?
It was pleasant to the eyes: addressing a higher sense than mere bodily appetite, than mental predilection for form and colour which marks fine breeding among men.
He fought every other animal who dared to venture near the place, and many a naval dog bore the marks of Bob's teeth to his dying day.
And if she seems like a woman who has ever worked for a living, or one that has been always well off, and has never done anything, and shows marks of the lady on her, as I expect she do.
Upon the pink round surface of the arm were faint marks of an unhealthy colour, as if produced by a rough grasp.
Kepenau pointed as he spoke to some mossy ground, where I could just distinguish a faint outline of the footsteps of a man; but I should have been unable to read anything beyond that fact from the marks left behind.
I therefore retraced my steps and threw myself backwards into the water; and as I looked up towards the bank, I clearly perceived the marks I had left.
Marks of blood on the grass showed us that the deer had been wounded.
Presently one of them stopped and pointed at the marks which my feet had made as I sprang up the bank.
No public memorial yet marks the place of rest of David Williams in the church-yard at Livingstonville, in Schoharie county.
For instance, Raven was once absent longer than usual, by full three days; and when he did come, there weremarks left which told that he had staid away because he had been ashamed of two black eyes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "marks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
