But, when she was animated, these lines disappeared, for at such momentsher color rose, the same beautiful color which Ruth had inherited.
In a few moments all the women in the house had gathered in this lower hall, frightened and tearful.
A fewmoments later Miss Billy Breeze was shown in.
For occasionally at these moments David of his own accord would talk of his lost boys--the only times he ever mentioned them or permitted his wife to do so.
There were moments when Redwood ceased even to feel himself an interlocutor, when he became the mere auditor of a monologue.
And at moments, rare momentsin the laboratory chiefly, he would find something else than habit and Cossar's arguments to urge him to his work.
At moments Cossar was colossal, at moments invisible.
Then for some moments nothing but a minute muffled confusion from the direction of the rat-holes, and then again a wild yell .
He was seen looming over Kennington Oval for some moments in the afternoon, but when he saw these dense thousands were engaged with the mystery of cricket and quite regardless of him he went his way with a groan.
Sloppet, I am glad to say, felt it--in his more thoughtful moments at any rate.
For her, the sight of him was so amazing, so incredible, as to be, for some momentsat least, terrible.
There were moments during that wonderful night when it seemed to Bensington that he was planned by nature for a life of fantastic adventure.
Into that she could not look, and there were moments when she would have parted with a finger in order to overhaul it.
During the gloomiest momentsof that fearful winter, Stephen had been uniformly confiding and cheerful.
If Napoleon ever said, as has been attributed to him, "Je propose et je dispose," it must have been in one of those fleeting moments in which success blinded him to the fact of his own insufficiency.
How many trying scenes and bitter moments crowded on the mind of young Roswell Gardiner, as he recalled all that had passed in the ten months which intervened since he had come out from behind the shelter of those wild rocks!
In a few moments Wopole had hauled up the sail, and the boat began to move through the dancing waters.
In a few moments he had found the thread marked ‘Treblo,’ and reaching out the scissors he cut it through.
It was impossible for the Princess to see where the voice came from, for the cottage was so dark after the light outside that for some moments it was quite as black as night.
In a few moments she heard a voice calling her, and she went down.
The Negroes cook uniformly very well, and at moments are inspired in the direction of palm-oil chop and fish cooking.
It is only his utterly spare moments that he employs in making just sufficient palm oil from the rich supply of nuts at his command to get that rum and those beads of his.
How much of consciousness informs Thy will Thy biddings, as if blind, Of death-inducing kind, Nought shows to us ephemeral ones who fill But moments in Thy mind.
II She quickened her feet, and met him where They had predesigned: And they clasped, and mounted, and cleft the air Upon whirling wheels; till the will to bind Her life with his made the moments there Efface the years behind.
The St. Bernard floundered in the water for a few moments and tried to reach Morse.
There were moments when the gale died down, but only to roar again with a frenzy of increased violence.
There had been moments when black spots had flickered before him, when red-hot sand had been flung against his eyeballs if he could judge by the burning sensation.
The sense of superiority is generally not a lovely manifestation in any human being, but there are moments when it tells of something fine, a disdain of actions low and mean.
Soon o'er the puny space with rapid speed The unreturning moments wing their way, And sweep us from our cradles to the grave.
Only a fewmoments before she had felt an almost uncontrollable desire to burst into tears.
Not the life for a girl, somehow," he said, a line of worry puckering his forehead, and for a few moments his thoughts deserted his work.
For a few moments he stood lost in gratitude and praise.
Millicent's moments of self-pity were mean and contemptible and yet they were effective.
Even with the fondest lovers, there is a nervous shyness between them for the first moments of meeting after a prolonged separation.
His visions and fears and the constant repetition of the sixty-third attribute of Allah had been concentrated into the last few seconds before he stumbled and fell, just as our dreams are enacted in the last moments before we wake.
For a few moments the desire to throw himself into the arms of Islam overwhelmed him; it was the way of peace, the way of forgetfulness, the way of self-surrender.
During his odd moments Ralph threw several fishing-lines over, and the catching of a mess of fish served to occupy his thoughts to a considerable extent.
He strained his eyes in the direction, and after a few moments caught sight of an immense hay barge bearing down upon him.
The master granted the school a recess, and all in a few moments were standing without the door peering into the tall trees.
In one of thesemoments of consciousness he asked of Gretchen: "Where is Boston tilicum?
There are moments of revelation when a knowledge of one's true calling in life comes to the soul.
While occupied with this study, which filled all his moments as well as all his thoughts, he scarce ever saw the Gillenormands.
The prisoner had fallen back into his taciturnity; a sinister calmness had succeeded the formidable noise which had filled the garret a few moments previously.
At certain moments this chaste forehead and voluptuous smile offered a strange contrast.
At some momentsher unfastened and torn chemise fell almost to her waist.
After a short silence he went up to her and stood in front of her with folded arms, as he had done a few moments previously.
A few moments after he passed in front of the bench, upright and firm, but red up to the ears, and not daring to take a glance either to the right or left, and with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman.
These pictures are lightly touched with a quiet brooding significance, as if they had been seen at twilight moments in a dream world in which human relationships had been partly forgotten.
There are moments when even the stars look odd to me, and when the countryside, viewed from the tower above us, is bewildering.
For some moments their conversation had had a plaintive if not an actually rebellious tone.
He complimented her, with a smile, on the short time it had taken her, and she wondered if he had really seen her hesitation of a few moments before.
He would have made more of his salvaging had he carried a steadier head: in the rare, golden moments of windfall he sometimes failed to pick and choose.
I had withdrawn my gaze so suddenly from the glow of the light in the cabin that for several moments the intruder from out of the sea was only a blurred form with one leg swung over the rail, where he hung as if spent by his exertions.
The kettle was singing by the time she got back, and a fewmoments later she made her way proudly down to Miss Pidsley's room with a fragrant scent of tea marking her path.
Betty did not reply, nor for a fewmoments did she attempt to follow.
A few moments later she slipped out of bed and carried Dan's tray to his room, but she did not go in with it.
I do think Anna was born to aggravate," she said crossly, but a few moments later her anger against her cooled.
She felt she could not go back to the company of Aunt Pike again, for a few moments at any rate.
It was evident, however, that they did not feel so weak as in the first moments after the voting by delegates.
Could we in extreme moments disturb thee with such tidings?
He could not sleep; he was so excited that the buzz of a fly pained his nerves, and at moments he did not understand what people said when they talked to him.
For at moments I saw him and at moments he went somewhere.
At moments the statues of the gods say and do what they themselves wish.
As his life had been the sojourn of an immortal in the region of evanescence, his death was merely one among moments in the existence of the superhuman.
In a few moments the priests who followed the movements of stars rose in his eyes immensely, and he said to himself that in every case he should learn this wonderful wisdom which confuses people's plans so terribly.
At moments it seemed to him that the priests would leave him in one of those narrow doorless chambers.
Ramses tottered at moments like a drunken man, and turned his head.
The beast stood some moments in a maze; then he chased after the dart man, who vexed him by pricking.
In free moments he slipped away, like Ramses, to Kama.
Heroic souls have moments of deep depression which the common man cannot even imagine.
At moments the wind weakened, the black clouds pushed apart; in the sky was a bloody sun, on the earth an ominous light of ruddy color.
Are these the same dull clouds that we looked upon a fewmoments before?
In a few moments the helpless little ones were sound asleep.
A few momentslater a couple of men ran out from Morris's, busied themselves about reviving the fellow, and helped him into the house.
But melancholy as he looked, Elmer had evidently had his moments of struggle against dejection.
In a few moments the place was invested, with riflemen on every side except the south, which fronted on the bay.
Only a few moments had elapsed since the rout of Logan Black's ruffians, but in the vicinity of this remarkable island such sudden meteorological changes are anything but rare, geographers and travelers know.
One of thesemoments had been when he bought the clothes he was wearing.
He leaves her for a few moments and returns with an armful of furs, which he displays, laying each piece over his arm and smoothing it down as if it were--well, a sort of cat.
After a few moments he jerked his head to bring the auctioneer to his side, and with a word of apology to the possible purchaser the auctioneer went to the man.
In such moments shall be seen the glittering concavities, the fair pillars and arches carved by the water, and the hidden forms of delicate life that thrive upon them, dwelling in darkness and drinking of the foam.
His great moments are few; he is mostly ferocious, or absurdly sentimental, and one confesses that the bulk of his best work, judged against the highest of ancient or modern tragedy, rings feebly with a note of too transparent artifice.
Just a fewmoments more, and Tad was seized by the waters and hurled up into the air.
For some moments he heard nothing further, then out of the bushes crept a shadowy figure.
It is my opinion that a man would do better for a few moments against the water than a boat would.
A few moments later the boy was seen to struggle to a sitting posture, where he sat for a short time, both hands supporting his head.
His question was answered when, a few moments later, the silent figure of the Indian appeared creeping from the opening.
After a fewmoments had passed, Dad stirred the fire, then he too strolled off toward the rim.
For a fewmoments the air was full of streaks of yellow.
With all his might the young Indian quickened the speed of his canoe and in a few moments he sprang ashore.
In a few moments the snow child was finished, and Ivan looked at her in great admiration.
For a few moments he just danced up and down with delight, then, waving and bowing to the children, he cried, "Happy New Year!
In a few moments these simple-hearted men were ready to start across the fields and over the low hills to Bethlehem.
Suddenly, he noticed that the mouth and eyes opened, the cheeks and lips took on a rosy hue, and in a few moments the astonished peasant saw standing before him a living child.
The Colonel conceived a hope that the lady would abjure matrimony, and release this devoted knight, but in a few moments Alick burst out-- "Absurd!
There were momentswhen she stood in fear of her brother.
He gently relieved Rachel from the now lifeless weight, and they knelt on for somemoments in complete stillness, except that Alick's breath became more laboured, and his shuddering and shivering could no longer be repressed.
The lull of these few moments was inexpressibly sweet, but the pang that had crossed her so many times in the last two days and nights could not but return.
While doing so his glance fell on the spot where only a few moments before he had observed the swaying shadow of the speaker.
The men stood round for a few moments not knowing what to do, until finally the policeman led the ambulance-men and Robertson to the door, which opened automatically.
Meanwhile Forster ran his engine on the turntable, where it was quickly reversed, and in a few moments it stood, puffing and snorting, at the other end of the train.
Yet there are moments when, as in describing the massacre of Limoges, he speaks with tears in his voice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
