Nor less grotesque were the motions and gestures of this strange being.
Twice these motions were renewed, and twice again rose the shout.
The number of inventions for use as stop-motions in and about the various machines in the cotton mill has been to a certain extent something like the search after perpetual motion.
The Sister followed his directions, and imitated his motions with painstaking minuteness.
The absolute stillness made the quick gliding motions of the moccasins even more horrible.
Not satisfied with looking at that side of the post that chances to be near me, I move round and round it, and pause and scrutinize till those whose ill fate it is to wait upon my motions are out of patience with me.
Near Canal Street two men are loading ice into a yellow refrigerator car, and their practiced motions are pleasant to watch.
We remember with gusto a little soliloquy on cider delivered by another friend of ours, as we both stood in a decent ordinary on Fulton Street, going through all the motions of jocularity and cheer.
The same motionsand muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying.
To Fancy's eye their motions prove / They mantle round the sun for love.
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Are they regulated in their motions with us by a failure of food, or by a propensity to moulting, or by a disposition to rest after so rapid a life, or by what?
Nor can the clumsy motions (comparatively clumsy) of the martin well represent the sudden and artful evolutions and quick turns which Juturna gave to her brother's chariot, so as to elude the eager pursuit of the enraged Aeneas.
For a time the young are fed on the wing by their parents; but the feat is done by so quick and almost imperceptible a sleight, that a person must have attended very exactly to their motions before he would be able to perceive it.
It was amazing that the desultory and rapid motions of this dam should not oblige her litter to quit their hold, especially when it appeared that they were so young as to be both naked and blind!
These birds have a peculiar manner of flying; flitting about with odd jerks, and vacillations, not unlike themotions of a butterfly.
Perhaps then their associates attend them on the motive of interest, as greyhounds wait on the motions of their finders; and as lions are said to do on the yelpings of jackals.
I am glad you are making inquiries from Linnaeus concerning the woodcock: it is expected of him that he should be able to account for the motions and manner of life of the animals of his own Fauna.
Her motions and the tone of her voice were languid.
The law of revolution, and to which all the other motions of the needle are reducible, is simple and beautiful.
If the wire be made to revolve round the pole, the motions are according to those mentioned.
If a number of waves in succession be sent up the string, the motions of the hand being properly timed, the string will appear to be divided into a number of vibrating segments separated by stationary points, or nodes.
Reverse the connections with the battery, and the motion of the pole is reversed; or, if the south pole be made to revolve, the motions will be in the opposite direction, as with the north pole.
For answer he produced a crude drawing of a monkey climbing a stick and demonstrated the action by getting up and going through the motions of climbing.
Sherman went through the motions of drawing from his pocket a phantom cigarette, applying to it an imaginary match, and blowing the smoke in the air.
Nikolai takes his hat, Lensky holds him back, and at the same time motions to the waiter to leave the room.
She puts down the pen, and sitting down on the little sofa in the cosey corner, motions him to an armchair.
New hypnotization and suggestion, during which the motions cease, and they remain absent when she wakes.
The primary task of the sun's motion in space, together with the motions of the brighter stars, had been already put well within our reach by the spectroscopic method of the measurement of star motions in the line of sight.
By no direct astronomical methods could motionsof approach or of recession of the stars be even detected, much less could they be measured.
Her small voice tinkled indefatigably, and she worked through all the motions of hospitable politeness.
I will judge of him; it is by the motions of his soul, and by that which he speaketh.
None but a Man who was at that Juncture, or had been formerly, in Love cou'd, with so much Truth and Delicacy, have painted all the Motions of the Soul.
Without searching into the Motive of my Action, I managed, I interpreted her Looks; I endeavour'd to make her leastMotions my Lessons.
DEAR BOY: I delayed writing to you till I could give you some account of the motions of your friend Mr. Eliot; for whom I know you have, and very justly, the most friendly concern.
When you are once well dressed for the day think no more of it afterward; and, without any stiffness for fear of discomposing that dress, let all your motions be as easy and natural as if you had no clothes on at all.
Bridgman, has so sympathetically illustrated the rhymes, mothers and kindergartners have easily understood what motions were intended.
The motions of Russia indicate a war with the Porte no longer Sublime.
I am naturally inclined to that which misguided zeal terms superstition; at my devotion I love to use the civility of my knee, my hat, my hand, with all those outward and sensible motions which may express or promote my invisible devotion.
I mean the constant duration and regularity of the motions which the Supreme Wisdom has put in the universe.
The calendar has since been regulated by his doctrine, and on his principles the motions of the planets have been calculated.
Then they take to flight; first moving leisurely and cautiously, but quickening their pace to the utmost degree of speed; whilst the male vicuna, who covers the retreat, occasionally halts to observe the motions of the enemy.
All his motions are regular, as if he went by clockwork, and he goes very true to the nick as he is set.
His reason serves, not to curb but understand his appetite, and prosecute the motions thereof with a more eager earnestness.
This noiseless flight is very remarkable in the Owl, as may be observed, if a tame one be allowed to fly about a room, when we can perceive his motions only by our sight.
But, ever and anon, as the mother worked, she followed the motions of her child anxiously.
The thought does not seem to have occurred to him, that special and miraculous acts of the Deity may be as truly governed by law as the motions of planets.
There is, however, danger of mistaking certain motions of the particles of matter, by chemical agency, for the effect of vitality.
You have, indeed, harmonious motions among the celestial bodies, and, if no disturbing cause come in, you have endless motion.
No one can doubt that the law of gravity is essential to the preservation and comfort of the world, and to the harmonious motions of the heavenly bodies.
The vegetable physiologists have described certain peculiar motions in the minute vessels of plants, that might readily be regarded as matter essentially vital.
Indeed, with the exception of the planetary motions and crystallography, chemical combination is the most perfect example of practical mathematics to be found in nature.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
