He perceived clearly enough, that the chase was moving quickly; and he was also aware, from the increased rapidity with which the oars were urged, that every exertion was made on board to get out of the reach of her pursuers.
But her cries, instead of moving her assailant's compassion, only added to his fury.
A thin mist lay on the river, giving the few craft moving about in it a ghostly look.
Ben had scarcely adjusted his oars, when the gleam of a lantern was seen moving towards the bank.
By this time, he had apparently accomplished all he desired; for moving the bottle out of Jack's reach, he appropriated it entirely to his own use, leaving the devoted lad to the care of the females.
They all now gathered in the bow of the slowlymoving punt, ready to leap ashore the moment she bumped into the dock.
I relieved Thompson at the wheel, and the wounded sailor soon took it with his one arm; the vessel scarcelymoving through the water with the light air now stirring.
The day was beautiful, and the sky clear and almost without a cloud, with a light air moving from the northwest.
We were moving with frightful rapidity through the water; but in what direction I had no means of knowing.
This I did by moving my head and body slightly till I brought the frame of my southerly window on its southeasterly side to range with a small fir-tree that stood some thirty feet distant, which was in a line with the wreck.
Moving along I came upon a plant that is sometimes used to make pickles of, and I knew that the pod contained a soft silky substance something like cotton.
It was one fine December morning that I steamed down Stillwater Cove, the yacht moving rapidly and evenly along through the water, and the machinery and screw working well and smoothly.
There it was, moving with great rapidity, and the connecting goatskin bag was evidently distended with air.
The Avenger's moving West--that's what he's doing.
At first she heard nothing, but gradually there stole on her listening ears the sound of someone moving softly about in the room just overhead, that is, in Mr. Sleuth's bedroom.
Mr. Sleuth was moving restlessly about the room, not sitting reading, as was his wont at this time of the evening.
Mrs. Bunting longed to give the drawing-room something of a good turn out; but Mr. Sleuth disliked her to be moving about in it when he himself was in his bedroom; and when up he sat there almost all the time.
Bunting lowered his voice, but Daisy and Chandler were already movingtowards the door.
She began moving about the room, flicking off an imperceptible touch of dust here, straightening a piece of furniture there.
Are you moving or are you going to pawn your stuff?
Formerly, when Ether separated the elements and bore the animals that were moving in her bosom, she wished to endow them with sight, and so made the eye round like the sun's disc and bored ears in the form of a funnel.
There was a sound of persons moving and, taking Mabel by the arm, Shirley quickly drew her into the nearest stall, where they stooped down to be out of sight.
Briggs hastened to obey, and a moment later the Sybil was moving out of sight around another bend.
Let the kid alone," he said quietly, moving into the midst of the others.
He could hear the dull roar of the torrent as it poured over the falls only a short way off, and he fancied once that he detected the rush of some swiftly-moving body through the wood.
The warrior was cunning, but he was liable to uncover himself in moving about the youth, whose precise location he could not know.
A soft tap-tap sounded on the ground as Blazing Arrow, in a loping trot, left the clearing and plunged into the wood, and then a faint, shadowy figure was dimly seen moving between the trees.
The frail boat was already moving with the sweep of waters which only a few rods away shot between the rocks, when the slowly swaying paddle was dipped deep into the water, and changed from side to side in bewildering rapidity.
His curiosity led him to pick his way back to the torrent that had been the scene of so many moving incidents of the afternoon.
He stopped short, for he had heard something moving slowly among the undergrowth ahead.
The figure of an Indian appeared moving noiselessly along the banks of the ravine, almost in their very footsteps.
The point of light was a part of the object which was moving slowly, while the strange sound continued.
She kept determinedly preoccupied, moving feverishly about the room, allowing space for no meditative interludes, permitting herself never to think of the day and what it was to hold for her.
She was moving her head slowly up and down, as she studied his face.
She was moving her head slowly up and down, gazing at him with unseeing eyes.
A thunder-storm also can be put to rout by firing cannons at it; "for by the force of the sound moving the air, the exhalations are driven upward.
The Emperor alone remained standing, moving about the tables, conversing by turns with his numerous guests.
I should like to put on a bandage, which will relieve Gretchen's pain, because it will prevent her frommoving the joint.
Was not that a step moving slowly and cautiously over the floor?
The nearer he approached the gate, the more numerous became the people, who were all moving in the same direction; the suburban street through which they were obliged to pass had assumed a holiday garb.
That learned University found itself not only unable to keep the mass from moving, but unable to keep itself from moving along with the mass.
One is the moving power, and the other the steadying power of the State.
It was reserved for Fairfax and Cromwell to terminate this desultory warfare, by moving one overwhelming force successively against all the scattered fragments of the royal party.
He drew her out into the starlight as he heard the noise of the men pushing back their seats and moving about overhead.
She spoke with grave deliberation, and without moving a muscle.
Jeffreys, with dismay, found his limbs growing cramped and stiff, boding ill, unless relief soon came, for the possibility of moving at all.
She looked now for no mercy, nor could she hope to again escape him so easily as she had before, and so she sat with bowed head in the bottom of the swiftly moving craft, buried in anguished thoughts, hopeless and miserable.
For a time he saw nothing, but was guided by the snapping of twigs and the rustling of bushes ahead, where the authors of the commotion were evidently moving swiftly through the jungle.
For some time the girl watched the object until at length it resolved itself into a boat moving head on toward the island.
Had they known it they were moving parallel with the stream, but a few miles from it.
I will go and have a talk with him later," said von Horn, "so if you hear us moving about in the workshop, or even out here in the campong think nothing of it.
Those whom he pursued were moving rapidly through the jungle which was now becoming more and more open, but the Chinaman was no mean runner, and it was not long before he drew within sight of the object of his pursuit.
For the last two days we have only been moving round the colony, from which we are scarce three leagues distant, and yet I cannot resolve to enter it.
The time seemed too short for moving so many families, their horses and cattle.
Every figuremoving without noise was to be fired upon by the ambuscade.
Pretty soon, while the Crows cantered on, they sighted a group of moving figures at the base of the hills two or three miles distant across the valley.
Someone in that dining-room was moving cautiously.
Then he stopped moving and reaching up felt along the wall with his hands.
Meanwhile James wasmoving the mirth and pity of all Europe by his lamentations and menaces.
An attempt to get rid of the subject by moving the previous question failed.
Wharton concluded bymoving that Leeds should be impeached of high crimes and misdemeanours.
At dawn the English saw far off, from the top of King John's ruined castle, the Irish army moving through the dreary region which separates the Shannon from the Suck.
She understood this to mean that she was being borne into Paradise, and while they were moving her, she sang in a somewhat hoarse voice.
I went out and found my things, and returning again, met Stina, who was moving round in a circle with clasped hands.
No other terrestrial creature but this is found to have no tongue, and it only bites by movingits upper jaw.
I ask at what part of its curved motion the moving cause will leave the thing moved and moveable.
The motion of a spectator who sees an object at rest often makes it seem as though the object at rest had acquired the motion of the moving body, while the moving person appears to be at rest.
The sun will appear larger in moving water or on waves than in still water; an example is the light reflected on the strings of a monochord.
Just as on a frozen river a man may run without moving his feet, so a car might be made that would slide by itself.
The muscle d acts with the muscle c when the arm moves forward; and in moving backward the muscle b acts with the muscle c.
By moving the edges of the opening through which the images are admitted, the images of immovable objects are made to move.
The cock does not crow till it has thrice flapped its wings; the parrot in moving among boughs never puts its feet excepting where it has first put its beak.
A man, in going up stairs involuntarily throws so much weight forward and on the side of the upper foot as to be a counterpoise to the lower leg, so that the labour of this lower leg is limited to moving itself.
An hour passed, and the cab was still moving more slowly over the rough surface of partly paved streets, and by single rows of new houses standing at different angles to each other in fields covered with ash-heaps and brick-kilns.
In this position, by moving the straw a little, he could look down, without being himself seen, upon the heads of whomsoever stood below.
Ahead of him he heard the stranger trampling upon dead twigs, moving rapidly as one who knew his way.
Three police patrol-wagons were moving about the yard, filled with unwilling passengers, who sat or stood, packed together like sheep and with no protection from the sleet and rain.
That, later, on moving to New York, his descendants became peace-loving salesmen did not affect his record.
The train was moving very, very slowly, and though he had no lantern to wave, in order to bring it to a halt he need only stand on the track exposed to the glare of the headlight and wave his arms.
Moving homeward, we floated under a lovely old bridge, whose three rose-toned arches date from the sixteenth century--the age of the Great Moguls.
The white peaks that rose around in marvellous array seemed so near in the bright air that it seemed as though one could see the smallest creature moving on their distant slopes.
A placid sheet of still water, its surface only broken here and there by the silvery trails of rippled wake left by the darting shikaras or slow-moving market boats, lay before us, shining in the crystal-clear atmosphere.
Know=: Spread the thumb and index-finger of the right hand, sweep toward the breast, moving them forward and outward so that the palm turns up.
Mountain=: Raise the arm from the elbow without moving the latter, the back of the clinched hand directed toward the front.
Lean=: Hold the flattened hands toward one another before the breast, separate them, movingall the fingers several times inward and outward toward and from the breast.
One could see nothing anywhere, so red and yellow as they were, except the long coat of a Government messenger, a point of scarlet moving in the perspective of a dusty road.
He fidgeted with the tassel of his ceinture, and she watched his moving fingers.
It works out better than you--than one might suppose," Hilda returned, moving toward the door.
A curiously sacred character had fastened itself upon her; it was not in the least realised that she was going out to be married to an altogether secular young broker moving in fashionable circles in one of the gayest cities in the world.
Much happier than you are," Laura repeated, slowly moving her head from side to side as if to negative contradiction in advance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
