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Example sentences for "mutely"

Lexicographically close words:
mutch; mutche; mutchkin; mute; muted; muteness; mutes; muther; mutht; mutilate
  1. The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and mutely watches the monster die.

  2. His lips worked mutely and tried to whisper something, but his tongue cleft, paralyzed with a prickly dread that stole over him, and his teeth began a forbidding tattoo.

  3. Her bosom lifted as she looked mutely into the face that smiled down upon her.

  4. Now and then she roused herself to answer at random some remark from Nick, but for the most part she sat mutely brooding.

  5. For a little she tried to withstand him, mutely beseeching him; but at length her eyes fell before his.

  6. Even a woe-song to be in the mouth of the loved ones is glorious, For what is vulgar descends mutely to Orcus' dark shades.

  7. It all remains Mutely delivered up to my finessing.

  8. McLean looked mutely at her and shook his head, but within him horrific suspicion was raging like a forest fire.

  9. Mutely she nodded, her eyes trying pitifully to read that shadowy mask of mockery he turned towards her.

  10. Mutely he looked to the others to see which was Scotty.

  11. The Cree sat down mutely in the centre of the tepee.

  12. It was irksome to sit; the current of reflection ran rapidly through her mind; to-night she was mutely excited.

  13. She mutely offered a kiss--an offer taken unfair advantage of, to the extortion of about a hundred kisses.

  14. In them was a look such as was seldom seen there--a look of double cunning which spoke mutely of false and double-dealing.

  15. He lifted the bugle, mutely asking a question of Adderley, who as mutely replied, and then, with it in his hand, left the other two beside the fire.

  16. He was a tallish, well-set-up man, with eyes neither green nor gray, but with that something in the bearing of him which mutely stands sponsor for the thing called Birth.

  17. Poor Pony Card plodded with bent head mutely behind them, a furtive hand travelling now and again to his eyes.

  18. Better let me go, Pap," said Wade, and Judith mutely stared after the old man as he disappeared into the dark.

  19. He nodded mutely with a motion of assent.

  20. It beseeched her mutely to tell him whether what she had read upon his confused sheet had any meaning or truth to her.

  21. She moved a little towards Rodney, and her movement seemed to testify mutely to her respect for him, and her alliance with him.

  22. As Nathalie mutely assented, Mrs. Renwick motioned for her to come and tell her why she had made this choice.

  23. Tony's big, velvety eyes were mutely pleading as he looked up at Nathalie.

  24. Catherine accepted the reproach mutely as one little smart the more.

  25. What she mutely seemed to ask of her friends was not to be made to feel.

  26. He sank down beside her, took the hand lying on the child, and laid down his head upon it, mutely kissing it.

  27. Suddenly, however, as he sat there mutely watching her, he found her at his knees, her dear arms around him, her face against his breast.

  28. He appeals mutely to the heavens to witness the shame and anguish of two outcasts].

  29. Father and son, checked, glare mutely at one another as Tanner comes in through the little gate with Ramsden, followed by Octavius and Ann.

  30. Some moaned at thought of their contrasted lot, Some plucked their beards in anguish and despair, Some turned their tear-stained faces to the wall, And mutely kissed the precious blocks, as if The historic stones held sentient sympathy.

  31. Here he met Branasko, and together they walked back to Thorndyke and the princess, who were mutely watching the signs in the east.

  32. He folded his arms and looked mutely toward the boiling lake.

  33. For answer she mutely drew him to the eastern parapet.

  34. Cleek flashed an inquiring look at his host, who in his turn was mutely questioning Lady Beryl.

  35. Cleek looked at Mr. Narkom, as if mutely asking why he had not been told of this fact before, and Mr. Narkom looked back blankly at his ally.

  36. Although she found his silence more menacing than his words, she could think of nothing to say to break the spell, and so they continued to walk mutely side by side.

  37. Again she mutely obeyed him, and entered the room.

  38. Then the girl appealed to her father, mutely eager; denied sympathy, she was asking for protection.

  39. Vona was distinctly in no condition to say anything sensible; she stared from the figures to Starr, showing utter amazement, and then she mutely appealed to the cashier.

  40. She stares at him mutely a moment, then turns to Mr. Langton.

  41. She obeyed him, lifting her sweet eyes in wonder, with half-parted crimson lips that seemed to ask mutely what joy life could yet hold for her.

  42. She sees a slight, girlish figure that has suddenly come forward to the side of Vane Charteris as if mutely claiming him for hers.

  43. There was a pretty humility in her behaviour to him, as if mutely apologising for the over-strong words which were the reaction from the deeds of the day of the riot.

  44. The question, which Harry's glance had mutely put before, Sutch in the same mute way repeated.

  45. He stood as he had once stood before the portraits of his fathers, mutely accepting condemnation.

  46. A bullet hole in his head mutely told how he had met his death.

  47. Both men were as nervy as they make 'em and several nicks in the butts of their revolvers testified mutely as to their prowess.

  48. At every turn poor Kid was mutely reminded of her loss, and her heart was at the breaking point day by day, and she begged for her old life, to seek forgetfulness in toil and get away from herself.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mutely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.