At last Kipps' flaring candle went up the narrow uncarpeted staircase to the little attic that had been his shelter and refuge during all the days of his childhood and youth.
They're stiff and rather silly and dreadfully narrow and not an idea in a dozen of them, but it really doesn't matter at all.
She stood aside for him to enter the rather narrow passage.
We have had a narrow escape, William," said Lady Shrewsbury, after the first salutation.
And, without waiting to catch up cloak or hat, he ran out over the terrace and through the garden, passed the little gate, and hurried on down the narrow road which kept along the stream.
Nay," said Arabella, with a careless smile, "my little heart is all too narrow to take in so great a thing as a prince.
A lamp was standing on the table, shedding its faint and sickly light around the narrow chamber in the tower; and a pale, emaciated form lay stretched upon a pallet close beneath the lady's eyes, as she looked through the loophole.
His white hair was thrust back from his forehead, which was narrow and low, but prominent over the eyes, which were shaded by bushy grey brows.
The acts of ordinary men affect but a narrow circle; the acts of sovereigns spread round to every human being throughout their whole dominions.
At the park gates, the men took leave of their master, and rode on in the direction of Salisbury; while he pursued a narrow lane which joined the high London road after winding through the country for about five miles.
From this point, all danger from Indians being over, the emigrants separated into small parties better suited to the narrow mountain paths and small pastures in their front.
The samenarrow statesmanship existed then, which later on undervalued all our possessions beyond the Stony Mountains, and was willing and even anxious that they should pass into the possession of a foreign power.
With his energy and knowledge of the country, he rendered them great assistance in fording the many dangerous and rapid streams they had to cross, and in finding a wagon road through many of the narrow rugged passes of the mountains.
It is also gratifying to be able to observe that this malevolence is limited to narrow bounds.
July 25th she writes: "The ride has been very mountainous, paths only winding along the sides of steep mountains, in many places so narrow that the animal would scarcely find room to place his foot.
They entered Neuilly through the Porte des Sablons and, two minutes later, stopped before a long, narrow passage between high walls which led them to a small, one-storeyed house.
He was a young man, very smartly dressed, with a narrowand rather pale face, whose eyes held by turns the gentlest and the harshest, the most friendly and the most satirical expression.
On bending forward, Rénine perceived that this deep and narrow opening inevitably carried the eye, above the dense tops of the trees and through the depression in the hill, to the ivy-clad tower.
Hortense followed a narrow gangway which twisted and turned between two walls built up of cupboards, cabinets and console-tables, went up two steps and found herself in the last room of all.
Each of these wickets opened on a narrow path which ran among the shrubberies of box and aucuba to the left and right of the main avenue.
Yet out of compassion to his youth, and in hopes he might be sufficiently checked by so narrow an escape from the gallows, his friends procured him first a reprieve and then a pardon.
Towards Smithfield and the narrow lanes and allies about it, are the chief houses of entertainment for such people, where they are promiscuously admitted, men or women, and have places every way fitted for both concealing and entertainment.
We congratulated each other, you may imagine on our happy and narrow escape, and solaced ourselves after the fatigue of the day, with a mistress and a bottle.
If we go abroad in the day, a wise man would easily find us to be rogues by our faces, we have such suspicious, fearful and constrained countenances, often turning back and sneaking through narrow lanes and alleys.
Through these misfortunes he fell into circumstances so narrow that he lay two years and a half in Newgate, for debt.
His father gave him all the education his narrow circumstances would permit which extended however to reading and writing a tolerable good hand, after which he sent him to sea.
Another story he also told, with many marks of real thankfulness for the narrow escape he then made from death, which happened thus.
Their chief defence was the fortress of Cronberg, near Elsinore, where heavy cannon were mounted to command the narrow strait here separating Sweden and Denmark.
He was taken deep into the dungeons of Sanderberg Castle, and locked up in a dark and narrow prison vault destitute of every convenience, his only companion being a half-witted dwarf who had long been in his service.
He knew that it ended near the North Sea, only a narrow isthmus dividing them.
The man who had worn the crowns of three kingdoms was to spend years within the narrow walls of a dungeon, with none to pity him in his misery, but all to think that he deserved it all and more.
Sweyn, learning where his foe was, gathered what ships he could and took post at Hals, the fiord being there so narrow that a few ships could fight with advantage against a much greater number.
Having beaten his rival in a naval battle, he entered the long and narrow Lim fiord to plunder the land, fancying that Sweyn was in no condition to disturb him.
He brings the outside point of view; and, because modern business runs towardnarrow specialization, the outside point of view is pretty nearly always welcome, provided it is honest and sensible.
Steering a narrow course between fiction and truth, Mrs. Cronan told her class that she thought there certainly must have been a dragon or the picture wouldn't have been painted.
Her short essay on her adopted country read: This country is the United States Note use of narrow of America.
In the narrow newspaper column, there is room for only five or six words to a line.
We passed beyond the sheds and slid along a narrow spit of land thrusting out into the mud-flanked estuary.
Within the narrow confines of one's house and yard, for instance, are many topics.
Only very large photographs or long, narrow panoramic ones should be rolled and mailed in a heavy cardboard tube, separate from the manuscript.
Remember, love, who gave you this, When other days shall come, When she who had thy earliest kiss Sleeps in her narrow home.
This arose, no doubt, from the narrow dimensions of his home, where there was hardly room for everything to have its particular place.
In the bedroom, at the head of the great bed, they found beneath the mattress a long narrowbox secretly let into the panel close to the great cross-beam.
We got to the bottom of the hill, and passed without further adventure through the old gate of Lud, with its narrow arch and the stately effigy of Queen Elizabeth looking across the Fleet Bridge.
Indeed, the whole course of this world is so ordered (by Divine wisdom), that he who chooseth the narrow path chooseth also the safest.
We crossed the bridge; we walked up Gracechurch Street to Cornhill; we passed through a labyrinth of narrow and winding lanes, crowded like the wider streets.
The day before the occurrence of the affair just mentioned he landed at Fort Matilda, commanding a narrow place on the river, where he gained possession of the fort.
Horrid indeed was the descent by that narrow and rocky path, where thousands rushed, disputing the passage, with desperation, and leaving a track of blood upon the road.
I began to squeeze my body through the narrowpassage toward the patio.
There was a narrowpassage about a foot wide between the old and new walls, and this ran from the outside through to the patio.
You've got such a narrow mind, Albert--may I call you Bertie?
The football ground at Ripton was at the edge of the school fields, separated from the road by narrow iron railings; and along these railings the choicest spirits of the town would line up, and smoke and yell, and spit and yell again.
In a farther corner of the room was a circular wooden ceiling, supported by four narrow pillars.
The weather had grown milder and great clouds rolled across the strip of sky between the branches overhead, while the narrow track amidst the whitened trunks was covered with loose snow.
It was built of birch trunks, and had once, with its narrow windows and loopholes for rifle fire, resembled a fortalice; but now cedar panelling covered the logs, and the great double casements were filled with the finest glass.
Allonby did not think that anybody heard them, but that was of no great moment to him then, for the trail was narrow and slippery here and there, and he was chiefly concerned with the necessity of keeping clear of his companion.
The British in America had found the strip of land between the Alleghanies and the Atlantic far too narrow for a rapidly increasing population, but their advance westward had been barred by the French.
The narrow stream ran red with their blood, and ever after this night it was known as Bloody Run.
The majority of them were employed by traders, and the better class contentedly cultivated their narrow farms and traded with the Indians who periodically visited them.
At length Parent's Creek was reached, where a narrow wooden bridge spanned the stream a few yards from its mouth.
With reckless bravery the soldiers pressed across the narrow way and rushed to the spot where the musket-flashes were seen.
Down a dark, narrow hall, Bull-dog led the way to a door guarded by two men, who touched their caps respectfully to Houston.
They took a carriage, and as they were whirled rapidly through the steep, narrow streets on their way to the hotel, the little city seemed to them like a thoroughly typical, western, mining town.
The girl shrank back into the narrow recess, upon whose rocky walls was pictured gaudily the long-since-ended career of its former occupant.
Without a word the lad hurried her into a narrow cleft in the rocks not far distant.
Amu, for so was the other man called, made no reply: he was looking fixedly into a narrow cleft of the rocks.
He hath suffered me to be tempted with doubts and fears more than most," said Thomas, glancing fearfully at a group of men in the garb of rabbis who were approaching them along the narrow street.
Here the narrowstreets were choked with people, all running, pushing, struggling towards a common centre.
The two immediately set forth, the man going before; they walked swiftly through the dark narrow streets, the stranger glancing frequently over his shoulder to make sure that Stephen was following.
In the meantime the young girl was cowering breathless in a narrow crevice of the rocks; she listened intensely, her hands upon her heart, as though she feared that its loud beating might betray her hiding-place.
Thou art a favorite of the gods," said the other with a venomous gleam in his narrow black eyes.
Confined within the four walls of her narrow chamber, her only view was of roofs, and a dull wall, pierced by a single dirty window; she spent whole hours watching a canary in its cage, through the thick panes.
Meanwhile, I am mending your underlinen and my own, and watching the clouds sail above my narrow horizon.
The former penitent of the Abbe Lammenais still preserved at thirty his ardent, perhaps even narrow Catholicism, his cult of purity, his contempt for physical indulgence, his delight in the joys and duties of family life.
At his first arrival on December 14th the poet had taken rooms at the Hotel de la Porte Verte in the narrow street of the same name.
There was rejoicing, too, among the other passengers, for they had escaped death by almost as narrow a margin as before.
Along the narrow trench they rushed, carrying their machines which, it was hoped, would catch on the sensitive celluloid the scenes, or some of them, that were taking place in front.
They had had a narrow escape, and their journey was not half over, to say nothing of the return trip--if they lived to make it.
Bend down the long sides and the ends fitting the corners against and on the inside of the same letters on the sides, glue these in place and you have a long, narrow box with two extensions on one side (HH and GG).
Finish the blanket with the wide white stripes and narrow colored ones like those first woven.
Hang the loom on this frame by winding a narrow strip of cloth loosely around the top of the frame and top of loom (Fig.
On the edge of each shell paste a narrow black-painted paper strip (Fig.
Get two and two-thirds yards of narrow pink ribbon and two yards of narrow white ribbon; divide the pink into eight and the white into six pieces.
Weave it across twice, or once over and back, making a very narrow red stripe, then cut it off and thread the shuttle with white.
Instead of thongs of buffalo hide, such as the real red man would use, take narrow strips of light-brown cloth to form the rude net-work over the space bounded by the four poles.
Edge the openings of the large room with twonarrow bands, one purple the other black, and mark black lines from side to side crossed with lines running from top to bottom to form a lattice-like work on the side of the smaller opening (Fig.
After the red the narrow white, and then the narrow black stripe.
Begin with thenarrow black, follow with the narrow white, and then weave a wider red stripe, taking the thread four times across.
Hold one inside, one outside, and whip them on over and over, taking the stitches with a narrow strip of shaving as shown in Fig.
Notice how near together his eyes are; and see how long and narrow his nose is.
Above the black weave another narrow white stripe and another narrow red one.
A piece of narrow white satin ribbon, three inches long, is folded and pushed through the hole in the centre of the star, forming a loop; the ends are then pasted to the point on either side of the star.
There was an exquisitely graceful fawn-coloured kid, with a scarlet collar and bells, bounding about playfully on the narrow ledges of the rocks.
Certainly there was need, for the horse went headlong down a long narrow hill, and if anything else had been on the road, we must have come into disastrous collision.
The rain fell more and more heavily, and thenarrow paths became mud-holes.
In this narrow pass the infantry and artillery men were jumbled together to escape the fire of the Russian machine-guns.
Left in such a situation as he was, poor Togo’s narrow but strong sense of patriotism made him resolve on suicide as the most honorable way of escape.
Along this long, narrow path full of corpses, it was impossible not to step on our poor, silent comrades.
A longnarrow platform or balcony on the outside of a building.
Further than this, one can hardly imagine even in the ‘narrow lanes of our ancestors’ so close a meeting that the liberties mentioned in 2.
Of the arches left open some were toonarrow for the passage of boats of any kind.
Dispose them on a narrow platter overlapping one another.
She lifted the knocker gingerly in her white gloved hand, and felt by no means reassured when she was shown in, and followed the servant up the narrow staircases to the attics.
Katherine, as she stood in the narrow passage; "you're always going out when I'm coming in.
It was in Audrey's house in Chelsea, the little brown house with discreet white storm-shutters, that stands back from the Embankment, screened by the narrow strip of railed plantation known as Chelsea Gardens.
She had reached the end of the narrow passage leading from the study to the front hall, when she recollected that she had left behind her a small manual of devotion.
You say you do not understand the narrow love of country!
The tower in which my room was built projected from the rambling row of houses, so that my narrow window commanded a view of almost the entire length of the street.
But that functionary waddled on, puffing, muttering, stopping every now and then in the narrow cliff-path to strike flint to tinder or to refill the tiny bowl of his pipe, which a dozen puffs always exhausted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "narrow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
