Her little feet made patterns in the dust as she turned slightly, this child of ten, until her snake-like arms seemed stretched in invitation to the four pairs of burning eyes fixed upon the virgin beauty of the little body.
Who noticed in all that crowd when four pairs of hands shot up and seized her about the knees, lifting her gently down, or who, in the tumult, heard the cry smothered in the muffling cloth of a white coat in a distant shadowed corner.
Half a dozen pairs of ears were cocked to catch the answer, in which von Herrnung's characteristic lack of humour showed.
We found her awfully busy, making pies and jellies, and her two sisters were hurrying about with great hams and pairs of chickens and rounds of cold beef and lettuces and pickled salmon and trays of crockery and glasses.
Dorothy had a few new shirt waists and a couple of pairs of slippers; also two new gowns, one pale yellow chiffon trimmed with a little gold lace; the other a very pale shell pink crepe de chine and shadow lace.
Down the page went the two pairs of eyes, and the merriment from Debby's seemed to light up the sombre ones behind her with a sudden shine that softened the whole face and made it very winning.
Then the shopping expeditions were great fun; it seemed nice to buy yards of hair ribbon at a time, and several pairs of boots and gloves, as well as a dozen pocket handkerchiefs, a mackintosh, and a pair of goloshes.
A little," said Sylvia, who felt rather overwhelmed by the six pairsof eyes fixed upon her.
Each one has six or eight pairsof good strong-soled moccasins on his back.
Being anxious to ascertain the truth concerning the stranger and expecting his visit, she put on four complete suits of raiment and four pairs of moccasins, one on top of the other; also tied on a pair of snowshoes.
It is remarkable that women who bear twins are liable to a repetition of twin bearing, and two or three pairs follow.
So two pairs of them were always en route, while the third pair rested and did housework at the hut at Roaring Water Portage, taking their departure with mails when another pair of their companions returned from the lake.
He had a crust of bread, a coarse shirt, and twopairs of stockings, in his bundle.
Occasionally, several pairs will meet by chance upon the same tree, when similar scenes will be enacted by the jolly females, much to the vexation of their respective suitors.
Several pairs are said to occupy at the same time one of these structures, and the most perfect harmony to exist between them and their royal cousin.
Early in March these large assemblies break up, a part separating in pairs and remaining among the Southern swamps, while the greater portion, the males leading the way, direct their movements northward.
In the lovely month of May, of the year that has just passed, while watching two pairs engaged in nesting, he was treated to a delightful and gratuitous serenade, late in the evening, when most birds had retired to their perches.
In the vicinity of Pyramid Lake, Nevada, their nests are placed among the "tufa domes" attached to the roofs of caves, seldom more than one or two pairs being found together.
Where the pairs dwell singly, the one sex alternates with the other.
This disposition to go in pairs may be the beginning of a tendency to gregariousness, such as prevails among some of its near cousins, or it may be considered as the last vestige of a habit that was once predominant.
Where the offender has been one in feathered dress, we have known several pairs to come to the assistance of their besieged friends, when the utmost confusion and excitement would prevail.
These three pairs were on evident terms of friendship and good-will.
Audubon cites a case where no less than nine pairs were found breeding in the same enclosure.
But a single brood is raised, although the tardiness of some pairs to nidificate has led to the belief that in some seasons the species may be double-brooded.
For a moment the two pairs contended--Ambrose's passionate, Colina's steely.
Their ordinary rags were covered with layers of misfit clothing out of the store, while many of them wore several hats, and others had extra pairs of shoes hanging around their necks.
Here was everything a traveler might require, even including two extra pairs of moccasins, worked, he was sure, by herself.
The five pairs of eyes were fixed hungrily on the silly, pretty face, and even as they looked they saw it change, soften into sympathy, and grow sweet and earnest and womanly.
They stared curiously at the house as they approached, and from behind the blind in the front bedroom four pairs of eyes stared even more curiously at them.
When lunch was over silence fell suddenly upon the little room, and four pairs of eyes met in solemn conclave.
High up on the trees at least half a dozen pairs of carrion crows have their nests; and occasionally all the birds gather at one spot and fill the entire wood with their tremendous excited cries.
Wood-pigeons come in numbers to feed in the early morning, and a few pairs build nests, but as a rule their eggs are taken.
Hyde Park with Kensington Gardens is one of their favourite stopping places; one or more pairs may be seen there on most mornings, frequently at noon again on their return to Richmond, Kew, and Syon Park, and to the northern heights of London.
Sixteen pairs bred successfully in 1897 in Clissold Park, which is small, and there were scores of nests in the neighbourhood, on trees growing in private grounds.
Carrion crows from Coombe Woods and other breeding-places in the neighbourhood are constantly seen on the common in pairs and small parties, and are strangely familiar.
Just now--February 1898--eight or ten pairsof birds are engaged in repairing the old nests.
Fiorini refers to certain pairs of globes being apparently copies of the work of Gian Francesco Costa without credit being noted.
According to a catalogue entry of objects belonging to the University of Leiden in the year 1716 there is reference to two pairs of Blaeu's globes.
Albireo, among all the pairs of contrasting hues, has the distinction of being considered the finest double star in the heavens for small telescopes.
Where we see but one star with the unaided eye, there is, then a system of four suns, the two close pairs revolving slowly about a common center of gravity in a period of several centuries and at a great distance apart.
The gap that separates the two pairs may be so great that light requires months to cross it.
Green and red, orange and blue, white and golden or white and blue pairs exist in profusion, and strange to say there are well-authenticated instances of color changes taking place temporarily within the same system.
Or possibly the third sun also possesses a close attendant and the two pairs revolve in a period of great length about a common center of gravity.
The collection of figures was then gone over, and compared with a chart, after which two pairs of shoes were found corresponding with the dimensions covered by number so-and-so.
I've already encountered at least four pairs of glowering eyes unpleasantly pointed in my direction.
Five years before my visit, a Philadelphian sent the doctor a few pairs of prairie-chickens, and a covey of both the valley and the mountain partridge.
A long silence now ensued, during which the clack of seven pairs of active jaws was the only sound that broke upon the ear.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
