But Schreiermeyer now smiled in the most pleasant manner possible, ceased glaring, spread out his palms and put his head on one side as he answered her, apparently much pleased by her estimate of him.
He turned deliberately, till he could see neither Margaret nor the Aphrodite, and he leaned heavily on the table, with bent head, resting the weight of his body on the palms of his hands, and remaining quite motionless for some time.
There was a coldly malignant glare in his eyes as under Harlan's unwavering gaze he finally raised his hands and held them, palms outward, as for inspection.
Haydon smiled as he halted within a few paces of Harlan and turned thepalms of his hands outward.
The several squads of workmen are very eager to show off at their best, their palms tingling, no doubt, in expectation of the accustomed fee.
Mechanically he pressed the palms of his hands together below his head, and stiffened and straightened his body so that it might offer no surface of resistance in the plunge.
The groves ofpalms and the tangle of shrubbery that crowned the Gardens might conceal him, even though the place was within the precincts of the palace itself.
Its long arms terminated in hands that rested with palmsupturned beside its knees.
The arms of the idol slowly sank and extended themselves until the outstretched palms were brought together before the iron knees a few feet from the floor.
With faltering steps she obeyed his command, advancing slowly until she stood before the broad palms that seemed to tremble with impatience to clasp her form.
Ascending the steps with a firm tread, he stood between the feet of the idol and turned to the multitude, extending his hands over Artemisia's head with the palms downward.
And when they had stepped out on the shore, the palms of each burned from the oars, the muscles of the arms and legs ached pleasantly, and suffusing the whole body was a blissful, healthy fatigue.
The elderly guest in the uniform of the Department of Charity walked in with slow, undecided steps, at each step bending his body a little forward and rubbing his palms with a circular motion, as though washing them.
Liubka clapped herpalms and squealed out in delight: "Mister Professor, more!
But if he had courage, he had not the initiative of a man of action.
The logic is stringent, but the premises are arbitrary.
His visage and port seemed to declare his character: dark overhanging brows; eyes that had the gleam of lightning; a savage mouth; an immense head; the voice of a Stentor.
The tall palms and the sea were whispering together.
She wanted to drink in the beauty of the island, and make it her own; to swim in the lagoon, and bask in the healing sun; to walk through the palms at dusk, and listen to the songs of the islanders.
The Californian night comes quickly, and the tree-toads that make it musical were chirruping and purring all around us as we walked through the palms and the red-tasseled pepper trees to his car.
It was her civilized intelligence, perhaps, that betrayed her now, for she turned her back to the sea for a moment, while she drank in the beauty of the feathery green palms and delicate tresses of the ironwood that waved along the shore.
To indicate death, the death of a person, the finger-tips, placed in apposition, are drawn away from each other with a sweeping gesture and at the same time lowered till the palms face the ground.
After the calm blows the wind Inu-wai; Naue's palms then drink in the salt.
After the calm blows the Inu-wai, And the palms of Naue drink of the salt.
The Hawaiian places his hands, palms up, edge to edge, so that the little finger of one hand touches its fellow of the other hand.
Each musician held his instrument before him with both hands, and produced his music by striking it on the ground, where he had laid a piece of cloth, and beating it with his fingers, or the palms of his hands.
Catayo-Cathay) grow little men who are but five palms in height, and though they be little, and not fit for weighty matters, yet they be brave and clever at weaving and keeping cattle.
So likewise a King of Portugal sent to a Duke of Savoy, when he married his Daughter to him, an Æthiopian Dwarf but three Palms high.
The palmsof the good lady's hands, as she raised them in her righteous wrath, were very pink on the inside, like the petals of rosebuds.
It was the picture of a girl sitting on a table, a lariat in one hand and a quirt in the other, and the background presented Mesa City's idea of an Italian villa, with fluted columns, backed by some palms and a vista of lake.
The band resounded from the groups ofpalms in the gallery.
Occasionally I had received letters from Edith in Bordighera, telling me how pleasant life was there amid the sunshine and the palms after the leafless dreariness of an English winter.
One after the other he examined the palmsof her hands long and carefully, then, bending until his eyes were close to her face, he examined her lips, brow, and the whole surface of her cheeks.
We had strolled into a cool ante-room, and were sitting together upon one of the many seats placed beneath clumps of palms and flowers, the only light being from a hundred tiny electric lamps hung overhead in the trees.
A deep sigh escaped her, and I saw that her fingers worked restlessly in the palms of her hands.
Then they spit in his face, and struck Je-sus with the palms of their hands.
And they waved palms in their hands, and made the air ring with shouts of, Ho-san-na to the son of Da-vid!
The man had seized the delicate tapering fingers and held them warmly in the palms of both of his.
If they can't smash us by fire or labour trouble next year'll see us floated into a seventy million dollar corporation with the whole Canadian wood-pulp industry lying right in the palms of our hands.
This bath is taken by merely wetting the hands several times in the water and applying the moist palms to all parts of the body.
If the skin is rather tender it suffices to use the palms of both hands.
If you place the palms of your hands upon the lower ribs in the back, just above the waist line, you should feel the expansion of the body in this part pressing upward through the action of the diaphragm as a deep breath is inhaled.
Now bring the palms of both hands down and "slap" them vigorously on the legs just above the knees, and then swing your bent arms overhead, making a noise as nearly as possible like laughing.
The lads all clapped their hands together in time, but in a half-hearted kind of way; the girls struck the palms of their left hands with their fans.
The careful manager of a small theatre identifies these patrons by impressing a small stamp on the palms of their hands.
It is also said that palms and bamboos from somewhere in the torrid zone, and trunks of northern firs, are washed on shore; these firs must have come from an immense distance.
The young man struck his powerfulpalms on his knees till the sound was heard through the house.
All at once Zagloba struck hispalms on his knees and cried without evident reason,-- "Ho!
But just then those who were standing at the bank could see as on their palms that it was impossible to meet that cavalry with cold weapons, so far superior were they in the use of them.
Azya was silent for a time; then he rested his palms on his thighs, and said, "Then I will tell you; Krychinski and other Tartars obey me.
And the Tartars, clicking with their tongues, put their palms to their broad breasts and cried, "Allah!
The hardy Polish soldiers, accustomed to the sternness of winter, could pass such a night; but those men reared in the mild climate of Rumelia, or amid the palms of Asia Minor, were suffering more than their powers could endure.
Pan Adam sat on the bench with his palms on his knees, looking at the floor with glassy eyes.
The tropical forest was very beautiful, and it was a delight to see the strange trees, the splendid royal palms and a tree which looked like a flat-topped acacia, and which was covered with a mass of brilliant scarlet flowers.
It was a very lovely morning, the sky of cloudless blue, while the level, shimmering rays from the just-risen sun brought into fine relief the splendid palms which here and there towered above the lower growth.
No true fossil palms have yet been detected in the great Oolitic and Wealden systems, though they certainly occur in the Carboniferous and Permian rocks, and are comparatively common in the earlier and middle Tertiary formations.
Helen could see that she was in a handsomely-decorated room, whose bamboo-barred window looked out upon waving palms and flowering trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
