These dogs had a rather dry time of it; for they were tied to the benches and had no amusement for an hour or two at a time except what they could get out of pawing at the gnats, or trying to sleep and not succeeding.
I enlarged my circle, and went on pawing and raking.
Here was the impatient schimmel of some Hungarian hussar pawing the ground with restless eagerness, as his gay dolman slashed with gold glittered in the sun.
With a snort of passion he bounded madly up, and pawing the air for some moments with his forelegs, lit upon the earth, panting with rage, and trembling in every limb.
Quickly he plunged his hands into the rubbish and began pawing it over and over with eager haste.
Or--" The man stood peering with wide eyes; then suddenly he knelt and began pawing over the little heap of vegetable drift that had accumulated along the wall.
A second bellow--a furious pawing of the earth--and the bull lowered his head.
He came to a wavering standstill, snorting loudly and pawing up great lumps of sod.
Where'd any of us be, if the Representative from this county got topawing the air for reform?
On the front of the sleigh, below the box of the carriage, were seated the driver and the courier; four fiery young horses were pawingwith impatience; the signal was given, and off they went at the rate of sixteen miles an hour.
Thus alternately she fed them, three or four times, before she finished; and then she calmly slipped on to the nest, wriggling and twisting about as if she were pawing them over with her feet.
Wrens had no attraction for him, but he came upon the scent of something he was interested in, and instantly fell to pawing the ground and tearing up the obstructing roots with his teeth, as though he had gone suddenly mad.
Don Carlos was pawing the stones of the courtyard, in fretted impatience which Dick had some ado to curb.
There was silence for a moment, and then the Deemster, clearing his throat noisily, turned to where Dan was pawing up a rug that lay under a column and bust of Bunyan.
At the porch a horse, saddled and bridled, waspawing the gravel.
Thorkell stood behind, pawing the paved path with a restless foot.
All this Mona told to Dan from where she stood, three steps up the stairs, and he listened with his head held low, one hand gripping the stair-rail, and his foot pawing the mat at the bottom.
Then, like a pawing horse let go, She made a sudden bound: 395 It flung the blood into my head, And I fell into a swound.
That single blast 55 Announces that the tyrant's pawing courser Neighs at the gate.
The magnificent animal came forth snorting, pawing the ground and tossing his head in the air.
Once more he sprang into the saddle, the restive horse pawing the ground and leaping forward before he was seated.
After a long period of silence, while Strong, Walters, and Connel watched them pawing through the tangle of wires and broken connections, Hemmingwell stood up.
Barret backed away, his face white, hands pawing the air frantically as if he were trying to push the big cadet back.
The groom informed me that every morning and evening, when the hour of her visit drew near, she would begin to chafe and worry, and, bypawing and pulling at the halter, advertise him that it was time for her to be released.
It was late when the babble of voices died away, the stars kept watch through the tall pines of Wawona, and Job fell asleep to the piping of the frogs in the pond back of the hotel and the pawing of horses in the long barn across the square.
All was still save for Bess' occasional pawing near by.
The horses were pawing the ground, the quartermaster was hurrying to and fro, the captain was buckling on his saber, and Job was lying on a cot in the surgeon's tent, while that good man was feeling his pulse.
The dog was coming nearer, still whining strangely, and madlypawing the water.
For Rothgar's shout she gave another, and laughed out of sheer delight when he tossed her upon the back of a pawing horse.
Whatever it was kept me swearing steadily, and pawing and slapping and sweating blood.
He had not basely deserted his team--he was too high-class for that, but he was moving from the point of attack with as little delay as possible, grasping the lines with one hand and pawing the air with the other.
Once outside, one thing generally led to another, and in the course of time I would be pawing over stuff in the barn.
The Chimera, on the other hand, raised itself up so as to stand absolutely on the tip end of its tail, with its talons pawing fiercely in the air and its three heads spluttering fire at Pegasus and his rider.
And then in a twinkling I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
Fortunately no accident happened, only once a fiery horse, pawing with his hoof, struck a hole in my handkerchief, and overthrew his rider and himself.
They were pawing the ground in their impatience to start, and the merchant was forced to bid Beauty a hasty farewell; and as soon as he was mounted he went off at such a pace that she lost sight of him in an instant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pawing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
