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Example sentences for "pillowing"

Lexicographically close words:
pillory; pillow; pillowcase; pillowed; pillowes; pillows; pills; pilocarpin; pilocarpine; pilose
  1. Oh, that I now lay on your pillowing breast, To breathe my last sigh on the bosom first prest: Dying at last!

  2. One of his own white race stands, or rather kneels, beside him, pillowing the poor sufferer's head upon his breast with all a brother's tenderness.

  3. Landless resigned the pail into her hands and lifted the negro's head and shoulders from the water in which he was lying, pillowing them upon the stern seat.

  4. The half dozen mowers threw themselves down upon the stubble, stretching out tired limbs and pillowing heated foreheads upon their arms.

  5. Again and again he sank down, pillowing his eyes from the pitiless sun glare; only to stagger upright once more, ever bending lower and lower beneath his unconscious burden.

  6. A moment he stared vacantly about into the black silence, and then lay down, pillowing his head upon a saddle.

  7. He lay down on the rocks, pillowing his head on the saddle, but his brain was too active to permit sleeping.

  8. Ne'er left the pillowing breast; The good, the pure, the lovely fled, When mingling with the shadowy dead She meekly went to rest.


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