And with this Parthian shot she returned to Mistress Thankful, who, with her face pressed against the window, was looking out on the moonlit slope beside the Whippany River.
An embarrassment utterly new and singular seized upon her; and when, as she half feared yet half expected, he bent down and pressedhis lips to hers, she was for a moment powerless.
How great then must be the pain when you are almost pressed into insanity and yet retain your reason?
The rector then pressed Mr. Hopewell to preach for him, on the following day at the parish church, which he also declined.
He’ll not get me,” she said as she pressed back on the stick and sent her plane zooming.
Jim Heron joined in and the two of them pressed me back to the edge of a cliff which I couldn’t see in the fog.
Davus, it is evident, had discovered the histrionic element in literature, and pressed it home upon his master.
I address myself to farmers and tradesmen, who, hard pressed by their daily business, have no time for study.
His right hand darted to his gun in a flash, and the muzzle of the weapon was pressedinto Lamy's ribs.
His jaw was squared, his lipspressed tight, as he guided his horse into the winding foothills of the range.
Rathburn's face was pale under his tan; his thoughts were in a turmoil, but his lips were pressed into a fine line that denoted an unwavering determination.
His lips were pressed into a fine, white line, and there was a look of haunted worry in his eyes.
He held his hands high as Rathburn pressed his weapon against his chest and relieved him of the automatic which he carried.
He took her hand and pressed it, and under the spell of his smile the hope came into her welling eyes.
The muzzle of Rathburn's gun pressed harder against his midriff.
The girl still pressed on until she saw clusters of large ripe strawberries growing in the grass at her feet.
Balls of clay were pressed on the ends of the slender sticks and thrown, as you would throw green apples.
My determination to accompany the party was soon bruited throughout the village, and many were the offers of advice, ponies, and implements of the chase, that were pressed upon my acceptance.
We dismounted from our horses and pressed into the thicket from all sides.
Hissodecha pressed rapidly forward, and emerging on the plain, swooped down upon the flank of the victorious Arrapahoes.
With the same care, she opened the door wide enough to admit the two girls who were pressed close to its frame.
Clarice told me so when I pressed the question last night as to where she had learned it.
Returning to the ballroom, the final adieus were made, and as he pressed her yielding hand he felt (or was it fancy?
With the hog-spear and rifle on the dusty plains and sudden appearing nullahs of Hindostan, Arab and Waler, by riders of world wide fame, are hard pressed in rivalry.
The young Jew was still leading, but a fat old Jew pressed him close.
His disciples pressed for its publication, and, after much excitement, Sabbataï consented that it should be read from the Al Memor of the synagogue.
Implicitly, perhaps, but you have never reallypressed for it specifically.
The sun rose upon the Ghetto, striving to slip its rays between the high, close-pressed tops of opposite houses.
His eyes oozed tears, and suddenly he stretched out his arms and seized her hand and pressed it frantically, his face and body convulsed, his paralyzed eyelids dropping.
The outraged elders pressed for a renewal of the ban; but the Rabbis hesitated, thinking best, perhaps, henceforward to ignore the thorn in their sides.
The counsellor remained dumb, but the Rabbi pressed him, and then he unbosomed himself.
There was no ruddiness in his face, the lips of which were pressed together in defiance of a cruel and credulous world.
The hour of the address had already struck, but the body of police strove in vain to close the doors against the mighty human stream that pressed on and on, frenzied with the fear of disappointment and the long wait.
I felt choking; my ribs pressed inwards, my heart seemed contracted.
At Kaltbad, where they said farewell, he pressed her hands with passion.
The penitent remained rigid, his facepressed to the ground.
When he saw what she had done to Hulda and to Zussmann, his lips were pressed tighter, but as much to keep back a sob as to express extra resentment.
Perhaps this also is accounted for by the fact that we were getting weaker: also, we considered that we were harder pressed for time than the German farmer--he could make another gate.
And then she pressed her living baby to her breast, and wiped away a tear as she thought of the other darling whom she would leave beneath that distant sod.
Then I shall never see my mother again," and as she spoke Mrs. Arkwright pressed her baby to her bosom.
I pressed my face against the fallen leaves And felt the sun tangled in my blowing hair, And felt the sun burning down into my very bones, And knew suddenly, with a terrible aching certainty That it was so.
Even the dew on the grass must be pressed down By the eager feet of the returning dreamers; Hand turned against hand, like two children Coming back to a garden; Voices soft, and anxious, and blurred with their intolerable longing!
Some dark and troubling shadow Had pressed against him fearfully.
Pressed against the warm earth, "Love is beautiful, and love will die.
The landed men, hard pressed by the load of taxation, were ready to consent to any thing for the sake of present ease.
England was undoubtedly hard pressed by public burdens; but still she stood up erect.
Russell then spoke with great applause; and his friends pressed for an immediate decision.
At length, early in the year 1691, the rebel chiefs informed the Court of Saint Germains that, pressed as they were on every side, they could hold out no longer without succour from France.
Though the boy's family was at that time very hard pressed for money, he travelled with thirty-five horses and sumpter mules.
The enemy pressed on him so close that it was with difficulty that he at length made his way over the Gette.
Nevertheless he pressedfor admittance; and he was admitted.
William from the throne pressed on the Houses the necessity of making a great exertion to arrest the progress of France on the Continent.
While the negotiation was pending there could be no diminution of the burdens which pressed on his people; and yet he could expect no energetic action from his allies.
The following morning a brilliant crowd of ministers and nobles pressed to kiss his hand; but he missed one face which ought to have been there, and asked where the Duke of Shrewsbury was, and when he was expected in town.
The siege of Namur meanwhile was vigorously pressedby the allies.
Tyrconnel and Maxwell, on the other hand, represented the delegates as mutineers, demagogues, traitors, and pressed James to send Henry Luttrell to keep Mountjoy company in the Bastille.
Twenty thousand peasants, pressed in those parts of the Netherlands which the French occupied, were compelled to act as pioneers.
It was plain that, if this system were adopted, there might be an immediate reduction of the taxes which pressed most heavily on the nation.
He looked surprised, but with a satisfied smile and an arch twinkle in his eyes he pressed the little hand to his heart.
He pressed slightly the hand thus given, and acquiesced in its instant withdrawal.
She took the case as it was nearly dropping upon the floor, and pressed the spring that opened the lid.
Kitty had involuntarily pressed her clasped hands tightly to her throbbing breast,--there was a terrible conflict going on within her.
She pressed her palms upon her temples, as if her head ached violently.
At sight of them the doctor involuntarily pressed the girl's arm closer to his side.
She was standing in the conservatory, close to the grating, her pale hands pressed to her panting bosom.
She pressed her clenched fist to her breast, as if she were even then thrusting a dagger into her heart.
He pressed his lips upon the small hand that was growing cold in his own.
She threw back her head andpressed her folded hands to her breast.
She withdrew the hand he pressed to his lips, and the gate in the wall clanged to behind her.
At a sign from Ah Cum, official custodian of the sightseers, the pole-chair coolies pressed toward the left and halted.
He took her hands and pressed them upon his thrumming heart; and in this attitude they remained for some time.
Paley, when pressed to sign the clerical petition which was presented to the House of Commons for relief, excused himself, saying, "He could not afford to keep a conscience.
One communion Sunday, the precentor observed the noble family of Eglantine approaching the tables, and likely to be kept out by those who pressed in before them.
But I've got you, Geordie," she added, and her surprised heart that had suddenly felt so empty warmed again and was soothed when he took her hand eagerly and pressed it to his lips.
She was tired, and something that seemed like a hand pressed her forehead tightly, but the near-by sound of incessant traffic sent her blood spinning, and she opened her eyes and gave a little laugh and went out.
His tie and socks were en suite and his gouty feet were martyrized to this scheme of camouflage by being pressed into a pair of tight brown and white shoes.
With a rush Joan went forward, slipped down on her knees at the side of the bed, broke into a passion of weeping and pressed her lips to that outstretched hand.
Cautiously she held the baby closer, pressed it to her breast so that she might feel the whole perfect little body; the little lips twisted and Sabrina, thinking it was a smile, smiled back with infinite tenderness.
She wrote furiously, her lipspressed in a straight line.
In her astonishment Nancy submitted to the impetuous kiss he pressed against her fingers.
Miss Sabrina unlocked old chests and sorted out and polished old silver and washed and pressed old linen of exquisite fineness.
I, in delicious agitation, pressed my bosom, that my heart might not burst forth.
The Countess seized the soldier's rough hand and pressed it to her lips.
The grapes on their arrival at the press-house are generally pressed immediately and the must is run off into tuns to ferment.
Here the grapes were pressed four times, the yield from the second pressure being used principally to make good the loss which the first sustained during its fermentation.
Black grapes of the clevener and portuguese varieties are pressed as in the Champagne, so as to yield a white must, with which a certain portion of white wine from the mosler or furmint grape is subsequently mingled.
The latter is vintaged at Ingelheim, the grapes being pressed under the firm’s own superintendence, and only the must resulting from the first squeeze of the press being used.
The corks are branded by being pressed against steel dies heated by gas, by women who can turn out 3,000 per day apiece, the quantity of string used to secure them amounting to nearly ten tons in the course of the year.
Here, too, stands one of the two large presses with which at the epoch of the vintage a hundred pièces of wine arepressed every four-and-twenty hours.
Venison steak should be pounded to tenderness, pressed and worked into shape with the hunting-knife and broiled over a bed of clean hardwood coals.
Only to him whose coat of rags Has pressedat night her regal feet, Shall come the secrets, strange and sweet, Of century pines and beetling crags.
Two other dishes made from common pressed tinware, with the tops cut off and turned, also without wire.
And reaching up, Bill Vanderhook pressed a button in the door-jamb.
He pressed his hand to his solar plexus and then faintly did he murmur--"Then there is nothing that will melt or soften you--nothing?
That, and the fact that the elder Appleby had a hold on Mr. Keefe, and of late had pressed it home uncomfortably hard.
She pressed the point, saying there was a picture at the other end of the room she wished to examine.
Matthews, the London agent, also continued to represent the still urgent danger of the house, and pressed Boulton to go to Cornwall and try to raise money there upon his engine contracts.
When Robison therefore pressed his inquiry, Watt at length looked at him and said briskly, “You need not fash yourself any more about that, man; I have now made an engine that shall not waste a particle of steam.
He had at an early period pressed the subject on the consideration of the Government, but failed to induce them to take up the scheme.
He also pressed his invention upon the notice of Government, representing that he was in a position to do his Highness the Protector “more service than any one subject of his three nations.
The two fitters sent up to London to erect the Bow engine were strongly pressed to go out to Russia.
Small again pressed him to come and superintend the work in person.
Hence it was that the steam which issued from the digester was not only able to support the piston and the air which pressed upon its upper surface, but the additional load with which the piston was weighted.
Several times his face had become scarlet, and his eyes had fallen; he had pressed his hand to his brow, to assure himself that he was not labouring under a hideous dream, and a quiver of horror had run through his whole frame.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pressed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: crowded; hurried; possessed; rushed
