So do I," said Youghal; "the misfortune is that he is merelypropping up a canvas roof.
He was lying stretched out on his stomach, with both hands propping up his chin, and he was looking straight out ahead, so that he didn't see little Jacob.
Accordingly, we arrange it on a platform just raised from the floor of the studio, when by propping and judicious management we make it, although lying on its side, assume the position we require.
Champagne if you like," he offered, as Lanyard, painfully propping himself up on an elbow, gulped like an animal from the vessel held to his lips.
Chia Chen was himself at this time rather unwell, and being also very much cut up, he entered the room shuffling along, propping himself up with a staff.
He sat down nearby, propping his back against a large boulder, the gun in his hands.
In the shadow of a hedge where prickles were few Abner threw himself down propping his head on a tussock of thin grass.
Paul stood with his hands on the back of a chair, propping himself up and trying to find fitting words for the occasion.
Some years ago the writer wearied of the many objectionable features connected with propping overloaded apple trees, and found relief in a new application of the maxim of modern charity--"help people to help themselves.
By the end of July the trees in many instances were carrying maximum loads, and unless rendered assistance by propping in some way, the limbs, great numbers of them, must soon break.
Mr. Ludlow: I want to ask if you recommend the bamboo poles for general propping of trees?
Afterwards I circumvented it by weighting it with a stone or propping it up.
By proppingherself upright on her knees she could just see through a small, circular window.
This window was directly opposite the opening made by propping up the canvas.
In other places beds of wet sand were cut through, and there careful propping and pinning were necessary to prevent the roof from tumbling in until the masonry to support it could be erected.
Place them as he would, notwithstanding all his propping and humoring of them by modifying the application of heat and the admission of light, they would still insist on growing crooked in their own way.
The invalid chuckled, until her old head in its white mob-cap nodded against the white pillow propping it.
I had laid out a couple of these yokels in good earnest, and while their comrades dragged them away, and, propping them against the parapet opposite, called for water to bathe their wounds, I became unpleasantly sensible of my own hurts.
Presently the Dryad slept in her rocking-chair, curved wrist propping her head; Jones was chagrined.
She sat there in deathly silence; he coolly lighted another cigarette, dropped one elbow on his knee, propping his chin in his open palm.
Next, from some hidden receptacle she produced a bowl and spoon, emptied the smoking contents of the pot into the former, and then, carefully propping her patient into a sitting position, proceeded to feed him.
Thus, if a traveller has to encamp on a bare turf plain, he need only turn up a sod seven feet long by two feet wide, and if he succeeds in propping it on its edge, it will form a sufficient shield against the wind.
Anyway we was there, and I was propping up the stove with my feet and holding down a chair with the rest of me, when Jonadab heaves alongside flying distress signals.
He had staggered against the wall, and still stoodpropping himself up by it.
Propping himself upon his arms, he leaned out, and, looking down into the garden, told me the history of his life.
The besieged breached their own wall under it, and secretly drew away the core; propping the cavity with balks of timber, and then filling it with combustibles.
So for long hours sat Enid by her lord, There in the naked hall, propping his head, And chafing his pale hands, and calling to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
