The dog, head on one side, still stood protectingly above him.
Thus had he advanced, many a time, to greet his master, when Dick had returned from brief absences and when Jock had seen him standing there with his arm thrown protectingly about his wife and his eyes smiling down into hers.
Allison smiled, and put his arm protectingly around his sister.
Involuntarily Zora's hand crept out protectingly and lay a moment over the white jewelled fingers.
Bles slipped his arm protectingly around Zora, glancing fearfully about in the darkness.
To complete it, she seated herself in a chair by the side of the little chair, and protectingly drew under her arm the spare hand that crept up to her.
Mr Boffin, laying his hand protectingly on Bella's head without looking down at her.
The Count noted her timidity, and an expression of deep bitterness showed itself round his lips, nevertheless he placed himself protectingly before her, crossed his arms, and calmly awaited the next.
Had not my grandmother at times stood protectinglybetween us, I know not what terrible misfortune might have occurred.
She shrank back at the proposal, and involuntarily laid both hands protectinglyon her bosom.
But the glance which met the boy's eyes was so fearfully threatening, that the Praesidentin involuntarily threw her arm protectingly round the child.
The girl had drawn a chair close to the child's cot and sat there with an arm protectingly thrown over her charge: and now a fresh anxiety rose in the Lady Principal's heart.
He came back leading a woman by the hand, asprotectingly as if she had been a child, and introduced her as: "The bit mother hersel'!
She caught Lad protectingly by the ruff and stared in mute dread at the lanky and red-whiskered officer.
Her first waking thought was of the shaggy shoulder pressed so protectingly against her side; and of the reassuring thrust of Lad's muzzle into her cupped palm.
Hertha cried, half out of her senses from horror, and she covered the dear grief-stricken face protectingly with her hands.
But kind old grandmamma put her arm protectingly round her neck.
One of his arms rested protectingly round a woman's shoulders, and he shook a knotted fist in von Sperrgebiet's face as his ship blew up and sank.
He put his arm protectingly about the little form, drawing it close.
The old Scotchman gathered her in, close--the folds of his great-coat wrapped protectingly about her.
But he knew that before him Walt Harkness was bending protectingly above the unconscious figure of a girl, while above and about the two there flailed a terrible, headless thing that beat the rocks with sledge-hammer blows.
Sandy had his right arm protectingly around the girl; her bright head rested on his shoulder; in his left hand Sandy held high a lighted candle.
Instinctively Lans put his hand out and laid itprotectingly on the shoulder beside him.
Again he drew her handprotectingly through his arm, and led her out of the room.
The girl carried a heavy suit case, and a large dog walked protectingly at her side.
Whipping out his knife David cut the cords that bound Madge and raising her to her feet, placed one arm protectingly around her.
Lad curled down beside her, resting one snowy little forepaw protectinglyon her slippered foot.
Lad was standing protectinglyabove her, stooping now and then to lick her cruelly pinched foot or to whine consolation to her; then snarling in fierce hate at a score of crows that flapped hopefully in the tree-tops above the victim.
Releasing Hero from the strap, she led him out of the room, and, with her hand laid protectingly on his collar, marched him out into the street.
Lloyd, as if alarmed at the suggestion, and pressing Hero's head protectingly against her shoulder.
The reception committee closed hastily and protectingly about the candidate, whose challenge seemed to have been accepted by some irresponsible gun-fighter, but he thrust them back with a face of unaltered and stony calmness.
An hour later, with the heavy doors protectingly barred, the man and the boy who considered himself a man took their seats at the rough table in the lean-to kitchen, but Araminta Gregory did not sit down to meat with them.
He would look at her tenderly, his gentle hands would stroke her cheeks, her hair, and his strong arms would go so protectingly around her.
Forty thousand more supported them on the slopes in rear, while every Federal gun thundered forth protectingly from the heights behind.
This brought forth a respectful protest from the enormously fat Chief Commissary, who said he could only be used as a sap-roller (the big roller sappers shove protectingly before them when snipers get their range).
Dropping the hand that she had laid protectingly upon Nora's shoulder, she said: "It shall be as you please, madam.
Yes, the arm of Claudia was still most tenderly and protectingly encircling his neck, and every few minutes she would draw down his rough head caressingly to her own damask cheek.
Uncle Ephraim asked, and with his arm thrown protectinglyaround her, Katy told him what had happened, and then asking what she should do.
His arm was thrown protectingly about a slender form that clung lovingly to his side.
He drew his arm protectingly around the slight figure, and Golden cried out with pretty, childish defiance: "He loves me!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protectingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
