Most of the sturdy blows which he dealt, using his arms like flails, fell upon the railings of the seats, and only bruised his hands.
Sir Charles, smiling, gay, debonair, chatted with his guests as if quite forgetful of the silent watchers by the railings outside.
Do you see those two men elaborately doing nothing by the railings opposite.
The other boy, whose wailings induced Tengelyi to speak, had crept up to the iron railings of the door, and there he stood gazing at the light of the lamp.
This was the only attempt we could make at fortifying the house: the lower windows were protected by the iron railings outside.
They walked up Heath Street, and when they came to the railings above The Vale of Health, they stood against them and looked towards London.
The young fellow never hesitated for a minute, but jumped over the railings and stopped the horse, and the girl was that thankful and pleased, him and her was married after.
Then he stopped, to look through the railings and open gateway at an enclosure on the left, and the substantial, heavily-respectable group of early Victorian buildings beyond.
All this was shrieked with immense volubility and many actions of the hand and parasol across the square-railings to the amused Colonel, at whom the little girls peered through the bars.
In front of the garden were large iron railings and a great gate which looked very stately.
He grew heartily weary of the Rue de Rivoli, the gilded railings of the Tuileries gardens, and the leafless trees behind them.
He bade me look over into a field, about the middle of which were some wooden railings round the black gaping mouth of a coal-pit.
In theserailings the Cathedral of Burgos rivals that of Seville, compensating by number for the superior size and height of those contained in the latter church.
Seizing the railings with one hand, he stood for a moment with his eyes shut.
Filled with horror, despair, madness, and self-contempt, George Aspel stood holding on to the railings and glaring into vacuity.
The walls and counters were of white grey-lined marble; polished mahogany desks and burnished brass railings glistened everywhere.
These railings and the wide open street leading to the south, to Vauxhall Bridge, intervene between the Abbey and the Houses of Parliament.
At two o'clock in the morning he may be seen busy with his pails, and at five or six o'clock you may still observe him at his post, leaning against the area railings of some familiar public-house.
Narrow foot-paths lead to its walls; fat sheep crop the grass; and iron railings protect the sanctuary from the inroads of horses and carriages.
The railings are broken in places, advertisement posters and street-boy scrawlings disfigure the church walls, large pieces of the surface of which are broken away.
They had nothing to do, so they sat in the shade and did it; and the street crowd had nothing to do, so they hung on the verandah railings and stared at the first Englishmen reckless enough to visit the City of Dolittles.
Outside the railings of the cathedral sit all day a line of Indian women in front of baskets filled with cakes, flattish, appetising-looking, sometimes as much as two or three feet across.
These plats and railings were for ornament, and there was soon a protest against putting them to "such vile uses.
To do all this, I must use the grass-plats and railings for airing and drying cushions and rags.
She took the girl to the railings and made her look out to the sea, saying, "It is rather fine in a queer way, isn't it?
The aluminium-painted railings in front of de Rojas' villa gleamed like the spears of heroes.
Standing still in the shade, leaning against the railings of the Temple Gardens, was a slight man of middle height: and he seemed to say "Charley.
Blanche had turned to the railings round the interior of Portman Square, and halted there, apparently looking at the shrubs.
Le stood near them, leaning with his back against therailings and his head bowed in deep thought.
She struggled out of his embrace, and stood leaning for support against the railings of the porch.
Even the historic square railings are just the same as when Thackeray drew them, and Amelia beside them, in ch.
It was half-past six in the morning that the final bulletin of the dying statesman's condition was placed on the railings to inform the crowd who, even at that early hour, waited for intelligence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "railings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
