I fly thee, yet my spirit finds no calms Save when she deems her rocked within those arms To which, from which she ne'er was caught or cast.
Softly I rocked him down into the pool, Shutting his ears to the loud torrents' din, And kissed and bore him through the portals cool, And laid him sleeping the blue halls within.
Toward the hill then zigzagged One wind-harried plover-- Rocked for a moment.
He sank into the chair Dolly had vacated androcked back and forth.
That was the situation on the morning of the 6th August--a bright, rather crisp morning, when the waters of the gulf were a little disturbed by the wind, and barges rocked about violently in Anzac Cove.
So the workers take a morning dip and turn in, while the men on the pinnaces are rocked to sleep as they lie wallowing offshore, and the pump begins its monotonous clanking.
Pierre groaned deeply, and covering his face with his hands, rocked his body to and fro as he burst into an agony of tears.
The widowed bride groaned deeply as she covered her face with her handkerchief and rocked to and fro on her seat.
She rocked herself to and fro, and she beat her hands together and she cursed war.
On the twenty-second of May the town rockedunder the first assault.
The table, returning to the level, after a pause rocked slowly to and fro.
The little half-caste, resting his elbows on his knees, took his head between his hands, and rocked from side to side.
Resolved to meet his fate with all the fortitude he could command, he was yet sufficiently unnerved to stand upright in the canoe, which sorocked and swayed that he balanced himself with difficulty.
And as Sallie rocked and recuperated her breath Nell eyed the ruffle apprehensively.
About Polk I feel that I am in the midst of one of those great calm, oily stretches of ocean that a ship is rocked gently in for a few hours before the storm tosses it first to Heaven and then to hell.
But before Aunt Augusta could get her breath to put the crux of the matter straight before her feminine tribunal, Aunt Martha beat her to it as she placidly rocked back and forth knitting lace for a petticoat for Henrietta.
At that began to curdle, a milky and nebulous substance rocked to and fro.
Look at this picture of the earth, seen from mid-heaven: And so he looked to where the earth, asleep, Rocked with the moon.
Crouched there upon the ground he rocked himself to and fro, and moaned in the madness of his baulked desire.
For there, bottom upwards, and gently swaying to and fro as the spent waves rocked it, was Beatrice's canoe.
And then the tears that would not be restrained any longer coursed down her cheeks and fell unheeded on her blue kimono, while she clasped her hands and rocked them in self-accusation and despair.
When an hour later he retired to his state-room he hummed a song as he went, and the throbbing of the machinery and the wash of the seas against the ship's beam made his lullaby, as the long roll of the steamer rocked him to sleep.
The cradle of civilization was rocked more on these shores than anywhere else.
One paper colourer, a married woman, whom we saw, told us that her mother worked at the trade before her at home, and when she herself was a baby her cradle was rocked on the colouring board.
Her mother worked in the trade, and when she herself was a baby her cradle was rocked on the colouring board, and "many is the night" that she sat up all night as a child helping her mother at home.
He rocked back and forward on the bench, his boy's arms tight about his neck.
The house rocked with the wild cheers of the excited crowd.
From my wings are shaken the dews that waken 5 The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
The game was in wild progress; the car rocked and jolted and the conductress shouted the names.
I rushed, stumbled, rockedinto her place; she sank with a gasp into mine.
As the bus rocked along smoothly, approaching fifty, he waved his arm at Zinc.
She rocked in her rocker, hands clenched on the arms of the chair.
But Felice Charmond's sobs came to her ear: deep darkness circled her about, the funereal trees rocked and chanted their diriges and placebos around her, and she did not know which way to go.
They were stout-trunked trees, that never rocked their stems in the fiercest gale, responding to it entirely by crooking their limbs.
At "bumfit" (fifteen) they both rocked with merriment, the old man carried away by the infection of hers.
The old man rocked to and fro beside the corpse in an anguish.
The cradle is rocked by means of two ends of canes, which make two rollers.
The infant being rocked lengthwise, its head is not shaken as are those who are rocked from side to side, as in France.
Most of them were empty, save, perhaps, for the ghosts of long-dead gossips who had sat and rocked and talked and rocked from one meal to the next.
Sidenote: The Vision] The vision sat down in a low chair and rocked back and forth, slowly, as though meditating.
Osuzu, happy in her new-found love, was rocked peacefully to sleep by the swaying of the bamboo branches in the soft breeze.
The Storm-Spirit of the upper sea did not rule in the ocean-bed, and night after night Ho-wori was rocked to sleep by the gentle motion of the waters.
She held on to the red padded arms, as though she rocked on the high seas in a gale.
He gathered her up as if she had been a little child, and rocked her dumbly in his arms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rocked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
