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Example sentences for "round and"

  • Round and round, round and round; throwing off wondrous births at every revolving; ceaseless as the cycles that circle in heaven.

  • Round and round, a gleaming form slow circled in the deepest eddies:-- white, and vaguely Yillah.

  • Something like me: I go round and round, and never seem to get anywhere, but something will come of it, you may depend.

  • Round and round it passed, and a lively conversation went forward.

  • A large rock projected from the shore, and behind it the deep water was slowly eddying round and round.

  • Among the emigrants there was an overgrown boy, some eighteen years old, with a head as round and about as large as a pumpkin, and fever-and-ague fits had dyed his face of a corresponding color.

  • It makes me go round and round," whispered Mavis.

  • This was the disgusting female, round and smooth, white and weak, with tumbling hair and lying lips, the lewd parasite that can drag the noble male down into hell-fire.

  • She was all warm and palpitating in his arms, her dear body so delicate and fragile and yet so round and firm, her dear face soft and smooth, with lips that trembled and smelled like garden flowers.

  • This time the ball fell on his cheekbone and raised a lump as round and as hard as a marble.

  • Between the hills shone the last of the pumpkins, big, round and yellow--red-yellow like an orange.

  • Round and round, the Moorish turret at Seville was not wound heavenward in the revolution of a day; and from its first founding, five hundred years did circle, ere Strasbourg's great spire lifted its five hundred feet into the air.

  • He picked it up and turned it round and round in his hands.

  • In the evening the moon rose, round and large, and the haystacks in the meadows smelled sweet.

  • Round and round it danced and it seemed to be saying: "To and fro on my little tin toe, Singing and spinning, oh, see me go!

  • Round and round he went, narrowing his circle.

  • Most people reason in a circle: their minds go round and round, always in the same track.

  • It came above the horizon exactly as we began our journey, a harvest-moon, round and red.

  • He took hold of my two hands and swung me round and round by the arms till I didn't know which was head and which was feet.

  • Enormously big it was for her, but Mrs. Van Brunt wrapped it round and round, and the blanket over it again, and then she bustled about till she had prepared a tumbler of hot drink which she said was to keep Ellen from catching cold.

  • I'll go round and ask 'em myself to come Monday evening.

  • I gits 'round and it won't be long 'fore I goes to de Lawd's restin' place.

  • Lots of niggers caught a good cowhiding for slippin' 'round and stealin' a chicken 'fore Sunday.

  • Parson Pipkin, he come 'round and preach to the white folks and sometimes he preach extry to the cullud quarters.

  • The tax collector, he come 'round and say, 'How many li'l darkies you got?

  • I was a lil' boy den and me and two white boys, Coley McRay and Henry Munn, we useter slip 'round and watch 'em.

  • The cow gave milk in the milk-pail bright; The top-knot Biddy an egg new and white; And the tree gave an apple so round and so red, For dear little Ray who was just out of bed.

  • One for a penny, two for a pound; Tickily, tickily, round and round.

  • They come 'round and open up a place and beg the niggers to come in; and when they get up a little bit, they shut out the niggers and don't want nothin' but white folks.

  • Two or three times we would get up to the house, and then we would turn 'round and go back.

  • Another spider wraps his prey in a cocoon by spinning himself and the fly together round and round.

  • The beech boughs seem to glide about, round and smooth, snake-like in their easy curves.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    economic system; five oceans; flowing river; good woman; holy calling; hurried back; implied powers; little rest; need for; often wonder; quite enough; rolling prairie; round about; round and; round ball; round emblem; round figures; round hole; round piece; round slices; round the; round them; round tower; round trip; shut down; walk over