He tried to set his lips so as to prevent their quivering, but they quivered fast.
Dismissed with those pleasing words, the old man took his broad hat and staff, and left the great presence: more as if he were some superior creature benignantly blessing Mr Fledgeby, than the poor dependent on whom he set his foot.
The King, however, openly took his part; and in truth it was no fault of the Marechal, who had arrived at Cremona the day before the surprise, that he was taken prisoner directly he set his foot in the street.
He set his friends to work to speak to Monseigneur; all they could draw from him was, that M.
And therewith he set his hand on the sword and drew it strongly, but he might not move it.
So he set his hand to the sword, but he might not begrip it.
But when he set his spear in the rest and tried his armour, the horse bounded and leapt beneath him, so that Sir Lancelot strained to keep him back.
And the knights of the castle were put to the worse; which when he saw, he set his spear in rest and ran to help them, and smote down many of their adversaries.
Whereupon heset his horse at the hill and rode up with his shield before him.
Galors sprang up and sent Prosper flying; he set his heel on the sword blade and broke it short.
The charcoal-burner, when all was made fast, set his team in motion.
What he set his heart on that he took," another old man said, "and put it afore his own door.
His friend, Henry Lawes, set his songs to music, and the fair Alice and her two brothers all appeared in the play on Michaelmas night and acted at Ludlow Castle before their parents and assembled guests.
Then Antonio, wondering greatly at the news, set his horse to a gallop and passed through Rilano at furious speed, and rode on towards Agnino; and it was now afternoon.
Antonio left his cousin to defend himself, and, bowing low to the Duke, set his sword at the Duke's breast, before the Duke could so much as rise from his seat.
From the first hour he set his feet on the trail to the sheep country this culmination of his adventures had been shaping.
He dropped the cigarette, set his foot on it, crushed it to sparks on the floor.
Cherry didn't set his cap at me, uncle," said Virginia, laughing.
He could have so talked as to set his son in accordance with his surroundings, he understood, to his own surprise, exactly where this very new shoe would pinch.
He did not spend the time of his walk in forming any plans as to how he should meet Ruth; he set his mind on the one fact that a meeting was certain.
As he spoke, he felt himself drawn into the company with the flags and swords, and with immortal light on his face he set his foot on the end of the dazzling arc.
Let them explain me and tell me why I should think different, and why I should take his filthy money just to set his mind at rest.
He threw the papers from him and set his face in his hands.
He set his chin in his hands and communed aloud with himself after the fashion of those who hold aloof from mankind: "Folly, little sister!
He set his teeth, clenched his fists, and by expression and attitude showed that he had arrived at a decision of moment.
Having arrived there, he made the models of the work that he was to execute for that lord, which pleased him vastly; and then he set his hand to it, with a good allowance of money and a good number of masters.
About the same time, after executing an altar-piece that went to Pistoia, he set his hand to two others for the Company of S.
And what fervency is this with which the Holy Ghost enables the patriarch to set his seal to all this precious confession of his faith!
And again, the Lord did not give Abraham so much land as to set his foot on (Acts vii.
He set his heart on the present life, and knew how to turn its capabilities to the account of his enjoyments.
It is not possible within the narrow compass of a slight sketch even to name the enterprises to which he set his hand, and only the barest outline of the man and of his achievements is possible.
That he set his heart on, and he promised the old witch to set her free if she would give him the golden ball.
Now the way he went took him over a fell, and when he had got up so high that he could look over the country, he set his eyes on a lion, a falcon, and an ant, who stood there quarrelling over a dead horse.
When they had come under an old spruce fir, Reynard threw Chanticleer on the ground, set his paw on his breast, and was going to take a bite!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "set his" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
