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Example sentences for "shied"

Lexicographically close words:
sheykh; sheykhs; shibboleth; shibboleths; shid; shiek; shield; shielded; shielding; shields
  1. With which Felix shied the gun, the hunting knife, and finally the sabretasche into the pond.

  2. So that the Lord Chamberlain seized him immediately by his little shoulders, and shied him out at the door.

  3. Felix shied him into the bushes after the harp-man.

  4. He shied as badly as did Muggs' mule, when in strange timber, and was ever afterward a warm advocate for pitching camp on the open prairie.

  5. The way he shied round that school-house wer a sin.

  6. Twice he shied at a flutter of woman-garments, retreated to a respectable distance and reconnoitred with a fine air of indifference, to find that the flutter accompanied the movements of some girl for whom he cared not at all.

  7. Blount, in reply to the warning of his friends, had urged that it might very well be that a horse that shied by day at a gun would act differently at night.

  8. Suddenly, and for no apparent cause, Jenny and her mate shied violently, swerved completely around and were tangled up with the wheel team before the driver could use the lash.

  9. Then they became uneasy for the second time, and shied back upon the plow, tangling their harness.

  10. You think she treats you all right, but you saw how she shied round th' subject when I put it straight to 'er.

  11. She never shied around a subject, but looked all things in the face; and she found this delightfully surprising world of emotions as entrancing as the external one of mellow light, music, good clothes, and educational prospects.

  12. Do you remember the day you came in exactly as I shied the ink-bottle at his head?

  13. Do you remember the day I shied that awful ink-bottle at your head?

  14. When they passed Lorraine, the horse nearest her shied against the other and was sworn at parenthetically for a fool.

  15. He jumped boulders, shied around buckthorn, crashed through sagebrush and so brought the girl to bay against a wet bank, where she stood shivering.

  16. At the tap of his pipe, and a shower of little sparks, they shied round and scampered.

  17. It must have been food for reflection for the Advent preacher, as he picked up the empty beer bottle, shied at him from the chariot that he supposed carried to earth the redeemer of man.

  18. She shied off from the thought of it as from an uncouth thing in the dark, and began to feel shame of her weakness at having fainted at the tale of La Corriveau.

  19. She shied like a horse on the brink of a precipice when the thought of Le Gardeur intruded itself.

  20. Amélie shied from a compliment like a young colt at its own shadow.

  21. Still they came not, and Bigot again, to her unutterable disgust, shied off like a full-blooded horse which starts suddenly away from some object by the wayside and throws his rider headlong on the ground.

  22. But for this purpose a bicycle would have served equally well, and would not have cost a shilling a day to feed, as the mule did, nor have shied at policemen, as the mule nearly always did.

  23. In the early days of Denry's ownership of him, he had nearly always shied at the spectacle of a policeman.

  24. But when the coachman tried to seize her bridle, she shied so suddenly that I was surprised to find myself on terra firma.

  25. While returning from a charming drive upon the Sing Sing road, a day or two since, the horses, whose spirits were unusually high, shied suddenly at something dark by the roadside.

  26. Doctor," I said lightly as I came in, "my horse shied at his own shadow and came down in the road.

  27. The horse shied when he saw the locomotive.

  28. The horse shied when he saw the locomotive, which was puffing violently.

  29. Time and again he had balked, had shied like a frightened horse; time and again he had roweled himself with cruel spurs and ridden down his unruly terrors by force of will.

  30. Even Rupert's pick Cavaliers would have shied encounter with it, unless they knew themselves in the proportion of two to one.

  31. Silent as spectres were they, here and there only a muttered word, with the champing of bits, and occasionally the louder clink of scabbard against stirrup as some horse shied at the blinding flash.

  32. The stick made no reply whatever, and he contemptuously shied it out into the chickweed which matted the grubby back yard.

  33. A faint smell of gunpowder still hung in the air, and two or three books Mr. Polly had recently acquired had been shied with some violence under the bed.

  34. His horse shied at something, and this made him get up.

  35. He drew a purse from his pocket, intending to give a beggar an aim when his horse shied violently, causing the steel-beaded tassels of the purse to injure his eyes.

  36. The horse shied violently out of the road.

  37. But how it came to be shied through the window, practically intact, half a moment later, was never explained to the waiting crowd.

  38. Once I was riding with one of our bishops near Boston, and his nag shied suddenly at a man in a broad-brimmed hat.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.