But his gaze shiftedat once to something an infinity away.
Boggs shifted in his chair, dropping the deliberately maintained smile from his face.
The Governor's eyes never moved, but Jorden shiftedin sudden, wild indecision.
As Cavanaugh’s glance shifted again about the room, he started and narrowly escaped betraying himself by a surprised gasp.
Hinckley started guiltily and hurriedly shiftedhis gloating eyes from the five-line verse which, even in crude mimeograph, thrilled him with the pride of authorship.
Red’s glance shifted from the fire to the empty rack of sticks and then back to McBride’s mussed and wrinkled shirt and breeches.
His gaze, no longer focussed on the windows, had shifted to a point just under the sagging eaves where a long branch of the pine tree stretched across the roof, seeming almost to touch the rotting shingles.
Steger shifted his position and came at the jury from another intellectual angle: "It was simply because Mr. George W.
In the meanwhile, with Butler's death, the control of the political situation had shifted considerably.
Tourtel and his wife shifted their gaze from Owen to look into each other's eyes; Margot's loose mouth lapsed into a smile.
But when he saw that I was observing him, he hastily shifted about, and continued his descent of the street.
Eva shifted her position slightly, and looked at her husband.
He shifted his position in his chair, and fixed his eye on a sail on the horizon, so that he could see Eva without looking at her.
Nevertheless, some time after Gregory found he had shifted so far round the room as to be close to the door where Lyndall sat.
So he drew the rope out very carefully, and shifted round to the wooden post.
Her left hand grasped the wrist so tightly that the blade fell to the ground, whereupon Joan of the Sword Hand shifted her grasp upwards fiercely till she felt her fingers sink deep in the soft curves of a woman's throat.
Mr. Gryce shifted uneasily, glanced at the papers protruding from my coat pocket and exclaimed: "I am ready to be convinced by you that he is.
H is a square knot, which may be easily loosened and [Illustration: Detail of Box Kite] shifted to a different position on the bridle, thus adjusting the lengths of F and G.
Gradually their voices died away in the distance, but the boy never moved, never shifted his blank stare from the cards in front of him.
He sat directly opposite where Nehal Singh stood in the shadow, and when he shifted his cards, as he often did in a restless, uneasy way, he gave the unseen watcher an opportunity to study every line of his set face.
The Colonel shifted him into a higher position, his head still resting against Lois' knee.
Mrs. Carmichael had shifted from her defiant attitude, and her hard, set face expressed a grim satisfaction not unmixed with pity.
The work seemed continuous, but the end in view shifted and the actors gradually changed.
He shifted the obligation to the first day of the week by arguments now familiar, and he laid down rules for the observance of the day.
And when he went in for a squib o' cordial wi' Jerry Stott I shifted t' mark to another sack and loaded up, and off he goes and he none the wiser, and no harm done.
He sat back at that, as if her words shifted his thoughts to another matter.
This was once a man's trick, but the progress of the weaker sex has shifted it.
Sherlock Holmes did better when he pronounced, on finding a neglected whisp of beard, that Doctor Watson's shaving mirror had been shifted to an opposite window.
Presently the salesman shifted the lady to his other knee and, brushing a lock of her hair off his nose, asked me what I wanted.
Handsome shifted his seat a foot or two, took a round turn around his foot and tested the splice which he had been making, and then screwing his face up in imitation of "old Bill Tybee," he began.
Before two o'clock in the morning the wind hadshifted to the southeast, and was blowing a gale.
Malone shifted his gaze half an inch and saw a row of gold buttons.
He shifted in the chair and began to realize, for the first time, just how uncomfortable it really was.
Malone shifted slightly in his seat, counted to ten and managed to say nothing.
When I was in bed and the gas was out, I could swear the chair moved, that it shifted nearer and nearer the window--always the window, as if it was most anxious to make its escape and hie back to its old home.
But her face was flushed and she shifted from one foot to the other, glaring at her tormentor, who, it seemed, had just begun his inquisition.
Until the responsibility for the papers was shifted to de Vautrin, she did not think it wise for him to take any risk of danger.
The constable shifted uneasily from one foot to the other in an embarrassed manner before those pathetic eyes.
The latter shifted uneasily at this torrent of words, and occasionally glanced at his wife, who was sitting near with open-mouthed wonder.
He shifted uneasily, gripped the tiller more firmly, and drove the Scud a point nearer to the wind.
Toward daybreak the wind shifted to the southeast and then to the southwest, and to Jack's disappointment dropped to a light breeze scarcely strong enough to disperse the thin fog that lay over the sea.
With wonderful quickness De Fronsac shifted his weapon from the right to the left hand, and, shouting encouragement to the men beside and behind him, pressed forward indomitably.
He grabbed the steering-wheel, shifted the lever, and the car moved off on the first speed.
He shifted it once or twice, nodded his head, said "Ah!
The tax cannot be shifted and it cannot easily be evaded.
It falls upon those best able to pay, and it is not easily evaded or shifted by the person upon whom it is levied.
Everyone having shifted as they thought fit, Friar John rang the bell, and the cloth was immediately laid, and supper brought in.
Then were they very well wiped and rubbed, shifted their shirts, and, walking soberly, went to see if dinner was ready.
Ozias gave a cynical chuckle; heshifted his load of shoes to ease his right shoulder.
Jerome shifted his back towards his aunt as he sat on his bench.
Then Simon Basset spat, and shiftedhis quid and spoke.
While I was writing this Gerry shifted his position, so that his face could not be seen by the observers in the house, and said: "Dimber is in it.
Although state and internal security organs have been shifted among ministries and renamed, and there has been an occasional move to abolish them, they continue to exist in Bulgaria.
These measures did little to solve the basic problems and merely shifted the incidence of construction delays from one category of projects to another.
As family members spend less time together, the emphasis in daily life is shifted from the family to the outside world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shifted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
