Portland, with its wooded islands in the distance, and itself overhung with verdant beauty, rippling and waving in the same cool breeze which stirs the waters of the beautiful Bay of Casco!
The memory of the dead man's oratory stirs the community.
The man stirs the flaxseed--how soon the stuff dries out!
This is no hour for beings that are maiden; The spring is virgin, lightly afraid and cold, But now the whole round earth is ripe and laden And stirs beneath her coverlet of gold And in her agony a moment calls.
He is always reverent, and "the feeling infinite" stirs faintly in one or two of his hymns.
It comes when music stirs us, and the chords Moving on some grand climax shake our souls With influx new that makes new energies.
Time can but make her beauty over again Because of that great nobleness of hers; The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs Burns but more clearly; O she had not these ways When all the wild summer was in her gaze.
No breath of wind stirs in the painted leaves, The meadows are as stirless as the sky, Like a Saint's halo golden vapours lie Above the restful valley's garnered sheaves.
There crouching 'mid the scarlet bloom, Voluptuously the leopard lies, And through the tropic forest gloom The flaming of his feline eyes Stirs with intoxicating stress The pulses of the leopardess.
Good Parson Wilbur, too, avers (Though to be mixed in parish stirs Is worse than handling chestnut-burs) That no case to his mind occurs Where spirits ever did converse Save in a kind of guttural Erse.
A new agitation now stirs the joint choirs (with touches of brass), and anon comes a poignant line of the inverted (main) theme.
The Titan toil stirs strongly below the soft cadence; the full, fierce ardor mounts heavenward.
A brand ever smouldering, which the first breath o' woman stirs to flame?
And the day this army stirson its march to Catharines-town and Kendaia, the news will run into the North like lightning.
Who should know magic when it stirs but I, of the Siwanois--the Magic Clan?
And so we close the poem, which touches us again more than we deemed possible, till each renewal of the reading stirs again the depths of passionate sympathy.
My uncle suffers much at present, and stirs only from his couch to his chair.
This story, at any rate, does not ‘buckle and bow the mind to the nature of things,’ but quickens the pulse and stirs the blood in the name of chivalry.
The happyest man in the world iz the farmer; he rizes at 2 o'clock in the morning, he watches for da lite tew brake, and when she duz brake, he goes out and stirs up the geese and worrys the hogs.
If mi memory serves me right, the moshun ov the velosipead iz purely a crank moshun, simular tew the grind stun, and iz produced the same way, that the scizzor grinderstirs up his masheen.
And she implored God the Most High to do away these afflictions from them and repeated the following verses: The shadows darken and passion stirs up my sickness amain, And longing rouses within me the old desireful pain.
My heart is full of longing; the zephyr, when it blows, To many a thought of passion stirs up my heavy cheer.
No helper hath she but tears and she reciteth the following verses: "No turtle warbles on the branch, before the break of morn, But stirs in me a killing grief, a sadness all forlorn.
Persons and things are unlike in this, that each force which stirs within a self- conscious person is correlated with all his other forces.
Entire fame cannot be had; and exactly on that account it stirs every impulse of our nature in pursuit.
The tulip-tree majestic stirs Far down the water’s marge beside, And now awake the nearer firs, And toss their ample branches wide.
A strange conflict of gratified ambition, of remorseful tenderness, of dreamy regret, stirs the failing spirit.
He reasons with his patient, he stirs in him what moral or religious enthusiasm he can, and to these means he adds tactfully the subtle suggestive powers of his own presence and eloquence.
An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will.
Thy poor lie slain of thine hands, Their starved limbs rot in thy sight; As a shadow the ghost of thee stands Among men living and lands, And stirs not leftward or right.
The melody of autumn Is the only tune I know, And I sing it over and over Because it thrills me so; It stirs anew the happy wish, So near to perfect bliss, To live a little longer in A world like this.
Dead leaves are reddening in the woodland copse, And forest boughs a fading glory wear; No breath of wind stirs in their hazy tops, Silence and peace are brooding everywhere.
At each one a helper armed with an iron bar takes his stand and stirs again to work up all dross and air-bubbles to the surface before the metal sets--a scene worthy of a painter's brush.
The smith stirs and clears off the scum as coolly as a cook skims her broth!
An apparent calm in men agitated stirs the soul,' said I; 'eloquence may then have strength, without the body yielding to disordered movements.
Your work, your activity, belong to earth; no real human interest, nothing that stirs or attracts or that troubles men in this scene of life, ought to be too great or too little for you.
America stirs patriotic sentiment, not by its smallness, but by its largeness and wonderful variety; not by the memories of the past, but by the boundless possibilities of the future.
The gifted and the common mind are alike troubled, agitated and exalted by this divinity who evokes their silent passions and stirs their slumbering fancy.
That through the whole realm of nature the one electric life pulsates and stirs the smallest atom and the mightiest star.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stirs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
