The gentleman descends, unchecks the horses, wipes his brow, takes a drink at the spout and looks around, evidently remarking upon the lovely view, as he swings his handkerchief in an explanatory manner.
John can hear a mile off the shaking of chains, traces, and whiffle-trees, and the creaking of its leathern braces, as the great bulkswings along piled high with trunks.
In a metal cage between the windowsswings a gray parrot with a red head, screaming monotonously, "Rascal!
He swings it to and fro upon his finger, letting the sunshine play upon it, and then first perceives a cipher graven on the crystal, a Roman S, surmounting a star.
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And the shadow, a wiry man who swings Down, down where the desperate Kaiser clings.
He noticed that the time of swing remained, as near as he could tell, the same, notwithstanding the fact that the swings were getting smaller and smaller.
Galileo proceeded to time its swings by the only watch he possessed--viz.
This swings the bar in same direction; and, by a simple connection of wires running to the tail of the machine, the rudders are made to swing over to the left also, and the machine turns in response to them.
Each capsule splits when ripe, and a scarlet seed, like a berry, hangs out on an elastic thread, and swings lower and lower, until finally it is carried away.
Roadside elms are the favourite nesting trees of the Baltimore oriole, whose hanging pocket of grasses and yarns swings at the end of a high outer branch.
All too soon after fertilization the now useless corolla slides along to the tip of the pistil, where it swings a while before dropping to earth.
In late summer an egg-shaped, pendulous red-purple berry swings from the summit.
The boat-swings can be easily made in the same manner after looking at drawing, and fastened at the top of the wire that they are hung by with two staples to floor of sleeping-box.
You must balance the card by putting dots of sealing-wax here and there till it swings quite level.
Be very careful the first time or two, and take notice how the hammock recedes, and then swings towards you.
A very pretty effect is produced by a combination of the different swings we have described.
Again swings the lash on the high mountain trail, And the pipe of the packer is scenting the gale; The oath and the jest ringing high o'er the plain, Where the smut is not always confined to the grain.
Revolve to ten degrees on your port bow," comes the next order; and, as though by magic, the whole turret swings itself round to the required position.
The door was shut--one of those doors which, if you lift the latch, the door immediately swings open.
The organ swings into the melody of the hymn, the chorus, as one, rises, and a flood of song sweeps over the vast auditorium that carries every one as in a mighty tide almost up to the gates of heaven itself.
His horse suddenly stops,--he dismounts nimbly, seizes the entangled bird by the throat, and swings it violently around till its neck is broken.
An Indian, in close pursuit, presently swings his lariat about his head; but she makes a curve in her course, and springs beyond the reach of his aim.
Go where the wild squirrels live unmolested in the beautiful great live-oaks, whose branches are hung with long, soft gray moss which swings and sways with the slightest breeze.
Mingled with the others are the Japanese laboring men, called coolies, carrying between them The Kago, which swings from a pole the ends of which rest on the men's shoulders.
Again it swings its scythe, and some of our physicians fall into suffering that their wisest prescriptions cannot cure.
Again it swings its scythe, and ministers of the gospel fall from the heights of Zion, with long resounding crash of ruin and shame.
So at the ninety-five-mile post the road swings eastward five miles, passing Spite House to the head of the gorge, where it crosses Hundred Mile Creek, right here.
The fire catches hold of my wife, but she swings the widow through the window, climbs out, lights on top of her again, then takes a roll in the snow.
This wag-by-the-wall swings and swings its bobbed pendulum without pause, but one swing is much like the other, and their background never varies.
Tents were pitched, and swingshung for the amusement of children—a ghastly holiday; but the Mahometans take a pride, and a just pride, in following their ancient customs undisturbed by the shadow of death.
She moves forward both her near legs at the same time, and then awkwardly swings round her off shoulder and haunch so as to repeat the manœuvre on that side.
In the darkness at the fall of evening, when the fire awakens and the clock in which time swings is hushed, doubtless, as much as we, they love the silence, to feel themselves thinking through their eyes.
But the pendulum sometimesswings very slowly, and oscillates within narrow limits; while at other times the changes are violent and rapid.
Their motion is like that of the gibbon when in haste, a series of jumps or swings between the supporting arms.
The animal seizes a handful of the overlapping boughs of the two trees and swings easily across the intervening space.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
