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Example sentences for "took her"

  • Then Goldilind bade Christopher help her light down; so he took her in his arms, and was not over hasty in setting her down again.

  • I took her nothing, she gave me something.

  • One day he took her to walk with him out of the town, and showed her the spot where the boat was set adrift upon the wide waters.

  • When the faithful maiden heard of this, she grew so sad that she thought her heart would break, and she would not go thither, but the other girls came and took her.

  • When in his delight at the whole business Mignon came to see if he could not saddle Fauchery on her altogether, she asked him if he took her for a fool.

  • Pere Merlier, who had been smoking his pipe and looking at the platoon simply with an air of curiosity, took her by the arm with paternal gentleness.

  • During the night, which we spent in the third-class railway carriage, the seats being very hard, I took her in my arms in order that she might sleep.

  • I took her to the play, but as she did not understand the language she got dreadfully tired, and asked me to take her home at the end of the first act, which I did very willingly.

  • I took her hand, made her sit on my knee, and promised that she should have it on the morrow.

  • I took her hand to kiss it, but she did not give me time, presenting her lips, burning with desire.

  • Bettina, who was still in short frocks, took her up.

  • He took her to see mines and railroads and those who worked them, and he talked them over with her afterward, half with a sense of humour, half with a sense of finding comfort in her intelligent comprehension of all he said.

  • Reproaching himself for having allowed her to sit up, he took her in his strong arms as though she had been a mere baby, and carried her up to her room so gently that she never woke.

  • He took her hand in his, pressed it, and turned away without a word.

  • He took her hand in his, and no longer wondered at Brian's seven years' hopeless waiting.

  • I fell upon my knees; I took her hand; I covered it with kisses; I broke into sobs.

  • I took her for a gipsy, and she was an angel of purity.

  • And without waiting for her permission, I took her in my arms and lifted her off the ground.

  • He talked and laughed, took her on pleasant expeditions, and made much of her with all his ready good-nature, till her heart was quite won.

  • Violet sat up, took her hand, pressed it between both hers, and with tears exclaimed: 'You must not speak so.

  • And Lord Martindale stepped to her side, took her hand, and kissed her.

  • The Marchioness, in saying these words, brought a little table to the bedside, took her seat at it, and began to work away at the concoction of some cooling drink, with the address of a score of chemists.

  • My position is nothing; it's the thought of my child, my wife's child.

  • But now, when the new maid was pouring out her hot water, she was suddenly aware of the girl's round blue eyes wandering, as it were, mechanically to her hand.

  • He took her arm, just as Noel had, and made her sit down beside him on the rustic bench, where he had evidently been told to wait.

  • Having little hope of winning her, he took her "past" but lightly.

  • But the seers had eyes of greater faith than Pierson's, for he saw nothing: He took her arm at last, and led her in.

  • An itch to turn the dagger in her wound, to know what had become of Noel, took her to Edward's house.

  • I believe he took her hand, but I cannot tell.

  • John took her in his arms; I know not if he took her, or Mrs. Tod gave her to him--but there she was.

  • He never spoke, but snatched her out of my arms into his own, took her in his room, and shut the door.

  • To-day was the day of St. Martin, the anniversary of the death of his wife, who still lived in his memory fresh as upon the day he took her away as his bride from her Norman home.

  • I took her to the Château, where she now is.

  • He looked flushed and disordered as he took her eagerly-extended hand and pressed it to his lips.

  • She rose, took her maid's arm, and walked a few paces on the deck.

  • Orso went to his sister's side, took her arm, and drew her out of the room.

  • When she felt sure the young lieutenant must be sound asleep, like the prosaic creature he was, she got up, took her cloak, woke her maid, and went on deck.

  • Next day I took her with me to her god-father's without telling her that I knew the countess.

  • I took her to the convent, and then went to St. Francis, where the keeper of the boathouse looked as if he thought me a fool, when I told him that I had trucked away my boat for the one I had with me.

  • I took her within my arms, and already her captive, I pressed her amorously to my heart, printing on her lips a fiery kiss, which she gave me back with as much ardour.

  • I thanked her, but putting the letter on one side I took her in my arms, and set her by my side.


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