The boat took them, but not without wabbles of warning and an ominous loss of freeboard.
But I hope to Heaven nobody took the trouble to observe that I stepped on the path only eight times.
It took you three dances," he grumbled as he sucked one of his fingers.
There was momentary hope when Fortescue Jones broke the tip of his rod, but thattook wings when he produced another.
Miss Chalmers looked down at the path, then took a step forward as if to verify.
He entered by a side door, took a seat at a table in a dingy corner of a back room and rapped smartly with his knuckles on the pine top.
She reached for her grip, opened it, took out a ring full of keys, and arose from her canvas couch.
Have you no compunctions whatever about the manner in which you tookhis money?
Out across the river she could see the island where the second burglar-hunt took place.
Only, I took you there once and you wouldn't stay put.
Gawden's matters, and so took her up again at night, and home to the office, and so home with W.
The play done, took leave of Talbot, who goes into the country this Christmas, and so we home, and there I to work at the office late, and so home to supper and to bed.
Bob saw his mother draw herself up, press her lips together, and knit her brows, as she nodded her head at her husband and took Dot, who looked frightened, from his arms.
Father's been telling her," he said to himself; and he tookthe first opportunity of slipping away.
Jean Baptiste Faure took up the study of the voice at thirteen, and at twenty-two =created= the part of Mephistopheles in Faust.
Minnie Hauk took up voice study at the age of twelve, and was singing in grand opera during her seventeenth year.
She took with her a popular song--the only song which she knew.
It took an hour of my valuable time to convince them that she must not sing at present, as it was positively necessary to overcome the break in her voice, keep her from singing too much, and cure her audible breathing.
The Cat made no objection, took to them kindly, and gradually all the kittens were taken away, and the Cat nursed the two puppies only.
If her resentment was strong, her attachment was equally so, and she took a singular mode of showing it.
This breed of Cats has singular tastes; I knew one that took very kindly to gin and water, and was rather partial to curry.
The Cats proved a real blessing to the island, but even they did not destroy so many rats as the pigs, which were exceedingly voracious, and took greedily to the rodent diet.
It took three or four days of nursing before she recovered, but she got round at last, and remained in the ship for more than five years afterwards.
This took place at some distance from any habitation, but he concluded that somebody must have thrown the kittens into the water, and that the Cat had followed them, and seen the deed done.
With a wondrous strength of mind he refrained from eating the luxuries provided, took plenty of exercise on the house-tops, and kept himself in excellent health, but much thinner than suited the wizard's fancy.
They took scarcely any part in the civic administration, for such responsibility did not come into the lives of seventeenth century women.
Some of our people that are dead took the original of their death there.
The following note is endorsed by Reeve 'Due d'Aumale on the capitulation of Sedan,' which took place on September 2nd.
Took possession of Foxholes; cold and windy, and I gouty.
He took us to the library, a large and striking saloon with carved and gilt pilasters and galleries.
When the dejeuner dinatoire was announced, the Duke told Henry to offer his arm to the Duchess, then he advanced towards me, the chamberlain took Hopie, the children and the suite followed.
The following letter, on a subject in which Mrs. Oliphant tookmuch interest, was addressed to Reeve rather in his editorial than his personal capacity.
Went to Paris, and on the 22nd took my seat at the Institute.
Took the Duc de Rochefoucault (the French Ambassador) to the boat race at Mortlake.
I took the Queen of Holland to see the Novar pictures.
The publication of the first part of 'The Greville Memoirs' took place on October 17th.
There was once a young peasant called Jeannot, and he had a knife of which he took great care.
MORAL No moral that I ever took Seemed quite so evident before.
Which done, he came and took his seat Beside me, doffed his coat, untied His bootlaces, and let his feet Peep coyly out on either side; Then called me.
He took two bottles, large and small, And now--he has no health at all!
When they had gone by I took up my stand once more under the window; but this time I did not hear anything.
The lattertook the papers without offering any thanks, and almost immediately took himself off and disappeared.
It contained a lady in black, a gentleman, and a woman dressed in the Lithuanian peasant costume, but so tall and strong-looking that at first I took her for a man in disguise.
And then the two scamps took to flight as fast as they could.
Yes, I was very tedious yesterday, but to-day I have been out, I took exercise, and I feel quite excited.
I took myself off as quickly as I could, still panting, when a man whom I had not noticed behind me took my arm and asked me anxiously if I were hurt.
It was to set up a case for divorce by pretending that the marriage only tookplace by reason of the physical force exercised against one of the contracting parties.
He took his rifle and his hunting knife, which had been placed in our room, put them in a cupboard, and took out the key.
Yet cursing God's name, when from me at last,-- My own son they tookfor a soldier!
Being a delicate child, his grandmother took him at the age of ten to the Caucas,--which he deeply loved ever after.
The ladies were alarmed, and took to their staterooms.
Because we'd like to go to the same place that you took the woman," returned Benson, promptly.
Finally, when all else was ready, Millard took the lighted candle out of the candlestick.
Then I saw Millard drop into that hollow, and I took a look-in.
Kept us back, and took the medicine themselves, like real officers.
Hal took command from the bridge, subject to Fullerton's directions, while Jack, as commanding officer, also took his station there briefly.
In the mechanical arts Mr. Paine took great delight, and made considerable progress.
Mr. Jarvis having some feeling for the age and the earnestness of the old lady, took her into Mr. Paine's bed room and waked him.
Even the doctor who attended him in his last minutes took the latest possible opportunity to ask him, "Do you wish to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God?
He received such education as the town could afford him, until he was thirteen years of age, when his father, who was a staymaker, took him upon the shop-board.
The best man went out to telephone for the bridegroom; and my eldest nephew took a motor to drive round to fetch him.
E took to sleeping with a carving-knife under the pillow, and hitting me about cruel.
As I rose to go she took my finger and laid it upon the cabalistic signs of the "Book.
Then I got wandering about the streets, and a policeman spoke to me and took me to a kind lady, and she put me here to prove me, and left me to learn my lesson.
Not yet, ma'am, but I have got to have a bath to-night, and the last one I took turned me so queer I was laid up ten weeks in the infirmary.
I done better since then--the Board's took Amy and Leonard, and I manage nicely on my twelve shillings a week, with only Cholmondeley and the baby to look after.
Then the bell rang for dinner, and they took their seats round the long, bare tables, in front of a steaming plate of stewed meat and vegetables.
When he had got through with the book, she took him down cellar with her to get some apples.
Eddy took a seat in the parlor, intending to be very careful; but pretty soon he heard his cousins Harry and John talking in the kitchen, and went out to see what was going on there.
He thrust his hand down the neck of the jar, andtook hold of all the nuts he could.
Rob took the little charm she held out, with a skeptical smile, yet he had imbibed too great a belief in such omens from his old coloured nurse not to regard it with respect.
It took much time and much pleading on Jean's part to convince Ada that there was really no spirit under her bed, and then it took more time and pleading to appease her anger.
Scarcely had she gone when another listener took her place.
The light instantly disappeared and a white-veiled figure took its place.
But one-half of the club lived outside the seminary, and Ida Shane resigned about that time, so we established a new order, and took these four girls in as Wraiths of Vengeance.
It was a warm October day, and as Allison took her seat by an open window in the history class an hour later, she found it hard to fix her thoughts on the old French and Indian wars.
It took much manoeuvring to succeed in passing the slip of paper to Lloyd, who sat several seats in front.
It took Lloyd only a moment to slip into her hat and coat.
He had been there once before with a crock of apple-butter, which he brought as a sort of thank-offering to Katherine because she had made Magnolia so happy about the costume and the picture she took of her in it.
She was too embarrassed to say anything, but she took it as if it were something sacred.
She was fat and awkward and shy, and so awed by the strange surroundings that a sort of terror took possession of her when she found herself alone among so many unfamiliar faces.
Diving under the quilt for the carpet-bag, she opened it and took out a book which lay on top of her clothes.
Others took its place, but when a woman grown, I held up the one that was the best my woman's heart could fashion, I found that my prince measured just to the stature of an honest man, simple and earnest and true.
Hurrying out of the cloak-room, they took their places in chapel, and obediently opened their song-books at the signal, but it is doubtful if any member of the Shadow Club could have told afterward what was sung that morning.
Medina, who had not yet attained his master's degree, took no part in the meetings, but Leon de Castro and Fray Luis had many passages at arms.
Villahermosa and Aranda succeeded in escaping and took refuge in Epila, a fortified town belonging to Aranda, but Lanuza and Luna were pulled from their horses and were with difficulty rescued alive.
Assembling in the convent they took the testimony of many of the nuns that Sor María's sanctity was feigned and her stigmata were painted.
I took him into the lock-keeper's house and closed the door.
On this occasion I took a cab from the city to the reception I spoke of, and had not time to go and change at my rooms.
I did as requested, and saw two young men standing together in the centre aisle, one in the full robes of a clergyman, the other in his ordinary dress, whom I took to be the Honourable John Haddon.
He opened his pocket-book, took out the bit of white metal, and handed it to me.
He went through the pockets of Ed, andtook a bundle of papers that was inside his coat, and this he stuffed away in his own clothes.
The beds are untouched, the broken china and the silver tray lie today at the foot of the stairway, and everything remains just as it was when the inquest took place.
There was a pained look on Mr. Macpherson's face as he reached forward and took the book.
I came on this,' he said, 'when I took down all these volumes.
All this took place in a very few moments, and I stood there as one paralysed, unable either to speak or scream, not that screaming would have done me any good in that horrible place of thick walls.
Selecting the prettiest, liveliest child in the Asylum, she took it home on trial for a week.
With which unusually solemn address, she took up her keys and trotted away, leaving her niece to follow with an anxious countenance, uncertain whether her championship had done good or ill to the cause she had at heart.
The pretty daughters were all married and gone, but a stout damsel took their place; and nothing seemed changed except that the old heads were grayer and the young ones a good deal taller than six years ago.
But Kitty laid to heart what she had said; Annabel took credit to herself for siding with her; and Emma owned that she was not trying to keep her atmosphere pure when she came to dance with the objectionable Randal.
I took mother to her, and she will do all that anybody can.
I'll try to be satisfied with that," and he tookboth her hands so beseechingly that she felt more ungrateful than ever.
Mac did not want to be lionized, and took it rather scornfully, which only added to the charm that people suddenly discovered about the nineteenth cousin of Thomas Campbell, the poet.
I thought you would want to rush into Phebe's arms the instant she got done," said Aunt Plenty, innocently wondering at the whims girls took into their heads.
I blew up the woman, and tookbaby straight away, for she had been abused; and it was high time.
Adam gave to Eve a position, an honorable position, for he took her in as a part of himself.
Immediately after the Council of Nice their works took on the infections of popery.
St. Leo, bishop of Rome, took the advantage of the troubles which the quarrel about the two natures occasioned in the empire, and presided at the council by his legates, which was a new feature in councils.
Is it not unreasonable to suppose that the author of man's being took no delight in him?
He took away the first that he might establish the second, by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ.
Yet this quality of law is claimed in order to make out the theory of a vicarious punishment endured by the Savior, that is, that He took the sinner's "law place.
Before we left, he took me to the little mound back of the shack, where I said 'good-bye' to the one ray of sunshine which had entered my life during those awful years.
She took Mrs. Gorham's hand affectionately in hers as she spoke, and Allen needed nothing more to demonstrate the strength of the bond which existed between the two.
He took the outstretched hand, and accepted the friendly pressure, conscious of a feeling not altogether pleasant.
Patricia rose obediently and took Riley's hand, as they left the room.
The Senator againtook the prospectus in his hand and opened the pages.
You settled the matter for yourself when youtook the stand you did with your father.
On the day of the contest, in order to make sure of accomplishing his purpose, he took an extra long start, and ran so hard that when he reached the mark from which he was to jump he had spent his strength.
Covington was never able to reconcile Gorham's willingness to do business with men of this stamp, and the apparent personal stand which he took against both their practices and their methods.
Covington stood in the doorway of the library as Alice slipped quietly into the room and took her place beside Eleanor and her father.
Allen's duties still took him frequently to the Gorham house, but he saw Alice only casually, as he made no effort to force himself upon her.
Stephen Sanford had not disappointed Gorham in the attitude he took when he first learned that Allen had been given a position with the Consolidated Companies.
Covington took the document in his hand and examined it carefully.
There was no word of censure against the boy--he even took pains to express in full his admiration for certain sterling qualities which this, Allen's first business experience, had brought out.
He took an early opportunity of breaking loose from this occupation, and of going to London with the romantic intention of making his fortune at Court.
This waxed tame while he grew wild, And, quite regardless of my smart, Left me his fawn, but took his heart.
With that his spear he took To strike at him: the mirth and music cease; The guests all rise this sudden storm t' appease.
On his return to England, he distinguished himself greatly in the Royal cause; and when that became desperate, he again took refuge in France, and wrote part of his 'Gondibert.
He received his education at Pembroke College, Oxford; and after travelling for some years abroad, he took up his abode in the Middle Temple.
No sooner did the Persian monarch find his kingdom seriously menaced than, despite his advanced age, he immediately took the field in person.
He also tookmany of the most illustrious Persians prisoners.
Para took advantage of their retreat to quit the town and throw himself on the protection of Valens, the Roman emperor, who permitted him to reside in regal state at Neocaesarea.
Upon this Chosroes, when a third summons was issued, took care to be present, and came fully equipped, as he thought, for battle.
Hereupon Justin recalled him as incompetent, and the further conduct of the war in Mesopotamia was entrusted to Belisarius, who tookup his headquarters at Daras.
And then, as Cheniston took her arm impatiently to lead her away, she smiled through the tears which threatened to blind her, and went out from his presence without one reproachful word.
Cheniston rose suddenly, took a few aimless steps across the floor, and then sank down on the bed again almost in his former position.
In the hall the manservant waited, and Anstice, pitying his evident anxiety, spoke reassuringly to him as he took his coat.
There was about him none of the weariness, the indifference which too often characterized his demeanour, and led some of his patients to complain that he took no interest in them or in their sufferings.
Anstice pushed forward a capacious rocking-chair and Iris took it obediently, while Anstice leaned against the table regarding her rather curiously.
Hiding the shock Cheniston's appearance had given him as well as he might, Anstice sat down beside the bed and took the painfully thin hand in his own.
The reek of petrol was a poor substitute for the clean country air, and the hoot of innumerable motors and 'buses struck on his ear with new and singularly disagreeable force as he took his way along Piccadilly.
He took one of her little pink ears in his fingers and screwed on the earring deftly.
Anstice handed across the letter he had received from Sir Richard Wayne, and Major Carstairs took the sheet gingerly, as though afraid of soiling his fingers by mere contact with the paper.
Anstice's introduction to the latter took place about a fortnight after his last visit to Cherry Orchard in a professional capacity.
On his side Anstice took a cigarette from an open box before him, but he did not light it, yet.
Then took we their ship and hauled it after us with a chain of roses and brought it back again.
Then we took certain of our vessels and filled them, some with water and some with wine out of the river, and lodged for that night near the shore.
Whereupon we worshipped, and made our prayers, and took council what was now to be done.
In 1819 he was offered the post of secretary of legation in Persia, which he accepted; and this took him away from the gay and rather wild society existence which he was leading, with bad results in many ways.
The latter took a great fancy to him, had him baptized, and would not allow his brothers to ransom him, but sent him, at the age of eighteen, abroad to be educated.
The peasants tookhim at his word, and brought two young Turkish girls, who had been captured at the siege of Bender.
No, he tookhis oath to that: That God had sent all this wealth to his house, And that he feared not, in the least, to be convicted of injustice towards his neighbor.
The reform movement of the '60's of the nineteenth century ended in a reaction which took possession of society as a whole during the '70's.
The gay, even dissipated, society life which he took up on leaving the Lyceum came to a temporary end in consequence of some biting epigrams which he wrote.
The little lassestook off their shoes, tucked up their frocks and waded into the puddle, to meet each other.
And Afanásy took of his garment, raked into it as much gold as he was able to carry, flung it on his shoulders and carried it to the city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "took" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
