Ambrose blew a loud shrill call, but it seemed to reach no one but Stephen, whom he presently saw dashing towards them.
I will share in this pious act towardsthe man I have ever reverenced.
Then, glad as he was to be on his native soil, his spirits sank lower and lower as the waggon creaked on under the hot sun towards London.
Sticks and fists were the weapons, and there were no very severe casualties before the prentices, being the larger number as well as the stouter and better fed, had routed their adversaries, and driven them off towards Harrow.
Stephen rode thither to see him, and found him a dying man, tyrannised over and neglected by his servants, and having often bitterly regretted his hardness towards his young brothers.
The repast was shared by the lay brethren and farm servants, and also by two or three big sheep dogs, who had to be taught their manners towards Spring.
Ye-yes," faltered Mrs. Greyne, for the first time in her life feeling as if she were being escorted towards the criminal dock by a jailer with Puritan tendencies.
He felt quite friendly towards this poor, unhappy girl, for whom, perhaps, such a shock was preparing upon the distant shore.
Towards bedtime, however, conscious that the time for colloquy was running short, they fell into more practical discourse.
Abdallah Jack waved his handtowards a stone rampart dimly seen in the faint light that emanated from the starry sky.
When, at length, she grew calmer he escorted her towards her cabin, offering her his arm, on which she leaned heavily.
And that I will never in anything act otherwise towards him than towardsmy own self.
But do you look in that direction, towards yourselves, since you cannot discover the crow, if perchance you may be able to espy the vultures.
Since, then, you have acted most becomingly, now there's an opportunity to add to your good in managing this matter with fidelity towards him.
Why, fetters, do you delay to run towards me and to embrace my legs that I may have you in custody?
Have no fears; at my own peril I'll make proof of his fidelity, relying upon his disposition; because he is sensible that I'm kindly disposed towards him.
May the Gods do towards me what they please, if for that speech I don't make you free over again, and if I don't torture Scapha to death.
When my father shall know this, Tyndarus, how well-disposed you have proved towards his son and himself, he will never be so avaricious but that he'll give you your liberty for nothing.
Bring the principal weights in the boat towards the end that is to seaward, but not to the extreme end.
That's exactly what you are to do, my boy, and your uncle will pay two hundred dollars a year towards puttin' you through school in proper shape.
Towards evening he would take a walk in the town, speaking familiarly to all he met.
His personal conception of the duties of the Church towards the labouring classes was catholic in the broadest and best sense of the term.
A noble and worthy priesthood, according to his first encyclical, was to be one of the means towards that restoring of all things in Christ "which was to heal the wounds of the world.
Parents who would not allow their children to attend were threatened with severe penalties; on this subject the bishop, so gentle towards sorrow and suffering, was stern and inflexible.
This gracious act of the new bishop was the first step towards a better understanding.
It was not the movement towardssocial reform itself which stood in need of being checked, but the extravagances of some over-enthusiastic reformers.
Mr. Lyttleton contends that this alone can explain the peculiarly brutal attitude towards "outcast" women which is a sustained cruelty to be discerned in no other relation of English life.
When the shoes became too worn to endure a third soling and she possessed but ninety cents towards a new pair, she gave up her struggle; to use her own contemptuous phrase, she "sold out for a pair of shoes.
These letters were addressed to her lover, her girl friends, and to the head of the rescue home, but none to her mother towards whom she felt a bitter resentment "because she did not warn me.
Towards the end of May the Elf and the Imp are always bothering the farmers round about, to find out when shearing and washing time is going to be.
We all meet under the shadow of the hedge as soon as we see two figures leave the farmyard and come towards us over the fields.
This might be deer or even antelope, rabbits, or, very far southtowards Shoshone Land, lizards.
The first year quail mated sparingly; the second year the wild oats matured no seed; the third, cattle died in their tracks with their heads towards the stopped watercourses.
Especially towards the end of his life, he came under the influence of Demetrius the Cynic.
Her name was a recommendation for the Book, and it was probably her satisfaction at the fame which it brought her that caused her to relent towards Propertius.
The poet's Graecizing influence seems to have led afterwards to hostility between him and his patron, but in spite of this, Ennius appears to have cherished warm feelings towards Cato, and praised his exploits in the Annals.
Towards the end of his life, he retired to Campania, and gave himself up to study.
Statius derived his first impulse towards poetry, and to his training he acknowledges deep obligations (ll.
Leo could not understand a single word, but he saw Herr von Heydeck's face grow dark, and noticed that he glanced anxiously towards the door of the old kitchen and then keenly at his nephew.
Be magnanimous, Herr von Bertram, not towards your enemy, but towards me, I pray you, I conjure you.
When Paul at last reached the village street, he did not turn in the direction of the Post, but went directly towards Dr.
This indifference of yours towards Fraeulein Schommer does not seem quite genuine.
All eyes were turned towards an aged officer, who had just appeared beneath the awning.
But as he was walking through the garden towards the narrow rock-path, oblivious of his promise to Hilda, a prey to dire temptation, a voice was suddenly heard that caused him to pause, startled.
Paul motioned towards the glass door of a room frequented by Buechner's guests in winter or in rainy weather.
Bertram was made to feel that the slightest attempt to assert his rights as her betrothed would be fruitless, and he could not but see how much more familiar was her manner towards Delmar, Herwarth, and even Leo than towards himself.
The cause was plain: Hilda was coming quickly towards them.
And leaning on Delmar's arm, the colonel hobbled towards the entrance, the young officers saluting him respectfully as they made way for him to pass.
She must have seen him coming, for she advanced directly towards him, holding out her hand in greeting, and speaking before he had time to address her.
To remain what it is, all its parts must converge towards unity; so that, to be what it was in its being, it should not be large, but single.
How does it happen that all the Animals who, like the Horse itself, are contained in divine Intelligence, do not incline towards the things here below (by generating them)?
If then having senses be implied in the form of man), does not Intelligence incline towards the things here below?
That which desires to become great in some other manner is ignorant of that in which true greatness consists; instead of proceeding towards its legitimate goal, it turns towards the outside.
If however it should move towards something different, it would have to become something different, and be two things.
Corresponding to an infinity already entirely present, we will have a progression towards infinity which perpetually tends towards what follows.
If it were to move in a simple and uniform manner, it would possess but a single thing, would be identical with it, and no longer proceed towards anything different.
When the soul perceives the light thus shed by the Good on the intelligible entities, she flies towards them, tasting an indescribable bliss in the contemplation of the light that illuminates them.
Thus He who does not issue from Himself, and does not incline towards anything whatever, is what He is in the most special sense.
Now it should contain an universal and omnipresent Life; consequently, it must move, or rather have been movedtowards all (beings).
The forlorn woman turned her lap towards the youngest.
I have erred and sinned grievously towards you; an evil spirit possessed my senses--but of that God is the judge and not you.
The voice was close to his ear and the brilliant figure lightly climbed up the ruined stone-work and in a moment was standing close to him under the arch and bending over towards him.
Tired to death and with bruised feet the lonely couple toiled through the stony chaos towards the still invisible green nook, where the miraculous waters of the three Holy Wells take their rise.
She seized his hand and drew it towards her with the book to kiss it.
The storm had exhausted its fury and had swept away towards the heath at Mals.
His foot had crossed the threshold, and he set forth without delay towards Marienberg.
Correntian turned towards him at last, and looked astonished at his agitated countenance.
How dare you call yourself so, criminal," and with all the added horror of his suffering he raised the upper part of his body and stretched out his arm towards Donatus.
A voice like the breathing of a spirit spoke in the farthest corner of the hall; every eye turned towards the spot.
On hearing this outcry the lion lowered his head, and taking up in his mouth a wooden bowl that was before him on the footway, humbly held it out towards Tartarin, who was immovable with stupefaction.
Thereupon Baya would let go her guitar, and with her large eyes turned towardsthe crier, seem to imbibe the prayer deliciously.
When all fell, Tartarin perceived two colossal Negroes furiously running towards him, brandishing cudgels.
It is true some Negro traders, come to Beaucaire Fair, assert having met in the middle of the deserts a European whose description agreed with his; he was proceeding towards Timbuctoo.
The Trappist brother crossed himself, the dubious women uttered little screams of affright, and the Orleansville photographer bent over towards the lion-slayer, already cherishing the unequalled honour of taking his likeness.
AT Milianah, Tartarin of Tarascon alighted, leaving the stage-coach to continue its way towards the South.
He had barely leaped into the captain's cutter before a breathless beast slid down from the heights of the square and galloped towards him.
It was of Mary he had been thinking, towards Mary he had been travelling, of her work it was that the miles had seemed leagues!
Lord Audley and Stubbs had remained outside, but when they saw Mary coming towards them, the young man left Stubbs and went to meet her.
But to-day it was fine, and as Mary descended the road that led from the house towards Riddsley, a road open to the vale on one side and flanked on the other by a rising slope covered with brushwood, a watery sun was shining.
She tried to think, tried to ask herself if she loved him, if she loved him enough; but the fancy for him which she had had from the beginning, that and his masterfulness swept her irresistibly towards him.
Then she saw coming along the deck towards them a man who had not found his sea-legs.
She was right, for the next moment three figures appeared hurrying across the park towards them.
He walked towards the middle of the lawn and Stubbs, thankful that he wore Wellington boots, followed him.
With the other half he was going to explore, while the light lasted, the fringe of the Chase towards Brown Heath.
A minute later he heard the footsteps of some one moving along the walk towards him.
Many solitary hours spent in the streets of London had gone some way towards widening Peter's outlook.
But Audley was already striding across the lawn towards the gate.
He saw moving towards him through the press a mail-phaeton and pair.
And John Audley rose from his seat at a distant table and came towards her.
They turned to go in, but it was noticeable that as they moved towards the house each, stirred by the same thought, swept the extent of the park with eyes that clung to it, and were loth to leave it.
A deep sigh made Lucy turn towards him, and, to his surprise, she opened the very subject which he had been struggling in vain to find courage to begin.
Will dragged at Lucy's hand as she attempted to lead himtowards the house.
They were at the Rectory gates now, and people were seen in all their Sunday trim hurrying towards the field where the tilting match was to take place.
There was a time when I feared he would never turn his thoughts towardsanother woman.
Mary turned towards the square, on either side of which stood the old timbered houses by the lych gate, and asked a man she knew, if the horsemen who were to tilt in the field were to pass that way.
Lady Pembroke smiled as she saw George advance with his cap in his hand towards Lucy.
George lingered about disconsolately, and at last left the Park and went towards the river, which he knew Mary Gifford and Lucy must cross on their homeward way.
Only towards the end did the audience perceive that he showed signs of fatigue.
Roosevelt believed that an attempt to create a negro Progressive Party, as such, would alienate the Southern whites and would certainly sharpen their hostility towards the blacks.
By his settlement of the coal strike, Roosevelt showed the workers that he would practice towards them the justice which he preached, but this did not mean that he would be unjust towards the capitalists.
President Wilson's apologists assert that the country was not ready for him to take any resolute attitude towards Germany in May, 1915.
The Kaiser expressed his real sentiment towards the United States in a remark which he made later, not expecting that it would reach American ears.
Accordingly, a joint High Commission was appointed towards the end of McKinley's first administration to consider the claims and complaints of the two countries.
Roosevelt remained strictly neutral towards both belligerents, making it evident, however, that either or both of them could count on his friendly offices if they sought mediation.
He promoted a spirit of alertness--and all the while he watched the horizon towards Cuba where the signs grew angrier and angrier.
Perhaps a chill ran down his back at the thought of standing up before an antagonist twelve paces away and that the fighters were to advance towards each other three paces after each round, until one of them was killed.
Going towards it, he found that it came from a cabin which served as saloon and tavern.
The truth is that no President since Lincoln had a kindlier feeling towards the South than Roosevelt had.
Towards the fourteenth century, it seems, a wave of realism swept over Gothic art.
The hair of angels comes to be stained yellow upon white glass, which towards the fifteenth century takes the place of the flesh tint.
What a strange thing it is in the history of ornament that the natural bias of the designer seems to be so irresistibly towards imitation!
One may have a strong personal bias towards strictly mosaic glass, and yet acknowledge that success justifies departure from what one thought the likelier way.
On one side the interest of the subject is towards the top of the lights, on the other to the bottom, and so on.
Towards its close the glass painter halts no longer between two opinions, between light and colour.
Towards the seventeenth century the plain glass, the extra part beyond the canopy or beyond the picture, would often be glazed in some simple pattern.
This much recognition of the separate openings is something to be thankful for towards the middle of the seventeenth century.
In fact, there is a leaningtowards combinations of green and yellow, rather than the red and blue so characteristic of Early glass.
The figures, with the exception of Jesse, are confined to the upper lights and tracery, forming a double row towards the top of the window.
So she checked the faint impulse she had had towards the confession of her foolishness, and was almost relieved when they reached the point where Delia was to turn back to Dornton.
Mrs Forrest, abruptly turning away from her roses, and beginning to hasten towards the house, without pausing a moment.
All her hard feelings towards her returned, and they were the more intense because she could speak of them to no one--a storm without the relief of thunder.
Across the field towards them, mounted on a stout, grey cob, came the farmer at a slow jog-trot.
A girl of about sixteen came towards them, stopping to speak to the ladies as she passed them on her way up the room.
A little farther on, Delia had pointed out another gate, on the other side of the lane, which led straight into the Vicarage field, and towards this she now made her way.
There was no mistaking the expression in his face as he turned ittowards her.
As she did so, a little girl came out of the farmhouse and came slowly down the lane towards her.
She considered Anna thoughtfully for a moment, and then added, jerking her head towards the next gate, "Won't you come and sit on that gate?
The Professor was very quiet, but she thought he turned his eyes towards the door now and then, as though looking for some one.
On the same afternoon as that on which Anna was travelling towards Waverley, Mrs Hunt, the doctor's wife in Dornton, held one of her working parties.
The party in the ring now moves towards one of the players and must tell who he is by touching him with the spoons only.
Getting ready for our nasturtiums,” and the boy tossed his head laughingly towards a large quantity of the golden brown blossoms, digging energetically all the while, though, as if moments were more precious than he could tell.
Maud, and the frock, apparently only a cloud of Valenciennes lace, was held towards her mother.
The person bearing this name must at once rise, and hurrying towards the hunter, must take hold of the back of his coat or jacket.
Festoon the mantel, or wind it around the chandelier, allowing the ends to drop low towards the table.
He turned an interested face towards his friend and said: “There’s far more the flavor of Narragansett Pier or Bar Harbor about her than of the woods, or she may have come from Saratoga.
While they are in this position, the hostess must step towards the Queen and say, “In the name of this court, we crown you Queen of May.
Turning towardsme she said, “You remember at our tea, the day after you came, a white-haired lady accompanied by her granddaughter?
When you enter, walk towards one of the corners in the room; if your confederate is looking up, you will know you are in the right corner, but if he is looking down you must try another.
As each goes behind the screen, a table is seen on which is a cat with her tail towards a saucer of milk, where, were it not for the showman’s efforts, her head would naturally be.
The family never again parted with Moselle until he died, which sad event occurred towards the close of the same year.
In vain doth he clutch at her hair and at her kerchief, and reach, with pretty broken murmurings, as of water through crowding roots, after his little bare toes: never so much as a motion makes she towards him.
And methought no mother's heart e'er yearned towards her new-born babe as yearned my heart towards the youth.
And all at once she ceased, and came back towards the young man, and returned his sickle unto him.
And think you my sister's heart will be warmertowards thee if her brother's blood be spilled at thy behest?
It was towards the setting of the sun when Sir John and Lord Denbeigh rode up to the door of Amhurste, and my lady, knowing naught, came out at the sound of the horses' feet, thinking only to greet her uncle.
Yet was I tendertowards him for the sake o' by-gone days.
And Mistress Marian gazed on her for an instant more, then dashed her aside, and turned towards the cave.
It was towards the last of May that my lady did beg that we would lift her out to sit in a long-chair on the east terrace.
One day it chanced that my lady rode the blue-roan out into the woods, towards the hut of old Joan Gobble, who was crippled by reason of age.
She turned slowly round towards the inhabitant of the tower.
Then the smaller boat came on towards the shore, towards the point near which a carriage was waiting.
He cametowards her with the air of courtesy and grace, which seemed his most characteristic aspect.
She stood and looked after the young pair as they went down together to the beach, waving her hand to them when they turned towards her, as unconscious of any disturbing influence as were the trees that waved their branches too.
He started a little when she spoke; his face, when he turned it towards her, was full of strange expression.
She stood for a moment undecided, then turned towards that wild conjunction of the living and the dead, the relics of the past, and the fresh growth of nature, which give so much charm to every ruin.
He made a rapid step towards the door, then paused, with a bewildering sense that he was leaving two innocent women without protection in a place full of dangers which they knew nothing of.
The face she turned towards the minister overawed him in the simplicity of his joy.
Old Macalister came towards them from the now open door, at which stood Symington in attendance.
She slept towards morning, as Walter did, and when she woke, woke to a sense of happiness so exquisite and tender that her soul was astonished and asked why in an outburst of gratitude and praise to God.
Then she moved away towards the beach, saying, "Hamish is waiting," with a sigh of weariness.
As regards him who has presented himself last, I entertain a greater hatred towards him thantowards the others, and if I cannot rid myself of him by any other means I will have him assassinated.
So great is her vanity, that she considers the most accomplished prince not only unworthy of her, but most insolent in daring to raise his thoughts towards her, and she looks upon his death as a just chastisement for his temerity.
The Arab, taking me by the hand, conducted me towards the palace of Tchedad; its construction, in point of art and splendour of adornment, was unspeakably magnificent.
Tourandocte," hereupon cried the prince of the Nagaeis, "is it possible that you entertain such favourable sentiments towards me?
Lost in admiration of this glorious scene, the Arab forgot to keep his wings moving, and we descended rapidly towards the ground, which I of course reached first, he falling upon me.
An indescribable charm seemed to attract him irresistibly towards the youth.
We then directed our faces towards Bagdad, and at the end of a short time arrived there, without meeting with any thing else worth relating.
Here are the twenty taeels that my friend Tchin has given me; can I do better than employ them towards the maintenance of some virtuous bonzes?
Just at this moment he caught sight through the window of four or five persons hurrying towards his house.
This was one day towards the close of our journey, when the Arab confessed to me that he was aware of this fatal quality of theirs, and that it was in order to free himself from it that he purchased me.
Fifteen cubits from the tower a scaffold was raised, covered with white satin, and around the scaffold were arranged several pavilions of taffetas of the same colour open towards the scaffold.
When prayers were ended, and all the worshippers had departed, he turned towards me and said, with a smiling look, "O my brother!
The British engineer party had not completed the installation of the telephone in the cottage when the lieutenant saw the Germans debouching from the wood towards the hamlet, and considerable movement in the hamlet itself.
Slanting a rifle towards it, and comparing the angle with that of the hole made by the bullet, the captain decided that the copse was too far to the right, and swept his glasses towards the left.
Instinctively he gave it a wide berth, and was leaving it some paces on his left when he heard a sudden guttural exclamation, and two figures rushed from the shedtowards him.
Keeping always on the shady side of the hedges, they paused only to glance towards the tower, to see if the light was still showing, then turned their backs on it and hurried on.
An aeroplane soared high over the position towards the German lines.
In a few more minutes the lorry stood on the road, facing towards its original destination.
Clambering up the western bank, the two men, bending low, raced as fast as they could towards a small clump of trees that stood up dark in the moonlight.
Freeing himself instantly, Kenneth sprang up and sprinted towards the road, hearing in a moment the thud of heavy footsteps behind him.
While he was still at some distance the man happened to glance towards him, then went into the house.
Assuring themselves that there were no sounds in their immediate neighbourhood, they got up and stole towards the tree-lined wall of the churchyard.
Gathering his strength, he rushed headlong towards his last hope.
A man, by his figure an officer, turned from it into the communication trench, and walked rapidly towards the firing line.
But this could be of no use to a sniper, for it was on the wrong side of the embankment, towards the north.
Towards noon two men from each section were told off to go back to a farm house behind the lines for the day's rations.
They stole towards the western side of the clump, and, standing within the shadow of the trees, looked out across the country.
Harry at once flung himself face downwards, and the two crawled through several inches of water towards the dry land.
Nature behavestowards all animals left to her care with a predilection, that seems to prove how jealous she is of that prerogative.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towards" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: against; toward; upon; versus
