He held one hand thrust between his waistcoat buttons, and the other ready to turn the pages, and in the course of the morning you would have seen many changes in his face.
There's Chowne's wife ugly enough to turn the milk an' save the rennet, but she'll niver save nothing any other way.
It is but the shot out of an 'elder gun;' he might as well 'go about to turn the sun to ice with fanning in his face with a peacock's feather.
Poet will not tell us that this did not unconsciously wake, in that pure mind, the feather's-weight that was perhaps needed to turn the scale.
You may as well go about to turn the sun to ice, with fanning in his face with a peacock's feather.
One might, indeed, as well go about to turn the sun to ice, with fanning in his face with a peacock's feather.
Accordingly, though the royal boy-admiral came at once from the Hague to Helvoetsluys, went on board the Fleet, and was for a week or two the pet of the sailors, the higher powers at Paris hastened to turn the accident to the largest account.
I thought it better, therefore, to turn the conversation.
It is ours also to disarm and elude the wrath of men, to turn the swords of our foes against each other, to glide (if not incorporeal) invisible to eyes over which we can throw a mist and darkness.
Mervale, languidly, endeavouring to turn the tables on his guest.
He was also requested to turn the cannon of the fort against Verplanck's and the vessels in the river.
Finding the enemy's position on the North Anna stronger than either of his previous ones, I withdrew on the night of the 26th to the north bank of the North Anna, and moved via Hanover Town to turn the enemy's position by his right.
To turn the enemy by his right, between the two Annas is impossible on account of the swamp upon which his right rests.
I have determined therefore to turn the enemy's right by crossing at or near Hanover Town.
By this imposition of Names, some of larger, some of stricter signification, we turn the reckoning of the consequences of things imagined in the mind, into a reckoning of the consequences of Appellations.
Turn the dough (which should have been stirred into a smooth ball with a spoon) on it roll to the thickness of half an inch, cut into small cakes, and cook ten minutes.
When well mixed, sprinkle the board with flour, turn the paste on it, and roll into a flat piece.
Turn the paste on this, and pound quickly and lightly with the rolling pin.
Turn the remainder of the paste into the bag and press it through the tube on to the edges of the plates, where the puff paste has been cut off.
The attempt of McDowell to turn theleft of the Enemy's Bull Run line, has failed.
Turn the water on and off alternately and rapidly, to imitate the intermittent discharge of the ventricles.
The radius, as well as the bones of the wrist and hand, turns around, thus enabling us toturn the palm of the hand upwards and downwards.
Frequently the respiration is seriously disturbed, thus the blood is imperfectly aërated, and so in turn the nutrition of the entire system is impaired.
Thus, when we turn the head to the right or left, the skull and the atlas move together, both rotating on the odontoid process of the axis.
He had hoped perhaps to find the division in the town, to turn the tide of feeling in Sicca by his presence, and to see the ablest of his opponents trapped within the walls.
Change the subject or turn the page, and the Greek statesman and historian could point to the dreadful reverse of this picture.
Turn the oven on HIGH, and then check it at 30 second intervals.
If ice cream stored in your freezer is soft, turn the control to a colder setting.
If a gas burner or oven doesn't light, turn the knob to "off" and ask an adult for help.
You'll soon dry there, sir," said Gluck, and sat down again to turn the mutton.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turn the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
