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Example sentences for "turned round"

  • Then he turned round, and seemed to be of those Who at Verona run for the Green Mantle Across the plain; and seemed to be among them The one who wins, and not the one who loses.

  • And when he turned round he saw the two Erdmanns, who had hidden behind the musicians' platform and were making clandestine signs to them.

  • Wonderingly he turned round; the blood froze in his veins; a purple flash of fire shot up in the dark sky.

  • He turned round, groped with his hands in the air, and, as if thunder-struck, sank to the ground.

  • Instinctively he turned round, and saw the brothers Erdmann, whom he had not met for years.

  • And I turned round to look at the old Hall.

  • When the curtain had fallen upon the first act of "Don Giovanni" he turned round in his place to observe the house.

  • The lady, who sat facing him, turned round in her place and glanced upward with a spirited toss of her head, displaying the agreeable features of his daughter.

  • Then I turned round; my lady and Mr. Urbain were there.

  • When he turned round, Madame de Cintre had risen; she stood there silent and passive.

  • And the Colonel saluted Malcolm and marched off with his head in the air, while more than one fashionable lounger turned round to look at the fine soldierly figure.

  • When he was half-way down the drive he turned round--the door was still open, and the cheerful light streamed out into the blackness.

  • She would have crept away; but at the sound of her footsteps he turned round, and her retreat was cut off.

  • I turned round, and, wrapped in a large blue cloak, I beheld my good friend Francis Ardry.

  • I turned round, and beheld a man in the dress of a postillion, whom I instantly recognized as he to whom I had rendered assistance on the night of the storm.

  • I was taken so aback with this, and the extreme impertinence of it, from a mere young girl like Annie, that I turned round to march away and have nothing more to say to her.

  • But as Carver entered it, he turned round, and beheld me not a hundred yards behind; and I saw that he was bearing his child, little Ensie, before him.

  • I may as well encourage him," was my reflection; accordingly I turned round, with a most good-natured expression of countenance.

  • He started, turned round, and found himself face to face with Dr.

  • He turned round as she came in, and showed her a pale face against the window-frame.

  • My lord, after hanging up his cloak and hat, turned round in the lighted entry, and made him an imperative and silent gesture with his thumb, and with the strange instinct of obedience, Archie followed him into the house.

  • Instead of answering me he turned round to the Count.

  • My heart beat violently as I turned round.

  • He turned round to us with the bird perched on his shoulder.

  • When he had advanced a few steps he stopped, having apparently decided that these were good quarters, turned round to the soldiers standing at the entrance, and in a loud voice of command ordered them to put up the horses.

  • Oh, the spring, I suppose," he thought as he turned round.

  • Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.

  • To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.

  • Then he jumped up, turned round in the air, and came down facing the other way.

  • He had carelessly laid it down for a moment while he got out of a hole with his niblick, and when he turned round for it the thing was gone.

  • At Charming's entry he turned round, gave a start of surprise, bent forward eagerly a moment, and then leant back chuckling.

  • Two or three times I turned round abruptly.

  • I turned round to apologize; it was my brother in office, the estimable Treasurer of the Duskydale Institute.

  • When Michel caught his arm in a sharp, fast grip, he turned round with a scowl, and tried, but in vain, to shake off his grasp.

  • After that he turned round to me, and asked very anxiously if I had any objection to parting with that sketch.

  • He turned round before he was too far away, and saw them still clustered without the gate; every one of them known to him from his boyhood, the story of whose lives had been bound up with his own and formed a part of his history.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advantage over; asked them; flint arrow; good plan; inch telescope; letter writer; live according; native state; reduce the; remains true; six years; somewhat similar; turned abruptly; turned again; turned and; turned aside; turned away; turned back; turned out; turned over; turned sharply; turned suddenly; turned the; turned towards; turned under; turned upside