I see," he shouted back, turning his head to look at me before disappearing among the willow bushes.
He was in the act again of listening, turning his head to the wind, and something in the expression of his face made me halt.
It was an otter, alive, and out on the hunt; yet it had looked exactly like the body of a drowned manturning helplessly in the current.
A black thing, turning over and over in the foaming waves, swept rapidly past.
He worked slowly, mechanically, turning the foil between his fingers with the manual dexterity that one sometimes sees in stupid persons.
Here he camped, easing the mule of the saddle, and turning him loose to find what nourishment he might.
It seemed as though he were bitted and ridden; as if some unseen hand were turning him toward the east; some unseen heel spurring him to precipitate and instant flight.
He went to bed himself, turning out the gas, but leaving the window-curtains up so that he could see the tooth the last thing before he went to sleep and the first thing as he arose in the morning.
He came toward her and took the tray from her hands, and, turning back into the room with it, made as if to set it upon his table.
Come on," shouted Marcus, furious, turningback to McTeague.
Trina could not whittle them fast enough and cheap enough to compete with the turning lathe, that could throw off whole tribes and peoples of manikins while she was fashioning one family.
With cold, trembling fingers she lighted the lamp, and, turning about, looked at her trunk.
Then Trina gave up, all in an instant, turning her head to his.
The geraniums blooming in the starch boxes in the window, the aged goldfish occasionally turning his iridescent flank to catch a sudden glow of the setting sun.
Turning to the prosecuting attorney, the judge said: 'You will do me the favour of entering a nolle prosequi; that liquor of Sterrit's I have reason to know is enough to make a man do anything dirty.
When he asked for reasons, she only shook her head, turning her eyes from him to me.
Raften had a knack of turning up at any point when something was going on, taking in the situation fully, and then, if he disapproved, of expressing himself in a few words of blistering mockery delivered in a rich Irish brogue.
Ye can't see the Pleiades now--they belong to the winter nights; but you kin see the Dipper the hull year round, turning about the North Star.
Turning savagely toward him he said, meaningly: "Now, no more of your sass, you dirty little sneak.
Is it not so,' sez he, turning to us, and we all yelled 'How!
Reading would have done had books been at hand, but not so well as sketching, because then the eyes are fixed on the book instead of the woods, and the turning of the white pages is apt to alarm the shy woodfolk.
XVIII The Owls and The Night School One night Sam was taking a last look at the stars before turning in.
Afterwards, turning to Gemma, the eccentric old woman began to pay her all sorts of compliments in very fair Italian, while the men stood together smoking and chatting, sometimes in mysterious undertones.
Terribly hot in Leghorn," observed Tristram, turning the conversation after an awkward pause of a few moments.
You must be very tired," he said, turning to her as they emerged from the station-yard into the busy Strand.
Then turning to his friend's companion, he asked, "Are you Livornese?
For a moment she stood chatting to her husband, her visitor, and their companion, then turning down the smoking lamp, placed several chairs around the plain deal-topped table.
Then, turning it over, she exhibited his own angular signature upon its back.
You, too, must be thirsty," he said, turning to her.
Well," she inquired, turningquickly upon him the moment they were alone.
Then, turning to the waiter standing behind his chair, he inquired whether he spoke Italian.
Then he forced open her mouth, and turningthe hissing gas-jet to obtain a full light, gazed into it.
Meanwhile, the two men proceeded to the Doctor's study, turning the key in the door after them.
Her questioner followed her with an admiring glance, then turning to her father, exclaimed warmly, "She is a remarkably intelligent child, Dinsmore!
Nothing much," said he, gruffly, turning his back to her.
Yes, I believe I should," said he, turning away with a very grave face.
Elsie was about to make a still more angry reply; but she restrained herself, and turning to her book, tried to study, though the hot, blinding tears came so thick and fast that she could not see a letter.
Elsie was slowly turning over the leaves of the book, enjoying the pictures very much, studying them intently, but resolutely refraining from even glancing over the printed pages.
Elsie sighed deeply, and turning over on her pillow, cried herself to sleep.
He now planned a great scheme for turning all Europe into one vast empire, with kings and princes over the various nations, but himself as the head of all.
His humour is irresistible, and is strongly characterized by all the eccentricity and wit of a Gilhay, turning the most trifling incidents into laughable burlesque.
Proceeding a little way along the high street from the Mitre, and turning up the first opening on our left hand, we stood before the gateway of Lincoln college.
As the carriage rolled down the hill turning out of the New Road the alderman was particularly eloquent in pointing out and describing the once celebrated tea gardens, Bagnigge Wells.
This is sometimes the cause of a momentary rise, and what is known by the jobbers turning out bears for the day.
The track of a foot, by a greater or less turning out of the toes, demonstrates from which side of the mountains a party has come.
But it is in his faculty of turningupon us the whimsical and humorous side of a fact or a character that Saxe especially excels.
I take it to be impossible that a floating mass of ice should travel onward in one rectilinear direction, turning neither to the right nor to the left, for such a distance.
Griffith was two days upon the road, and all that time he was turning over and discussing in his mind how he should conduct the disagreeable but necessary business he had undertaken.
There is a foot power jig-saw in the shop and it is an instructive sight to see a child of seven, too small to work the pedal, holding his piece of wood, turning and shaping it in the saw without hurting himself.
Do you remember his "Fete Champetre" at Dresden, with the little exquisite figure of a woman seated on the ground turning away from the spectator?
Then turning to her young son she said, "Come, Frank, come, my child.
He looked her full in the face after the operation, trembling and turning very red, as his wont was when moved.
But since he has taken this madcap freak of turning painter there is no understanding the chap.
The Colonel started back, turning very red, and as if struck by a sudden remembrance.
Being tied up to a bank for two or three days during the Hamseen wind, which was blowing a perfect gale right in our teeth, I saw a curious sight of Vultures turning themselves into a sort of coroner's jury on a dead buffalo.
There followed a moment's silence, during which he experimented in turning the wick up again.
He can assimilate opium enough to kill you and me and every other vertebrate creature on the premises, without turning a hair, and he hasn't got even fairly under way yet.
Then more footsteps, the resonant slam of a carriage door out in the street, the grinding of wheels turning on the frosty road, and the racket of a vehicle and horses going off at a smart pace into the night.
The priest, turning on his heel, came back again and went boldly up the broad steps of the front entrance to this same structure, which Theron now discovered to be the Murray Hill Hotel.
The doctor's face, too, which had on the flash of Theron's turning seemed given over to unmixed anger, took on an expression of bodily suffering instead.
He tightened his clutch on his valise, and, turning his back on them and their uproar, tried to brave it out and stand where he was.
Theron had a sudden sheepish notion of turning and running.
She was turning over this, that, and the other hostile thought and childish grievance--most of all she was dallying with the idea of asking him where he had been till after midnight.
He had a new pleasure in turning this over in his mind.
She looked meditatively at this little glass for a moment, turning it about in her fingers with a smile.
The lawyer ostentatiously drew up his chair to the desk, and began turning over the leaves of his biggest book.
As we got at their head the officer in command of them ordered his men to halt, and, turning his sword, tendered it to Capt.
It was so that the Legion got right into the train before being discovered, and they went to turning loose the mules and raising Cain in general.
The reports from Johnston's army made matters look more gloomy, and as time went on Sherman commenced his raid, going to Savannah and then turning up and entering South Carolina.
But on turning the corner, she stopped abruptly, and, still holding the doll closely, she dropped to one knee and wiped off the tears from the muddy little cheeks with a not ungentle hand.
If Jack, their new leader, could decide to, they would follow him, and they yelled it out much better than any one would suppose possible after their fright, turning their backs on Mike.
Mr. Dyce turning to fix her with a stare, she subsided, ducking behind her neighbor's back.
I'm going to find him," he announced to himself, and turning down the angle, he knocked at the first door on the left.
To his home, of course," said the little doctor, turning his spectacles up to Mac.
Eleanor, turning in at the driveway, more puzzled, if possible, than her mother.
But then, as Jasper observed to Polly when this dire news was announced, "Cousin Eunice was always turningup when least wanted.
I see nothing," said Miss Rhys, turning around with her head over her shoulder.
Very well," said Miss Rhys, turning back to her embroidery again.
Phronsie, actually turning her back on her child to give all her attention to this absorbing conversation, with its most attractive vocabulary.
And turning to the father he said, "Offer him to God.
He had left it where Jack had fallen, and turning at once he ran back to the spot.
Evidently such a volley was unexpected, and when it was seen that five of the horsemen had fallen from their saddles, the remainder suddenly halted, and turning their horses with the rapidity of lightning rode off at a furious gallop.
And when within some fifteen yards of the gate the horse which had first roused their suspicion burst from a street close beside them, and turning to the gate crashed on towards it, its hoofs striking sparks from the stones.
The others are alive, but helpless for the moment, sahib," he went on, turning to Owen.
Turning his head, he placed his hand to his ear and growled out a reply.
And now I am getting to the close of my little lecture," said the Major, turning away from his listeners for a few moments while he stared out through the wide-open windows.
Turning their horses, they trotted on into the night, and, managing to elude the swarms of horsemen sent to pursue them, finally came to a halt in a shady wood some twenty miles away.
He stretched out a huge paw and dragged Owen up, turning just in time to ward off a thrust made by one of the enemy.
There was a thud near at hand, and turning he was just in time to see his captain pitch forward on his head and lie doubled up in the grass, with his horse, half-killed, lying partially on him.
They discussed the matter for a few moments, and then turningtheir horses galloped down to the village.
Turning their faces to the hills they rode on at a steady trot, and arrived just as night was falling at the spot where the troops were camped.
The end car, turning over and over, struck the river a hundred feet below and impaled itself on a jagged spur of rock hidden under the swirl of waters.
Here he found his secretary turning over the illustrated papers in the hall lounge, and gave a few curt directions.
Business--the turning of other men's energies to his own ends--was the very breath of his being.
I've been turning my think-tank on to the Hudson Bay Transport flotation.
Hunt around for a few more clues beforeturning it over to the police.
A modern Midas with the power of turning what he touched to gold.
Step 9 shows how to close the edge of the mat by turning back the straws on each other.
Weave entirely around again without any additions, turning five straws each time.
Then go around again weaving two and adding one, in the same manner as before, turning seven straws each time.
Weave g, turning upward and over f, then making a double corner at y, passing under f, to the left and over f, and let float.
As is seen, the holes are made simply by turning the straws in the weave.
Shows addition of second straw ef woven to the right, where the same process of turning is gone through as illustrated in steps 6 to 9 inclusive.
Step 7 shows theturning of the straws on finishing the edge of the mat.
The different shaped holes in other designs (see plates) are made by turning a different number of straws according to the shape desired.
Dick, turning angrily upon the porter, for he was hurt and annoyed at being spoken to before the other men.
It must be done; the attempt must be made; and after turning and gazing at the convicts, he bent down towards the pale face at his side.
Turning quickly, I was surprised and shocked to see two men bearing on their shoulders a coffin.
We saw them step from the window; and hastily bidding me good-bye, my companion was turning away.
But deception was impossible; all knew that the postponement itself was a flank movement, and that it was desired for the chance of some advantage turning up for those who now had absolutely nothing to lose.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
