He had been holding on to an oar, but the buoyancy of the wood was insufficient to keep his head above the surface.
The steam cutter can then tow the other boats to save the men a long and arduous pull.
Osborne and Webb hastened to the end of the bridge, but the suicide never appeared again.
He took her arms and raised her slowly; and they stood before each other, their twined hands hanging loose between them, their eyes into each other's, gravely reading.
In his hands, which laytwined on his knees, were a lot of little metallic oblongs.
See now that little ivy-twined basket of luscious fruit: it looks just like him.
When she came back her hair was again bound up with a fillet, but the fillet was no longer a simple blue ribbon, it was of two ribbons, one blue, the other white, twined together.
To this Dolores answered nothing, but the taper fingers of the hand twined round his with a gentle pressure, which sent a thrill of proud joy through his whole frame.
Then he twined his arms about her neck and laughed, received a kiss and the admonition to go to sleep again quick, as it wouldn't be day for a long time yet.
Now it boxed the ears of a too stupid stable-boy; now, with deliberation, it drove in a nail on which to hang a self-twined garland.
M42) Sometimes Bohemian damsels make a different use of their midsummer garlandstwined of nine sorts of flowers.
Sometimes a number of such garlands are twined together to form a crown, with which the well is decked.
In this particular instance the fifth internode (including the hypocotyl) was the first which plainly circumnutated and twined round a stick.
The plant had twined closely round a thin stick, so that the circumnutation of the stem was prevented.
She twined one, and gave in life's hour so rare Her red lips' pair; He took them and he pressed them, and he blushed as she did there.
She twined him a wreath: "Do at all you care For my golden hair?
She twinedone so large, of discordant hue: "My bride's-wreath true!
She twined yet undaunted without a stay At her bride's-array.
She twined one all white as a lily-band: "'T is my right hand.
She twined him a wreath of the flowers blue: "My eyes for you!
But now it was long past the Midsummer Day, All the flowers away: She twined it of the flowers, though they all were now away!
She twined one blood-red, with her love in each strand: "'T is my left hand.
She twined of the flowers that bloomed around "Every one I found!
She twinedit and twined, till her fingers were sore: "Crown me, I implore!
Madame Desvarennes, between Jeanne and Micheline, had her arms twined round the two young girls.
Her fingers twined their way confidingly between his.
As Eric struggled with the sleeves of his coat, shetwined her arms round his neck.
Under its latest transformation in Greece, a winged rod with two serpents twined round it, it has come down to our own times representing two of the functions of Hermes, more than ever in vogue among men, industry and commerce.
In the Archaeological Exposition at Turin, 1884, the number was so great that they were twined about the columns, thereby providing a place of storage as well as a place of display.
She twined up her hair wi' eager ban's, And in wi' the rainbow kaim!
He twisted the brown hair for one strand, The raven hair for another; He twined the golden hair in a band To bind the one to the other.
As he passed the window his tall figure obscured the fading daylight, causing his mother to raise her head, and in a moment her long, bony arms were twined around his neck.
They twined about his body as creeping plants about the branches of the tamarisk, or as one eel about another: biting at his heart.
Then the snakes approached the sorceress, and as Zinzara stooped slowly over them, and put down her hands, still holding the flute, upon which she did not cease to play, the snakes twined themselves about her bare arms.
Through ittwined a river and on both sides were hills dotted with trees.
A slender river twined by alder and willow through the meadows.
This man had been twined round the roots of every heart.
His stoop had deepened, his head was sunk on his breast, his hands twined behind him.
Now love each other, And may the circlet that your arms have twined In this first joyful moment widen out Further and further to a perfect ring Within which you may wander, side by side, Sharing your joys in harmony complete!
What meant that long green mound stretching at my side, that broken shaft, twined with the cypress vine?
Thus my early childhood passed,--and every day my heart twined more closely round my mother's heart, and I began to form great plans of future achievements to be wrought for her.
My arms were twined around him,--I was clasped to his bosom with the most passionate emotion, and the hearts so violently wrenched asunder once more throbbed against each other.
I know not how it is, but you have twined yourself about my heart so gradually, so gently, but so strongly, that I cannot separate you from it.
I had no conception till then, how closely and strongly love and hope had twined their fibres round him; or how hard would be the task of rending them from him.
The air seemed full of fragrance, and the sunshine rippled down through the leaves of the old elm tree, falling in little golden waves of light upon the vines, that were twined about the doorway and casements of the cottage.
A wreath of natural flowers was twined very gracefully within her waving and almost lint-white locks, and in her hand she held a shepherdess's crook.
She uttered the words again, with her soft white arms twined lovingly around his neck, and she held them there until he came to the end of his wretched story.
But the lips of the hapless girl whose arms were twined about his neck were mute and cold as marble.
Her daughter Margaret stood near her, arrayed in satin and tulle, with pearls white as moonbeams lying on her breast, clasping her white throat and arms, and twined among the meshes of her dark hair.
A moment later, two girls, both pretty as pictures, with their arms lovingly twined about each other, glided into the parlor.
The demigod was mute Till, at the altar, where time out of mind Such guests became oblations, chaplets twined His forehead long enough, and he began Slaying the slayers, nor escaped a man.
Each, with a glory and a rapture twined About it, joined the rush of air and light And force: the world was of one joyous mind.
Thirty poisonous trees stood twined round with roses, as if they were signs of the thirty years of man's passionate madness.
He took it out now, and twined its long stem in and out of her abundant curls.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fretted; interlaced; intertwined; interwoven; laced; plaited; raddled; textile; woven; wreathed
