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Example sentences for "under his"

  • Slipping off his shoes he stole into the hut on tiptoe, and taking from his pocket some food of which the goat was particularly fond, he laid it under his nose.

  • When they reached the shepherd the jackal pulled out his purse from under his foreleg, and made his bargain.

  • The King sends immediately for the powerful Earl Godwin, who happens to be near; reminds him that Dover is under his government; and orders him to repair to Dover and do military execution on the inhabitants.

  • But, thorns were springing up under his bed of roses, as he soon found out.

  • Then, hiding it under his cloak, he bore it out into the garden and to a deep well, and, first making sure that nobody was by to see, dropped casket and Genie and all into the water.

  • So in went the beggar, and the first loaf of bread he laid his hand upon was the one in which the money was hidden, and off he marched with it under his arm, without so much as saying thank you.

  • And, tucking it under his arm, off he tramped.

  • Macdonald of Keppoch led the warriors who had, a few months before, under his command, put to flight the musketeers of King James.

  • Holland, under his government, and England under hers, might act cordially together against the common enemy.

  • At Dublin he was the centre of a small circle of learned and ingenious men who had, under his presidency, formed themselves into a Royal Society, the image, on a small scale, of the Royal Society of London.

  • The lamplighter was going his rounds now; and as the fiery jets sprang up under his touch, one might have fancied them astonished at being suffered to introduce any show of brightness into such a dismal scene.

  • He laughed at Mistress Affery's start and cry; and as he laughed, his moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache.

  • As she placed the soup before the guest, who changed his attitude to a sitting one, he looked her full in the face, and his moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache.

  • His moustache went up under his nose, and his nose came down over his moustache, in a very sinister and cruel manner.

  • His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.

  • Unless I am much mistaken," he added, under his breath.

  • Ali, coming through the passage with an armful of pillows and blankets pressed to his breast high up under his chin, caught sight of his master before the door closed behind him.

  • To the westward," explained Almayer, under his breath.

  • Terry hacked and dug, but said to us under his breath.

  • Jeff, under his breath, as if they might fly if he spoke aloud.

  • Terry, under his breath, and we crept softly toward the wall, taking advantage of the shadow of every bush and tree.

  • She had been a member of Daly's famous New York company, and afterward a 'star' under his direction.

  • Under his coat he wore a knitted grey vest, and, instead of a collar, a silk scarf of a dark bronze-green, carefully crossed and held together by a red coral pin.

  • He stood in the little entry hall, the lantern and his fur cap under his arm, shaking hands with us.

  • Pavel snatched the cup and drank, then made Peter give him the bottle and slipped it under his pillow, grinning disagreeably, as if he had outwitted someone.

  • He only took it under his arm, however, and marched out of the office in profound silence.

  • The Third Part Of His Office Was To Be King (Under His Father) Of The Elect As for the third part of his Office, which was to be King, I have already shewn that his Kingdome was not to begin till the Resurrection.

  • Paul, and endeavoured, without success, to establish normal schools throughout the empire under his direction.

  • The king took it under his protection, enlarged its scope by the addition of natural history, physics and mathematics, and in 1743 constituted it a royal academy with an endowment fund.

  • The accountant-general, in regard to these matters, is directed by him, and the director of Greenwich Hospital is under his authority.

  • In 1687 the emperor Leopold took the society under his protection, and its name was changed in his honour.

  • The officer in immediate charge of this branch of the controller's work, under his direction, is the director of naval ordnance.

  • Now Arphaxad king of the Medes had brought many nations under his dominions, and he built a very strong city, which he called Ecbatana, Arphaxad.

  • And he made himself a two-edged sword, with a haft in the midst of the length of the palm of the hand, and was girded therewith, under his garment, on the right thigh.

  • The Captain in his own apartment was sitting with his hands in his pockets and his legs drawn up under his chair, on a very small desolate island, lying about midway in an ocean of soap and water.

  • Mr Chick had indeed indulged in, under his breath, and which Mrs Chick repeated in a tone of withering scorn.

  • Half a century after this one of the ARROW (under his Grand-Nephew it was), the Ascanier Markgraves ended, their Line also dying out.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    different positions; four tons; inch from the edge; second marriage; three branches; under arms; under construction; under existing; under favourable; under glass; under ground; under his; under orders; under pretence; under sentence; under stress; under tail; under the; under their; under whatever; under whose; under wing; understand something; understand that; understand what; wind instruments