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Example sentences for "weatherbeaten"

Lexicographically close words:
weary; wearying; weasel; weasels; weather; weatherboard; weathercock; weathercocks; weathered; weathering
  1. But if grim old Hugh bring back his weatherbeaten carcass from Palestine, and have but half the devil in him which he had when he was fool enough to go away, Saint Mary, but I will do his kinsman's office to him!

  2. The old sailor sat on a rock, and taking out his bag of tobacco filled his short black pipe with one thorny thumb, then he commenced his narrative, with the glow of his pipe lighting up his weatherbeaten face.

  3. There was nothing in his grim weatherbeaten face to show what he felt.

  4. A massive, weatherbeaten figure, well known in this part of Essex County, stood up in court declaring that he was ready and willing to sign the prisoner's bail bonds.

  5. The sailing-master was powerfully affected by this kind offer, the muscles of his hard, weatherbeaten face working convulsively, and it was a moment before he could trust his voice in reply.

  6. Tom did not laugh aloud, for that was a burst of feeling in which he was seldom known to indulge; but every feature of his weatherbeaten visage contracted into an expression of bitter, ironical contempt.

  7. People were the more ready to believe that this must needs be the fact, when they beheld the splendid edifice that rose, as if by enchantment, on the site of his father's old weatherbeaten farm-house.

  8. I used to feel sorry for him sometimes as I saw him stop to wipe his seamed, weatherbeaten face and gaze sadly down the road.

  9. The blinds were closed and the weatherbeaten shingles showed more than one gap where the wind and weather had made headway.

  10. The door of the room was opened, and there appeared some six or eight tall and stalwart men, mostly with profuse brown beards and weatherbeaten faces, who advanced into the chamber with some show of shyness.

  11. A splendid car, with a chauffeur much smarter than his master, had just dropped him: a grant figure in weatherbeaten Harris tweeds, grasping a heavy stick.

  12. Hawkins' round, weatherbeaten face and old watery blue eyes smiled into the mirror.

  13. Hawkins' face had lost its ruddy, weatherbeaten color, and there was a strained, perplexed anxiety in his expression.

  14. He was a little, thick-set man, with a rippled, weatherbeaten face.

  15. One was a big seafaring man with a weatherbeaten face.

  16. His face was as weatherbeaten as his clothes.

  17. High-Pockets Jones, with a deep smile on his weatherbeaten face, unfolded his long legs and stepped out, holding his head down to keep from hitting the top of the door-frame.

  18. He grew more silent than ever; but the look of melancholy was rapidly disappearing from his weatherbeaten face, and an expression of heart-rest and peace was taking its place.

  19. Weatherbeaten fingers groped to restore the money to him.

  20. I was beginning to agree with them when a key was turned in the lock and the weatherbeaten door yielded a few cautious inches.

  21. Above it he saw the weatherbeaten sign which had always been weatherbeaten.

  22. At the foot of the hill there lay a piece of weatherbeaten rock, over which an elder-tree spread its boughs, richly laden with luxuriant white blossoms.

  23. A weatherbeaten piece of rock, which had some time since fallen down from the Hohentwiel, was finally rolled on to the Hunnic grave, and then they went away shivering, to get ready the second tomb, which was to receive their own dead.

  24. Grass and ferns were growing on it, and a slow-worm was stealthily creeping up on the old weatherbeaten idol.

  25. Then their path took them round a little hill, and then they suddenly beheld the broad flood of the Rhine; dashing along with a thundering noise, over dark, weatherbeaten rocks.

  26. And as Dave squinted his eyes he suddenly was able to make out a couple of weatherbeaten shacks built close to a patch of woods.

  27. The nearer the plane got to the ground, the more weatherbeaten and deserted the two shacks looked.

  28. Back upon the old, weatherbeaten circuits we met no such examples of mock spirituality.

  29. I can see him now in the dismal twilight of one winter evening, as he started on that strange mission to Mrs. Martin, looking like an old, weatherbeaten angel breasting a storm.

  30. A fisherman posed in monumental majesty on a weatherbeaten pile of lumber on the wharf was the only human being in sight on the water side of the town.

  31. The broken pile is the archiepiscopal Palace of Lambeth; the grey weatherbeaten building is its Lollards' Tower.

  32. His blue eyes met Welton's steadily; not a line of his weatherbeaten face changed.

  33. Bob left them cursing each other heartily, broad grins illuminating their weatherbeaten faces.

  34. It does not seem attractive; but in spite of all this gaunt, weatherbeaten character Sennen is not unlovely.

  35. At the tip of the low cornice is a weatherbeaten bird house, a miniature Greek Parthenon, where the wrens built their nests.

  36. At last he turned and fixed his gaze upon the weatherbeaten stile again.

  37. In the midst of this gorgeous company stood a short, stoutish gentleman, his booted legs wide apart, his sun-burned face nearly as red as his weatherbeaten service coat, a little man with a truculent eye.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weatherbeaten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.