I cannot raise my head," answered the poor girl patiently, "my poor bones have been shaken and beaten terribly by old Haidee.
The sudden entrance of Mr. Lawrence checked the mournful expression that rose to her lips.
The austerity of your conscience, clear as yet, will relax when you see that a man holds your future in his two hands, when a word from such a man means life to you, and he will not say that word.
This one, perhaps, will draw a word from him," he thought.
And still, except for the Bible, no word from her.
She craves him so, Ban; just the sound of his voice, a word from him; but she won't break her own word.
It was three days since the editorial appeared and he had heard no word from Io.
She wouldn't have left us this way, hour after hour, without a word from her.
After that she endured a week without a word from Mayer, and then, unable to sleep or work, telephoned to his hotel.
A word from him, dispatched from a camp along the lode, would quiet her.
No word from him, nor any hint of such a thing has ever made me think of Joan in such a connection.
There had come no word from Emily de Reuss, nor had Douglas himself sought her.
He did not flinch, and meant to fight, hopeless as it was, for all around him were white, shining swords, that needed but a word from Aramon to be red with his blood.
After a moment's pause Pechaud continued: "But, monsieur, a word from an old man.
A word from me would have done it; wouldn't it, Fagin?
That night, and the next, and the next again, the spy sat booted and equipped in his carter's dress: ready to turn out at a word from Fagin.
A word from me, and the alternative has gone for ever.
What had they thought--what had they done without a word from him in this crisis?
There are twenty men in my church who would meet Olaf at a word from me and walk home with him every night till he felt able to get by the swinging doors upon his own will.
There are twenty pretty dames here who pine for a word from you.
I went thither in much trepidation, for I feared a great company, in which I might have no chance of a word from her.
So far I had had no word from Lawrence, though Mercer reported that Ringan was still sending arms.
At a word from Jack, a tall, strapping Rifleman, who had followed him into the room, disappeared for half a minute, and returned with a couple of foils in his hands.
Wilkes was looking from one to the other with concentrated interrogation in his eye, ready at a word from Jack to lay the Spaniard low again.
He does; but Nellie ain't heard a word from mother; thought she must be with Vincent all this time; and has been too busy givin' house parties to find out.
It was a couple of weeks before we heard a word from either of 'em, and then the other day Sadie gets a call over the 'phone from a perfect stranger.
He hadn't been around to the studio once; and Pinckney hadn't heard a word from him, either.
The youth has been at large for a week or more now, since he was last handed the fresh air, and Pinckney ain't heard a word from him.
A word from us calling the attention of the proper authorities to it would be sufficient, I think.
It is now twenty-four hours, and I have heard not a word from him.
It has not been heard of since--and they have noword from my father.
A word from him to the crowd and the new Cæsar is assured of peace within the city.
Now and then at a word from a likely purchaser he would with a sign order a lictor to pick out one of his wares, to drag him forward out of a compact group and set him up on the catasta.
It was at word from me that Byng-bahadur signed the transfer papers--otherwise he would have kept thee by him.
A word from them, and a prince would slay his father--only to discover that the promises of Siva's priests were something less to build on than the hope of loot.
His irregulars, sahib, were disbanded at some one's orders just before this outbreak, but some of them came back at word from him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "word from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
