84 adjectives to describe lifting

"Better give a young girl who is poor a common-school education, a little lift, and tell her to work out her own career.

Here he stopped for a moment, and then, with a sudden lift of his hand and heave of his shoulders, fairly shot Robin over his head as though he were a sack of grain.

" "Artlessness!" repeated John Effingham, with a slight lifting of the eye-brows; "we live in an age when new dictionaries and vocabularies are necessary to understand each other's meaning.

She was with him almost all the daylight hours, attending him, watching him sleep, talking a little to him now and then, seeing with joy his gradual improvement, feeling each day the slow lifting of the shadow over him, and yet every minute of every hour she waited in dread for the return of Dorn's madness.

" Riley Sinclair's words brought a flash from Arizona, a sudden lifting of the head, as if he had not before thought of hoping.

The wheels were separated, leaving them in pairs, and each axle was loaded with a freight that a dozen men would hardly have carried, when two or three hands would drag in the load, with an occasional lift from other gangs, to get them up a height, or over a cleft.

"You know how it is when she takes a fancy to do anything" Mr. Spragg, by a slight lift of his brooding brows, seemed to convey a deep if unspoken response.

A shell burst close overhead, and involuntarily Macalister glanced up, only to curse himself next moment for missing a chance that his captor offered by a similar momentary lifting of his eyes.

Markheim moved a little nearer, with one hand in the pocket of his great-coat; he drew himself up and filled his lungs; at the same time many different emotions were depicted together on his faceterror, horror, and resolve, fascination and a physical repulsion; and through a haggard lift of his upper lip, his teeth looked out.

One little pleasant-looking nun had charge of the whole confraternity, and she could say them at a wordmake them as mute as mice with the mere lifting of her finger, and turn them into all sorts of merry moods by a similar motion, in a second.

From their Foundations loosning to and fro, They pluck'd the seated Hills, with all their Land, Rocks, Waters, Woods; and by the shaggy Tops Up-lifting bore them in their Hands We have the full Majesty of Homer in this short Description, improv'd by the Imagination of Claudian, without its Puerilities.

" Have you not sometimes seen, upon the bosom of dark, stagnant waters, a pure, white water-lily lift up its head, breathing there a fresh and delicate fragrance, and deriving its existence thenceyet partaking in nothing of the loathsome nature of the pool, nor ever sullied by its close contact with the foul element beneath?

" "Who are the Pelhams?" Miss Agnes Brendon gave a little upward lift to her small pert nose as she exclaimed: "Tilly Morris, you don't mean to say that you don't know who the Pelhams are?" Tilly, thus addressed, lifted up her nose as she replied, "I do mean to say just that.

" She said this with a pretty air of pride in her lover, and a gentle lift of her head.

But in two years, with the gradual lifting of the pressure that had numbed her, Gwenda had become aware.

High o'er those realms that make blind chance the heir Of empire, Poland, dost thou lift thy head:

Around them the water was black as basalt, only that now and again a spark of light was struck by the faint lifting of the current against the immovable hulls.

She understood the meaning of the gross red mouth that showed itself in the fierce lifting of the ascetic, grim moustache.

We arrived at Rozanov's house, and went up in a very elegant heavily-gilt lift.

accompanying the words with a low bow and a graceful lift of his scarlet cap, and replied to my indignant accusations in the softest and most silvery-modulated Roman sentences.

Then high from the ground did the grim monster lift The loud screaming maid like a blast; And he sped through the air like a meteor swift, While the clouds, wand'ring by him, did fearfully drift To the right and the left as he pass'd.

Grace is a taste of bliss, a glorious gift, Which can the soul to heavenly comforts lift: It will not shine to me, whose mind is drowned In sorrows, and with worldly troubles bound; It will not deign within that house to dwell, Where dryness reigns, and proud distractions swell.

" "A Parthian shot, Jenny," said Julius, as they gave her a homeward lift in the carriage.

"Why shouldn't I take a horse when they had shot down mine?" She turned to him again, and this time her gaze went over him slowly, curiously, but without speaking she looked back to the fire, as though explanation of what "hoss-lifting" meant were something far beyond the grasp of his mentality.

But neither Crabbe nor Cowper has the imaginative lift of Wordsworth, The light that never was, on sea or land, The consecration, and the poet's dream.

84 adjectives to describe  lifting