29 adjectives to describe tilting

Where the soldier's hand is small this can not be done, and in this case it assists the operation to give the revolver a slight tilt to the right and upward (to the right).

" She answered, with an upward tilt of her chin: "Don't be a fool, Anthony.

" "I shall be very busy entertaining my guests," she told him with a charming tilt of her chin.

I imagined her on the last canvas of the gallery, bearing all the traits of the family linethe same quiet assurance, the same confident tilt of the head, the same high forehead and clear cut features.

When she was full I sent her back to the barque, and then Allardyce and I, with the carpenter and one seaman, shifted the striped box, which was the only thing left, to our boat, and lowered it over, balancing it upon the two middle thwarts, for it was so heavy that it would have given the boat a dangerous tilt had we placed it at either end.

Besides, Billy was freshly antagonistic because of something he had heard while he was away; instead of returning the Pilgrim's brazenly cheerful "Hello," he scowled and rode on without so much as giving a downward tilt to his chin.

Thereafter, when he passed through the ward, he and I had frequent tilts.

By frequent tilting his collar broke from its stud and his silk hat settled far back on his neck.

Always a kind-hearted man, he was glad when the gradual tilting necessary to the occasion had blotted out the picture of indignation which raged helplessly before him.

He had always had a brisk swaggering step, and the faintly impudent tilt of the head that she had once thought "dashing"; but whereas this look had formerly denoted a somewhat desperate defiance of the world and its judgments it now suggested an almost assured relation to these powers; and Undine's heart sank at the thought of what the change implied.

Also another of the innumerable tilts between him and his old friend, Death.

As I swung down from the wall and walked toward Glenarm House, my thoughts were not with the athletic chaplain, but with the girl, whose youth was, I reflected, marked by her short skirt, the unconcern with which her hands were thrust into the pockets of her coat, and the irresponsible tilt of the tam-o’-shanter.

" He received some money, and more fame, and still more enemies as a result of his powerful literary tilts against Philistinism.

" "I passed the Saxe just now," he says, giving his hat a little tilt over his nose, "and saw Sir Roger sitting in the balcony, with his cigar and his Times, and he looked so luxuriously comfortable that it seemed a sin to disturb him.

The head-gears were set at every possible angle in that coffee- shop of Yussuf's, from the backward tilt of the breezy optimist to the far-forward thrust down over the eye of malignant cynicism, which usually went with folded arms, legs thrust out straight, and heels together on the floor.

But as she paused, too, standing beneath the street-lamp, and he saw her with her nonchalant tilt of her head,that handsome head poised on her strong, erect body,her force and value were so impressed upon him that he had to retract.

"For you love me, father," she concluded, and looked up daintily, with a pathetic, coquettish tilt of her fair head, to peer into his face.

The translucence had a pathos for his intelligence which the pensive tilt of her head enhanced.

" When the stout lad had done as he suggested there was quite a perceptible tilt forward to the Flying Fish, and Merritt, hanging over the stern, could feel about the propeller better.

He took off his hat and rubbed his palm reflectively over the back of his head, set the hat on his head with a pronounced tilt over one eyebrow, and reached for his plug of tobacco.

"And are you really going?" said the man with the shade, looking at me again for the third time, with that queer, unnatural tilting of the face.

The group of four ascended the sharp tilt of the plank and entered the airship.

The excitement, the coffee, the spirited tilts at arms with her many dancing partners had set her brain on fire.

Turning, he saw her stern tilt slowly upwards.

A tough fowl and an old goose are sad triers of a carver's powers and temper, and, indeed, sometimes of the good humour of those in the neighbourhood of the carver; for a sudden tilt of the dish may eventuate in the placing a quantity of the gravy in the lap of the right or left-hand supporter of the host.

29 adjectives to describe  tilting