198 collocations for leans

" Mrs. Hassiebrock leaned her tired head sidewise into the moist palm of her hand.

Merchant Prince (placing his chair next to Slangy Daughter's, and leaning his elbow on her.)

He leaned his two arms on the table, and his chin upon his clenched hands.

Grey continued to stare, leaning a little forward, with his lips working.

" So spake he, and turning, strode away, looking not back to where she stood leaning one white hand against a tree.

And leaning her face in her hands, with the warm wind blowing her hair and bringing the rustle of the wheat, she prayed for divination.

In the lap of the prairie we seated ourselves upon our feet, and leaning our painted cheeks in the palms of our hands, we rested our elbows on our knees, and bent forward as old women were most accustomed to do.

There were times when you could lean your whole weight against the blast.

Then she leaned her chin upon her hand and looked pleadingly at her strange acquaintance.

Verty, without appearing to be conscious of what he was doing, took the bow of the violin, and placing the instrument upon his shoulder, leaned his ear down to it, and drew the hair over the strings.

He sat back in his chair, leaning his forehead on his hand, while he peeped through his slim fingers.

Hold your thumbs firmly in place, and draw your right hand a very little upward and inward, touching your whip lightly to the horse's right side, and turning your face and leaning your body slightly to the right.

The man leaned his rifle against a sapling and bent over him fearlessly.

" She pointed the boat to our landing, and as she leaned her narrow shoulders far back she shot me; one swift look.

" "I do not love to make revelations, General; but when a noble friend is evil spoken of"she leaned her brow upon her thumb and forefinger, and looked pensively at her slipper's toe peeping out at the edge of her skirt on the rich carpet"one's heart gets very big.

Crop and I took the hint and sat still, thinkin' maybe he'd get over his pet and move off; but he did'nt lean that way at all.

" Beltane was leaning half out of the casement, of the which fact who so unconscious as Giles, busily furbishing armour and bascinet.

The young man leaned his bicycle up against the house, took a quarter from his pocket and put it in the boy's hand, and lifting me gently in his arms, went up a lane leading to the back of the house.

Just let it lean agin' that corner piece, will you, Hunter?" Bull obeyed.

So within this narrow gap, where shapeless things stirred and whimpered in the dark, Beltane leaned breathless upon his sword and looked down upon the watch-fires of Duke Ivo's great camp.

Early birds had lean financial pickings in aviation.

He leaned a moment on the fence watching with glittering eyes and then he passed into a dream.

I fancied that she had leaned nearer, that her shoulder was touching mine, that I could feel her breath on my cheek.

On either side, whenever a glimpse could be had through the boughs, we looked upon leaning walls of trees, whose tall, rounded tops basked in the sunshine, while their bases were wrapped in the shadows cast by themselves.

" After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; "They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What!

198 collocations for  leans