211 collocations for leant

" 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.)

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

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

" 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.

I have a sort of boding that we see each other for the last time, as something tells me I shall never again return from Greece:" after which remark he leant his head on the sofa, and burst into one of his hysterical fits of tears.

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

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

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

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.

" "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.

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

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.

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

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

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

" She leant her elbows on her knees and her chin in the palms of her hands.

Early birds had lean financial pickings in aviation.

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.

211 collocations for  leant