835 collocations for pressed

I pressed my hand and the tips of my fingers in every direction along the wall.

" He started when I said this, and pressed his lips firmly together.

I pressed the electric button, and in answer a tall, clean-shaven Russian servant opened the door.

"Don't be afraid, they are coming, they are safe," she said, pressing Catherine's arm.

When Truth presses her point we worry until we can hold out no longer; then we give in.

He half turned, looked wonderingly at Hetty, and then folded her thin form in his arms and pressed a kiss on her forehead.

" She looked up at himlooked with a wild, despairing, unbelieving gaze, pressing the handsome dead face to her bosom, and then, with a wild, wailing sob, bent her head until the shining dark mass of hair fell like a funeral veil over her own and the dead face.

The Jesuits pressed their claims for recognition, for their original estates, and for compensation.

I've no right, perhaps, to press my question, but your opinion would be of real value to me.

I pressed my finger on this, and immediately a little panel slid back, which revealed underneath a small button.

Despair not, If Love evades our grasp, and rivals press our suit, God, Lord of every change, surveys the range: Despair not.

It would be hardly fair to press this matter on you, a married woman; for, by the pandects of American society, a man may philosophize on love, prattle about it, trifle on the subject, and even analyze the passion with, a miss in her teens, and yet he shall not allude to it, in a discourse with a matron.

Our little boat was light and rollish, and just as I pressed the trigger, it rolled slightly on the water and my ball passed over, but mighty close to the back of that deer.

"My boy's beau-ful cheeks all cold!" "My girl's beau-ful cheeks all warm and full of some danged good cologne," said Mr. Connors, closing the door of their rooms upon them, pressing her head back against the support of his arm, and kissing her throat as the chin flew up.

But Billie could stand it no longer, and with a little cry she flew to him and pressed her soft cheek against his.

He pressed the spring, and the lid flew free.

Only Messer Francesco Gaddi, one of the officers of the palace, had sufficient presence of mind to press his way through the throng and make a short speech suited to the occasion in French, after which the King moved forward under a rich canopy.

It happened one day that I passed a tree under which lay several dry gourds, and catching one up I amused myself with scooping out its contents and pressing into it the juice of several bunches of grapes which hung from every bush.

When on him pressed a hundred men, A match for all of them was he.

You asked me to hear what you had to say to-night, and I have heard it; so there's no reason why I shouldn't press the electric bell for my chauffeur to stop, and" "Do you know that you're pronouncing du Laurier's doom, to say nothing of your own?" "No.

And at the same time he who gave him the poison, taking hold of him, after a short interval examined his feet and legs; and then having pressed his foot hard, he asked if he felt it.

Fill the dumplings, press the edges well together.

"Ha, my lord," he cried, "mine eyes do joy to see thee and these goodly fellows'tis hard and fierce business where Benedict and his pikes do hold the gate" "Aye, forsooth," quoth Sir Brian, "they press their attack amain, for one that falleth, two do fill his place.

" "And the day?" Heywood pressed his ear against the chink, and listened, his five senses fused into one.

Too late to calm the inflamed temper of the Italian people the Italian leaders at Paris had no alternative but to press their demands with greater vigor since the failure to obtain Fiume meant almost inevitable disaster to the Orlando Ministry.

835 collocations for  pressed