80 collocations for strings

About an hour's walk from the camp I met an Indian, who on perceiving me instantly strung his bow, placed on his left arm a sleeve of raccoon skin and stood on the defensive.

The Persian government reports show that a number of Russian soldiers, claiming to be stringing a telephone wire, climbed upon the roof of the Persian police headquarters about ten o'clock at night on December 20th.

That young man having strung up his nerves, and prepared himself for the encounter, determined to face the awful uncle, with all the courage and dignity of the famous family which he represented.

She wear it on string red Russian beads.

Her poetry was not just stringing together words, but it was the very expression of her heart.

With a band of king's players by Bill Shakespeare led, I played many roles, e'en recalled the dead To piece out my plot or to string out my rhyme, Nor considered it theft, more an honor that time, To borrow a plot for a queen or a king, And watch their amuse as my poor muse would sing.

His voice, when he spoke, was gentle, and, like his face, strung taut with pain.

"New potatoes and string beans from the aft garden.

" Little John put the tip of his bow to his instep, and strung the weapon so deftly that all wondered to see an old man so strong.

He strung yards of corn, and measured out the nuts and candy for each of the gay bags.

In place of the easy trick of stringing together a number of gorgeous fairy stories founded on fact, I have preferred the long labour of hunting down the truth and telling only what I have found and believe to be true.

Hath he not torn those gold wires from your head, Wherewith Apollo would have strung his harp, And kept them to play music to the gods?

The only person he wasn't sworn friends with was the handy-man, and there came to be a legend current in the camp, that Kaviak's first attempt at spontaneously stringing a sentence under that roof was, "Me got no use for Potts.

whom the melancholy Muse With more than fondness loved, for thee she strung The lyre, on which herself enraptured hung, And bade thee through the world its sweets diffuse.

The next morning the electricians arrived and began stringing the power cables from the paper mill to the newspaper office.

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The Aeolian harp, with plaintive wail, Sighs responsive to each gale; Its chords are strung 'mid branching trees, And echo to ev'ry passing breeze; Gently they vibrate through the grove, Touching the chords of life and love, Mixed with the sounds that round me float.

" "Well, you had better try than to be trying to string verses together.

Down the Wind Waring, several miles out from the home shack, on the new range, sat his horse Dexter, watching his men string fence.

So they strung these dried fingers upon something strong and pliant, and wore them with much pride.

He strings some flowers into a bunch of garlands, dangles them on his arm and strolls blandly down the village street.

After another most pregnant and exhaustive episode on Puritan politics in England, Dr. Palfrey brings in that thread of his story on which is strung the fortune of Massachusetts.

The philosopher strings God, angels, devils, brutes, men, and their appurtenances and deeds.

Bullock-carts dragged by big, black buffalo cattle, carrying their heads far back, as if their big horns were too heavy for them, crowded the street leading to the quay, and camels, strung in groups of five, came swinging in, or kneeling in the dust, waved their long, bird-like necks, and lifted up a mournful bellow, as if protesting in a bored, Oriental way, at a fate which compelled them to bear burdens for the nagging race of men.

80 collocations for  strings