139 collocations for uncover

" Thereupon, Mr. Charteris uncovered his head with perfect gravity, and turned on his heel, and went down the road, whistling melodiously.

Not till I uncovered the face did I know the terrors of my discovery, and then, the confusion of it all unmanned me and I fell on my knees" "Go on!

He went into it, put me down on the floor and uncovered my body.

And it shall be, when he lieth down, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie, and thou shalt go in, and uncover his feet, and lay thee down; and he will tell thee what thou wilt do.

"Got the money?" screamed Maudie, uncovering her eyes.

" His reference to her refusal to uncover her shoulders in public broke the woman's calm and aroused her to a cold fury.

No man can disappear from his customary haunts without leaving some sort of a record behind him, and Fogerty may be able to uncover the mystery in a short time.

Here are the twenty-five-cent valentines;" and he uncovered another box, and left her to make her choice.

" I stared back into the wild insanity of his eyes, trying to test my words, suddenly aware that we were upon the edge of tragedy, perhaps uncovering the hidden secret of this man's life.

The surface of the bank showed a muddy scar, already half obliterated by the rain; brief search among the near-by boulders uncovered the hiding-place of a pick and shovel.

Instead of leaving the building, he went to the files of the paper and, turning back, uncovered the original story, which he cut out with his pen-knife, folded up, and placed in his pocket.

He used first to sketch in the principal aspect; and then to begin work by removing the surface stone upon that side, just as if he intended to fashion a figure in half-relief; and thus he went on gradually uncovering the rounded form.

When the right box is selected, the exit door is immediately raised, thus uncovering the food, which serves as a reward.

He uncovered the vase, and threw the faded rose into the water which it contained.

These latter may be readily detected by their standing out as dark and uncovered spots in the healthy granulation around, and should be at once removed.

And he's really the only one pardner You can trust when you uncover gold.

Wide patches of turf and soil had fallen away, uncovering the foundation of boulders and gravel, and while Kit looked down a heavy stone rolled out of its place and plunged into the stream.

Her philosophy seemed to be founded on the knowledge that uncovered cesspools were bound to be unpleasant, and, since she had no desire to assist in their purification, she was quite content to keep them properly screened.

"Come, we'll go in, and uncover the whole conspiracy.

She stood directly beside me, with only the rope barrier stretched between us, her head uncovered, the contour of her face softened by the twilight.

On my drawing nearer, they uncovered the poor creature, and I perceived that all her breast was eaten up by cancer.

"At first it was just to amuse ourselves that we became amateur detectives, but the developments are so startling and serious that we now consider it our duty to uncover the whole dreadful crime, in the interests of justice.

Ten minutes passed before the gunboat, following doggedly, and whipping her light over sea, suddenly uncovered the dark from a big tramp steamer, aimed at the Inlet.

This apparent indifference seemed to support my suspicion that my attendant had not told me the truth; but I found little satisfaction in uncovering his deceit, for the more of a liar I proved him to be, the worse would be my plight.

By that remark he uncovered the great defect of Mohammedan education, which is purely religious, with the exception of a single institution in northern India to which I refer in a previous chapter.

139 collocations for  uncover