5279 examples of bobbed in sentences

The Bosch collected fresh help and bobbed up again.

Spots and dots, shiny, illusive, bobbed along that break, behind the mounds, beyond the farther banks.

When the door opened Skim bobbed his head and said: "Evenin', mom.

For fifteen or twenty feet on every side the ice bobbed up and down in floating fragments, and beyond that, where it still remained intact, it would support no one stepping out upon it from the water.

Saying which, Peterday bobbed his head again, shook his wooden leg again, and turned away to reach another cup and saucer.

As she spoke, the man's head bobbed into view, and, giving himself a shake to rid his eyes of water, he struck out for the shore.

I bobbed down at once behind the sea-wall, and crouched there for a moment wondering what was the best thing to do.

She bobbed the tea-ball up and down in the saucepan by its chain, and watched how the hot water turned brown.

At her feet rushed the Axe, swollen by spring freshets; a bullfinch, wet from his bath, bobbed on the sand- stone parapet, shook himself, and piped a note or two; away up the stream, among the alders, birds were chasing and courting; from above the Bayfield elms, out of spaces of blue, the larks' song fell like a din of innumerable silver hammers.

In just a few seconds he was gone in the woods and we all stood gaping there while the boat bobbed up and down, on account of him jumping from it.

When this gentleman walked, his long sword bobbed, as we have said, against his legs; when he bowed, his attitude was full of dignity; when he grimaced, he presented an appearance which would have made Punchinello serious, and induced a circus clown to fall into convulsions of despair.

The air was full of black fists smashing him, and not five feet away, the bullet head of Tump Pack bobbed this way and that in the rapid shifts of his attack.

The old man bobbed importantly.

They went for coffee to a queer little burrow decorated with improving sentiments from the immortal Lewis Carroll which, Barbran told the Bonnie Lassie, was making its blue-smocked, bobbed-haired, attractive and shrewd little proprietress quite rich.

The first glance marked him as a missionary, for he wore a huge crucifix cut out of pink shell, and as he hobbled about on the embankment it bobbed at the end of a black cord hung from his neck.

A subaltern bobbed out of a tent and shouted to him to stop to tea.

My head above the blanket folds bobbed uncomfortably at every lurch.

They weaved with a continual life; now and again the rider of one of the pitching horses bobbed above the crowd, and the rattle of voices sharpened, with piercing single calls.

He wore a sprig of goldenrod in his buttonhole, and goldenrod bobbed over the old horse's forelock.

Mammy Jane hobbled to her feet and bobbed a curtsy.

Then, apparently having seen nothing, he turned away, and the lantern bobbed aft like a drifting ember.

" Roger bobbed his head by way of asking forgiveness, which was granted by a similar gesture.

In the drawing room where the hostess stood to receive, superb pink poppies reared their heads from tall vases, pink snapdragons bobbed on the mantel piece and a bank of pink candytuft lay on the top of the piano.

He near bobbed his head off.

Moment by moment he out-distanced the wedge-shaped ripple where the heads of the tired pack bobbed in pursuit; for here, as always in water, the deer held the advantage, being able to float and rest at will while the hound must always ply his forelegs or sink.

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