663 examples of disarming in sentences

He has a knife!" Farley attempted to seize the Chinaman's wrist, for the purpose of disarming the yellow man, but Dave swiftly threw the Chinaman around out of Farley's reach.

Her voice was at its most musical pitch, rather low for her, fluting, infinitely disarming and seductive.

she asked with a teasing, upward look and a disarming smile that robbed the question of any rudeness.

So now I was able to reply with a manly, disarming frankness.

And how he did eat, saying nothing at all, while Harriet plied him with food and talked to me of the most disarming commonplaces.

You know that your presence, your attentions, the sorrow that affects you have their effect, and end by disarming our pride.

"Reuben Miller's daughter" was still as guileless, reverent, potent a thought in Draxy's heart as when, upon her unconscious childish lips, the words had been a spell, disarming and winning all hearts to her.

He reached for it with the one idea of disarming this madman.

She accepted with rather disarming alacrity.

He ate his way through the grant, the office stationery, and the central tin dump with the most disarming naïvété.

Saltash turned a disarming smile upon him.

Saltash's smile was suddenly disarming again.

Skirting her own bright hair they run, And to the sunny add more sun: Now on that aged face they fix, Streaming from the Crucifix; The flesh-clogg'd spirit disabusing, Death-disarming sleeps infusing, Prelibations, foretastes high, And equal thoughts to live or die.

In 1802 John was made to say, after disarming Lovel (page 186): Still have the will without the power to execute, As unfear'd Eunuchs meditate a rape.

She was as popular with women as with men, for there was something disarming, attaching, almost elfish, in Bubbles Dunster's charm.

All the bridges over the Lech were destroyed; the whole course of the stream protected by strong garrisons as far as Augsburg; and that town itself, which had long betrayed its impatience to follow the example of Nuremberg and Frankfort, secured by a Bavarian garrison, and the disarming of its inhabitants.

But Julius's air of earnestness was disarming.

When a government, after imprisoning some hundred thousands of the most distinguished in every class of life, and disarming all the rest, is yet obliged to employ such a force for its protection, we may justifiably conclude, it does not presume on the attachment of the people.

Major General Wade, on Occasion of his disarming the Highlands, imitated from Horace.

But things are altered, I am still the same, By different ways still moving to one fame; And by disarming you, I now do more To save the town, than arming you before.

VENUS DISARMING CUPID.

" It was a frank acceptance of defeat; so frank as to be utterly disarming.

Willing to have the credit of disarming him unaided, and confident in his own superior strength and skill, Sir Giles signed to his myrmidons to stand back, while he alone advanced towards the young man.

This, however, he was unable to complete and another Lutheran, Osiander, to whom he entrusted it, wrote a preface, with the apparent intention of disarming opposition, in which he stated that the principles laid down were only abstract hypotheses convenient for purposes of calculation.

They behaved nobly, disarming natives, but not killing them.

663 examples of  disarming  in sentences