574 examples of disengaged in sentences

I feinted, and disengaged, and a second later I had lunged over his guard, and had forced him to give back.

My offer was accepted, for I found her heart disengaged.

"Well, sir," scratching his head with his disengaged hand, "Thar ain't but two more places ter lookthe cuss is either in the lazaret, er' else hidin' in the passage forward; more likely the last.

From this restraint however, he suddenly disengaged her, and taking her in his arms out of the carriage, he delivered her to his sister, who advanced at this moment.

Jules had already disengaged the gears.

The king now, with great reason, considered himself as disengaged from the confederacy, being deserted by the Saxons, and betrayed by the French; he, therefore, accepted the mediation of king George, and, in three weeks after the battle of Czaslaw, made peace with the queen of Hungary, who granted to him the whole province of Silesia, a country of such extent and opulence, that he is said to receive from it one third part of his revenues.

She did not attempt to withdraw it this time, and, gently slipping his disengaged arm about her waist, he murmured: "Morgianna!"

He disengaged her arms from his neck, and placed her gently in a chair.

The Virginia legislature granted that it might be colonized by one hundred persons from Virginia, "freemen, being single and disengaged of debt."

As Price took him toward the door, his mother ran toward them; but the husband angrily raised his disengaged hand and growled: "Dorothe, you are a perfect fool!"

She disengaged herself from the fencetop, swung over, hung an instant, and dropped into a soft flower bed.

She disengaged her hand.

Although no one was officially engaged to map out the place, a good deal of learned architectural gas was disengaged in its design and construction.

After which, having disengaged themselves from many vessels which rode at anchor in the Thames, and almost blocked up the passage towards Greenwich: they ordered the watermen to let fall their oars more gently; and then, every one favouring his own curiosity with a strict silence, it was not long ere they perceived the air break about them, like the noise of distant thunder, or of swallows in a chimney.

" Mary repeated these words, or rather this idea in other words, to Roswell Gardiner's great delight; and again and again he declared that he could now penetrate the icy seas with a light heart, confident he should find her, on his return, disengaged, and, as he hoped, as much disposed to regard him with interest as she then was.

What's it got to do with you?" She patted Mr. Kemp's hand; Mr. Kemp patted back, and with his disengaged hand helped himself to a glass of beerthe fourthand beamed in a friendly fashion upon the company.

What's it got to do with you?" She patted Mr. Kemp's hand; Mr. Kemp patted back, and with his disengaged hand helped himself to a glass of beerthe fourthand beamed in a friendly fashion upon the company.

But our understanding of progress must be disengaged from the false goal of growth, or the even more dangerous ideal of salvation.

The painter, whoever he was, seems to have taken me in one of those disengaged moments, if I may so term them, when the native character is so much more honestly displayed than can be possible in the restraints of an enforced sitting attitude.

" She sniffed gently, and, wiping one eye at a time, kept the disengaged one charged with sisterly solicitude upon her brother.

Johnny saw his friend Miss Nancy Sharpe disengaged and looking lovely, and went to speak to her.

A minute later, he returned, and said: "Mr. Conly is disengaged; and he says will you be so good as to come to his room, sir.

Joan disengaged herself with her horse as cleverly as it could have been done by the most skilful horseman, and herself extinguished the flame.

These retire from the world, not merely to bask in ease or gratify curiosity, but that, being disengaged from common cares, they may employ more time in the duties of religion; that they may regulate their actions with stricter vigilance, and purify their thoughts by more frequent meditation.

If Mrs. Roger Marchbanks had known of Mrs. Hobart's fire-gown, and what it had been made and waiting for, unconsciously, all these years, she might not have given those quiet orders to her discreet, well-bred parlor-maid, by which she was never to be "disengaged" when Mrs. Hobart called.

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