9707 examples of leaning in sentences
Leaning over, he threw his cigar out of the window and took hold of her.
" Leaning toward the flickering flare of the lantern, the leader read from a slip of paper: "If the militia are sent out here to hinder the I.W.W. we will make it so damned hot for the government that no troops will be able to go to France....
" "No regrets to-day!" murmured Lenore, leaning to him.
She ran down in time to see him being embraced by the girls, and her mother leaning with bowed head on his shoulder.
On opening the parlor door, a gentleman, apparently sixty years of age, appeared, leaning on the arm of a youth of five-and-twenty.
"Seventeen's comin'," he remarked to the trio of idlers leaning against the side of the building; "guess I'd better go over an' see who's on her," moving as he spoke out into the sizzling glare of the almost deserted street.
As she caught sight of him in the shadow of the tree, she stopped and stood leaning upon her stick as though she were rather disconcerted.
He was still leaning out, with one hand on a marble pillar, much more interested in the moonlit view of revelry than in the altercation between slaves.
But when the revelry was at its height, there was Aucassin leaning despondently from a gallery, sorrowful and utterly downcast.
The better to consider this weighty problem, I strolled down to the Embankment, and, leaning on the parapet, contemplated the view across the river; the grey stone bridge with its perspective of arches, the picturesque pile of the shot-towers, and beyond, the shadowy shapes of the Abbey and St. Stephen's.
" "They are rather interesting people," I explained; "very cultivated and with a strong leaning towards archaeology.
" "Perhaps," Stella said, leaning a little forward in her chair, "you have also the keys of that wonderful little hiding place of his that he showed me one day.
He was leaning back in his chair, gently twirling by its thin black ribbon the horn-rimmed eyeglass which he usually wore.
" "And the people who would benefit," Weiss said, leaning forward, "are the foreigners who stepped in with their gold and bought for themselves a share in our country at half its value.
She sat down upon her bunk, and leaning her elbow on the round space, gazed thoughtfully out of the open port-hole.
"Tell me, Vine," he said, knocking the ash from his cigar, and leaning a little forward in his chair, "what has brought you to London just now.
"Forgive me," he said, leaning over the table towards her.
By the by," she added, leaning across the table towards him, "you seem very confident of preserving it.
Vine remained, leaning against the mantelpiece, and whistling softly to himself.
Norris Vine was leaning back against the sideboard, his clothes disarranged, his collar torn, his tie hanging down in strips.
Hold your thumbs firmly in place, and draw your right hand a very little upward and inward, touching your whip lightly to the horse's right side, and turning your face and leaning your body slightly to the right.
Stop him now and then by leaning back, and drawing on the reins, not with your body but with your hands.
When you stop, you should not be compelled to jerk your elbows back of your waist, but should bring them into line with it, leaning back slightly, and drawing yourself upward.
" "At once, then," said the cardinal, and he went up the companion-way, leaning on Pietro's arm.
The blame rested not with Ayscue, but with his inferior officers; but the council took the opportunity to lay him aside, not that they doubted his courage or abilities, but because he was suspected of a secret leaning to the royal cause.