8555 examples of motion in sentences

She "pulled business," and he raised her to forty a week and offered her a contract which she refused, because other avenues, bigger and better than singing in a motion-picture house, were tentatively opening.

Instantly the answer came: "Reginald, here I am, no traitor, but the archbishop and priest of God; what do you wish?" and from the fourth step, which he had reached in his ascent, with a slight motion of his headnoticed apparently as his peculiar manner in moments of excitementBecket descended to the transept.

But she gave no sign, save a motion of the head, at the mention of the King of Scots.

At times I almost thought, indeed, He must have slacken'd in his speed; But nomy bound and slender frame Was nothing to his angry might, And merely like a spur became; Each motion which I made to free My swoln limbs from their agony Increased his fury and affright: I tried my voice,'t was faint and low.

Rooks sometimes dive and tumble in a frolicsome manner; crows and daws swagger in their walk; woodpeckers fly with an undulating motion, opening and closing their wings at every stroke, and so are always rising and falling in curves.

Yoosef, fortunately for him, was lying like a corpse, past fear or motion; but four of our party, one a sailor and the other three passengers, thinking that all hope of the boat was now over, and that nothing remained them but the spar, jumped into the sea.

Every motion of her heart shows in her face.

"Don't, Percy!" said her cousin with a quick motion of his hand: "I'll be gone soon;" then hurriedly and gayly: "Let me do the honors of your new domains.

On these being put into rapid motion, handfulls of the cotton are cast upon them, which of course are immediately sucked in....

By the quick wagging motion given to this comb by the machinery, the buds of cotton cast upon the rollers are torn open just as they are beginning to be sucked in.

And Solon Robinson reported tersely from a rice plantation that the negroes plied their hoes "at so slow a rate, the motion would have given a quick-working Yankee convulsions.

" The young man made a motion to approach nearer to her, but the girl drew away, whispering: "There are other people besides ourselves on deck, remember.

With the old, old motion his arms folded across his chest.

Though the bolts of the ancient vehicle had been carefully tightened, it nevertheless groaned at intervals with the motion; mysteriously, like the unconscious sigh of the aged, apparently without reason.

For three miles, four, it held its place; then, as, with the old unconscious motion the girl turned to look back, she searched for it in vain.

To one less intimately acquainted with her than the man, her companion, she would have seemed again her old girlish self, returned, unchanged; but to him who knew her as himself there was now and then a note that rang false, a hint of suppressed excitement in the unwonted colour, an abnormal energy bordering on the feverish in her every motion.

Step by step she was drawing away from her companion; yet though, wide-eyed, he watched her every motion, felt the distance separating grow wider and wider, he made no move to prevent, threw no obstacle in her path.

All the night which followed a sentinel paced back and forth in front of the ranch house door; back and forth like an automaton, back and forth in a motion that seemed perpetual.

Will you go?" With the motion of a captured wild thing, the girl arose, drew back until she was free.

Silent as fate, as nature the immovable, he sat his place; his lithe body conforming involuntarily to the motion, to the play of muscles beneath his legs; yet as unconsciously as one breathes in sleep.

As when they had started, with one motion, apparently without an effort, he was once more in his seat; and again as at first, equally understandingly, equally willingly, that instant the broncho sprang into a lope.

He was back in his place again with the flask before him, and with a propitiatory motion he extended the liquor toward the other man.

Ideas in motion.

Ideas in motion.

Motion pictures as an aid in teaching American history.

8555 examples of  motion  in sentences