6818 examples of pair in sentences

I explained to them what I wanted, and they seemed satisfied and sat down to smoke; but presently I saw one of them string his bow, and another sharpen his flint knife with a pair of wooden pincers and suspend it off the wrist of his right hand.

Transfixed by his umbrella, which makes him look like a walking cross between a pair of boots and a hat, Mr. BUMSTEAD leads the way athwart the turnpike and several fields, until they have arrived at a low wall skirting the foot of Gospeler's Gulch.

Get some worsted and a pair of needles; set up from twenty to forty stitches, more or less, and knit till you are tired.

Get a suit of clothesbroadcloth is the bestand a pair of boots to stand them in.

Why, she got a pair of sheep shears and cropped him closer'n a state prison bird, and tryin' to lift a house full of fokes, it fell onto him and smashed him.

Private Momo Bangura and Sergeant Smith were the next pair to start.

" A gold chain and watch-key, two gold brooches, and a pair of earrings were sent to Mr. Müller, with the following comment: "My wife and I having, through the exceeding riches of God's grace, been brought to the Lord Jesus, wish to lay aside the perishing gold of the world for the unsearchable riches of Christ, and send the enclosed for the support of the orphans".

but I should swim across, having but a thin coat and a light pair of shoes.

Suddenly Miss Slayback adjusted her tam-o'-shanter to its flop over her right ear, and, drawing off a pair of dark-blue silk gloves from over immaculately new white ones, entered Ceiner's Café Hungarian.

A pair of apaches whirl for one hundred and twenty consecutive seconds to a great bang of cymbals and seventy-five dollars a week.

" "That baby had some pair of shoulders!"

he said, shoving their pair of glasses to the table-edge.

I ain't a squab with a pair of high-priced ankles.

" He took from his bag a long pair of hollow pliers which he inserted in the lock and then screwed tightly, clutching the end of the key.

He had noticed that she had been rather preoccupied during dinner, an unusual mood for so lively a girl, and now he could not help watching the pair in the distance, she talking with an earnest, troubled expression, and he listening to her story in grave wonderment, now and again interposing a few words.

He stayed, crouched down, looking after the amazing pair, seeking a sign that the man was not Henshaw.

" She turned upon him a pair of solemn eyes, out of which the merry sparkle had faded.

Louis led the way out of the station to where a pair of magnificent horses stood, tossing their regal heads impatiently.

"Why Uncle Lenox was an" Instantly a pair of small hands were held like a vice against her lips.

* "Upon my word!" said Reginald some weeks later, as he came upon John sitting astride a cobbler's bench busily mending a pair of shoes, while Nan looked on admiringly.

Yes, by the height of a pair of Horns.

One of them appropriated a pair of boots, and was much surprised to find that he had to pay for them on being settled with.

I regret to say that I must quit Hamburgh without seeing the Schöne Marianna; but I hear she is now rather passèe, and I must console myself for this mortification by gazing upon the first pair of bright eyes which I shall meet to-morrow on my route to Kiel.

Only imagine what must have been the height of the possessor of such a pair of tusks!

"Palmer, whose father was a bill-sticker, and who had occasionally practised in the same humble occupation himself, strutting one evening in the green-room at Drury-Lane Theatre, in a pair of glittering buckles, a gentleman present remarked that they greatly resembled diamonds. '

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