2069 examples of pursing in sentences

After a while, with a pair of long amber-colored needles, she fell to knitting with a fast, even furious ambidexterity, her mouth pursing up with a driving intensity, her boring gaze so concentrated on the thing in hand that her eyes seemed to cross.

Once he struck, and twiceand behold a spark that leapt to a small flame that died to a glow; but now, flat upon his belly lay Giles and, pursing his lips, puffed and blew until the glow brightened, spread, and burst into a crackling flame that leapt from twig to twig.

" Something took place beneath the gray mustachea smile or a pursing up of the lips in doubt.

Parker nodded, pursing his lips, and kept on nodding like a broken automatic toy.

"You are extremely comprehensible!" said Galen, pursing up his lips.

" "Go round and tell the police first," said the landlord, pursing up his lips thoughtfully.

" "Go round and tell the police first," said the landlord, pursing up his lips thoughtfully.

"Why not full?" "Because we should then be traveling over those ricefields, señora," replied the imperturbable captain, pursing his lips to indicate the cultivated fields and indulging in two circumspect winks.

"Last time I see you," said Mr. Kybird, pursing up his lips and gazing at the counter in an effort of memory; "last time I see you was one fifth o' November when you an' another bright young party was going about in two suits o' oilskins wot I'd been 'unting for 'igh and low all day long.

"Last time I see you," said Mr. Kybird, pursing up his lips and gazing at the counter in an effort of memory; "last time I see you was one fifth o' November when you an' another bright young party was going about in two suits o' oilskins wot I'd been 'unting for 'igh and low all day long.

However, beginning with the very next lesson, he lavished every mark of respect on the old lady, and treated her to all his choicest airs and graces, rounding his elbows, pursing his lips, strutting and swaggering.

Who said I was called away?" "I did," said Mrs. Upton, pursing her lips to keep from indulging in a smile.

He assured me that his wife's preference of her own daughters should never hurt me; and, accompanying his professions with a purse of gold, ordered me to bespeak a rich suit at the mercer's, and to apply privately to him for money when I wanted it, and insinuate that my other friends supplied me, which he would take care to confirm.

Shall that false Hebronite escape our curse, Judas, that keeps the rebels' pension-purse; Judas, that pays the treason-writer's fee, Judas, that well deserves his namesake's tree; Who at Jerusalem's own gates erects His college for a nursery of sects; Young prophets with an early care secures, And with the dung of his own arts manures!

The King was pursing his lips over an alternative play, when somebody began singing below in the courtyard.

Hardy smiled, and Pillsbury, pursing his thin lips, measured Grosvenor with his eyes.

And upon pursing my lips I found myself unable to whistle, notwithstanding the popular belief, drawn from vague memories of small-boyhood, that this art is instinctive.

"So," he retorted, pursing his wrinkled lips and placing his fingers together in that attitude of piety which we frequently observe upon effigies of defunct ecclesiastics"so you did the very thing for which you threw this old man at my side into jailand for which he is now on trial!

"My mouth," she said, pursing her lips and lifting her face temptingly for his inspection, "my mouth is" "Perfect," interrupted Max.

That night she sang a love-song to José, behind the passion vines; and her eyes were soft; and when young Don José pulled her fingers from the guitar strings and kissed them many times, her only rebuke was such a pursing of lips that they were kissed also for their mutiny.

"I 'ope for your sakes it won't be the same police-man that you and Ginger Dick set on in Gun Alley the night afore you shipped on the Planet," ses Isaac, pursing up 'is lips.

"I should never speak to you agin, Ginger," ses old Sam, pursing up 'is lips.

"Well, it may be best," she said, pursing her mouth as if she tasted the bitter of some half-suspected and disagreeable future.

Meanwhile Müller was casting admiring glances on the young girl in the corner, whilst the fat countrywoman, pursing up her mouth, and watching the grisettes and soldiers, looked the image of offended virtue.

The school-teacher, pursing her lips, remarked, "It will not be necessary for you to talk.

2069 examples of  pursing  in sentences