2736 examples of swings in sentences

Now, when I talk to my grandchildren, I shall tell them of such beautiful things; of swings and picnics, and Christmas trees.

~A Snare and a Delusion.~ Between the trees a hammock swings On the lawn, at twilight's glow; Oh, what bliss sweet memory brings Of the days of long ago!

If you would get the same return on the roundabouts in any case, it would be better to cut the swings out altogether.

One end of the lasso is fastened to the back of the saddle: the entire length of it is kept in a coil on the right hand, and after two or three swings of it over their heads, they will throw it with such accuracy that the smallest object will come within the noose.

And trampling footsteps through the copses sound, And Izdubar, his hand placed on his sword, Loud cries: "Who cometh o'er mine Erech's sward?" An armèd warrior before him springs; The King, dismounted, his bright weapon swings.

All the Abbotts, the pupils, and ourselves went out to the playground, which was furnished with seats, and swings, and skipping-ropes, and swinging-boats, and all sorts of machines for exercise and amusement.

Then, maybe, dangling from thy gloomy gallows boughs, A human corpse swings, mournful, rattling bones and chains His eighteenth century flesh hath fattened nineteenth century cows Ghastly Aeolian harp fingered of winds and rains.

Here are restaurants in plenty, cafés, Panoramas, exhibitions of wild beasts, swings, tennis courts, places for running at the ring, do for burlesque dramatic performances, farceurs, jugglers, De Bach's Equestrian Amphitheatre in the style of Franconi, Salles de Danse, baths, billiard rooms, gaming tables, and even houses appropriated to gallantry.

I watched this crowd, each holding a long lighted taper, stand for hours making the sign of the Cross, while the gorgeously-robed priest chanted the service and made sundry waves with his hands and gave certain swings with the incense-burner.

There was a spacious hotel there; there was a village of cottages of varying sizes; there were buildings for servants and managers; there was a ten-pin alley and a quiet ground; there were arbors and swings; and a square hole in a stone slab, through which a little pool of greenish water could be seen, with a tin cup, somewhat rusty, lying by it.

He swings round in four big angles, goes over a good bit of ground, swings round, drives, cuts grass, passes along by where the women are standing; they are dumbfounded, it is all beyond them, and Brrr! says the machine.

He swings round in four big angles, goes over a good bit of ground, swings round, drives, cuts grass, passes along by where the women are standing; they are dumbfounded, it is all beyond them, and Brrr! says the machine.

There's the new horse getting loose," and he swings out of the door and hurries away.

The balance of the popular verdict swings ever this way and that, relegating us either to victory or defeat, to office or to opposition.

There are swings and winding-paths, and two bands of music.

Absentmindedly he noted, as he strolled down the elm-shaded streets, the neatness of the lawns, the gay flower beds, the hammocks and swings out under the trees as if people really lived out of doors here.

History is full of the same thing; the tides of faith and feeling now ascend and now subside, through all the ages, in the soul of humanity; each new affirmation prepares the way for new doubt, each honest doubt in the end furthers and enlarges belief; the pendulum of destiny swings to and fro forever, and earth's minutest life and heaven's remotest star swing with it, rising but to fall, and falling that they may rise again.

No cool dew soothes its fiery shell, Nor any star, a red sardel, Swings painted there as in a well.

The hair of this little girl toolook at it, as the soft chestnut ringlets wave about on her shoulders as she swings, and show the round richness of the curls.

The race swings naturally to clusters.

The old inhabitants of the place, long gathered to their fathers, tho living still in history, seem to have left their halls for the chase or the tournament; and as the heavy door swings upon its reluctant hinge, one almost expects to see the gallant princes and courtly dames enter those halls again, and sweep in stately procession along the silent corridors....

It reaches the bottom like a bouquet of slender waving feathers, and springs backward in a silver dust; the fresh and transparent mist swings about the rock it bathes, and its rebounding train mounts lightly along the courses.

rings, An' wide de gates ur Jahsper swings

'ITTLE TOUZLE HEAD (To R. V.P.) Cum, listen w'ile yore Unkel sings Erbout how low sweet chariot swings, Truint Angel, wifout wings, Mah 'ittle Touzle Head.

Looking back, however, it is seen that the balance swings even.

2736 examples of  swings  in sentences