1680 examples of wrist in sentences

Vaulting upon his steed, with a large fan of wild goose and turkey feathers in one hand, and a whip dangling at the wrist of the other, this incomparable dandy sallied forth for a promenadethat being his chief delight when there was no buffalo hunting to be done.

As the coat was a good deal too small for him, a terrible length of dark, bony wrist appeared below the cuffs.

In a moment Mahtawa drew his knife, uttered a savage yell, and sprang on the reckless hunter, who, however, caught his wrist, and held it as if in a vice.

He was very trim and smart, with his white laces about the throat and wrist-bands, his buckled shoes, and the bows on his garters.

After these horrible preliminaries, a rope was attached to each of the limbs of the criminal, one being bound round each leg from the foot to the knee, and round each arm from the wrist to the elbow.

It was enough for him to watch the turn of her wrist, the swift certainty of her movements, to catch the glow lit in her face by the fire over which she bent.

She caught sight of the pair directly in front of her, and raised her lorgnette with a languid wrist.

This was all it was: "Come down to tea half-an-hour earlier; shall sham a hurt wrist to be back from shooting in time.

I had forgotten all about Charlie and his scrap of paper, but when I got into the blue drawing-room, there he was, with his wrist bandaged up, and no signs of tea about.

Lady Carriston did make such a fuss over Charlie's wrist.

Swing your racket well back, with its head raised above your wrist, and hit the ball firmly with the centre of your racket.

For these strokes the head of your racket should be above your wrist, your elbow low down, and your knees slightly bent.

The weight of your racket should vary according to your strength of wrist, and should depend on whether you volley or play entirely from the back of the court.

Myself, I prefer and always play with a 14-oz., and hold that unless there is a weakness of the wrist, or some personal reason why the player should knock off the extra half-ounce, this weight is the best for ladies to use.

A leather or webbing thong is passed through the stick or nailed under the knob as a loop to hang them up by, but should never be put round the wrist except for uphill work as the wrist might easily be broken in a bad fall, if the stick be attached to it.

A leather or webbing thong is passed through the stick or nailed under the knob as a loop to hang them up by, but should never be put round the wrist except for uphill work as the wrist might easily be broken in a bad fall, if the stick be attached to it.

If he'd wanted ter fit der odder feller hisself I'd tole him how ter bruck der odder chap's wrist, but he ain't got der sand ter fight a baby.

Even those who had never seen the white scars on Dick Venner's wrist, or heard the half-told story of her supposed attempt to do a graver mischief, knew well enough by looking at her that she was one of the creatures not to be tampered with,silent in anger and swift in vengeance.

Now do the same back-handed, bending the wrist outward, and carrying the club behind the head first.

One told how an officer, whose duty it was to lead the charge, took shelter behind an orange-tree no bigger than his wrist, and shouted, "Go on, men!

He told us not to fretthat all that ailed him was that his nose was split and his wrist bashed up a bit!

And just as I was beginning to feel hungryodd, it seemed to me, that such a thing as lunch should stay in my mind in such surroundings and when so many vastly more important things were afoot!the major looked at his wrist watch.

One is generally despatched by means of a long knife grasped by the matador, so that when his arm is extended, the blade is perpendicular to the wrist.

Waring swung the canteen from his shoulder and carefully hung the strap over Donovan's wrist.

Waring's wrist moved in answer.

1680 examples of  wrist  in sentences