Which preposition to use with stoop
I again stooped to the flower, and as I inhaled its perfume, "Surely," said I to myself, "this rose would be sweet if I were to lose my memory altogether:" but recollecting the great Reffei's argument, I mentally added thanks to divine philosophy, which always corrects our natural prejudices.
" She found out a match, immediately lighting two jets of a center-chandelier, turning them down from singing, drawing the shades of the two front and the southeast windows, stooping over the upholstered chair to imprint a light kiss.
Great Conn Sweeps, stooping in a boat, alone.
Flamm Avenue, which is treeless and built up for its entire length with two-story, flat-roofed buildings, stares, window for window, stoop for stoop, at its opposite side, and, in summer, the strip of asphalt street, unshaded and lying naked to the sun, gives off such an effluvium of heat and hot tar that the windows are closed to it and night descends like a gas-mask to the face.
Suddenly she stooped with a cry and picked up from the path a small object.
A swift bird, the swiftest of all the birds, is the eagle, when he takes his descending stoop from his place away up in the sky.
quoth Beltane, stooping of a sudden.
They are always accompanied by the men, who stride on, unburdened and erect, a little in advance, kindly stooping at difficult places to pile stepping-stones for their patient, pack-animal wives, just as they would prepare the way for their ponies.
Right through the wood they went in a bee-line, galloping with their faces brushed by their horses' manes as they stooped under the branches.
Once she sat resting on a stoop beneath the sign of a woman's-aid bureau.
The sun drew nigh The bale-fires of the western sky, And faggot clouds with blood-red glare, Caught flame, and in the radiant air Lone Wyvis like a jewel shone The Fians, as they stared at Conn, Were stooping on the high Look-Out.
Here the corporal cautiously climbed up breaks in the wall and stooped behind the fortification.
We stooped beside the trundle-bed, And one long ray of lamplight shed Athwart the boyish faces there, In sleep so pitiful and fair; I saw on Jamie's rough, red cheek A tear undried.
She stooped toward her, and softly inquired, "What is the matter, dear?" Flora seized her head with both hands, and, drawing it closer, whispered: "Take me home, Mamita!
Then Beltane sheathed his dagger and, in three long strides was close behind, and, stooping above the man, sought and found his hairy throat, and swung him, mighty-armed, that his head struck the wall; then Beltane, sighing, laid him upon the floor and turned toward a certain arras-hung arch: but, or ever his hand came upon this curtain, from beyond a voice haileda voice soft and musical.
A soldier came stooping into the opaque square of the dugout door.
His hand was carelessly thrown over an arm of the sofa; she stooped towards it with her face gently, but with an air of modesty that shone in her very figure.
We were not going to stoop before them; the disgrace was not ours.
He showed himself intensely anxious to learn and to accept all that was said: the ideas and feelings of others ran into him like water into a bottle whose neck is suddenly stooped below the surface of the stream.
They looked as if they had never known what youth or pleasure was, but had been the offspring of nature's dotage, and always the gray, decrepit, sapless, miserable creatures, who now sat stooping round the doctor's table, without life enough in their souls or bodies to be animated even by the prospect of growing young again.
They deeply sympathised with the efforts of their votary Pamprepius to turn the revolt of Illus to their advantage, and excused the low magical arts to which he stooped as a necessary concession to the spirit of a barbarous age.
Stooping about the fire, enormous shadows drifted above and behind him.
"Do you" He made a warning gesture with his hand, and motioned her to stoop among the ferns.
Indeed, Comedy, thou hast overrun me now, And forc'd me stoop unto a woman's sway.
" She stooped by the side of the rill, but drew back in horror,it ran red with the best blood of two kingdoms.