489 Verbs to Use for the Word movements

We rested upon our oars, making no noise, and watching his movements.

I dare say the new theories of liberty and equality were not sympathetic to the trained representatives of courts, but the world was advancing, democracy was in the air, and one would have thought it would have interested foreigners to follow the movement and to judge for themselves whether the young Republic had any chance of life.

As the referee parted them, Jack saw the movement for which he had been watching.

As much as possible I endeavored to preserve my coolness, and thus we stood looking at one another without making any movement or uttering a word for perhaps ten minutes, when one at last, who seemed to be the leader, gave a sign that they wished for some tobacco; this I signified that they should have if they fetched a quantity of cones.

As he let himself in he heard an awkward drumming and strumming on the piano, and peering slyly through the opening in the portierre he was startled to find Patsy herself making the dreadful noise, while a pretty girl sat beside her directing the movements of her fingers.

It seemed to me, I heard a movement, apparently from the buttery, which is to the left of the staircase.

At this time1832Dickens was a newspaper reporter, and it is curious to notice that in spite of "haste" he yet managed to execute this complex movement underneath the signature.

Besides these differences in size, color, hair, etc., as noted above, we may observe that the domestic sheep, in a general way, is expressionless, like a dull bundle of something only half alive, while the wild is as elegant and graceful as a deer, every movement manifesting admirable strength and character.

Splitting his little army into a dozen brigades, he occupied the entire mountain-range behind the town, operated, with scarce five thousand men, upon a front of two hundred miles in extent, held in his own unwavering grasp the reins which controlled the movements of every division, and gradually inclosed, as in a net, the forces of Quiroga and Villafañe.

The Papal forces, composed chiefly of Germans and French, under Lamoricière, were holding the inhabitants of Umbria and the Marches who were longing to join the national movement.

The XXth Corps began its movement on the night of 20-21st October.

Agreeably to promise, he had attended the meeting; and now he seemed to regulate all his movements by a sort of mysterious self-importance, as if the repository of some secret of unusual consequence.

Mac noticed the movement, listened, and then got up, lifted the latch, and cautiously looked out.

Indeed both they and the students hoped to check the violence of the riots, while they prevented any reactionary movement.

"You haven't any time or strength for this" "Oh yes," said Father Brachet, smiling, and arresting the impetuous movement.

In the last decade or so, an endeavour to focus upon the exceptional child, exceptional in intelligence or some special creative endowment, has started an interesting movement.

I could detect no faintest movement of eyelash, no faintest sound of breathing.

To-night we know his movements exactly.

The Indians did not seem to understand this strategic movement.

The honorable limp that at present marked his movements would, it was hoped, pass away.

This manuscript newspaper produced quite a revolutionary movement among the people, frightening even the Austrian Government.

" The Great War, far from checking the movement for social welfare, has quickened the public sense of responsibility.

One rather noted her quick, resolute movements, the sparkle in her eyes, and her keen vitality.

During this period the uppermost thought of commanders was to conceal their movements.

His left arm was free, there was no one lying near to impede its movement.

489 Verbs to Use for the Word  movements