75 Verbs to Use for the Word sinking

Promptly at six o'clock Uncle Charley left her at Boxley Hall, and as she entered the door Patty felt that strange sinking of the heart that always accompanies the resuming of a half-forgotten mental burden.

Coubitant saw her sink to the ground, and, with a mighty effort, he shook off the grasp of Jyanough, and darted towards Oriana.

Again he felt the sickening sink of the plane, as if it were an elevator-car loosed from its cable.

Seeing it go down the drain would be for her like watching a loved child sink for the third time in some pond or mere.

Is it not better to let go a petty interest, than to further it by committing so notorious and heinous a sin; to let an ambitious project sink, than to buoy it up by such base means?

She was rammed, however, by the "Arapiles," and so badly injured as to compel her to make her escape into shoal water to prevent sinking.

(Von Bethmann-Hollweg and von Tirpitz justify the use of gas, the sinking of merchant vessels containing women and children, the dropping of bombs on open towns, etc., etc., by the plea of self-defence.

Once Jack experienced a sudden sinking in the region of his heart.

An attempt at rebellion by Irish extremists, accompanied by bloody riots in Dublin and other cities in the south and west of Ireland, followed the sinking on April 21 of a German vessel which, convoyed by a submarine, endeavored to land arms and ammunition on the Irish coast.

Having examined the Nature of every Creature, and found out one which was the most proper for his Purpose, he again returns to Paradise; and, to avoid Discovery, sinks by Night with a River that ran under the Garden, and rises up again through a Fountain that [issued ] from it by the Tree of Life.

Here you find the hot sink of Death Valley, or high rolling districts where the air has always a tang of frost.

President Wilson did not accept the official lie concerning the sinking of the Arabic, in view of the positive proof against Germany, and Germany backed down.

The door having been closed, Fletcher Two mounted a low stone sink which ran along the end wall, and from this ready-made platform commenced to address the assembly : "Gentlemen,We've met here, as you know, to talk over starting a fresh magazine.

To nothingness my art and talent sink; He fails who from his mortal stores hath given A thousandfold to match one gift divine.

" "Beg pardon, madam," interposed Simmons, parting the Flemish arras, upon which was depicted the sinking of the Spanish Armada.

"Our nature's totally depraved The heart a sink of sin; Without a change we can't be saved, Ye must be born again.

And methinks I hear it wafted, Thy sweet voice, remote yet clear, Till thy song, descending slowly, Sinks into the silent mere.

One squad digs the sink.

The squadron fell in with an English man-o'-war, and seventy-two years ago to this very day, on this very spot, after fighting heroically, until its masts were shot away, its hold full of water, and a third of its crew disabled, this vessel preferred sinking, with its 356 sailors, to surrendering.

"Why," said Zadig to the fisherman, "dost thou sink under thy misfortunes?"

180 Winds the still vale, and slopes the velvet mead; On the pale stream expiring Zephyrs sink, And Moonlight sleeps upon its hoary brink.

He eyed the sink and the tiny range with a suspicious eye.

See to what a lovely peace the Creating Hand has even now brought our England, far as she is yet from being a province in the kingdom of Heaven; but see also in her former condition a type of the horror to which our souls may festering sink, if we shut out His free spirit, and have it no more moving upon the face of our waters.

Sohráb, still breathing, hears the shrill alarms, His gentle speech suspends the clang of arms: "My light of life now fluttering sinks in shade, Let vengeance sleep, and peaceful vows be made.

If, as with some men one meets, he studies it through a microscope and adds it up with anxious browmeanwhile quite evidently forgetting your presencehow your heart sinks, sinks and hardensbut you are glad all the same, and next day you congratulate yourself on your narrow escape!" "Was I like that?" said I. "Did we escape?" asked Aurea.

75 Verbs to Use for the Word  sinking