23 Verbs to Use for the Word stoops

hopelessAnd watching, I saw one figure stoop and lift the prostrate man.

And before the terrified old woman could stop him, he had gone at long strides across the kitchen, through the best room, and reached the stoop, saying in a loud tone: "Carlen!

We turned into one of the cross streets and mounted the stoop of a house in about the middle of a block between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.

The desks should not be too low, causing a forward stoop; or too high, throwing one shoulder up and giving a twist to the spine.

With a yell and a whoop He cleared the front stoop Just ahead of her papa's brogan.

He became more agitated, and climbed the stoop, unlocked his way into the house, went up the dim, soft, red-cushioned stairs, past the milky gas-globe in the narrow hall, and knocked at her door.

"Why not leave the country now; at all events for a few years?" went on Paul, and when a man who is accustomed to command stoops to persuade, it is strong persuasion that he wields.

There some grave Moslem to devotion stoops, And some that smoke, and some that play, are found.

Sylla, Sylla, Marius' years have taught Him how to pluck so proud a younker's plumes; And know, these hairs, that dangle down my face, In brightness like the silver Rhodope, Shall add so haughty courage to my mind, And rest such piercing objects 'gainst thine eyes, That mask'd in folly age shall force thee stoop.

The heaven we chase Like the June bee Before the school-boy Invites the race; Stoops to an easy clover Dips evades teases deploys; Then to the royal clouds Lifts his light pinnace

Next he takes his torch, consisting of a piece of sponge wired to an old rake handle, which he keeps on the back stoop, and makes sure that it is tight and secure, finally searching me out to say that in case he meets Miss Lavinia, have I any message for her.

"That Cupid is a negro to keep the roof on a house, in its master's absence, Patroon," observed the Alderman, soon after they had left the stoop.

heart o' mine till I, even as they, methinks, do burn to fight Pentavalon's cause, to shield her from woeful shame andha! such vile sights as yon!" Now looking where Sir Benedict pointed, Beltane beheld a thing, crookedly contorted, a-dangle from a knotted branch that jutted athwart the way, insomuch that the must needs stoop, cowering in his saddle, lest he touch the twisted feet of it.

Our friend approached the wall, still holding up the lamp, and scrutinised the surface with close attention; and while he was thus engaged, I observed Thorndyke stoop quickly and pick up something, which he deposited carefully, and without remark, in his waistcoat pocket.

His stature was just six feet and an inch, when he straightened himself; as he did from time to time, seemingly with a desire to relieve a very inveterate stoop in his shoulders; though it was an inch or two less in the position he most affected.

he answers very simply, and so saying, stoops, and with a sort of diffidence, kisses me.

The appearance of one, of the air and dress we have just described, excited a strong sensation among the blacks who scrubbed the stoops and pavements.

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.

Each had its ugly and inconvenient entrance, termed a stoop, its vane or weathercock, its dormer-windows, and its graduated battlement-walls.

Certain it is that the character grows larger in proportion to the size of the affairs with which it is habitually concerned, and that a mind of more than common stature acquires an habitual stoop, if forced to deal lifelong with little men and little things.

How they are at home we can't tell; but from the moment they enter the chapel and touch the holy water stoops, which somehow persist in retaining a good thick dark sediment at the bottom, to the time they walk out, the utmost earnestness prevails amongst them.

There was a sound of loud voices, as we approached the stoop.

MARGARET I feel it, you but spare my ignorance, The gentleman to blame me stoops thus low.

23 Verbs to Use for the Word  stoops