282 Verbs to Use for the Word turning

Immediately after dinner the men all smoked everywhere, in the drawing-room, on the terrace, some taking a turn in the park with Bismarck.

A Pox of all Lords, I say, you must be janting in the Devil's name, and God's dry Ground wou'd not serve your turn.

" "In court," Henshaw observed, with a malicious smile, "handled by a counsel who knew his business, your statement could be given a very ugly turn indeed.

The enemy trenches on San Marco lay out of view behind the crest, and our registration point, a white house on the top of the ridge, was almost completely blown away by a big French shell while we were watching, and waiting our turn to fire.

"Lewes River makes a turn here to the south-west, and runs in that direction six miles, when it again turns to the north-west for seven miles, and then makes a short, sharp turn to the south and west around a low sandy point, which will, at some day in the near future, be cut through by the current, which will shorten the river three or four miles.

Suddenly I had a notion that I had seen that turn of the neck and poise of the head before.

He took the wrong turning years ago.

One trooper had begun his search at the front of the train, the other at the back, and Shillito, hearing the first turn the passengers out of their berths, had tried to steal away and met the other.

The prospect of his own release was, under these circumstances, rather distant, as without special intervention he would have to await his turn, the rule being that those first captured were first exchanged.

By all counts she would have been about sixty years old when it came her turn to sit in the dust on the sunny side of the wickiup, with little strength left for anything but looking.

After a long time of jostling and squeezing they rounded a turn of the road and Billie cried out.

The disease continued to make rapid progress, in spite of all that the first medical skill could do to baffle it, watching every turn it took, and applying, on the instant, every remedy likely to subdue its virulence, and mitigate his sufferings.

" "It's all a wale, child, a wale o' tears," old Mrs. Riggs complained as she bade her good-bye in the porch, but when she reached the turn in the road she heard Penelope singing, "Thy way, not mine, O Lord, However dark it be!

This tendency in troops is always an indication of personal regard; these nicknames had been already showered upon Jackson, and General Lee was having his turn.

"Say, you called the turn right off, didn't you?" "Anderson, I've had a hard experience, all in one harvest-time," replied Dorn.

For look you, sir; the father, according to the fashion, being sure you have a good living, and without encumbrance, comes to you thus:takes you by the hand thus:wipes his long beard thus:or turns up his moustachio thus:walks some turn or two thus:to show his comely gravity thus:and having washed his foul mouth thus: at last breaks out thus.

When I reached the third turning to the left I saw the church, certainly the handsomest in San Lorenzo.

I liked the turn of his phrase.

It's father, and he'd hear the turning of the key.

"It was my wish in this poem to shew the manner in which such men cleave to the same ideas; and to follow the turns of passion, always different, yet not palpably different, by which their conversation is swayed.

He had been as far as the turn before, but now he passed the turn to find, just as he expected, a closed door on the left and an open alcove on the right.

'And you are certain you can obtain the money?' 'My good friend the Begum of the Cannibal Islands has more than she knows what to do with; and she owes me a good turn, you know.'

" "Now 'tis my turn to blush!"

The dog-wood there flung wide its stars, In April, silvery sweet; The squirrels crossed that path all day On tiny flying feet; The wild, brown rabbits knew each turn, Each shadowy safe retreat.

It marked the turn of the tide in a desperate campaign which might have resulted in the total loss of Canada.

282 Verbs to Use for the Word  turning