Pawing
in example sentence
She stopped to let pass a black horse,
pawing
the ground between the shafts of a tilbury, driven by a gentleman in sable furs.
More example sentences with word pawing
A video of the experiments included in the Netflix documentary “Dirty Money” shows a monkey in a state of panic,
pawing
at the window of the chamber in a desperate effort to escape.
There was an instant of gleaming breastplates, waving swords, tossing manes, fierce red nostrils opening and shutting, and hoofs
pawing
the air before us; and then down came the line of muskets, and our bullets smacked up against their armour like the clatter of a hailstorm upon a window.
With a last howl of agony and a vicious snap in the air, it rolled upon its back, four feet
pawing
furiously, and then fell limp upon its side.
She was perched by his side, looking very smart in a flowered bonnet and grey travelling-dress, while in front of them the four splendid coal- black horses, with a flickering touch of gold upon their powerful, well-curved quarters, were
pawing
the dust in their eagerness to be off.
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