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Bearing in sentence

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Some fifteen of the Nautilus's seamen surrounded their captain and stared with a feeling of implacable hate at the ship bearing down on them.
The quadrille over, the floor was occupied by groups of men standing up and talking and servants in livery bearing large trays.
The daylight coming through the plain glass windows falls obliquely upon the pews ranged along the walls, which are adorned here and there with a straw mat bearing beneath it the words in large letters, "Mr.
Besides this there were against the four columns of the town hall four kinds of poles, each bearing a small standard of greenish cloth, embellished with inscriptions in gold letters.
"Yes; here she is.""Then let her come up!"Then there came forward on the platform a little old woman with timid bearing, who seemed to shrink within her poor clothes.
Often a cart would pass near her, bearing some shaking scenery.
So he knew (and better than she herself) the long story of the bills, small at first, bearing different names as endorsers, made out at long dates, and constantly renewed up to the day, when, gathering together all the protested bills, the shopkeeper had bidden his friend Vincart take in his own name all the necessary proceedings, not wishing to pass for a tiger with his fellow-citizens.
So bearing no grudge to poor Charles, he came back again in the evening to sit up with the body; bringing with him three volumes and a pocket-book for taking notes.
At last, after having examined some hundred designs, having ordered an estimate and made another journey to Rouen, Charles decided in favour of a mausoleum, which on the two principal sides was to have a "spirit bearing an extinguished torch."
In her own drawing-room, humble as his bearing was, she found in his eyes an air of intellectual superiority over everyone that came to the house.
This frown, or rather his remorse for his imprudence, was the first check administered to the illusion that was bearing Julien away.
M. de La Mole, who had secured a bishopric for his nephew, had chosen to pay him the compliment of bearing the whole of the expense himself.
He little knew that M. Pirard had received and had flung in the fire several letters bearing the Dijon postmark, letters in which, despite the most conventional style and language, the most intense passion was apparent.
'I was forgetting one thing,' said the abbe: 'this young man, although of quite humble birth, has a proud heart, he will be of no use to you if his pride is offended; you will only make him stupid.''I like that,' said the Marquis, 'I shall make him my son's companion, will that do?'Some time after this, Julien received a letter in an unknown hand and bearing the postmark of Chalons, and found a draft upon a merchant in Besancon and instructions to proceed to Paris without delay.
The Baron was returning officer in a certain constituency: he had had the bright idea of making away with the little slips of paper bearing the votes of one of the parties.
But, to compensate for this, he duly replaced them with other little slips of paper bearing a name of which he himself approved.
He began no longer to mistake for hardness of heart the kind of beauty that goes with nobility of bearing.
The letter, which he kept tightly clasped in his hand, gave him the bearing and pose of a hero.
I shall have been the rival of a man bearing one of the best names in France, and I myself, with a light heart, am to declare myself his inferior!
As he walked by her side, he cast furtive glances at her hands, her arms, her regal bearing.
'I am not, as a matter of fact, Madame Michelet,' she said, resuming all the loftiness of her bearing, 'and this admission costs me little, for I have come to consult you, Sir, as to the possibility of procuring the escape of M. de La Vernaye.
I'm sure you're very familiar with them and could achieve a great deal through them, I've no doubt of that, but the most that could be done through them would have no bearing at all on the final outcome of the trial.
All of them were carelessly dressed although the expressions on their faces, their bearing, the style of their beards and many details which were hard to identify showed that they belonged to the upper classes.
Did his body want to revolt and cause him a new trial as he was bearing the old one with such little effort?
Bearing all this in mind, does it still surprise K. that the officials are irritated and often express themselves about the litigants in unflattering ways - which is an experience shared by everyone.
The wings of the rushing wind seem to be bearing you onward, you know not where.
With a sigh, we turned our eyes once more towards the spot where Harris and the pie had last been seen on earth; and there, as our blood froze in our veins and our hair stood up on end, we saw Harris's head - and nothing but his head - sticking bolt upright among the tall grass, the face very red, and bearing upon it an expression of great indignation!
They saw me bearing down upon them, and they called out to me to keep out of their way.
On the wall exactly opposite there was photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth respect for his uniform and bearing.
Persuasion was useless, for patriotism was uppermost in the heart of this remarkable individual; and Mr. -- departed, bearing with him the gold he had brought, and a deep respect for the man who had so long hazarded his life, unrequited, for the cause they served in common.
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