Leaning
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354 examples of Leaning in a sentence
Waking up, I saw Ned Land
leaning
over me, and I heard him tell me in a low voice:"We're going to escape!"
He found no one downstairs; he went up to the first floor to their room; say her dress still hanging at the foot of the alcove; then,
leaning
against the writing-table, he stayed until the evening, buried in a sorrowful reverie.
But so that you mayn't be eating your heart, I'll open wide the outer shutter of the window against the wall; you can see it from the back by
leaning
over the hedge."
At night when they left, the horses, stuffed up to the nostrils with oats, could hardly be got into the shafts; they kicked, reared, the harness broke, their masters laughed or swore; and all night in the light of the moon along country roads there were runaway carts at full gallop plunging into the ditches, jumping over yard after yard of stones, clambering up the hills, with women
leaning
out from the tilt to catch hold of the reins.
She came to the window to see him off, and stayed
leaning
on the sill between two pots of geranium, clad in her dressing gown hanging loosely about her.
She would have liked to live in some old manor-house, like those long-waisted chatelaines who, in the shade of pointed arches, spent their days
leaning
on the stone, chin in hand, watching a cavalier with white plume galloping on his black horse from the distant fields.
Charles was a slow eater; she played with a few nuts, or,
leaning
on her elbow, amused herself with drawing lines along the oilcloth table cover with the point of her knife.
In the evening especially its argand lamp is lit up and the red and green jars that embellish his shop-front throw far across the street their two streams of colour; then across them as if in Bengal lights is seen the shadow of the chemist
leaning
over his desk.
The two, side by side walked slowly, she
leaning
upon him, and he restraining his pace, which he regulated by hers; in front of them a swarm of midges fluttered, buzzing in the warm air.
The little girl soon came up closer against her knees, and
leaning
on them with her arms, she looked up with her large blue eyes, while a small thread of pure saliva dribbled from her lips on to the silk apron.
She remained standing,
leaning
with her shoulder against the wainscot.
Emma was
leaning
out at the window; she was often there.
One saw folk
leaning
on their elbows at all the windows, others standing at doors, and Justin, in front of the chemist's shop, seemed quite transfixed by the sight of what he was looking at.
Then, when she had her medal, she looked at it, and a smile of beatitude spread over her face; and as she walked away they could hear her muttering "I'll give it to our cure up home, to say some masses for me!""What fanaticism!" exclaimed the chemist,
leaning
across to the notary.
Rodolphe,
leaning
against the calico of the tent was thinking so earnestly of Emma that he heard nothing.
Emma!Emma!""Oh, Rodolphe!" said the young woman slowly,
leaning
on his shoulder.
She ran after him, and,
leaning
over the water's edge between the bulrushes—"To-morrow!" she cried.
Her strength returned to her; she got up for a few hours of an afternoon, and one day, when she felt better, he tried to take her,
leaning
on his arm, for a walk round the garden.
The sand of the paths was disappearing beneath the dead leaves; she walked slowly, dragging along her slippers, and
leaning
against Charles's shoulder.
The young beaux were strutting about in the pit, showing in the opening of their waistcoats their pink or applegreen cravats, and Madame Bovary from above admired them
leaning
on their canes with golden knobs in the open palm of their yellow gloves.
"Yes, but you know," he went on,
leaning
against her shoulder, "I like to understand things."
He was standing behind her,
leaning
with his shoulder against the wall of the box; now and again she felt herself shuddering beneath the hot breath from his nostrils falling upon her hair.
Then,
leaning
towards the clock as if to see the time—"Ah! how late it is!" she said; "how we do chatter!"
She was opposite him,
leaning
against the partition of the shallop, through one of whose raised blinds the moon streamed in.
Then the passengers in the "Hirondelle" ended by falling asleep, some with open mouths, others with lowered chins,
leaning
against their neighbour's shoulder, or with their arm passed through the strap, oscillating regularly with the jolting of the carriage; and the reflection of the lantern swinging without, on the crupper of the wheeler; penetrating into the interior through the chocolate calico curtains, threw sanguineous shadows over all these motionless people.
save her!"Then going back to her, he sank upon the carpet, and lay there with his head
leaning
against the edge of her bed, sobbing.
Leaning
on the table opposite him, he chewed his cigar as he talked, and Charles was lost in reverie at this face that she had loved.
How often, my thoughts straying back to the ball-rooms of Paris, which I had forsaken overnight, my elbows
leaning
upon those great blocks of stone of a fine grey with a shade of blue in it, have I swept with my gaze the vale of the Doubs!
Presently Julien saw them, each
leaning
upon his axe and deliberating together.
One evening, Julien was talking with emphasis, he was revelling in the pleasure of talking well and to young married women; as he gesticulated, he touched the hand of Madame de Renal, who was
leaning
on the back of one of those chairs of painted wood that are placed in gardens.
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