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Parted in sentence

181 examples of Parted in a sentence

It was the first time since their union that he had parted from her without a full explanation.
Anna wrote to her husband asking him for a divorce and at the end of November, having parted from the Princess Barbara, who had to go to Petersburg, she moved to Moscow with Vronsky.
He parted with that hundred-rouble note not without a struggle.
If you will let me recapitulate, this is how matters stood: When you parted, you were great, as magnanimous as a man can possibly be; you consented to everything: her freedom and even a divorce.
And it was likewise his fault that she was for ever parted from her son.
And so they parted without either of them having expressed his opinion.
But streaks of water, parted by the ship's spur, sometimes threaded before our eyes with extraordinary speed.
My hands parted liquid curtains that closed again behind me, and my footprints faded swiftly under the water's pressure.
After I parted them with my hands, these otherwise motionless plants would shoot right back to their original positions.
Then they tried to haul the monster on board, but its weight was so considerable that when they tugged on the rope, the animal parted company with its tail; and deprived of this adornment, it disappeared beneath the waters."
Her hair, whose two black folds seemed each of a single piece, so smooth were they, was parted in the middle by a delicate line that curved slightly with the curve of the head; and, just showing the tip of the ear, it was joined behind in a thick chignon, with a wavy movement at the temples that the country doctor saw now for the first time in his life.
A smile rose to her lips at certain delicate phrases of the violin, that sometimes played alone while the other instruments were silent; one could hear the clear clink of the louis d'or that were being thrown down upon the card tables in the next room; then all struck again, the cornet-a-piston uttered its sonorous note, feet marked time, skirts swelled and rustled, hands touched and parted; the same eyes falling before you met yours again.
She often changed her coiffure; she did her hair a la Chinoise, in flowing curls, in plaited coils; she parted in on one side and rolled it under like a man's.
And they parted before the Saint-Herbland Passage just as the clock in the cathedral struck half-past eleven.
One day, when they had parted early and she was returning alone along the boulevard, she saw the walls of her convent; then she sat down on a form in the shade of the elm-trees.
"Oh, neither good nor bad.""Perhaps it would have been better never to have parted."
But when he reached the top of the hill he turned back, as he had turned once before on the road of Saint-Victor when he had parted from her.
'Alas, dear friend, we are going to be parted for a fortnight, perhaps a month!
No sooner had they parted than the Chevalier de Beauvoisis hastened in search of information: what he heard was by no means promising.
He parted from Mathilde, the most attractive person at the ball, with pleasure because he had seen a Peruvian General enter the room.
But everything changed rapidly in his heart from the moment when he saw himself parted from her for ever.
Didn't Kalisky make love on Richmond Terrace, you know, a few miles out of London, to the prettiest Quakeress in the whole of England?'Julien was less wretched when he parted from his friend at two o'clock in the morning.
Was he going to be parted from Mathilde?
My revenge has been terrible, like the grief of being parted from you.
He looked at her hair in front of him, parted, bunched down, reddish and firmly held in place.
We made a list of the things to be taken, and a pretty lengthy one it was, before we parted that evening.
They parted the bushes on the bank and peered out over the water.
Then with a mutual impulse the two bereaved women flung themselves into each other's arms and had a good, consoling cry, and then parted.
They would have given anything to have that swarthy sun-tanned skin of his, and his glittering notoriety; and Tom would not have parted with either for a circus.
Tom began--hesitatingly at first, but as he warmed to his subject his words flowed more and more easily; in a little while every sound ceased but his own voice; every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale.
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