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Stooped in sentence

83 examples of Stooped in a sentence

Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the prisoner's face.
I had stooped and was scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the colonel looking down at me."'What are you doing there?' he asked.
They stooped to the floor to catch sight of the massy heights that hung above them, and peered back at the soaring chaos of rock which, having opened to let them through, closed again immitigably as they left it behind.
He stooped and took her in his arms, and for that which followed Kate did not rebuke him.
Kate stooped to raise her, her under lip quivering, and the doctor from the steps shouted cheerfully:"Oh, that is all right.
Tarvin stooped swiftly and possessed himself of the treasure.
She stooped.
He stooped down and stirred the man up with the muzzle of his revolver.
He heaved a deep sigh as he stooped and kissed her.
He stooped, and with the most gracious air he could assume, drew the handkerchief from under the foot of the Musketeer in spite of the efforts the latter made to detain it, and holding it out to him, said, "I believe, monsieur, that this is a handkerchief you would be sorry to lose?"
D’Artagnan was not willing to abandon his companion thus, and stooped to raise him and assist him in regaining the lines; but at this moment two shots were fired.
He stooped down, picked up the bag of money, and placed it between his teeth.
I stooped to bathe my face in the Hansbach.
He stooped his head to hers, and she raised one hand as if in protest.
I stooped under the rude lintel, and there he sat upon a stone outside, his gray eyes dancing with amusement as they fell upon my astonished features.
Not a whisper, not a rustle, rose now from the dark figure over which we stooped.
He hurried past me and stooped over the dead man.
I tiptoed down the path and stooped behind the low wall which surrounded the stunted orchard.
I stooped, panting, and pressed my pistol to the dreadful, shimmering head, but it was useless to press the trigger.
Belcher stooped down and turned over the man's inert head so as to show his features.
From time to time one of the colonists stooped down and felt for the wire with his hands; but there was now no doubt that the wire was running directly towards the sea.
When I stooped over him I found, to my horror, that he was dead.
I stooped to the hole, and recoiled in horror.
One man sat by the stern, with something black between his knees over which he stooped.
So saying, he stooped over the bed of the recumbent swineherd, and whispered something in his ear in Saxon.
They glanced as you stooped over my bed in the morning."
As the Jew, stunned by the request, afraid to refuse, and unwilling to comply, fumbled in the furred bag which hung by his girdle, and was perhaps endeavouring to ascertain how few coins might pass for a handful, the Prince stooped from his jennet and settled Isaac's doubts by snatching the pouch itself from his side; and flinging to Wamba a couple of the gold pieces which it contained, he pursued his career round the lists, leaving the Jew to the derision of those around him, and himself receiving as much applause from the spectators as if he had done some honest and honourable action.
The knight stooped his head, and kissed the hand of the lovely Sovereign by whom his valour had been rewarded; and then, sinking yet farther forward, lay prostrate at her feet.
"He did endow him with it," answered Cedric; "nor is it my least quarrel with my son, that he stooped to hold, as a feudal vassal, the very domains which his fathers possessed in free and independent right."
The contents of that cupboard are an answer to all my enquiries; and I see a weapon there" (here he stooped and took out the harp) "on which I would more gladly prove my skill with thee, than at the sword and buckler."
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