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Stooping in sentence

63 examples of Stooping in a sentence

Holmes had sprung to his feet, and I saw his dark, athletic outline at the door of the hut, his shoulders stooping, his head thrust forward, his face peering into the darkness.
His heavy- jowled, clean-shaven face expressed ferocity as well as courage, and he stood with his small, blood-shot eyes fixed viciously upon Jim, and his lumpy shoulders stooping a little forwards, like a fierce hound training on a leash.
"I have looked in vain for anything that's worth the trouble of stooping for."
"It means murder," said he, stooping over the dead man.
Mr. Sherman was a lanky, lean old man, with stooping shoulders, a stringy neck, and blue-tinted glasses.
"What a pretty box!" she said, stooping over it.
Introduced with little ceremony, and advancing with fear and hesitation, and many a bow of deep humility, a tall thin old man, who, however, had lost by the habit of stooping much of his actual height, approached the lower end of the board.
"Yield thee, De Bracy," said the Black Champion, stooping over him, and holding against the bars of his helmet the fatal poniard with which the knights dispatched their enemies, (and which was called the dagger of mercy,)--"yield thee, Maurice de Bracy, rescue or no rescue, or thou art but a dead man."
Having kissed his face, flushed by stooping and lit up by tenderness, the girl unclasped her hands and was going to run away, but he held her back.
A little boy dressed in a Russian costume, violently swinging his arms and stooping very low, was overtaking her.
Anna Arkadyevna, shall we have a turn?' he added, stooping toward her.
The shadow of a man stooping slipped past her feet and she heard a hammer striking the carriage wheels.
Yes, yes, the peasant, the beater – I think he was small and dirty with a tangled beard – was stooping down and doing something or other, and suddenly began to say strange words in French.
Vronsky got up at once, and stooping before him looked up into his face without unbending his back.
I could no longer recognise the grey-headed woman whom, only a minute ago, I had seen stooping in front of the door, with the piteous and haggard bearing of a hen who has lost the wildest chick in her brood.
From time to time a village woman, stooping to brave the wind, passed by in the street on her return from the butcher, and we looked up to see who she was.
I still see him drop his heavy belt on a chair, over the back of which he folded his black overall extremely creased and soiled, then take off a kind of dark blue tunic which he wore under his overall, and stooping with his back to me, spread the garment at the foot of his bed .
There he was, in his long cloak, like a hunter, stooping to listen, when an extraordinary little fellow came out of a neighbouring building any one would have thought deserted.
You're quite near Sainte-Agathe.'Half asleep, Meaulnes obeyed, felt about in the darkest corner of the carriage for his cap which had rolled under the feet of the sleeping children; then he got out, stooping.
Meaulnes was stooping to feel the leg and examine it and said nothing.
.'So, stooping under the branches, we slowly and silently make our way across the copse as far as the big fir wood from where, at regular intervals, rises this prolonged cry, which is not in itself uncanny, yet seems to us an evil omen.
I had now not a moment to lose, for nineteen of the dreadful wretches sat upon the ground, all close huddled together, and had just sent the other two to butcher the poor Christian, and bring him perhaps limb by limb to their fire, and they were stooping down to untie the bands at his feet.
The traveller now, stooping, felt his foot and leg, as if trying whether they were sound; apparently something ailed them, for he halted to the stile whence I had just risen, and sat down.
"Qu' avez-vous, mademoiselle?" said she."Vos doigts tremblent comme la feuille, et vos joues sont rouges: mais, rouges comme des cerises!""I am hot, Adele, with stooping!"
It was no more the withered limb of eld than my own; it was a rounded supple member, with smooth fingers, symmetrically turned; a broad ring flashed on the little finger, and stooping forward, I looked at it, and saw a gem I had seen a hundred times before.
But no--eventide is as pleasant to him as to me, and this antique garden as attractive; and he strolls on, now lifting the gooseberry-tree branches to look at the fruit, large as plums, with which they are laden; now taking a ripe cherry from the wall; now stooping towards a knot of flowers, either to inhale their fragrance or to admire the dew-beads on their petals.
Such being the case, I felt not a little surprised when he raised his head suddenly from the desk over which he was stooping, and said--"You see, Jane, the battle is fought and the victory won."
Diana was a great deal taller than I: she put her hand on my shoulder, and, stooping, examined my face.
"You fell in love with her, I find, in stooping to pick up her handkerchief which she had dropped; you shall pick up my garter."
And as he wrote, stooping overthe paper, a low sound of choked sighs, smothered, quick breathing andsuppressed sobs made him suddenly look round at her.
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