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201 examples of Straw in a sentence

Here behind the balustrade of a balcony was a young man in a short cloak, holding in his arms a young girl in a white dress wearing an alms-bag at her belt; or there were nameless portraits of English ladies with fair curls, who looked at you from under their round straw hats with their large clear eyes.
His work done, he did not come back again all day, for Charles on his return put up his horse himself, unsaddled him and put on the halter, while the servant-girl brought a bundle of straw and threw it as best she could into the manger.
No birds were to be heard; everything seemed asleep, the espalier covered with straw, and the vine, like a great sick serpent under the coping of the wall, along which, on drawing hear, one saw the many-footed woodlice crawling.
It flared up more quickly than dry straw.
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.
Last year he helped our people to bring in the straw; he carried as many as six trusses at once, he is so strong."
Bits of straw stuck in his red hair, and he limped with his left leg.
Attached to the stop-plank of the gable a bunch of straw mixed with corn-ears fluttered its tricoloured ribbons in the wind.
At the reproaches with which he was being overwhelmed Napoleon began to roar, while Justin dried his shoes with a wisp of straw.
Then Monsieur Lheureux delicately exhibited three Algerian scarves, several packets of English needles, a pair of straw slippers, and finally, four eggcups in cocoanut wood, carved in open work by convicts.
The coarse hardware was spread out on the ground between pyramids of eggs and hampers of cheeses, from which sticky straw stuck out.
He trampled on horses's dung with them, one hand in the pocket of his jacket and his straw hat on one side.
In fact, the villagers, who were hot, quarreled for these seats, whose straw smelt of incense, and they leant against the thick backs, stained with the wax of candles, with a certain veneration.
The walls were of straw, and the roof so low they had to stoop.
Ah! how pretty she would be later on when she was fifteen, when, resembling her mother, she would, like her, wear large straw hats in the summer-time; from a distance they would be taken for two sisters.
In your own house you do not possess a chair, a pin, a straw, and it is I, poor man, who have ruined you."
By dint of talking for talking's sake, and of trying to keep the conversation alive, Madame de Renal found herself saying that her husband had come from Verrieres because he had made a bargain, for the purchase of maize straw, with one of his farmers.
(In this district maize straw is used to stuff the palliasses of the beds.)
'My husband will not be joining us again,' Madame de Renal went on: 'he will be busy with the gardener and his valet changing the straw in all the palliasses in the house.
This morning he put fresh straw on all the beds on the first floor, now he is at work on the second.'
She lifted the mattress and plunged her hand into the straw with such force as to scratch her fingers.
The sudden entry of this man was the last straw to Julien.
'But what!' he suddenly exclaimed, pacing the floor with a convulsive step, 'am I to allow her, as though I were a man of straw, a mere ragamuffin, to make a mock of me with her lover?
Only in a corner by the door, Julien noticed in passing a bed of white wood, two straw chairs and a little armchair made of planks of firwood without a cushion.
He helped Madame Derville to prop that charming head against the back of a straw chair; he was on his knees.
There, I lie upon straw with four hundred poor wretches, pell-mell ...
Except, that one of them had pushed a drinking straw through a crack between the planks and was moving it slowly up and down.
He came to a dead stop, a yard from our step, and, leaning up against the railings, and selecting a straw to chew, fixed us with his eye.
It was George's straw hat that saved his life that day.
They lay upon straw, and they rose at midnight to mass.
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