Trailing
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55 examples of Trailing in a sentence
The horse had started; the carman, in his turn, disappeared, with the
trailing
step of an invalid.
Now the whole settlement was awake, bands of children were going to school, and one heard the
trailing
noise of their clogs.
Jeanlin set out with hands in his pockets,
trailing
his sabots and slouching along, with his slender loins of a ten-year-old urchin, like an old miner.
And the children,
trailing
along the pathways, raised their heads and also laughed with delight at all this weary flesh of workers displayed in the open air.
Below at the pit-eye, when Pierron had unloaded them with his air of hypocritical mildness, there was always the same tramping as of a flock, the yard-men each going away to his cutting with
trailing
steps.
Men in their shirt-sleeves were
trailing
their old shoes with the lazy gait of days of rest.
And it even interested her and took her out of her grief, this unforeseen ascent, this long serpent of men flowing on and hoisting themselves up three on a ladder, so that even when the head should emerge in daylight the tail would still be
trailing
over the sump.
On this day the coachman was driving his wife; Rose, the new housemaid, had leave to go out till five o'clock; there only remained Hippolyte, the valet de chambre,
trailing
about the rooms in slippers, and the cook, who had been occupied since dawn in struggling with her saucepans, entirely absorbed in the dinner which was to be given in the evening.
And besides, this man must know; he must have found the bed still hot with adultery twenty times over, with madame's hairs
trailing
on the pillow, and abominable traces staining the linen.
"Off you go, or I'll do for you!"Chaval arose, and with the back of his hand wiped away the blood which continued to flow from his nose; with jaw smeared red and bruised eye, he went away
trailing
his feet, furious at his defeat.
Not one of them spoke, many shook their heads, others went away with
trailing
steps, without changing one line in their motionless faces.
I spotted gigantic furrows
trailing
off into the distant darkness, their length incalculable.
Then I glimpsed a few bright constellations through the crystal waters, specifically five or six of those zodiacal stars
trailing
from the tail end of Orion.
In the midst of this hopelessly tangled fabric of weeds and fucus plants, I noted some delightful pink-colored, star-shaped alcyon coral, sea anemone
trailing
the long tresses of their tentacles, some green, red, and blue jellyfish, and especially those big rhizostome jellyfish that Cuvier described, whose bluish parasols are trimmed with violet festoons.
Others looked like upside-down baskets from which wide leaves and long red twigs were gracefully
trailing.
This searching after faith, she thought, was only one merit the more, and in the pride of her devoutness Emma compared herself to those grand ladies of long ago whose glory she, had dreamed of over a portrait of La Valliere, and who,
trailing
with so much majesty the lace-trimmed trains of their long gowns, retired into solitudes to shed at the feet of Christ all the tears of hearts that life had wounded.
Bournisien had again begun to pray, his face bowed against the edge of the bed, his long black cassock
trailing
behind him in the room.
Now all this has little enough to do with what I took my pen up to tell about; but when a man has a good memory and little skill, he cannot draw one thought from his mind without a dozen others
trailing
out behind it.
While his wife basked in the sun on the pavement,
trailing
her skirt with nonchalance and impudence, shameless and unconcerned, he followed behind her, pale and shuddering, repeating that it was all over, that he would be unable to save himself and would be guillotined.
I hobble not nor do I limp,All blemish I'm without,And as I walk my lily locksAre
trailing
on the ground.
But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a galloping across the moor, and the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with
trailing
bridle and empty saddle.
A long black shadow was
trailing
down the corridor.
Rain squalls drifted across their russet face, and the heavy, slate-coloured clouds hung low over the landscape,
trailing
in gray wreaths down the sides of the fantastic hills.
Strings of pedestrians, most of them so weary and dust-covered that it was evident that they had walked the thirty miles from London during the night, were plodding along by the sides of the road or
trailing
over the long mottled slopes of the moorland.
A belated gig was coming at full gallop down the road which led from the south, and a few pedestrians were still
trailing
up from Crawley, but nowhere was there a sign of the missing man.
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