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Waved in sentence

106 examples of Waved in a sentence

In the centre of the court-yard, as naked as the lunatic who had once lived there, sat an ash-smeared, long-haired, eagle-taloned, half-mad, wandering native priest, and waved above his head his buckhorn staff, sharp as a lance at one end, while he chanted in a loud, monotonous voice some song that drove the men and women to work more quickly.
Shall I lock up dispensary, or will you audit drug accounts now?"Kate waved him off feebly.
He leaned back luxuriously, and waved a wasted hand; the grim gate grated on its hinges as it swung back, and they entered together the woman, the child, and the girl.
How, at the end of fifteen minutes' portentous meditation and fingering of a thin moustache, he sighed heavily as is the custom of Englishmen when they have eaten that which disagrees with them, waved the operator aside, called up the next office, and clicked off a message with a haughty and high-stepping action of the hands.
In the meantime, Porthos had come up, waved his hand to Athos, and then turning toward d’Artagnan, stood quite astonished.
The king waved his hand to Treville, who left him and rejoined the Musketeers, whom he found sharing the forty pistoles with d’Artagnan.
As long as the procurator’s wife could follow him with her eyes, she waved her handkerchief to him, leaning so far out of the window as to lead people to believe she wished to precipitate herself.
Porthos received all these attentions like a man accustomed to such demonstrations, only on turning the corner of the street he lifted his hat gracefully, and waved it to her as a sign of adieu.
Athos took off his hat, placed it on the end of his sword, and waved it in the air.
Athos waved his flag, turning his back on the guards of the city, and saluting those of the camp.
The chevalier raised his head, saw the two young women, and without stopping, waved his hand in a friendly way to Milady.
Martha and the young girl, standing at the door, waved their last farewell.
Sherlock Holmes waved our strange visitor into a chair.
"Excuse the admiration of a connoisseur," said he as he waved his hand towards the line of portraits which covered the opposite wall.
All England waved her gladness by day and twinkled it by night.
He waved his white hands as if to brush aside all opposition.
She was driving to see him, I have no doubt, for they were closer than ever, and she never looked up nor saw the hand that I waved to her.
I had seen his flaring yellow barouche flying through Friar's Oak many a time, and had halloaed and waved my hat with the others as it passed, but never in my wildest dreams had it entered my head that I should ever be called upon to look him in the face and answer his questions.
My uncle waved his whip in the air with a shrill view- halloa.
Pencroft, the reporter and Herbert waved in return, and Granite House soon disappeared behind the high rocks of the Cape.
The little man waved his hand deprecatingly.
To extricate himself from the stirrups and fallen steed, was to the Templar scarce the work of a moment; and, stung with madness, both at his disgrace and at the acclamations with which it was hailed by the spectators, he drew his sword and waved it in defiance of his conqueror.
His antagonist sprung from horseback, waved his fatal sword over the head of his adversary, and commanded him to yield himself; when Prince John, more moved by the Templars dangerous situation than he had been by that of his rival, saved him the mortification of confessing himself vanquished, by casting down his warder, and putting an end to the conflict.
While the trumpets sounded, while the heralds strained their voices in proclaiming honour to the brave and glory to the victor--while ladies waved their silken kerchiefs and embroidered veils, and while all ranks joined in a clamorous shout of exultation, the marshals conducted the Disinherited Knight across the lists to the foot of that throne of honour which was occupied by the Lady Rowena.
Ivy mantled its sides in some places, and in others oaks and holly bushes, whose roots found nourishment in the cliffs of the crag, waved over the precipices below, like the plumage of the warrior over his steel helmet, giving grace to that whose chief expression was terror.
Who would have thought that upon the proud day when this battle was won, the very gale which waved the Saxon banners in triumph, was filling the Norman sails, and impelling them to the fatal shores of Sussex?--Who would have thought that Harold, within a few brief days, would himself possess no more of his kingdom, than the share which he allotted in his wrath to the Norwegian invader?--Who would have thought that you, noble Athelstane--that you, descended of Harold's blood, and that I, whose father was not the worst defender of the Saxon crown, should be prisoners to a vile Norman, in the very hall in which our ancestors held such high festival?"
Rowena waved a graceful adieu to him of the Fetterlock--the Saxon bade God speed him, and on they moved through a wide glade of the forest.
Levin waved his hand angrily and went to the barn to look at the oats, then he came back to the stable.
Betsy waved her handkerchief to him.
The lady too with a kind smile waved her hand to Karenin.
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