Sentence Examples

1. When he visited Madeline, he would play his bamboo flute.
2. It was a lean, angular modern building clad in long, thin planks of what looked like bamboo.
3. However, a malicious rogue of a skipper went to an officer, and pointing to me, told him I had not yet trampled on the crucifix but the other, who had received instructions to let me pass, gave the rascal twenty strokes on the shoulders with a bamboo after which I was no more troubled with such questions.
4. Another reproduced the most singular combinations with a spinning-top in his hands the revolving tops seemed to be animated with a life of their own in their interminable whirling they ran over pipe-stems, the edges of sabres, wires and even hairs stretched across the stage they turned around on the edges of large glasses, crossed bamboo ladders, dispersed into all the corners, and produced strange musical effects by the combination of their various pitches of tone.
5. There he saw dazzling camellias expanding themselves, with flowers which were giving forth their last colours and perfumes, not on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo enclosures, cherry, plum, and apple trees, which the Japanese cultivate rather for their blossoms than their fruit, and which queerly-fashioned, grinning scarecrows protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other voracious birds.
6. She guided him to a padded bamboo chair, held the back of it until he sat, then perched on the edge of a Queen Anne loveseat that faced him, close enough so they might touch fingers if they both reached out.
7. We hopped over the three-foot rickety fence made of thin stalks of bamboo, and he led us to the last pen.
8. He already held the axe in his hands and began to make a raft of bamboo, and Vasudeva helped him to tied the canes together with ropes of grass.
9. Vast forests of palms, arecs, bamboo, teakwood, of the gigantic mimosa, and tree-like ferns covered the foreground, while behind, the graceful outlines of the mountains were traced against the sky and along the coasts swarmed by thousands the precious swallows whose nests furnish a luxurious dish to the tables of the Celestial Empire.
10. These noses were made of bamboo, and were five, six, and even ten feet long, some straight, others curved, some ribboned, and some having imitation warts upon them.