Sentence Examples

1. Once a kite, hovering over the garden, made a stoop at me, and if I had not resolutely drawn my hanger, and run under a thick espalier, he would have certainly carried me away in his talons.
2. When the beast felt the smart, he drew back, and roared so loud, that a herd of at least forty came flocking about me from the next field, howling and making odious faces but I ran to the body of a tree, and leaning my back against it, kept them off by waving my hanger.
3. However, I had the courage to rise and draw my hanger, and attack them in the air.
4. I drew out my hanger, and flourished with it after the manner of fencers in England.
5. The ugly monster, when he saw me, distorted several ways every feature of his visage, and stared as at an object he had never seen before then approaching nearer, lifted up his forepaw, whether out of curiosity or mischief I could not tell but I drew my hanger, and gave him a good blow with the flat side of it, for I durst not strike him with the edge, fearing the inhabitants might be provoked against me, if they should come to know that I had killed or maimed any of their cattle.
6. Framed in the doorway was a tall man, gaunt as a wire clothes hanger.
7. For I have already told the reader how much I was pestered by these odious animals, upon my first arrival and I afterwards failed very narrowly three or four times of falling into their clutches, when I happened to stray at any distance without my hanger.
8. One of them came up almost to my face, whereupon I rose in a fright, and drew out my hanger to defend myself.
9. Then she set me on a table, where I showed her my hanger all bloody, and wiping it on the lappet of my coat returned it to the scabbard.
10. They forced me into the longboat, letting me put on my best suit of clothes, which were as good as new, and take a small bundle of linen, but no arms except my hanger and they were so civil as not to search my pockets, into which I conveyed what money I had, with some other little necessaries.