Sentence Examples

1. After salutation, observing me to look earnestly upon a frame, which took up the greatest part of both the length and breadth of the room, he said perhaps I might wonder to see him employed in a project for improving speculative knowledge by practical and mechanical operations.
2. Sometimes I saw him at his work in the woods, felling trees, and he would greet me with a laugh of inexpressible satisfaction, and a salutation in Canadian French, though he spoke English as well.
3. When they issued from beneath its concealment, they found the scout awaiting their appearance nigh by, and the only salutation between them was the significant gesture for silence, made by their sagacious leader.
4. After that, he gave him the salutation which one would use on a gentleman and went on his way.
5. The salutation was so well understood that Morrel, with the same expression in his eyes, placed his handkerchief to his mouth and these two living statues, whose hearts beat so violently under their marble aspect, separated from each other by the whole length of the room, forgot themselves for a moment, or rather forgot the world in their mutual contemplation.
6. The agent arose, and having bowed to Lord Wilmore, who returned his salutation with the stiff politeness of the English, he retired.
7. Madame de Villefort acknowledged the salutation with one of her most gracious smiles.
8. Don Quixote returned his salutation with equal politeness, and dismounting from Rocinante advanced with well-bred bearing and grace to embrace him, and held him for some time close in his arms as if he had known him for a long time.
9. His cape billowed mildly behind with each step taken until he stopped at the front edge of the platform, and raised an arm for a final salutation.
10. As soon as this slight salutation had passed, Montcalm moved toward them with a quick but graceful step, baring his head to the veteran, and dropping his spotless plume nearly to the earth in courtesy.