Sentence Examples

1. In one corner stood a huge bag of wool, ready to be spun in another, a quantity of linsey-woolsey just from the loom ears of Indian corn, and strings of dried apples and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, where the claw-footed chairs and dark mahogany tables shone like mirrors andirons, with their accompanying shovel and tongs, glistened from their covert of asparagus tops mock-oranges and conch-shells decorated the mantelpiece strings of various-colored birds eggs were suspended above it a great ostrich egg was hung from the centre of the room, and a corner cupboard, knowingly left open, displayed immense treasures of old silver and well-mended china.
2. Jyla the Fleet, a black-plumed ostrich, and Earl The Equivocator, an African gray parrot, also appeared to speak for the bird kingdom.
3. It troubled Georgie that she lived like an ostrich, with her head stuck in the sand about her criminal husband.
4. Of course, he eventually took off, and the last anyone heard was that he had been kicked to death by an ostrich somewhere in Africa.
5. His head, on the whole of which the hair had been permitted to grow, the pursuits of war having so long been abandoned, was encircled by a sort of plated diadem, which, in its turn, bore lesser and more glittering ornaments, that sparkled amid the glossy hues of three drooping ostrich feathers, dyed a deep black, in touching contrast to the color of his snow-white locks.
6. He carried no arms whatever, nothing but a rosary of beads bigger than fair-sized filberts, each tenth bead being like a moderate ostrich egg his bearing, his gait, his dignity and imposing presence held me spellbound and wondering.