Sentence Examples

1. A light cloud of smoke appeared beneath the sails, more blue than they, and spreading like a flower opening then, at about a mile from the little canoe, they saw the ball take the crown off two or three waves, dig a white furrow in the sea, and disappear at the end of it, as inoffensive as the stone with which, in play, a boy makes ducks and drakes.
2. He behaved as if he truly respected Vincent, which made her furrow her brow.
3. But this case was different involved the murder of a sergeant under his watch, ploughing the same furrow in the field of death.
4. A furrow in the ground outside may have been a streambed who knows when.
5. The men took positions behind a curving line of rifle pits that had been turned up, like a large furrow, along the line of woods.
6. But sometimes Squaw Walden had her revenge, and a hired man, walking behind his team, slipped through a crack in the ground down toward Tartarus, and he who was so brave before suddenly became but the ninth part of a man, almost gave up his animal heat, and was glad to take refuge in my house, and acknowledged that there was some virtue in a stove or sometimes the frozen soil took a piece of steel out of a ploughshare, or a plough got set in the furrow and had to be cut out.
7. In this dilemma, Uncas lighted on the furrow of the cannon ball, where it had cut the ground in three adjacent ant-hills.
8. Men and women watched them pass, stoic, uncaring, intent only on their small part in the world the straightness of a plough furrow, the weight of an ear of grain, the yield of milk from a cow.
9. If the snow lies deep, they strap on his snow-shoes, and with the giant plow, plow a furrow from the mountains to the seaboard, in which the cars, like a following drill-barrow, sprinkle all the restless men and floating merchandise in the country for seed.
10. The path Kwong had taken was obvious, a beaten-out furrow in the shrubs and waist-high grass skirting the side of the gentle rise, over which we saw the inlet where they moored the launch.