She put her arms around his neck and drew his head down close.There was a dignity in that parting, for it was the burning of her bridges behind her.…Cited from Riders of the Silences, by John Frederick
She walked up to him and let him draw his arm about her.They stood in silence for a minute or two.…Cited from Sir George Tressady, Vol. II, by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Anyhow, he would see nothing of the wisdom or greatness of the world.He would draw his head in thinking it was a very poor place.…Cited from The New Revelation, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Then he laid his head wearily down on the window sill and gave way to his grief with great choking sobs.She put her arm around him and drew his head down on her shoulder.At first the caressing touch of her fingers, as they gently stroked his hair, made the tears flow faster.…Cited from Big Brother, by Annie Fellows-Johnston
Mellersh couldn't have seen it either, for he had never said a word about it.Well, when she got home she would draw his attention to it.…Cited from The Enchanted April, by Elizabeth von Arnim
He could find no point at which to draw his line.Cited from Bay State Monthly, Vol. I, No. 3, March, 1884, by Various
Peter took it upon himself to acquaint her husband the very same day with her condition.During the next week, Peter drew his friend more and more into his practice.Frederick found a certain grim attraction in it.…Cited from Atlantis, by Gerhart Hauptmann
By main strength he was drawing his wife toward the door.Tess was staring at them as if they were creatures from another world.…Cited from The Secret of the Storm Country, by Grace Miller White
Since the late 1970s, she and Robert have produced a series of collaborative comics called Dirty Laundry (also known as Aline & Bob's Dirty Laundry), a comic about the Crumb family life.Each of them drew his or her own characters for the comic.Later installments of Dirty Laundry feature contributions by Sophie, who also began producing comics in her teens.…
Tom felt the brute's head strike against the boat, and well knew what had happened.It made him draw his breath quickly; but he had work before him.Without stopping a moment, he and Jerry, seizing the oars, rapidly pulled the boat back to the beach.…Cited from The Three Admirals, by W.H.G. Kingston
Here, I found, must be my place of audience.Here I must draw his attention, and make myself known to him.For an opportunity to do this, I saw at once I might be obliged to wait long, for scarce ever was Calpurnius there, but Hormisdas, or some one of the nobles, was with him; or if he was alone, yet the street was so thronged that it must be difficult to obtain a hearing.…Cited from Zenobia, by William Ware
He almost reached out and took her hand, but drew his own back at the last minute."How soon will you be leaving?" she asked.…Cited from Ten From Infinity, by Paul W. Fairman
There he might escape observation, or -- if that were too much to expect -- was in a capital posture whether for parley or defence.So thinking, he drew his sword and tried to set his back against the door.To his surprise it yielded behind his weight; and though he turned in a moment, continued to swing back on oiled and noiseless hinges until it stood wide open on a black interior.…Cited from The Short-story, by William Patterson Atkinson
But it filled Aldous with a kind of remorse, and with the longing to free him from that, as from every other burden, in these last precious hours of life.And at last he succeeded, as he thought, in drawing his mind away from it.…Cited from Marcella, by Mrs. Humphry Ward [AKA: Mary Augusta Arnold Ward]
Saying this, he tried to draw his wife a little closer to him.Cited from The Hungry Stones et. al., by Rabindranath Tagore
It was the boy who drew his hand away.Cited from A Certain Rich Man, by William Allen White
Again half-unconsciously his eyes dwelt upon her vivid face.She seemed to draw his look almost in spite of him.He set down the basket by her side.…Cited from The Top of the World, by Ethel M. Dell
Here only, and for the first time, he found ruffian manners and universal rapacity.He could not draw his sword in company with such men, nor in such a cause.But at length, under the pressure of necessity, he accepted (or rather bought with an immense bribe) the place of a commissary to the French forces in Italy.…Cited from The Lock and Key Library, Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
It was not until Mildred opened the door and entered hesitantly that he raised his head.Silently he held out his arms and drew his baby girl into them.…Cited from From the Valley of the Missing, by Grace Miller White
There was no more air -- and he had not finished drawing his long breath.Cited from The Nigger Of The "Narcissus", by Joseph Conrad
