She turned slowly and went to him, her eyes childlike and frightened, her lips wide, her face pale.When she stood face to face with him she swayed and almost fell."What do you want with me?" she faltered, with a little sob.…Cited from Conjuror's House, by Stewart Edward White
Whether the public good or the private advantage swayed him most who shall say?There are times when patriotism calls for the costliest sacrifice which a statesman can make -- the sacrifice, apparently, of his own honour.…Cited from The Letters of Cassiodorus, by Cassiodorus
Ruth made no further protest, but her lips tightened with an expression of determination.Her mind being made up, she was not easily swayed from her purpose.She decided to talk to her mother on the subject on the following morning.…Cited from The Fortunes of the Farrells, by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
He buried his face in his hands and swayed from side to side.Cited from The Daffodil Mystery, by Edgar Wallace
Its components would be moved from the hold by the aircraft crane to the after deck where it could be assembled.Then the aircraft would be swayed over the side where it could be launched.…
They were black around him now, swaying back and forth about his legs.Most of them were men, armed with the short, broad-bladed swords, or with smaller knives.…Cited from The Girl in the Golden Atom, by Raymond King Cummings
Her uncle was long in coming; she became conscious of movement in the water, like the swell of waves outside rolling into the cove.She heard the sound of swaying among all the trees on the shore.She looked up and saw that the stars of one half the sky were obscured, that the darkness was rolling onward toward those that were still shining.…Cited from A Dozen Ways Of Love, by Lily Dougall
The latter reeled against his companion and clutched him.For a second they swayed, then both men fell heavily together to the ground.Lying helpless as they were at his feet, it was a mere matter of a couple of blows for him to utterly destroy both, and so lessen the number of his enemies.…Cited from Jack Haydon's Quest, by John Finnemore
The woman covered her face with her hands, and swayed back and forth where she stood.Then MacNutt held back his guttural laugh, suddenly, for she had fallen forward on her face, in a dead faint.…Cited from Phantom Wires, by Arthur Stringer
In the darkness he felt the rigor of terror leave the form which he held.It swayed against him, and the head fell back across his arm.He raised the fainting figure, and stepping across the body of the mulatto issued from the shed, to find Monakatocka standing beside the entrance, knife in hand, and watchfully regardful of the sleeping Ricahecrians.…Cited from Prisoners of Hope, by Mary Johnston
He took the ground that the land on which their village stood had never been sold; that the Americans had, therefore, no right to insist upon the measure, and that as a matter of policy he was opposed to it.The old man was probably swayed in his decision by another cause.He felt that his power in the tribe was waning before the rising popularity of Keokuk.…Cited from Great Indian Chief of the West, by Benjamin Drake
Instead, she reached up her own seemingly wearied and surrendering arms, without a word, and held him there in her obliterating embrace.He swayed a little, where he stood, and for a moment neither moved nor spoke.MacNutt, narrowly watching the shadowy face of Durkin, saw pictured on that pallid and changing countenance fear and revolt, one momentary touch of despairing doubt, and then a mounting and all-consuming passion of blind rage.…Cited from Phantom Wires, by Arthur Stringer
She swayed a little on her feet, and he caught her arm.Cited from The Lion's Mouse, by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
For a. while there was no change in the position of either the man or the woman.Then the woman swayed forward, and laid her face on the man's feet.…Cited from Kafir Stories, by William Charles Scully
For a space he sat quite motionless, gazing before him as though unaware of his surroundings.Then very suddenly but very quietly he reached out and caught the swaying thing.A moment he held it, then pulled it to him and, taking a penknife from the table, grimly, deliberately, he severed the cord.…Cited from The Odds, by Ethel M. Dell
Little by little I had grown to appreciate her beauty, not only of face, but also of womanly character.Already she swayed and controlled me as no other of her sex ever had.I thrilled to the touch of her hand, to the sweep of her dress, and the glance of her eye.…Cited from Gordon Craig, by Randall Parrish
The wheels are mounted in pairs but not joined by an axle and the bogies are shared between coaches rather than underneath individual coaches.This allows a railway car to take a turn at higher speed with less swaying.As the coaches are not mounted directly onto wheel bogies, the coaches are more easily insulated from track noise.…
The Brende secret was desired by the publics of all three worlds.Even greater than its real value as a medical discovery, it swayed the popular mind.…Cited from Tarrano the Conqueror, by Raymond King Cummings
"Where's Binhart?" he suddenly gasped, and the explosive tensity of that wheezing cry caused her to look up, startled.He swayed toward her as she did so, swept by some power not his own.There was something leonine in his movement, something leonine in his snarl as he fell on her.…Cited from Never-Fail Blake, by Arthur Stringer
The Site Selection Committees had narrowed the field down to two sites -- Hadley Rille or the crater Marius, near which were a group of low, possibly volcanic, domes.Although not ultimately his decision, the commander of a mission always held great sway.To David Scott the choice was clear, with Hadley, being "exploration at its finest."…
