Sentence for lifting | Use lifting in a sentence

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  • Lifting his hat, Felix passed on. (8)
  • He groaned, lifting not his face, nor saying aught. (10)
  • Suddenly he stopped short, lifting a curious nostril. (10)
  • And lifting his hand, he pointed out into the darkness. (8)
  • The lifting of the curtain drew all eyes to the stage. (10)
  • Lifting his hands to her waist, Jon forced her to sit down again. (8)
  • He delayed the lifting of his sword that the bloody soul might pray. (10)
  • My father kept lifting his knees on the spot as if practising a walk. (10)
  • We hear wonders of men, and we see a lifting up of hands in the world. (10)
  • He allowed Austin to greet him and sit by him without lifting his head. (10)
  • He went on his knees, and lifting her hand to his lips, hid them with it. (8)
  • He turned towards the bathroom, where Miranda stood, lifting a white foot. (8)
  • Then lifting his free foot he leaned his entire weight on the fallen foe. (21)
  • He sat there as though youth had left him, unmoving, never lifting his eyes. (8)
  • His neck was in pain and lifting his hand to it he found it horribly swollen. (1)
  • Loni asked in astonishment, lifting the gold circlet which rested on his head. (5)
  • Lifting his right hand to the level of his eyes he threw it outward and downward. (1)
  • Or learn the secret of the shrouded death, By lifting up the lid of a white eye? (10)
  • And lifting down the canvas, he stood it against the wall and folded up the easel. (8)
  • Diana turned from her pursuer with a comic woeful lifting of the brows at her friend. (10)
  • Lifting his knife he struck the heavy hilt against the metal plate with all his power. (1)
  • Alma asked, lifting her head and her hand from her drawing, and staring at it absently. (9)
  • Lifting his hand he touched a cheek; and hearing a sob instantly suppressed, he sighed. (8)
  • Was it that quick way of lifting her eyes, and looking at him with such clear directness? (8)
  • Lifting her eyes she saw two bright objects starring the darkness with a reddish-green glow. (1)
  • The moon was rising: the woods were lifting up to her: his star of the woods would be there. (10)
  • They are for lifting our clay soil on a lever of Archimedes, and are not great mathematicians. (10)
  • Her first question with the lifting of her eyelids was if he had ceased to trust to her courage. (10)
  • During another wait we examined them, curiously lifting the blankets from their yellow-clay faces. (7)
  • When he caught her she was smiling, lifting her face to catch the raindrops which were falling fast. (8)
  • He leaned against the chimney-piece, glancing at the floor, and lifting his eyes only when he spoke. (10)
  • Then was Kadrab wroth, and kicked the old beggar with his fore-foot, lifting him high in air, and lo! (10)
  • Love had eyes, love had a voice that night,-love was the explicable magic lifting terrestrial to seraphic. (10)
  • The darkness gave sight after a while, like a curtain lifting on a veil: the dead light of the underworld. (10)
  • If I saw Mr. Anthony going to die, and I could save him by lifting my hand, I would not lift the little finger of it. (8)
  • Several ladies were coming across the grass toward him from the hotel, lifting their skirts and tiptoeing through the dew. (9)
  • The querulous tyrannies of the invalid relieved her; but the heavy lifting of her chest returned the moment she was alone. (10)
  • He was coming down from his last recall; and at sight of her his look of bored contempt vanished; lifting her hand, he kissed it. (8)
  • Jeff had turned his face up toward Genevieve, without lifting his person, and was saying something she suddenly shrank back from. (9)
  • The wind that had just screamed a thousand death-screams, was now awfully dumb, albeit Farina could feel it lifting hood and hair. (10)
  • But remember, Laura, it was not until after our marriage my husband told me he could have saved Giacomo by the lifting of a finger. (10)
  • These instructions he accompanied with a lifting of the eyebrows, and a pursing of the mouth, in an anxiety not altogether burlesque. (9)
  • The old post-and-truss construction of the early English houses required framing on the ground and then lifting into position afterward. (17)
  • He twice arranged his papers; cleared his throat; then, lifting a sheet suddenly, took three steps, turned his back on her, and began to read. (8)

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