Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "fiction" ¶ 16
from Brown Corpus
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

was and like
He treats her like she was dirt.
The wind of their running was cold and wild, the horses were lathered and their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind.
I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.
I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.
Hague, like all who worked near the pits, was partly deafened from the constant assault against his eardrums.
It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.
Donna was like he was.
A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.
It was like hitting a sack of salt.
There was a feeling that this mission would be canceled like all the others and that this muddy wet dark world of combat would go on forever.
Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
For several weeks we eyed one another almost like sparring partners, and then one day Uncle was slightly indisposed and stayed home ; ;
Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.
She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.
There was no valley like this on your map.
The Bonaventure was quivering and lurching like an old spavined mare.
There was a wooden tower or derrick there, something like a ski jump ; ;
It was embarrassing to see strapping, blonde Brassnose comport himself like a child who talks about bogeymen.
At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.
Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.
His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.

was and bandaged
Isis gathered up all the parts of the body, less the phallus ( which was eaten by a catfish ) and bandaged them together for a proper burial.
He was an enthusiastic singlestick player and, according to Harper's Weekly, in 1905 showed up at a White House reception with his arm bandaged after a bout with General Leonard Wood.
His wound was bandaged, and he rejoined the fight.
Ike testified afterward that Tom was not there and that he had tried to buy a new revolver but the owner saw Ike's bandaged head and refused to sell him one.
In the early church, the places where the person was anointed with Chrism were carefully bandaged, and were kept covered for eight days.
In art, she was depicted with a bandaged mouth and a finger pressed to her lips, demanding silence.
The Corsair was later found abandoned in Newhaven, its interior stained with blood and its boot containing a piece of bandaged lead pipe similar to one found at the crime scene.
Innocence was sometimes established by a complete lack of injury, but it was more common for the wound to be bandaged and re-examined three days later by a priest, who would pronounce that God had intervened to heal it, or that it was merely festering — in which case the suspect would be exiled or executed.
She was taken to the hospital where the hand was temporarily treated and bandaged.
The finger was later restored and bandaged, possibly sewn back on.
He preferred action drawing and his first published illustration was a cartoon of a “ bandaged football player ” for the student newspaper Yale Courant.
Earlier in the same battle ( 12th March ) he was hit by shrapnel or shell fragments while leading his men across an area known as Layes Brook but despite his wounds he refused to be evacuated and continued at the front, although heavily bandaged.
The King, fighting with bandaged hands to cover his terrible wounds and sores, was in the thick of the fighting and Saladin's men were quickly overwhelmed.
Pete questions Janet in her hospital bed, in which the woman, with a bandaged face, tells the detectives that the man who attacked her was old with gray hair, with wild eyes, wearing a funny-looking dark suite, and he said something which sounded like " Etar ".
Honky Tonk Man was immediately taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital where doctors stitched the finger and bandaged it.
As a result, Bearer's head was bandaged for a time before changing his looks, shedding the makeup of ghostly pallor and jet-black hair to his natural brown hair and less make-up.
This left Jo Siffert in third place, holding off Emerson Fittipaldi, who was in pain and heavily bandaged after a road accident.
Before they complete their mission, Drazak arrives with the bodies of the real bandaged men and, since Maritza had always been seen with them, concludes she was a partisan as well.
After capturing the first objective he was severely wounded in the shoulder, but refused to be bandaged, and re-formed the troops, pointed out all future objectives, and again led his battalion forward.
He bandaged 40 men under fire and was seriously wounded when attempting another rescue in the face of the enemy.
When Alyssa was gravley injured he bandaged her wound that could have broken her ankle.

0.160 seconds.