swayings

And one gray oak with swayings stiff, horrific in his sight,

Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

What remark of his would ever reach these fabulous and fantastic characters? — for there was something fantastically unreal in the curious swayings and noddings of Mrs. Cosham, as if her equipment included a large wire spring.

Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf 2004

Hark ye, lad — fleet interlacings of the limbs — lithe swayings — coyings — flutterings! lip! heart! hip! all graze: unceasing touch and go! not taste, observe ye, else come satiety.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Look off to the horizon, he had told Susanna, so that she would be unaware of the motion and the swayings of the carriage.

Unlikely Duchess Balogh, Mary 1990

These things ranged, in their varieties, from almost imperceptible extensions and shadings, to sharp, forward thrusts, such as bumps (pg. 427) and buckings, and from scarcely detectible lateral movements, to tantalizing or abrupt movements, to rhythmical swayings.

Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

All sorts of fantastic steps, gestures, bendings, and swayings can be introduced.

Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Constance D'Arcy Mackay

The storm passed that night, with great swayings of trees, and dash of broad raindrops, and piled up broken masses of fleecy white clouds, tossed about by the rough, exultant September wind.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

His swayings were fearful, until PUNCHINELLO, anticipating an apoplectic fit from such a terrific revolution, dashed in, and seizing the frightened steed by the bridle, brought him to bay.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 Various

Not until she ceased her rhythmic swayings was the spell interrupted.

The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

Up and down, and round and round they went, the string band twanging an accompaniment, until the gauze scarf of the middle lady catching in the hanging chandelier put an end to their rhythmical swayings, while like hens with a suspended cherry they hopped in turn off the ground in their effort to disentangle their one and only bit of covering.

Desert Love Joan Conquest