Motions

Examples

• The motions of these men were slow and solemn, as if there impended over their souls some preconception of horror and of cruelty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There was as much variety in her motions as in their flight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They all sat down in a circle about me, the better to observe my motions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• There was something grand and majestic in her motions, but nothing persuasive, nothing amiable. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Diminutive, whispered Miss Flite, making a variety of motions about her own forehead to express intellect in Charley. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He had introduced himself to Adrian, by a request he made to observe some planetary motions from his glass. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Wireless signals are in reality wave motions in the magnetic forces of the earth, or, in other words, disturbances of those forces. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Two or three times during this short address, the cherub addressed had made chubby motions towards a chair. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He advanced as near as he considered prudent, and kept on the opposite side of the street, the better to observe her motions. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Gudrun again watched Gerald climb out of the water, but this time slowly, heavily, with the blind clambering motions of an amphibious beast, clumsy. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Again, pleasure and pain are motions, and the absence of them is rest; but if so, how can the absence of either of them be the other? Plato. The Republic.
• Dumkins confidently awaited its coming with his eyes fixed on the motions of Luffey. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And having been long used to sea-voyages, those motions, although sometimes very violent, did not much discompose me. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• And so the motions continue to the number of 18,000 times per hour. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• To accomplish this he decided that his knife must have two motions, one a forward cut, and the other sideways. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A slight and variable colour tinged her cheeks, and her motions seemed attuned by some hidden harmony of surpassing sweetness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In making various motions of the body the ghost actor must reverse his movements; for example, if he raises his left arm the figure reflected above will appear to raise its right arm. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• At Cairo about the close of the tenth century the first accurate records of eclipses were made, and tables were constructed of the motions of the sun, moon, and planets. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• And both pleasure and pain are motions of the soul, are they not? Plato. The Republic.
• But if the springs were not alike, or if, in other words, the two instruments were not in tune, the wave motions would not be received and copied accurately. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He promptly says again, Have the goodness to hear me, Lady Dedlock, and motions to the chair from which she has risen. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She hesitates, but he motions again, and she sits down. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Discoveries;--Attraction of Gravitation; Planetary Motions; Circulation of Blood; Velocity of Light. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Miscellaneous History of various Machines and Motions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Apart from motions, a complete diorama of the fluctuations of the game went on in their eyes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I could read the influence of my friend in their quickened motions and cheerful faces. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• L ater Copernicus spent nine years in Italy, studying at the universities and acquainting himself wit h Ptolemaic and other ancient views concerning the motions of the planets. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Are you in independent circumstances, or is it wasting the motions of a bow on you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There may be some motions of fancy among the lower animals at Chesney Wold. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But he watched the Jew's motions, and breathed quickly. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

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