Propped

Examples

• Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She reclined, propped up, from mere habit, on a couch: as nearly in her old usual attitude, as anything so helpless could be kept in. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Simmons sat propped up by the pillows and smoked. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Holmes propped it against the cruet-stand and read it while he ate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• She came to him as he lay propped up in the library. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He was propped up on a bed-rest, and always had his gold-headed stick lying by him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The bed was in the centre of the room, and in it, propped up with pillows, was the owner of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was propped against the wall, in another room, asleep. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She went to the window and gently propped aside the curtain and blind, so that the still light of the sky fell on the bed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She sat silent, her head still propped by the arm that rested on the back of the sofa. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• She stood up, and as he sat with bent head, his chin propped on his hands, he felt her warmly and fragrantly hovering over him. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Every morning, after breakfast, she went into his room when he was washed and propped up in bed, to spend half an hour with him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Typed by Helga