Hung

Examples

• But as he looked the structure of the bridge was still spidery and fine in the mist that hung over the stream. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He had no weapon, excepting a poniard at his belt, which served to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There were a couple of shelves, with a few plates and cups and saucers; and a pair of stage shoes and a couple of foils hung beneath them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Biddy, pursued Joe, when I got home and asked her fur to write the message to you, a little hung back. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The banner of her family hung there, still surmounted by its regal crown. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The boy--not being able to make up his mind, at the moment--hung about among some other boys, staring at the good things in the eating-house window. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His helmet hung on a peg and his face showed clearly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This model showed itself capable of traveling at high speed on a single rail, rounding sharp curves and even traversing with ease a wire cable hung in the air. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They went into the great blank rooms, the walls of which bore the marks where the pictures and mirrors had hung. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Cold drops hung on her fair, lovely forehead. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• When spoons are to be plated, they are hung in a bath of silver nitrate side by side with a thick slab of pure silver, as in Figure 209. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I stood still, and hung my head. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She had had a little black profile of him done for a shilling, and this was hung up by the side of another portrait over her bed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The boy was a handsome, bright-eyed mulatto, of just Henrique's size, and his curling hair hung round a high, bold forehead. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It stopped, and a well-known nasal voice cried aloud, Boy (probably addressing Harry Scott, who usually hung about the premises from 9 a. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She hung over the patient in agony, which was not mitigated when her thoughts wandered towards her babes, for whom she feared infection. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She went to the window, and threw it open, to dispel the oppression which hung around her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• She went and leaned on the chest of drawers over which the picture hung, and gazed and gazed at it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Mary was in a grassy corner of the garden, where there was a swing loftily hung between two pear-trees. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He hung a row of lamps from the trees at Menlo Park, and the thousands who came to see them wondered when they found they could burn day and night for longer than a week. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The miniature of my late dear uncle, Sir John, hung on the wall opposite the bed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The last of the evening light was fading away; and over all the desolate place there hung a still and awful calm. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Now, I looked on the evening star, as softly and calmly it hung pendulous in the orange hues of sunset. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The hides are all hung in a dry loft, where artificial heat of different temperatures is used until they are thoroughly dry. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I hung to the willow branch and did not have strength to pull myself up but I knew I would not drown now. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She hung about Dixon for a minute or so, as if afraid and irresolute; then suddenly kissing her, she went quickly out of the room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He hung silent in irritation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• That she hung her head, was certain. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Old Tiffey, for the first time in his life I should think, was sitting on somebody else's stool, and had not hung up his hat. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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