Movements

Examples

• They possess significance only as movements toward something away from what is now going on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The movements of the enemy may justify, or even make it your imperative duty, to cut loose from your base, and strike for the interior to aid Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Stone in the bladder may be discovered, and the condition and movements of the heart and lungs ascertained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The fraction drum of the indicator could be driven in either direction, known as the advance and retrograde movements, and was divided and marked in eighths. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• His fair neighbour, judging from her movements, appeared in a mood the most unquiet and unaccommodating. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• What was I doing, and what was the object of my present movements? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It is not surprising that so many political inventions have been made within these movements, fostered by them, and brought to a general public notice through their efforts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• GENERAL:--Sherman's movements will depend on the amount of opposition he meets with from the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In falling from different heights toward this commo n focus the particles cannot have such perfect equality of resistance that no la teral movements should be set up. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The diving case is not absolutely water-tight, nor is it desired that it should be so, as the slight leakage acts as a lubricant to the joints, and aids in their movements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Great movements of the racial soul come at first like a thief in the night, and then suddenly are discovered to be powerful and world-wide. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The movements of the enemy's cavalry may, of course, modify your action. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Your movements, therefore, will be independent of mine; at least until the fall of Richmond takes place. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This unusual movement attracted the attention of the young man, and as he continued to watch its deliberate movements, he did more than watch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If you are an expert, your formed habits take care of the physical movements and leave your thoughts free to consider your topic. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The philosophy of her nature, and its limitation by circumstances, was almost written in her movements. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Hancock was informed of all the movements ordered. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• His attitude is stately; he is lithe and supple; all his movements are full of grace. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There is, of course, much that is dead within the movements. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• From where I lay I had a perfect view of the inside of the room and of every one of his movements. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In actual life, yes, in the moil and toil of propaganda, movements, causes and agitations the statesman-inventor and the political psychologist find the raw material for their work. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• They dispersed about the room, reminding me, by the lightness and buoyancy of their movements, of a flock of white plumy birds. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His movements were graceful, yet curiously abject, slinking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• From City Point directions cannot be given at this time for your further movements. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• All other troops were employed exclusively in support of these two movements. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Every week in this paper there is a full account of military movements, in which Jos, as a man who had seen service, was especially interested. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• How alarming these movements must have been to every intelligent Japanese a glance at the map will show. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Your Wellington is the most humdrum of commonplace martinets, whose slow, mechanical movements are further cramped by an ignorant home government. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They were speedily led to Dover Castle, from whose keep Adrian had watched the movements of the boat. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• During tea, the minute thing's movements and behaviour gave, as usualfull occupation to the eye. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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