Swinging

Examples

• The swinging caught his attention, and he watched it with more and more interest. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Oh, I don't know, said Caleb, swinging his head aside. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The horse was snatching grass, swinging his head sideways as he pulled, annoyed by the man and his talking. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Everybody got out of the way; everybody bowed to the Emperor and his friend the Sultan; and they went by on a swinging trot and disappeared. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He passed the sentry where he lay and ran onto the bridge, the packs swinging. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then followed the famous observation of the swinging lamp by the then young Galileo, about 1582, while lounging in the cathedral of Pisa. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Tom had sat upon the bed, swinging one leg and sucking his walking-stick with sufficient unconcern, until the visit had attained this stage. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• But what, said Mr. Jaggers, swinging his purse,--what if it was in my instructions to make you a present, as compensation? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The swinging sentinel was posted, and the sea rushed on. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Musgrave still stood with a very pale face, swinging his lantern and peering down into the hole. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The pendulum of the controlling clock, in swinging to either side, makes a brief contact, which completes the circuit of a galvanic battery, and thus sends a current to the controlled clock. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Hush,' said Sam, swinging himself on to the wall, and crouching there in as small a compass as he could reduce himself to, 'only me, miss, only me. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This animal also uses its long neck as a means of offence or defence, by violently swinging its head armed with stump-like horns. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Swinging by the chain? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• He sat astride of the chair when he had pushed the money over, and sat swinging his purse and eyeing Joe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Editor: Verna