Trailing

Examples

• At the same instant an empty dog-cart, the horse cantering, the reins trailing, appeared round the curve of the road and rattled swiftly towards us. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Twenty minutes after the first volley the great fleet swung trailing off in the direction from which it had first appeared. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Apollyon came trailing his Hell behind him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was no more torn collars now, I promise you, and faded silks trailing off at the shoulder. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• At the same instant I saw that the thing that had struck us was the trailing anchor of a rather fair-sized air vessel; possibly a ten man cruiser. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• If it had been otherwise--' Carton looked at the pen and saw it was trailing off into unintelligible signs. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Trailing wearily behind a rude wagon, and over a ruder road, Tom and his associates faced onward. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You go to your women--go to them--they are your sort--you've always had a string of them trailing after you--and you always will. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Could it be that he was trailing a MAN--one of his own race? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• A harrow comprising two ranks of oppositely curved trailing teeth is especially popular in some countries. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Twilight was fallingand I deemed its influence pitiful; from the lattice I saw coming night-clouds trailing low like banners drooping. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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