Trickling
['trɪkl]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trickle
Typed by Corinne
Examples
- He has bathed his forehead, and the blood has ceased trickling. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mr. Rochester opened the shirt of the wounded man, whose arm and shoulder were bandaged: he sponged away blood, trickling fast down. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His hand was trickling down with blood as he said to me, “Then I hope that I may never kill him! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It is a pond about one hundred feet square and four feet deep, with a stream of water trickling into it from under an overhanging ledge of rocks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I must dip my hand again and again in the basin of blood and water, and wipe away the trickling gore. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- On awaking with daylight, a trickling of water caught my ear. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- While the rain was trickling down his nose, his voice, trembling with rage and impatience, cried out, You old idiot, do you know me now? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She had still the watering pot in one hand; with the other her pretty dress was held lightly aside, to avoid trickling drops. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sharp pain and the feel of hot, trickling blood assured him of the awful reality of his hopeless position. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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