Hangs

Examples

• Nay, pardon me, he replied; I have no right to command or reproach; but my life hangs on your departure and speedy return. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the great city. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Hope, almost life, hangs on your answer; therefore, dear Ponsonby be merciful, and so may God bless you. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The clock ticks over the fireplace, the weather-glass hangs in the hall. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• There is also another type of monorail of overhead construction, the wheels running on the rail from which the car hangs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He is identified, for the time at least, with the issue; his fate hangs upon the course things are taking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The roadway hangs from these cables, suspended by 624 vertical rods. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• So would not I, said Wamba--but for the horn that hangs at your baldric. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• When she was musing she was a kestrel, which hangs in the air by an invisible motion of its wings. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Thereby hangs a tale, said Shuffle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• A rope that hangs from the centre of the top touches the wall before it reaches the bottom. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Something is to rise white on the surface of the sea, over which that moon mounts silent and hangs glorious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In it hangs the lamp whose measured swing suggested to Galileo the pendulum. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A bag--a small satin bag--hangs on the chair-back. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My brother, she cried, protector of my childhood, dear, most dear Lionel, my fate hangs by a thread. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The only order I require, my friend, to enter where I will, hangs at my side, I answered, tapping my long-sword; will you let me pass in peace or no? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Very curious, and the story that hangs round it will strike you as being more curious still. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Again and again the old lady hangs upon her son's neck, and again and again the trooper holds her to his broad chest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His under lip hangs down like a camel's, and his ears are chopped off close to his head. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Oh, I know,' said Sam; 'them as hangs up in the linen-drapers' shops, with beggars' petitions and all that 'ere upon 'em? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The Sphynx is grand in its loneliness; it is imposing in its magnitude; it is impressive in the mystery that hangs over its story. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The same dense, disheartening obscurity hangs over the fate and fortunes of Anne Catherick, and her companion, Mrs. Clements. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We have his picture; it hangs in Moore's bedroom; it is like me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The atmosphere is light; you feel none of that moral oppression which hangs over the usual settlement as over a gathering of missionaries. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It fulfills a great function for the busy metropolis, and it hangs in the air a monument in steel wire to the genius of the Roeblings. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Upon that knowledge hangs all that is of deep significance--all moral and social achievement. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• It is a bell tower, and in its top hangs a chime of ancient bells. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There, in the corridor, hangs my garden-costume, my large hat, my shawl. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The bell-rope hangs from the wire just to the right of my desk. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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