1 She had already pushed her plate aside, and was measuring out a draught from a large bottle at her elbow.
2 Ethan, rising on his elbow, watched the landscape whiten and shape itself under the sculpture of the moon.
3 Mattie sat perfectly still, but as they reached the bend at the foot of the hill, where the big elm thrust out a deadly elbow, he fancied that she shrank a little closer.
4 His eyes sparkled wickedly and he dug his elbow into Hugh's ribs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXXV 5 When she was among rough laborers, negroes or Yankee soldiers, he was seldom more than a pace from her elbow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLII 6 Selden raised himself on his elbow.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 6 7 He discovered Trenor, in his day clothes, sitting, with a tall glass at his elbow, behind the folds of a sporting journal.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 14 8 Carol thought she heard a grunt from the traveling salesman at the end of the table, and Kennicott's jerking elbow was a grunt embodied.
9 His elbow brushed her shoulder.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XIII 10 With surprising delicacy in his large fingers he unwrapped the towels and revealed an arm which, below the elbow, was a mass of blood and raw flesh.
11 It was only by chance that, leaning on her elbow in bed, she glanced through the window and saw the funeral of Bea and Olaf.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXVI 12 He laughed with Myrtle, jogged her elbow when she was filling cups, made deep mock bows to the waitresses as they came up for coffee.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXX 13 Pavel called for something and struggled up on his elbow.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII 14 Lena took him by the elbow and turned him round.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV 15 After he had amused himself thus for some time, he rose on one elbow and began to look at me, cautiously, then critically, blinking his eyes in the light.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II