1 "I ain't takin no orders from you," he said briefly, shifting his wad of tobacco to the other cheek.
2 Under Morpeth's guidance her vivid plastic sense, hitherto nurtured on no higher food than dress-making and upholstery, found eager expression in the disposal of draperies, the study of attitudes, the shifting of lights and shadows.
3 He spoke pantingly, like a tired runner, with breaks of exhaustion between his words; and through the breaks she caught, as through the shifting rents of a fog, great golden vistas of peace and safety.
4 Her parents too had been rootless, blown hither and thither on every wind of fashion, without any personal existence to shelter them from its shifting gusts.
5 Though the town seemed to Carol to change no more than the surrounding fields, there was a constant shifting, these three years.
6 And then, when he was able to use his hands, Jurgis took his bedding again and went back to his task of shifting rails.
7 The warrior whose eye is open can see his enemy, said Magua, once more shifting his ground, when he found himself unable to penetrate the caution of his companion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 8 He was despondent and sullen, and threw shifting glances about him.
9 The leaves, with their faces turned toward the blaze, were colored shifting hues of silver, often edged with red.
10 Gray mists were slowly shifting before the first efforts of the sun rays.
11 He was trudging along with stooped shoulders and shifting eyes like a man who has been caned and kicked.
12 He pointed out to me the shifting colours of the landscape and the appearances of the sky.
13 "You ought to live in California--" began Miss Baker but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair.
14 These, with their perplexities and inconsistencies, were the shifting quicksands of my mind, from the time of my departure to the time of my return home, three years afterwards.
15 "At home for sure," said the peasant, shifting from one bare foot to the other, and leaving a distinct print of five toes and a heel in the dust.