1 Mr Dedalus began to sway his head to and fro, crooning like a country singer.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceGet Context In Chapter 1 2 He could not sway the crowd but he might appeal to a little circle of kindred minds.
3 I might just as well have ordered a tree not to sway in the wind.
4 There was a low jingle, a glint of yellow metal, a sway of fringed draperies, and she stopped as if her heart had failed her.
5 As his pointed fingers touched it, it dropped the white scurf of crinkled lids over black, glasslike eyes and began to sway backwards and forwards.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar WildeGet Context In CHAPTER 19 6 It was strong enough to wave the branches of the trees, and it was more than strong enough to sway the trailing sprays of untrimmed ivy hanging from the wall.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson BurnettGet Context In CHAPTER VIII 7 The Magic will take them away," said Colin in a High Priest tone, "but we won't sway until it has done it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson BurnettGet Context In CHAPTER XXIII 8 But at last the battle was done, and the forces retired with weaker and weaker threatenings and grumblings, and peace resumed her sway.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XVI 9 Maddened by terror, she lashed the horse again and again and it struck a gait that made the buggy rock and sway.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XLIV 10 The one they had seen held the sway in their thoughts; whenever they thought of themselves in a house, it was this house that they thought of.
11 In the air, always, was a mighty swell of sound that it seemed could sway the earth.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen CraneGet Context In Chapter 8 12 but even as he reflected, the spring regained its sway.
Fathers and Children By Ivan TurgenevGet Context In CHAPTER III 13 The horses' croups began to sway in the front line.
War and Peace(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIX 14 It was one of those March nights when winter seems to wish to resume its sway and scatters its last snows and storms with desperate fury.
War and Peace(V2) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VIII 15 This the things said to him, but another voice in his heart was telling him that he must not fall under the sway of the past, and that one can do anything with oneself.
Anna Karenina(V1) By Leo TolstoyGet Context In PART 1: Chapter 26