His brimmed hat of worn felt was well pulled over his eyes, and he revolved a quid of tobacco in his left cheek.
The sickroom became a mysterious centre round which everything revolved, and the parlour, without the alteration of a single chair, took on a deserted, forlorn appearance.
That the epithet was well applied, and the ban just, might be; he put forth no denial that it was so: his mind even candidly revolved that unmanning possibility.
This evening, fugitive as usual before the Pope and his works, I mounted the staircase, approached the dormitory, and quietly opened the door, which was always kept carefully shut, and which, like every other door in this house, revolved noiselessly on well-oiled hinges.
When uncultured minds, confined to a narrow range of personal experience, are under the pressure of continued misfortune, their inward life is apt to become a perpetually repeated round of sad and bitter thoughts; the same words, the same scenes, are revolved over and over again, the same mood accompanies them; the end of the year finds them as much what they were at the beginning as if they were machines set to a recurrent series of movements.
" Valancy was still a little breathless, but she looked Barney straight in the eyes, while all the dead Stirlings revolved rapidly in their graves and the living ones did nothing because they did not know that Valancy was at that moment proposing lawful marriage to the notorious Barney Snaith.
Instead, he revolved this mystery in his mind: why do they find Smee lovable?
One of the major questions following Meghan and Harry's announcement that they wanted to step back from their "senior" roles in the royal family revolved around their titles.
It revolved around teamwork, integrity, a spirit of humility, and always doing right by our clients.
Genie's dogfish This deepwater shark's official species name is Squalus clarkae, but it's being colloquially named "Genie's dogfish," after "Shark Lady" Eugenie Clark, a marine biologist whose life work revolved around changing the public dialogue around sharks.
From the ancient Greeks onwards, many cultures assumed that the sun revolved around the earth.
Prof Hart's contribution to contract theory since the mid 1980s has revolved around how best to write contracts that cover eventualities that cannot be precisely specified in advance.
The breeze fell for some seconds, very low, and the current gradually turning her, the HISPANIOLA revolved slowly round her centre and at last presented me her stern, with the cabin window still gaping open and the lamp over the table still burning on into the day.
Our earth revolved in the thin air, and the cities upon it seemed to lie close to each other.
