What is "tilts"

Usage examples of "tilts".

The gentleman leans harder upon his stick and tilts his head so low I can see, above the wire of his spectacles, the bloodless rims of his eyes.

He spreads his coat upon the ground and sprawls upon it, tilts his hat to shadow his eyes.

The floor of the carriage tilts, the doorway rises, and I see her—the two men's hands upon her arms, a nurse gripping her waist.

I had got her to the stairs, just outside that door'—she tilts her head, Richard shifts his pose and the door gives a creak—'and now, she stops.

Chyenfel purses his lips, then tilts his head slightly, as if searching for an explanation.

Shykt purses his lips and tilts his head, then focuses his eyes directly on Lorn.

Still frowning, Bobby tilts all the way over and picks up the newspaper with unexpected delicacy, the way a mother cat picks up a kitten in need of relocation.

An old tin Coca-Cola sign pocked with bullet holes tilts against the front of the building.

In the middle of the chaos, Henry Leyden tilts his head and smiles to himself.

The back of her head tilts forward over the erect spine as if to answer the tangled combination of heartbreak, love, and anxiety burning in her husband's handsome face.

Instead of drinking from it, she tilts the liquid toward the lip of the glass and laps at it with her tongue.

Lily tilts the glass, slides the folded paper underneath it, and raises her hands, holding the newspaper against the top of the glass.

This was followed by practice tilts between knights, during which Sir Richard or one of his friends undertook the training of Blake at the far side of the ballium, and it was during this practice that the American's outstanding horsemanship became apparent, even Gobred being led to applause.

Instantly the tilts at either end of the lists were galvanized to activity, while the grandstand seemed to spring to new life as necks were craned first toward the tent of Sir Malud and then toward that of Sir James.

He felt his own lance strike and splinter and then, half stunned, he was through the iron line, his charger, frantic and uncontrolled, running wildly toward the tilts of Bohun's knights.