Influence decisively

Usage examples of swinging.

So I headed acrost the mountains for Chawed Ear, swinging wide to avoid coming anywheres nigh to the Humbolts.

Achamian simply stared in blank horror, an anguished pendulum slowly swinging to and fro, to and fro .

After the ballet lesson, she stood with locked-up face, letting the bevy of chattering ballet rats pass with their swinging gym bags.

Tom in relief, as he noted the needle of the barograph swinging over, indicating an everincreasing height.

March, and though the sun was shining brightly outside, and the old porter wore his linen jacket, as if it were already spring, there was a cold draught down the staircase, and the Baroness instinctively made haste up the steps, and was glad when she reached the big swinging door covered with red baize and studded with smart brass nails, which gave access to the grand apartment.

Her Hands ignored this philosophical inquiry and proceeded to make room for herself at the hearth, swinging her solid little bum deftly back and forth like a battering ram.

And de Batz walked on unmoved by what he saw and heard, swinging his cane and looking satisfied.

Perhaps they were sailing now, deep down among the benthos, phosphorescent lanterns swinging on the rigging to light up the abysmal darkness.

Wall Street men fell to the spell of stocks, ruffled shirts and knickerbockers, and as the evening advanced, were quite themselves in the minuette and polka, bowing low in solemn rigidity, leading their lady with high arched arm, grasping her pinched-in waist, and swinging her beruffled, crinolined form in quite the 1860 manner.

This very point was brought up recently in conversation with an artist, who in referring to one of the most successful costume balls ever given in New York--the crinoline ball at the old Astor House--spoke of how our unromantic Wall Street men fell to the spell of stocks, ruffled shirts and knickerbockers, and as the evening advanced, were quite themselves in the minuette and polka, bowing low in solemn rigidity, leading their lady with high arched arm, grasping her pinched-in waist, and swinging her beruffled, crinolined form in quite the 1860 manner.

The impact started that trapeze swinging, and now the bespangled Maurice literally flashed back and forth, like blue lightning, between the two high-swinging bars, sometimes catching hold with his hands, sometimes with his bent knees, sometimes only by his toes.

He stepped aside to avoid the swinging arm of the loud-voiced man who was punctuating his liquor-born blatancy with violent gestures, and paused at the archway of the main dining-room for Thames.

Richmond, and all the loveliness of spring spread out before uswildflowers in bloom, little lambs frolicking in the fields, birds swinging and singing on blossomy boughs.

Gleeful Frau Gnahb, humming through her teeth, spins the wheel, spokes blurring, prow swinging over aiming for midships.

Overhead the hands had already bowsed the swinging yard to the shrouds and were running a cable to the shattered end to act as a brace.