Cleared, as fog

Usage examples of lifted.

He lifted his head and peered down across the quilt, wiggling his exposed toes with disfavor.

He lifted one shoulder in a shrug, tilting his head down to speak to me.

I thought, watching the strong curve of her back as she lifted the heavy equipment over an entangling root that hunched across the trail.

She lifted the fleam and transferred it hastily to her other hand, raising it into the air as she surreptitiously waggled the scalded hand behind her.

She lifted her chin slightly, indicating something over my shoulder, and I turned to look.

He lifted the bonnet briefly to me, clapped it on his head, and turned to go, his aide following in silence.

He waved cheerfully with his hook, and Jamie lifted a hand halfway in acknowledgment, but turned away a little, still facing me, effectively preventing Fergus from coming to join us.

Roger caught a glimpse of her through the lifted flap, reclining in her cane-bottomed chair, feet in slippers, and her head fallen back in apparent repose.

I barely made it off the path and into the shelter of the pines before the tent flap lifted and the three Protestants emerged from the tent.

Damn, one of the pins holding the cloth between my legs had come loose when Jamie lifted me.

Fire gleamed off the long, straight bridge of his nose as he lifted it, questioning.

Jamie lifted his chin, enjoying the cold touch of it on his heated skin.

He lifted my hand to his lips, kissed it, then resumed his massage, much more slowly.

He would have kept it up, doggedly, but she could see the muscles in his forearms beginning to tremble as he lifted the gun, stilled by effort of will.

He leaned, twisting to reach for Jamie, who lifted him gently from my arms and cradled him against a shoulder, pulling the woolly cap down snugly over his ears.