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Example sentences for "its head"

  • The Hesea dwells yonder," he answered, and, taking each of us by the hand, he led us forward across the great emptiness of the apse to the altar at its head.

  • But I determined to follow up the valley to its head, and then find my own route up the steep as the shorter and more adventurous way.

  • We passed a large and densely wooded island this forenoon, between Short's and Griffith's Falls, the fairest which we had met with, with a handsome grove of elms at its head.

  • Early next morning I set out to trace the ancient glacier to its head.

  • The country was made a Roman province, with a Roman magistrate at its head.

  • It had been ascertained that it took its source much farther to the south than was represented on any map, and that at its head would be the greatest difficulty in the intended researches.

  • Mr. Lally had orders to enter and follow the river Asherbish, which enters Lake Temiscouata at its head, until the progress of his boats should be interrupted.

  • In 1872 it was severed from the War Office, though remaining an appanage thereof, and a general of the army was placed at its head.

  • Its head-waters rise on the landward side of the eastern escarpment within 50 miles of Annesley Bay on the Red Sea.

  • But it is impossible to understand the feelings by which this cult is prompted, for although they worship the animal after their fashion and set up its head in their villages, yet they trap it, kill it, eat it and sell its skin.

  • Felix saw the little bird move its head with a sort of infinite curiosity, and hop twice on the branch.

  • With half ownership of this hopeful animal, all the idealism latent somewhere in Dartie, as in every other man, had put up its head, and kept him quietly ardent for months past.

  • The apparition wore white muslin on its head, a fichu round its bare neck over a wine-coloured dress, fulled out below its slender waist.

  • One toss of its head, however, sent Crusoe high into the air; but it accomplished this feat at the expense of its nose, which was torn and lacerated by the dog's teeth.

  • It is of a green colour, and has a hood of feathers, red bordered with blue, at the back of its head, which it can elevate or depress at pleasure.

  • It seemed to consider itself as one of the family: attending all the meals, passing from one person to another round the mat to be fed, and rubbing the sides of its head in a coaxing way against their cheeks or shoulders.

  • The forepart of its head is prolonged into a slender pointed beak, and the total length of the reptile was six feet.

  • One kind had a long spear-shaped horn projecting from the crown of its head (Phanaeus lancifer).

  • The first was a child five months of age, of pale complexion, bright and intelligent, its head measuring 23 inches in length.

  • There is a recent report of a child born in Paris with its eyes in the top of its head.

  • Marcacci fils practised suction, and placed the child on its head, but in vain.

  • This time the arrow again hit the centipede right in the middle of its head, but instead of glancing off harmlessly as before, it struck home to the creature's brain.

  • The arrow hit the centipede right in the middle of its head, but instead of penetrating, it glanced off harmless and fell to the ground.

  • Again the arrow hit the mark, it struck the centipede right in the middle of its head, only to glance off and fall to the ground.

  • Ralston's horse was waiting, with a scarlet-clad syce at its head.

  • There was the tomb itself--an earth grave and a rough obelisk without so much as a name or a date upon it set up at its head by some past Resident at Kohara.

  • I had crept up the nullah time after time towards the glacier at its head, thinking that if ever the position was to be taken it must be turned at that end.

  • He himself rode out from Government House, and at the bend of the road he met the procession, with the lady from Gujerat at its head in a litter with drawn curtains of tawdry gold.

  • In a patch of flattened grain was a pool of blood and in the middle of the pool, lying on its side with a large wound to its head, was.

  • The lion had two explosive bullets in its head!

  • On hearing this exclamation the lion lowered its head, and taking in its jaws the wooden begging bowl which lay on the pavement before it, extended it humbly in the direction of Tartarin, who was paralyzed by astonishment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual observation; certain death; good fish; its back; its body; its centre; its chief; its contents; its development; its distance from the; its existence; its full; its great; its natural; its nature; its parts; its proper; its way; itself considered; only want; pituitary body; second chamber; seem right; shall see; there may; these great