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Example sentences for "mittened"

Lexicographically close words:
mitres; mits; mitt; mitted; mitten; mittens; mittere; mittimus; mittit; mitts
  1. That is a reproach, my dear,” replied the French governess, serenely, knitting on steadily with mittened hands.

  2. Her voice quivered and failed, and suddenly she bent her face in her mittened hand and broke into a storm of weeping.

  3. It was, however, his business to watch the forking of the trail, and when he could only hear the thrashing of the birches, he moved his mittened hand from the bridle, and patted the restive horse.

  4. They were small wheat-growers who had driven in to purchase provisions or inquire the price of grain, and here and there a mittened hand was raised to a well-worn cap, for most of them recognized Miss Barrington of Silverdale Grange.

  5. The lad knelt down, slipped one arm about his comrade's neck, and took the mittened hand in his own.

  6. With the other mittened hand he rubbed his cheeks and nose.

  7. John Messner clung with mittened hand to the bucking gee-pole and held the sled in the trail.

  8. The sailor reached up to shake her mittened hand.

  9. She took hold of this with her mittened hands and tried to shake the prone figure.

  10. She thrust the end of the rope into the dog's jaws and waved her mittened hand towards the open water and the unhappy Chet beyond it.

  11. She clung with her mittened hands to the chain and gazed back at the snarling, spitting lynx with wide-open, terrified eyes.

  12. When he started off, she turned to wave her mittened hand to Miss Amanda, who still stood on the porch.

  13. Often she stopped, pressing a mittened hand to her heart, gasping and dizzy.

  14. Father Roubeau, the humor of the situation just dawning on him, hid a smile behind his mittened hand.

  15. Both men mittened and left the Post, their ears closed to the remonstrances of their comrades.

  16. He pulled steadily with all his splendid strength, and the man never lashed him once, but patted him with his mittened hand on head and back.

  17. She sniffed at Kazan's back and head, where the mittened hand had touched.

  18. The man persisted, talking to him all the time, and once his mittened hand touched Kazan's head, and escaped before the jaws could reach it.

  19. The young man, clinging to a cleat and watching the struggles of their craft, waved a mittened hand to signify that he agreed.

  20. Mayo looked in the direction of the extended mittened hand.

  21. The Curé grinned and rubbed his mittened hands.

  22. She raised a mittened hand to him in ironic salutation.

  23. Her mittened hands were clasped nervously on her lap, and there was about her such an air of forcibly restrained excitement, that Mrs. Leyburn's mild eyes gazed at her with some astonishment.

  24. It was not long before Dick and Sandy were eagerly gripping the huge, mittened hands of Corporal McCarthy and Constable Sloan.

  25. Dick shivered as he took his post at the entrance of the tupik with rifle in his mittened hands.

  26. Twice, when she lurched forward in alarm, I saw these front limbs jerk spasmodically; and when she was resting quietly, they rubbed and pushed impatiently against their mittened tissue.

  27. The crabs were worthy tenants of such strange architecture, with comical eyes twiddling on the end of their stalks, and their white-mittened fists feinting and threatening as I looked into their little dark rain or tide-pools.

  28. Agnes repeated, waving her mittened hand to him.

  29. And now that she was not here before his eyes, he pictured her, not as he had seen her last, but as he had seen her for the first time, in quaint gown and mob cap, with mittened hands.

  30. For an hour or more he wandered up and down Broadway, his shoulders hunched up, his mittened hands to his ears, water running from his nose and eyes, his face the colour of the setting sun.

  31. Braced against the garish brass bars that enclosed the little platform was Phoebe, in her white fur coat and hood, her mittened fingers clutching the rail, above which her rosy face appeared as the result of eager tiptoeing.

  32. Following a sudden impulse, Mrs. Rebell bent down and kissed the trembling mittened hands.

  33. On the mittened hands, stiffly folded together, gleamed a diamond and a ruby.

  34. A six-shooter in a mittened fist appeared over a rock heap at the roadside.

  35. Judith caught Douglas' sardonic gaze, tossed her curly head and urged Swift up the steps, where she looked toward the road to the Pass, shading her fine eyes with a mittened hand.

  36. This might be worse," stretching out her mittened hands to the blaze.

  37. The stranger squatted himself before Baree, with his mittened hands resting on his knees, and his white teeth gleaming in a half smile.

  38. McTaggart let one of these drop on the back of his mittened hand, and examined it closely.

  39. But Split had suddenly pivoted clear around and sat now facing him, an eager, mittened hand staying his hard, skilful, obedient fingers, already making the snowball.

  40. He bowed his wild, unshorn head in his mittened hands, and for a time there was silence between them.

  41. Philip drew himself together, as if expecting an attack, but in place of it DeBar held out a warmly mittened hand.

  42. In another moment the Missioner was wringing the half-breed's mittened hand.

  43. Philip sprang back to the window and gripped the mittened hand that still hung over the sill.

  44. Her head was thrown back, her mittened hands were drawn up to her breast as the forest man runs, and her shining braid danced and rippled in the early sun with each quick step she took.

  45. With her mittened hands she brushed off the snow, seated herself, and motioned Philip to sit beside her.

  46. Saginaw Ed slapped his mittened hand against his leg: "I've got it," he exclaimed.

  47. He paused at the top of a high ridge and smote a heavily mittened palm with a mittened fist.

  48. The lad, however, seemed impelled to talk, and stamped up and down beating his mittened hands, with the swivel of his slung carbine jangling as he moved.

  49. As he moved his mittened hands on the Marlin rifle, Leland forgot that he was stiff in every limb.

  50. Then the big fur caps came off, while the men with the hard brown faces clustered thicker about the pair, and awkwardly held out mittened hands.

  51. Those mittened paws which had beat feebly into the air fell onto the bandage-wreathed chest.

  52. One of the mittened hands moved slightly, raising the body from the ground so it could squirm forward an inch or so.

  53. The bandaged Hardy was claimed by the doctor and two attendants and carried away, the major walking beside the stretcher, still holding one of the mittened hands in his.

  54. As he walked along he rubbed his cheek-bones and nose with the back of his mittened hand.

  55. After some manipulation he managed to get the bunch between the heels of his mittened hands.

  56. Then, with both mittened hands, he scooped the bunch of matches, along with much snow, into his lap.

  57. It certainly was cold, he concluded, as he rubbed his numbed nose and cheek-bones with his mittened hand.

  58. He began threshing his arms back and forth, beating the mittened hands against his sides.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mittened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.