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Example sentences for "railing"

Lexicographically close words:
railed; railer; railes; railhead; railheads; railings; railleries; raillery; railly; railroad
  1. At length the body-snatchers reached the low wall surmounted with a high railing which encloses Shoreditch churchyard.

  2. Peterson, leaning against the closed door, held his breath; Max, sitting on the railing with his elbow thrown over the desk, leaned slightly forward.

  3. Bannon could not see her face, for a young fellow stood leaning over the railing by the desk, his back to the door.

  4. Miss Vogel was standing by the railing gate, buttoning her jacket and waiting for Max.

  5. He leaned over the railing and opened the box.

  6. He did not look up when the door opened and Max came to the railing gate.

  7. The only men who came within the railing were Max and Peterson.

  8. He made no sign, indeed, of having heard anything, but stood hacking at the pine railing with his pocket-knife.

  9. When Ida had pulled Margaret away from the railing after watching Mr. Van Torp while he was talking to himself, the singer had thought very little of it; and Ida never mentioned it afterwards.

  10. He indicated an iron railing newly tarred, dividing the wilder underwood amid which they stood from the inner and well-kept parts of the shrubbery, and against which the back of the gymnasium was built.

  11. Six stone steps led up to the door, with a rusty iron railing on each side, and under these steps were others which went down to a cellar--in my dream of course.

  12. The open railing of the veranda was half as far away on his right and on Mrs. Haxton's left.

  13. He felt like railing at fate for ill- usage.

  14. The railing and the deep shade of the veranda shielded them effectually.

  15. The gate remains, but as a wicket in the railing running clear across the stage.

  16. The railing stays, but it encloses now the chancel of a church.

  17. Mr. Clayton was leaning against the side-railing talking to a friend, when all at once the railing gave way, and he fell backward into the water, which immediately swallowed him up.

  18. I will,' I exclaimed, and in an instant I had sprang over the railing into the boiling current.

  19. They had reached the boulevard now, and were standing at the railing over the beach.

  20. They went in through the railing that divided front and rear offices.

  21. Humphrey leaned on the railing over the beach, and smoked reflectively.

  22. They stopped at the railing and looked out over the lake.

  23. He stood at the railing and stared out ever the lake.

  24. He let himself, moving with the self-consciousness that somewhat resembled dignity, through the gate in the railing and took his chair at the inkstained pine table that served him for a desk.

  25. In the recesses of the walls are more cases, and on the railing of the gallery that runs round each of the three great central rooms, are fixed low cases to hold natural history specimens and wax models of fruits and vegetables.

  26. Within the railing were all the religious fittings, but these I cannot describe.

  27. He is fenced off from the crowd by a strong wooden railing behind which are gathered the unemployed of the mercantile marine.

  28. Illuminations and cannonading saluted the Royal George's birth, multitudes were admitted to see him as he lay behind a gilt railing at the Palace with noble nurses watching over him.

  29. When a pitcher is broken, what railing can mend it?

  30. So he stretched out his hand to pull it to him, but this time it ran at him, and he was so alarmed that he leapt the railing and scudded away to his boat.

  31. There was a good deal going on in the Baby Walk, where Maimie arrived in time to see a magnolia and a Persian lilac step over the railing and set off for a smart walk.

  32. So the night passed on, as George clung to the railing of the platform, while the train rumbled along in the darkness to the Southward.

  33. In another second he had grasped the iron railing above him; within a minute he had raised himself and clambered upon the platform.

  34. Wardwell hurried down the stairs, and Augusta leaning over the railing heard him as he caught up with her mother on the lower landing.

  35. She did not know that he had stood just where she came to stand, looking down over the railing into the slip between two docks, asking questions of the lapping water.

  36. She was in time to look through the railing of the stairs and see her mother disappearing down the stairs.

  37. Passing through the twisted iron railing they reached the path, and thence made their way to the road, shining white in the night.

  38. To meet his eye in the presence of danger was like finding a mental railing that guided and supported thought along the giddy edges of alarm.

  39. By means of the iron railing a man might readily gain the ledge below the first floor windows.

  40. He stood looking out, leaning as far over the iron railing as he dared, waiting till his eyes should become accustomed to the darkness.

  41. As though temporarily exhausted by his tirade he sagged back for a moment against the railing of the steps.

  42. The president was seated, for all the world to see, behind a low mahogany railing before a high mahogany desk.

  43. It would be necessary for me to come in through the kitchen, Helen giggled over the telephone, or else to climb over the railing of the side porch.

  44. The lash so infuriated him that he dashed away to the railing (for some unknown reason he had been walking in the very middle of the bridge in the traffic).

  45. He turned his back to the railing and looked about him.

  46. On the bridge he stood by the railing and began gazing at the water.

  47. But as a civic building, in spite of its railing and its new Cour d' Appel, the Palais de Justice remains the finest of its kind in Europe, and is superior to the Hôtel de Ville both of Brussels and of Louvain.

  48. Hedwig hesitated, drew the long, low chair closer to the railing and smoothed the cushions on it, then turned and left the porch.

  49. Mrs. McDougal stood off and gazed with admiring candor at the man before her, and the man, laughing good-naturedly, seated himself on the railing of the little porch and threw his hat on a chair at its far end.

  50. She peered above the railing and counted.

  51. As they came nearer, those on the railing jumped down; those leaning against the wall straightened, and those in front made way, while hats came off and spitting ceased.

  52. Then the man at the other end braced the cable against a railing post.

  53. Then a frail wooden railing was its only side protection.

  54. Andy made a jump over the front railing of the car.

  55. Neale and Mr. Howbridge dropped the cot they were setting in place under the awning, and rushed to the railing of the deck.

  56. This was followed by a menacing rumble of thunder, and then Ruth gasped for breath as a strong wind smote her in the face, and Neale, just ahead of her, turned to grasp her lest she be blown against a railing and hurt.

  57. Moreover, it is the good (not the reasonable, though) who bring these railing accusations against Providence.

  58. But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.


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