"Swayed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... down and seated himself to make a hearty supper, and by the time he had done it was evident that they were out to sea once more, for the vessel swayed softly from side to side, but there was little ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... lorries driven by pink-faced boys swayed from side to side on the greasy road, and threatened to ...
— The Happy Foreigner • Enid Bagnold
... my gondola for a moment, and as I gently swayed to and fro on the water, all paved with moonbeams, it seemed to me that I was on the confines of an imaginary world. It lay close at hand, enveloped in luminous, pale blue mist, through which the moon ...
— Hauntings • Vernon Lee
... green-carpeted breathing spot, than which, to-day, there is nothing more beautiful in Chicago. It afforded a vista pleasant to contemplate. The best room looked out upon the lawn of the park, now sear and brown, where a little lake lay sheltered. Over the bare limbs of the trees, which now swayed in the wintry wind, rose the steeple of the Union Park Congregational Church, and far off the towers ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser
... and even darkness of his cheek Was stained one moment by a flush of red. He swayed his lithe form nearer as he stood Still clinging to the branch above his head. His brilliant eyes grew darker; and he said, With sudden passion, "Do you bid me speak? I can not, then, keep silence if I would. That hateful ...
— Maurine and Other Poems • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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