This is what I thought after we arrived at the military airfield and boarded a converted cargo plane that went bucking down the runway and lifted swayingly into the mist. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)
On "The Way Things Are," with a swayingly melodic chorus that could make it an enormous hit, Ms. Apple chooses to stay put: "So keep on calling me names," she sings, "keep on, keep on/And I'll keep kicking the crap till it's gone." ❋ Unknown (1999)
She was lightheaded, a little dreamy, even drowsy, moving swayingly in Sam's arms, her body leaning on him. ❋ Lamb, Charlotte, 1937- (1991)
He looked swayingly around at his audience, and could not help but be aware of an air of scepticism about their jumbled faces. ❋ Adams, Douglas, 1952- (1984)
With perfect precision, and poise, the men and women of the couples separated, stepped swayingly, each towards the nearest of the couple to their right, and retreated. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)
And in the window as she stood there, swayingly, was a dark, blurred thing which might have been anything at all. ❋ Susan Glaspell (1915)
He saw the beach comber sit up, and then, with much pain and difficulty, get swayingly to his feet. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)
As she went swayingly toward the bottom of the bay he slipped clear of her and struck out through the tepid water. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)
He pressed closer to the swayingly kneeling man, and with upthrust muzzle sought to kiss the blubbering face. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)
The road lay untouched until ten o'clock, when a selectman gave notice that it was an occasion for "breakin 'out," by starting with his team, and gathering oxen by the way until a conquering procession ground through the drifts, the men shoveling at intervals where the snow lay deepest, the oxen walking swayingly, head to the earth, and the faint wreath of their breath ascending and cooling on the air. ❋ Alice Brown (1902)
Pope Pio Nono borne aloft, swayingly, the triple crown upon his head. ❋ Julian Hawthorne (1890)
Long as they were in sight, the bulky form of the captive was seen at times swayingly towering over the flashing bayonets and cutlasses, like a great whale breaching amid a hostile retinue of sword-fish. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)
The dream in which SAKURA blooms and flutters is lovely softly and swayingly, I wander ❋ Unknown (2009)
Then two of the girls arose, and drawing their veils over their faces so that only their eyes were visible, they danced lightly and swayingly to the end of the tent, and then returned to the young men, who now commenced the love-songs, with downcast eyes, not daring to call the name of the objects of their tenderness, but addressing them in poetical terms; and then they sang to the same air the battle-song of the Tartars. ❋ Chapman Coleman (1843)
He’s too far! and grabbed his arm and they were in the car again, Macomber and Wilson hanging on the sides and rocketing swayingly over the uneven ground, drawing up on the steady, plunging, heavy-necked, straight-moving gallop of the bull. ❋ Ernest Hemingway (2001)
