Use "forelock" in a sentence
forelock example sentences
forelock
1. I stood humbly before them wondering if I should tug my forelock
2. 7- Why has the holy Qur’an called the spirit of the opposer a ((Forelock)) ?
3. He touched his forelock respectfully
4. I have hung happiness from your forelock and you shall be Lord of the other animals
5. Such an honor had never befallen Monsieur Goerg before, and he was beside himself, bowing and scraping before the great man, doing everything but tugging at his forelock
6. There is not a creature but He holds it by the forelock
7. Grasped by the forelock, yielded to my will
8. So, as it is easier for me to imitate him in this than in cleaving giants asunder, cutting off serpents' heads, slaying dragons, routing armies, destroying fleets, and breaking enchantments, and as this place is so well suited for a similar purpose, I must not allow the opportunity to escape which now so conveniently offers me its forelock
9. Supreme was the satisfaction that Sancho felt at seeing himself, as it seemed, an established favourite with the duchess, for he looked forward to finding in her castle what he had found in Don Diego's house and in Basilio's; he was always fond of good living, and always seized by the forelock any opportunity of feasting himself whenever it presented itself
10. Pocket had taken Time by the forelock (when, to judge from its length, it would seem to have wanted cutting), and had married without the knowledge of the judicious parent
11. Another then put in his word: And they dressed him, says he, in a point shift and petticoat with a tippet and girdle and ruffles on his wrists and clipped his forelock and rubbed him all over with spermacetic oil and built stables for him at every turn of the road with a gold manger in each full of the best hay in the market so that he could doss and dung to his heart's content
12. His body was profiled by the moonlight, a silver line running from his forelock to his boots
13. Something in his tone made Dunk want to tug his forelock
14. Conklin brushed his forelock of brown hair away from his eyes
15. At last Cal turned and waded across that forlorn porcelain and forelock sea to let his hands pick up, all by themselves, the comb and scissors
16. I wish you joy, Miss!” and he politely pulled his forelock
17. At that moment Touchard darted in, seized me by the forelock, and dragged me about
18. They trimmed it all around, and cut it down to a stump, but in the spring it again sent out twigs, thinner ones than before, but twice as many as ever, as is the case with a colt's forelock
19. The laws should be executed with the greatest strictness; and it was always wise to take time by the forelock