A child stood looking with wistful eyes at the toys in the shop window.
He was flogging his horse in a very cruel way.
She rummaged change from the bottom of her purse.
The law does not meddle unduly with a person‘s private life.
The lights traversed the sky searching for enemy planes.


The doctor‘s report gave us only a glimmer of hope.
On his desk, many articles and documents are always piled in great lump.
The woman ransacked the house for her lost jewelry.
He slashed a path through the high grass with a long knife.
Out feet slumped repeatedly through the melting ice.
That pop-song had a great vogue at one time.


Enemy soldiers ransacked the city and carried off its treasures.
Tired from his long walk, he slumped into a chair.
We saw the glimmer of a distant light through the trees.
He used to have a great vogue as a film actor, but no one goes to the cinema to see him now.
What the Ice Age did was to eradicate the abundant mammalian life in the Northern Hemisphere.


He ascribes his success to skill and hard work.
The soldiers kept their heads down behind the bulwark.
She looked around this way and that in a dubious manner.
Selfishness was a facet of his character that we seldom saw before.
For the first time he had to pay heed to his appearance, and in fact he became very well-dressed from then on.


The boys huddled together under the rock to keep warm.
The old man mumbled something to me, but I could not understand him.
This ruined bridge is a relic of the Korean War in 1950.
Automobile exhaust fumes are one of the major causes of smog.
The thirsty wayfarer was glad to find a fresh spring near the road.
He always speaks with his mouth full of food, it is his wont.