Accompanying
[ə'kʌmpənɪɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accompany
Editor: Stacy
Examples
- Everything was arranged in a week for my accompanying Worcester to Spain. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The accompanying soldiers received, with national vivacity, enthusiastic pleasure from the sight of beautiful nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In his travels, and in his accompanying readings, he had come to the conclusion that the essential secret of life was harmony. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Behind November came deep winter--clearness, stillness, frost accompanying. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The accompanying diagram and explanation may serve to remove the difficulty of understanding why the two circuits are maintained quite distinct. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The accompanying diagram will assist in explaining the arrangement. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The reason for this is very simple, as the accompanying diagram shows. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the accompanying illustration we see St. homas inspired by Christ in glory, guided by Moses, St . eter, and the Evangelists, and instructed by Aristotle and Plato. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The shaft was supported on a pivot at the bottom, and was turned by a handle at the top, as represented in the accompanying drawing. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The accompanying woodcut represents the largest of the four steam-hammers in Keyham factory. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- After listening to the boy, Mr. Bruff asked the ladies whether they would excuse our accompanying them back to Portland Place. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- An effective apparatus of this kind, such as has been adopted by the United States Government for the use of the Bureau of Mines Rescue Crew, is shown in the accompanying illustration. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One day Deerhurst insisted on my accompanying him and Sophia in his curricle, to go out of town somewhere to dinner. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The most modern form of the Caligraph is known as the New Century, which is shown in the accompanying illustration, Fig. 140. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The accompanying woodcuts represent an elevation of the Rocket, and a section of its boiler. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A simple form of apparatus for the electrotype process is shown in the accompanying diagram. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In the accompanying diagram, the ends of the flat silvered glasses _a c_, _b c_, are inclined at an angle of 60 degrees; therefore the circle is completed by the junction of six sectors. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The accompanying diagram, Fig. 121, from Mulhall’s Industries and Wealth of Nations, shows in 1860 30 per cent. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The accompanying illustration (Fig. 13) is of a rectangular grill, made of pressed steel and highly polished, designed to operate from any electric light socket. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The foregoing letter, and the minutes accompanying it, being shown to a friend, I received from him the following: _From Mr. Benjamin Vaughan. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- An apparatus for generating coal gas on a small scale for private establishments, remote from sources of ordinary supply, is represented in the accompanying woodcut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The accompanying diagram will serve to explain more clearly the parts of the clock on which the movement of the pendulum depends. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The reader can understand the position better by referring to the accompanying cut. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Before noon, you announce that you are going to do me the honour of accompanying me as far as I go, on your road to London. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I am afraid that this is a bad business, Watson, said my companion, as he returned after accompanying Mr. Grant Munro to the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He often spoke of it with regret, and sometimes he talked about my accompanying him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He then began, with a serious face, accompanying Livius. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- From his mother he had received only a slight mulatto tinge, amply compensated by its accompanying rich, dark eye. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The patients, a s shown in the accompanying illustration, are suffering pain, and, according to the inscription, one cries out, Do this [and] let me go, and the other, Don't hurt me so! Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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