Administering

Examples

• It is well enough for parents to recognize this fact in administering medicines to their children. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I was urged by compassion to hasten to the hut, for the purpose of ascertaining his situation, and administering to his wants. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Now, doctor, I shall take the liberty of administering a dose myself, on my own responsibility. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A stranger was administering her medicines--a stranger from the country--an odious Miss . William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But Celia was administering what she thought a sobering dose of fact. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At each division administering a soft facer with one of the speckled fists. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Compared with this creative statesmanship, the administering of a routine or the battle for a platitude is a very simple affair. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Administering the definition like Tar-water. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The cook was there with blackened face, seated on the beautiful chintz sofa by the side of Mrs. Raggles, to whom she was administering Maraschino. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She began now to ask what else she should do besides administering the opium. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Typist: Terrence