Advising

Examples

• The view she took of her position was so thoroughly sound and sensible, that I was relieved of all necessity for advising her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I am advising you for your good, returned the Count, with a smile of quiet contempt. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My only scruple in advising the match was on his account, as being beneath his deserts, and a bad connexion for him. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Advising them in time, it should be possible to unite fifty rifles of a certain dependability. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Have you been advising him since? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He felt no hesitation in assuming the functions of the executive, or in acting without advising with him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Here he saw that the fort had not been injured, and so reported to Butler, advising against an assault. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• They pushed off immediately, advising me to make haste for fear of being overtaken by the tide, and so bade me farewell. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I had no hesitation in advising him to marry. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Shortly afterward, Sir Thomas was again interfering a little with her inclination, by advising her to go immediately to bed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Dana, then in Chattanooga, informing him that unless prevented Rosecrans would retreat, and advising peremptory orders against his doing so. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Came a message from the Margrave of Brandenburg advising flight; there was no holding any of their troops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But this was the first occasion on which I had ever found myself advising a young lady how to obtain her release from a marriage engagement. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Has Mr. Gilmore been advising you? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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