Neglecting

Examples

• The 'young gal' likewise occasioned me some uneasiness: not so much by neglecting to wash the plates, as by breaking them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Inquire as much as you can tomorrow without neglecting your work, said Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Surely Mrs. Fisher could no longer charge Miss Bart with neglecting her opportunities! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I've told you you were neglecting a sweet girl, George. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Emma, finding her so determined upon neglecting her music, had nothing more to say; and, after a moment's pause, Mrs. Elton chose another subject. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Not, perhaps, of neglecting his own interest; but of every other neglect I can believe him capable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• And from this sum, neglecting likewise the fraction, and deducting a ninth, or 4s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Of course this was not a time to neglect my guardian, and of course it was not a time for neglecting my darling. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• From which sum, neglecting the fraction, and deducting a ninth, or 4s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• There is always too much danger of neglecting thoughts for things, ideas for machinery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Why, he nearly ruined you, my boy, with neglecting to put you on the right track—no wonder you got melancholia and all that rubbish. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Typist: Millie