Attaching

Examples

• This is done by attaching to the service pipe tanks filled with filtering material, through which the water flows before reaching the boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The present question for us to decide is, whether I am wrongly attaching a meaning to a mere accident? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Do they by attaching to the soul and inhering in her at last bring her to death, and so separate her from the body? Plato. The Republic.
• The mistake is not in attaching importance to preparation for future need, but in making it the mainspring of present effort. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Genuine knowledge has all the practical value attaching to efficient habits in any case. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Now, my love, you must not imagine, in your off-hand way, that I have been attaching myself to an idiot. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Leitner ran attaching himself to somebody or other, always deferring, Loerke was a good deal alone. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The watchman made more light of the matter than I did, and naturally; not having my reason for attaching weight to it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Where only a single outcome has been thought of, the mind has nothing else to think of; the meaning attaching to the act is limited. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Thenceforward, Amy observed Mr Sparkler's treatment by his enslaver, with new reasons for attaching importance to all that passed between them. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• To each of these explosives is fastened a barbed needle which serves the purpose of attaching them to the bull by running the needle into the skin. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

Typist: Stacey