Refers

Examples

• It was a question whether gratitude which refers to what is done for one's self ought not to give way to indignation at what is done against another. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Cotton’s Compleat Gamster published in 1674, refers to billiards as This most gentle, cleanly and ingenious game. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It refers to my brother Robert. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Pliny refers to the curled chips raised by the plane, and Ansonius refers to mills driven by the waters of the Moselle for sawing marble into slabs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The next event in your cousin's life refers again to Miss Verinder. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The letter is addressed by my mother to her second husband, Mr. Fairlie, and the date refers to a period of between eleven and twelve years since. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• And now that it is written and sealed up, allow me to ask one or two last questions about the unhappy woman to whom it refers. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Artichoke failing signally, my client refers the task to me: his purpose being to advance the interests of the object of his search. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• My next question refers to Mr. Candy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Sir Leicester generally refers back in his mind to Wat Tyler and arranges a sequence of events on a plan of his own. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It refers to the sealed letter, I answered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sir Leicester seems to wake, though his eyes have been wide open, and he looks intently at Mr. Bucket as Mr. Bucket refers to his watch. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• For example, the term 'greater' is simply relative to 'less,' and knowledge refers to a subject of knowledge. Plato. The Republic.
• It refers to the man higher up, although the phrase had not been coined in those days of lower public morality. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The Roman, Pliny, refers to fire extinguishers but gives no account of their construction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Mr. Snagsby refers everything not in the practical mysteries of the business to Mrs. Snagsby. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It refers to the second obligation, which is not yet due. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• If so, I had better go at once and call on this Mr. Donkin, to whom the advertisement refers me. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• While this quotation refers to the method as simple, the patent under consideration covers one of the most bold and daring projects that Edison has ever evolved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Grandfather Smallweed refers to Phil with a glance of considerable terror and a half-subdued O Lord! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It would appear, too, that they were fairly well paid for their labor, as Pepys, in his Diary, refers to a present made him of a pair of flagons which cost ￡100. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The gold-dredging spoken of refers to the working of gold-bearing sands found at the mouth of certain rivers in Alaska and South America. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Besides, this refers to the Monday, and the crime was done upon the Wednesday. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Guppy refers again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Edited by Hattie