Remarking

Examples

• In remarking that your friend has shown impatience, I say no such thing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• So she went on in her neutral tone, as if she had been remarking on baby's robes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That pretty woman in white is Amelia, General: you are remarking all the pretty women, you naughty man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Without remarking that man-traps were not among the amenities of life, I said I supposed he was very skilful? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• You should see the flowers at Glenmalony, Mrs. O'Dowd was remarking. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Yet that there is a common impulse in modern thought which strives towards autonomy is true and worth remarking. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• And there's alloy even in this metal of yours, Mr Wegg, you was remarking? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Lammle tries to break the force of the fall, by remarking that some people do not like town. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Armstrong, however, appeared quite satisfied, remarking carelessly that he knew her hour and would not keep her waiting. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Once it surprised her notions by remarking upon the friendliness and geniality written in the faces of the hills around. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Slow in remarking, he was logical in reasoning: having once seized the thread, it had guided him through a long labyrinth. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I embrace this opportunity of remarking that he washed his clients off, as if he were a surgeon or a dentist. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• On my remarking that I was constantly in the habit of doing the same thing you expressed incredulity. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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