Requiring

Examples

• This was a very primitive device, requiring several minutes for the engine to make one stroke, but it was the beginning of the practical use of steam as a motive power. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• So shall you give me protection without sacrifice on your part, or the pretext of requiring any requital from me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The improved instrument produces untempered tones without requiring extraordinary variations from the usual arrangement of the keys. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• By this means the instrument suits all eyes, without requiring adjustment, and the field of view is increased. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• And you may further imagine that his instructor is pointing to the objects as they pass and requiring him to name them,--will he not be perplexed? Plato. The Republic.
• The pace of the sentries, Xodar said, was very slow, requiring nearly ten minutes to make a single round. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In the overcoming of difficulties he has the same intellectual pleasure as the chess-master when confronted with a problem requiring all the efforts of his skill and experience to solve. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Eight chambers had been left, requiring a ton of powder each to charge them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A tea-spoonful to a table-spoonful of the powder is dissolved in 1 pint of water, requiring from 1/2 to 1 hour to make the solution. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He therefore planned a system by which the ten thousand bearings in the plant are oiled automatically; requiring the services of only two men for the entire work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This lamp must possess the quality of requiring only a small investment in the copper conductors reaching it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Prior to the invention of the _spinning-jenny_, the loose fibre was spun into yarns and thread by hand on the old-fashioned spinning wheel, each thread requiring the attention of one person. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Carpets thus treated regain their original colors in all their freshness, the entire operation of washing and drying a large carpet requiring but two hours, and the carpet need not be taken up. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• This had always been hard labor, taking a great deal of time and requiring three or four men to every reaper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The process, however, was slow, requiring some hours. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Miss Bingley, however, was incapable of disappointing Mr. Darcy in anything, and persevered therefore in requiring an explanation of his two motives. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Lady Catherine is far from requiring that elegance of dress in us which becomes herself and her daughter. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• A procedure, it may be stated, requiring years of time and thousands of dollars, during which other infringers have generally entered the field, and all have grown fat. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Well, it is what I call no water, she said, blushing, and lifting her long-lashed eyelids as if to lift them were a work requiring consideration. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The nurse could fix no time for her appearance, caution requiring that she should wait and be guided by circumstances. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• They are perhaps more common than pity; as requiring less effort of thought and imagination. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It was an inconvenient and exacting institution, as requiring everything in the universe to be filed down and fitted to it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Message in return, requiring name of such Hand. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The body department occupies the greatest amount of space, requiring, with the upholstering department, most of the three upper floors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• My right to place myself in a situation requiring such concealment, is another question. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Mrs Lammle made leading remarks to Fledgeby, only requiring monosyllabic replies. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Being now ready for manufacturing, but requiring more facilities, Edison increased his real-estate holdings by purchasing a large tract of land lying contiguous to what he already owned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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