Believing

Examples

• I now ventured to turn my head back, believing myself at a safe distance from the stranger. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She ran along the sea beach, believing the old boat was theer; and calling out to us to turn away our faces, for she was a-coming by. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• When a man cannot measure, and a great many others who cannot measure declare that he is four cubits high, can he help believing what they say? Plato. The Republic.
• Believing, however, in the practicability of capturing Richmond unless it was reinforced, I made that the objective point of his operations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And what, said Fanny (believing herself required to speak), what could you say? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• You must give me leave to judge for myself, and pay me the compliment of believing what I say. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He himself stayed in London, believing there were better chances for the sale of his machine there than in America. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• As usual, believing yourself unequal to anything! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I have strong reason for confidently believing that we shall never be in the receipt of a smaller income than our present income. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His circumstances, he assured me, and I had no difficulty in believing it, were exceedingly bad. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I had read something like that before, and did not shame my judgment by believing a word of it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured by my fancy. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• There was no answer, and they might have gone away, believing the house to be empty, if there had not been some accidental fall, as of a book, within. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The Wrights adopted this type, believing that it was the strongest form, and could be made more compact and be more easily managed than the single plane, or the many-winged type. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I believe we are justified in believing that he constitutes a danger to the Republic-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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