Shewing
[ʃəʊ]
Examples
- Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Her wish of shewing you attention could not be doubted, and his being a disengaged and social man makes it all easy. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I believe it will not be necessary to employ many words in shewing the weakness of this argument, after what I have said of the foregoing. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- That fellow, said he, indignantly, thinks of nothing but shewing off his own voice. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Her present visit to London tended to augment her state of inquietude, by shewing in its utmost extent the ravages occasioned by pestilence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mrs. Grant's shewing civility to Miss Price, to Lady Bertram's niece, could never want explanation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She will enjoy the scheme, I am sure; and I do not know a properer person for shewing us how to do away difficulties. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She seemed to propose shewing no agitation, or disappointment, or peculiar concern in the discovery. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Thank you, my dear, for shewing it me. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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