Brings

Examples

• He brings a dispatch to General Golz. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• For the pupil has a body, and brings it to school along with his mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He succeeded, where Taft failed, in preventing that drought of invention which officialism brings. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr Barretti was informed, that the weekly packet-boat from Lisbon brings, one week with another, more than ?50,000 in gold to England. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One of the errands, my dear, which brings me here is to bid you good-bye, I began. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• This, which he had intended to make more of the ordinary type, he gradually brings round to the other or ideal form. Plato. The Republic.
• There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This brings us round, my dear,' he then pursued, 'to the question we left unfinished: namely, whether there's to be any new go-in for Fashion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And I consider that the poetry brings us both in, in a beautiful manner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She brings mischief wherever she goes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Another view of man, my second brings; Behold him there, the monarch of the seas! Jane Austen. Emma.
• And this intimacy humanizes religious controversy and brings ecclesiasticism back to men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I'll come at once, if you will allow me, to what brings us here. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The Kislar Aga brings a letter from the Sultan. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Now it's Mr. Candy's assistant who brings the list to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Emma shall be an angel, and I will keep my spleen to myself till Christmas brings John and Isabella. Jane Austen. Emma.
• That manner of speaking never brings luck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• But then, when the man commits burglary in order to break images which are not his own, that brings it away from the doctor and on to the policeman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Bucket brings a chair and diminishes his shadow. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• It is a lucrative source of emolument, and sometimes brings into the national treasury as much as thirty-five or forty dollars a year. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Extension must necessarily be considered either as coloured, which is a false idea; I or as solid, which brings us back to the first question. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The offender's sorrow brings but small relief To him who wears the strong offence's cross. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This original method of reducing the amount of physical labor involved in watch-winding brings to mind another instance of shrewdness mentioned by Edison, with regard to his newsboy days. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This brings us to the gist of the ingenious way in which Edison substituted the action of electrochemical decomposition for that of the electromagnet to operate a relay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Open fireplaces are very healthful because the air which is driven out is impure, while the air which rushes in is fresh and brings oxygen to the human being. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Meantime, may I ask what brings him here? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To-day I approached the subject of my proposed sojourn under his wife's roof when he brings her back to England. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A passion however, if it be wholly pure, entire, and reciprocal, brings with it its own solace. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Edited by Clare