Charging
['tʃɑːdʒɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Charge
Edited by Adrian
Examples
- The attack was now renewed, the cavalry dismounting and charging as infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In charging the apparatus, the interior, A, is nearly filled with water, or other liquid, through the opening, _f_, which is then closed by cork, which is kept in its place by a screw nut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In another moment they were racing as madly away from us as they had before been charging down upon us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It was Philip who seems to have created charging cavalry. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The stock is delivered to the charging floor in iron boxes loaded on narrow-gauge buggies, and is charged into the furnaces by electric charging machines. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The great apes, towering in all their fifteen feet of height, had gone down before my sword while the charging guards were still some distance away. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I took my leave of Mr. Micawber, for the time, charging him with my best remembrances to all at home. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My respite was short-lived however, for soon the entire party, numbering some thousand men, came charging into view, racing madly toward me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- They toiled through the sand, charging an enemy who always evaded their charge and rode round them and shot them to pieces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- All I felt safe in charging on him to-night, was old companionship in villainy between them. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This device is known as an electromagnet, and the charging and discharging of such a magnet may, of course, be repeated indefinitely. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He seemed to be charging her before the unseeing air. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His man drove as if he were charging an enemy, and the furious recklessness of the man brought no check into the face, or to the lips, of the master. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Well, go on; but I will be around when he goes to rairing and charging, and the first rair he makes I'll make him rair out of the window. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Edison himself is, however, the best repertory of stories when it comes to the difficulties of that early period, in connection with metering the current and charging for it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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