Checking

Examples

• We shall see,' said Mr. Brownlow, checking his rising anger. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Mrs. Dashwood entered into all their feelings with a warmth which left her no inclination for checking this excessive display of them. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Checking himself with another piece of earth in his hand, Eugene looked at his friend inquiringly and a little suspiciously. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Though, mind,' added Mr. Pickwick, hastily checking himself--'mind, I do not say I should have prevented it, if I had known that it was intended. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But there's Mrs Higden,' said Sloppy, checking himself in his raptures, drawing back, and shaking his head with very serious meaning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He is checking the road. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Miss Pocket laughed, and Camilla laughed and said (checking a yawn), The idea! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Faith, and so it would, said the reveller checking himself repentantly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Joaqu韓 repeated the slogan in his dried-up boy's voice without checking his digging for a moment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Carstone, he repeated, slowly checking off that name upon his forefinger; and each of the others he went on to mention upon a separate finger. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And then it will go in, you know--and then--' said Mr. Dick, after checking himself, and pausing a long time, 'there'll be a pretty kettle of fish! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Still as I narrated, instead of checking, he incited me to proceed he spurred me by the gesture, the smile, the half-word. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Hipparchus made the first attempt to catalogue and map the stars with a view to checking any changes that might be occurring in the heavens. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Well (checking herself, and trying to be more lively), this is all to be forgotten. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I answered, almost falling over her and checking myself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

Typist: Nicholas