Committing

Examples

• Happily Rosamond did not think of committing any desperate act: she plaited her fair hair as beautifully as usual, and kept herself proudly calm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Have I not carefully avoided exposing myself to the odium of committing unnecessary crime? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He'd set 'em at defiance if they talked of committing him, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• For mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato. The Republic.
• She is quite capable (according to my belief) of committing a daring fraud. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Marriage was not the committing of himself into a relationship with Gudrun. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In originally committing himself to this line of investigation he was well aware that he was going in a direction diametrically opposite to that followed by previous investigators. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I hope,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that our volatile friend is committing no absurdities in that dickey behind. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Becky was just lecturing Mrs. Osborne upon the follies which her husband was committing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• God did not give me my life to throw away; and to do as you wish me would, I begin to think, be almost equivalent to committing suicide. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

Typist: Sam