Communicating

Examples

• The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I should have preferred writing my report, instead of communicating it by word of mouth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe's tools. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Through this person I also discovered a means of communicating with the servant, Hester Pinhorn. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A is a steam pipe communicating with the boiler, B another pipe receiving steam from A through small holes and terminating in a cone. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is the manner of communicating these diseases; it is the subtle way in which they go about. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There was no indispensable necessity for my communicating with Joe by letter, inasmuch as he sat beside me and we were alone. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The house being full, Gerald was given the smaller room, really the dressing-room, communicating with Birkin's bedroom. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Is there no possibility of communicating with him earlier? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was not till some two weeks after her visit from Lily that Gerty had the opportunity of communicating her fears to Selden. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I had the folly to call for writing materials, and to think of privately communicating my real position to the magistrate. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It should cut down the rates for using wire and cable systems, and ultimately place the means of communicating directly with any one on land or sea within the reach of every man. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Short letters from Frank were received at Randalls, communicating all that was immediately important of their state and plans. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I have been too abrupt in communicating the news; it has excited you beyond your strength. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A force was also collecting on my right, at Jackson, the point where all the railroads communicating with Vicksburg connect. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.

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