Contracting

Examples

• There are two ways of contracting a chimney; one by contracting the opening _before_ the fire, the other by contracting the funnel _above_ the fire. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She appears to regard their number and value as evidence of the disinterested affection of the contracting parties. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A vulcanite or other strip is easily affected by differences of temperature, expanding and contracting by reason of the minutest changes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A sinking fund, though instituted for the payment of old, facilitates very much the contracting of new debts. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The want of parsimony, in time of peace, imposes the necessity of contracting debt in time of war. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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