Contributing

Examples

• But whether he should succeed in that mode of contributing to the majority on the right side was very doubtful to him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Believe me, I have no pleasure in the world superior to that of contributing to yours. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Is this not a contributing factor to the futility and opacity of our political thinking? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• I feel an ambition to arise in me of contributing to the instruction of mankind, and of acquiring a name by my inventions and discoveries. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Even upon this very moderate supposition, the great body of the people, over and above contributing the tax which pays the bounty of 5s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The nurse's wages were good, and she might succeed, by strict economy, in contributing her small share towards the sum required in two years' time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Agai n, so far were they from contributing to the development of m edicine that they had no physicians for the six hundred years preceding the coming of Greek science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Science is international, English, Germans, French, Italians, Russians--all nations--contributing to advance the general interests. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Now human psychology is recognized as contributing to various branches of anthropology, or the general study of man. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The work was continued during the following twenty years, the English government contributing about $85,000 to defray its cost. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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