Correcting

Examples

• Correcting myself, I said that I was much obliged to him for his mention of Mr. Matthew Pocket-- That's more like it! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• A proposal for correcting modern maps. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I would give up everything--almost (correcting herself); I would die rather than make you unhappy; that would be too wicked! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Pardon me, sir,' returned Mrs Wilfer, correcting him, 'it is the abode of conscious though independent Poverty. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You are getting to be rather conceited, my dear, and it is quite time you set about correcting it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I kept over him as a child, in the days of his first remembrance, my restraining and correcting hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Then he looked at me, and said, correcting himself,-- To be sure! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• They serve to put us upon correcting the faults we have, and avoiding those we are in danger of having. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He's an ill lad, and wants correcting. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• As _you_ say, madame retorted, correcting him, and deftly knitting an extra something into his name that boded him no good. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I am obliged to you, of all things, for correcting so absurd a mistake. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Do you not see that it is no use now to be crawling a little way after men of the last century--men like Bryant--and correcting their mistakes? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My wages,' said the Secretary, correcting himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And to hold the candle, pursued Mr. Bucket without correcting himself, or hold her, or make yourself useful in any way you're asked. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A dispensation,' said Sam, correcting the old gentleman. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I am married, Esther, she returned, coldly correcting me, and am Mrs. Chadband. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is the aim of progressive education to take part in correcting unfair privilege and unfair deprivation, not to perpetuate them. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His eyes were on her hand again directly, and her opportunity of confirming or correcting the impression was gone. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am sure your great kindness will not object, and I hope papa will not object, to my correcting a small mistake you have made, however. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Enrico