Dealing

Examples

• In some sense, men had always used an inductive method in dealing with their immediate practical concerns. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• For then you are dealing with living ideas: to search his text has its uses, but compared with the actual tradition of Marx it is the work of pedantry. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You must remember that we are dealing with a burglar who is a very peculiar fellow, and who appears to work on lines of his own. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In these preceding ten sections we have been dealing with an age of division, of separated nationalities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is a mistake in being too honest when dealing with a scoundrel. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I gave up dealing in reddle last Christmas, said Venn. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The counterpart of the isolation of mind from activities dealing with objects to accomplish ends is isolation of the subject matter to be learned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• How little practice he had had in dealing with unusual situations! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• That isn't my affair, as I know of, said St. Clare; I am only dealing in facts of the present life. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• How about method from the standpoint of an individual who is dealing with subject matter? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Archer was dealing hurriedly with crowding thoughts. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Bred in meanness and hard dealing, this had rescued him to be a man of honourable mind and open hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• So far, however, we are dealing with what may be called training in distinction from educative teaching. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• How he should like to have more of those little death-dealing slivers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• At this distance, however, I may err as to the best method of dealing with the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other? Jane Austen. Emma.
• Probably in the dealings of these citizens with one another. Plato. The Republic.
• In his last dealings with this man Bulstrode may have kept his hands pure, in spite of my suspicion to the contrary. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Secondly, he had known Moore's father, and had had dealings with him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Reflective dealings with the material of instruction is constrained and half-hearted; attention wanders. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• This free competition, too, obliges all bankers to be more liberal in their dealings with their customers, lest their rivals should carry them away. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Modes of purposeful doing include dealings with persons as well as things. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But with their opposite characteristics both were great and successful soldiers; both were true, patriotic and upright in all their dealings. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• This revenue and maintenance, thus mutually afforded, will be greater or smaller, in proportion to the extent of their dealings. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings with Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Editor: Wendell