Dealings

Examples

• 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.

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