Describes

Examples

• Mr. Snagsby describes over and over again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• No word describes it so felicitously as that one. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Nearly every book concerning Galilee and its lake describes the scenery as beautiful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It describes a sensation in your little nose associated with certain finicking notions which are the classics of Mrs. Lemon's school. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• On the Friday night, as Betteredge truly describes it, she had found me alone at the billiard-table. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Palladius, four centuries later, describes the same sort of machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I have describes enough of my early life to give an impression of the whole. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One of them describes the method pursued by him in the ninth century in taking measure of the c ircumference of the earth. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Manton’s British patent No. 4,285, of 1818, describes a thin copper tube filled with fulminate and struck sidewise by the hammer to explode it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Priscus describes how bards chanted before Attila. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Lützow[377] describes how the papal representative and the Duke of Saxony ascended a convenient hill to inspect the battlefield. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He describes the boy of sixteen as engrossed intensely in his experiments and scientific reading, and somewhat indifferent, for this reason, to his duties as operator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Another help is the allusion in Aristotle, who makes the important remark that the latter part of the passage (Greek) describes a solid figure. Plato. The Republic.
• So she describes it--my sensitive child! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Mr. Edison himself describes various instances in which the demand for isolated plants had to be met: One night at '65,' he says, James Gordon Bennett came in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Stuart describes his spouts as appearing no bigger than a mast, and sometimes less; but they were seen at a league and a half distance. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Politicians tend to live in character, and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Siemens describes principle of Self Intensification of Cold (now used in ice and liquid air machines). Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In 1839 Jordan also describes an electro-plating process. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mr. Watson thus describes it. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Smith and McCall found no obstruction in the way of their advance until they came up to the succession of ponds, before describes, at Resaca. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Pliny describes this machine which was used early in the first century and which might be termed a stripping header. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He describes Edison as uncouth in manner, a chewer rather than a smoker of tobacco, but full of intelligence and ideas. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This is said to have been accomplished by Kircher, who, in his Prolusiones Magnetic?, describes, though very vaguely, the mode of operation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They are ready to want something: that describes fairly the condition of most suffragettes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Lord Warwick, his contemporary, describes him as a plain man, in a cloth suit made by an ill country tailor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Disagreeable is a word that describes your feelings and not my actions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In that spiritual autobiography of a searching mind, The New Machiavelli, Wells describes his progress from a reformer of concrete abuses to a revolutionist in method. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He thus describes their furnaces and iron: At every third or fourth village (in the regions near Lake Nyassa) we saw a kiln-looking structure, about 6 feet high and 2? feet in diameter. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Even in the Elysian fields, Virgil describes the souls of the happy as eager to drink of the wave which was to restore them to this mortal coil. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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