Describing

Examples

• The really excellent gymnastic is twin sister of that simple music which we were just now describing. Plato. The Republic.
• And it shall be well with us both in this life and in the pilgrimage of a thousand years which we have been describing. Plato. The Republic.
• He is describing, with a certain subdued enthusiasm, the probable technical developments of military method in the next war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• An eloquent catalogue appeared in a weekly print, describing his virtues, his magnificence, his talents, and his good actions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He sent a model of this to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers at Birmingham, of which he was president, together with a report describing it in full. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They would not measure round the waist more than so much--describing to me the circumference with his hands. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The State which we have been describing is said to be wise as being good in counsel? Plato. The Republic.
• A month or six weeks later I saw an extract from an American newspaper, describing the departure of the adventurers on their inland journey. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Joseph Holtzapffel in his learned work on _Turning and Mechanical Manipulation_, gives a list of old publications describing lathes for turning both wood and metal. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I abstain from describing the device which the brand represented. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• But it is evident that Plato is describing what to him appears to be also a fact. Plato. The Republic.
• The ruler may impose the laws and institutions which we have been describing, and the citizens may possibly be willing to obey them? Plato. The Republic.
• He replied, Electricity; describing at the same time the various effects of that power. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I am describing a memory--and one that will remain long with me. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Surely Bernard Shaw was not describing the Englishman alone when he said in The Man of Destiny that . Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• That encouraged the promoters, and they issued a little circular describing the business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• It is the answer to mine describing the manner in which Sir Percival cleared himself of the suspicions raised by Anne Catherick's letter. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Ought I not to begin by describing how the change from timocracy to oligarchy arises? Plato. The Republic.
• Elinor smiled again, to hear her sister describing so accurately their future expenses at Combe Magna. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He was so surprised at what he saw that he wrote a letter describing his emotions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• As I was describing before, when any one is well or ill, the universal word will be 'with me it is well' or 'it is ill. Plato. The Republic.
• The first English publication describing a way of applying steam appeared in 1630 in a patent granted to David Ramseye, for a mode of raising water thereby. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Nor would you praise the behaviour of States which act like the men whom I was just now describing. Plato. The Republic.
• Here, for example, is the concluding passage of the _Iliad_, describing very exactly the making of a prehistoric barrow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have already had occasion to refer to Tilghman's sand blast in describing pneumatic apparatus. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As in the Republic, there is a myth, describing, however, not a future, but a former existence of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
• An Italian lad had got an audience about him, and with animated gestures was describing some scene of horror. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• You must have had Miss Anderson in your eye, in describing an altered young lady. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I'm wery sorry, Sammy,' said the elder Mr. Weller, shaking up the ale, by describing small circles with the pot, preparatory to drinking. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• And do you also agree, I said, in describing the dialectician as one who attains a conception of the essence of each thing? Plato. The Republic.

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