Directing

Examples

• Sherman responded to this attack on his lines of communication by directing one upon theirs. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She went on directing her conversation to the past, and seeming to recall its incidents, scenes, and personageswith singular vividness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Arriving at Columbus on the 16th I reported by telegraph: Your dispatch from Cairo of the 3d directing me to report from Cairo was received at 11. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The novel feature of Plato's pedagogy was the plan to educate the directing classes, men disciplined in his own philosophical and ethical conceptions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Oh, he wanted love to be the directing power even of the mines. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Directing the pitching of the chair in an affable and easy manner, Mr. Bucket dismisses the Mercuries and locks the door again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They were all occupied with the poor girl, and I heard Mr. Woodcourt directing them and speaking to her often. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A message went out directing the troops in the South not to obey General Sherman. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I am much indebted to you for directing my attention to this case, Mr. Soames. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I at once wrote to McClernand, directing him to send me a copy of this order. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I was directing the new circulars till two this morning. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It was neither a very true nor a very polite thing to say, she remarked, directing her eyes to the ships again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The educational proposals could become ways of directing it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In directing the activities of the young, society determines its own future in determining that of the young. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Elizabeth could not help smiling at his easy manner of directing his friend. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Adults are naturally most conscious of directing the conduct of others when they are immediately aiming so to do. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The different objects which are thought of are means of directing the activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• If Miss Wilson will come to town, she may have an interview, by directing her letter as before. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Whenever I saw him directing the driver, I was prepared for our descending into a deeper complication of such streets, and we never failed to do so. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The contrivance which was to take the place of the hand and eye of man in holding, applying, directing and impelling a cutting tool to the surface of the metal work was the _slide-rest_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This was the moment I chose, when his full face was in view, for directing Pesca's attention to him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• To this idea must be added the means of flight, of starting and maintaining a stable flight and of directing its course. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It had vast potentialities for good and evil--all it wanted was harnessing and directing. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He sent staff officer after staff officer in search of Warren, directing that general to report to him, but they were unable to find him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Ever pointing upward, Agnes; ever leading me to something better; ever directing me to higher things! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• At dawn he would be at work, surveying, planning, directing, until nightfall. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The so-called Athenian empire was simply a city state directing its allies and its subjugated cities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The point of these remarks is that play has an end in the sense of a directing idea which gives point to the successive acts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But there seems an indelicacy in directing his attentions towards her so soon after this event. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Shall he have the pleasure of directing the messenger to ask if there are any letters for you? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Editor: Madge