Directions

Examples

• A party that tried to answer every conflicting interest would stand still because people were pulling in so many different directions. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Is there anybody else I can send to you, or any other directions I can give before I leave, respecting what you would wish to be done? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Means for quarter sawing in both directions of log travel are shown in patent to Gray, No. 550,825, December 3, 1895. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• No need to give him directions; he was always at home everywhere. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• While obeying my directions, he glanced at me now and then suspiciously from under his frost-white eyelashes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Suitable directions will at once be given for all trains and surplus artillery to conform to this movement. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We had the boy upstairs, and I gave him his directions. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Mr. Bucket draws near and examines the directions. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I obeyed her directions. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In three different directions I saw the crowd part, at one and the same moment. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Stage-coaches were upsetting in all directions, horses were bolting, boats were overturning, and boilers were bursting. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Inquiring at the hotel, I received the necessary directions for finding the Sergeant's cottage. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was sticking out of him in all directions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The apes scattered by ones, and twos, and threes in all directions, but ever within sound of a signal of alarm. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Some of the young ladies washed the lettuces for him, and sliced them under his directions. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Every thing was accomplished with speed under my directions. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His directions were obeyed, and they pulled ashore directly; two in one boat, two in the other. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Having performed this friendly office, he fixed his eyes on the Jew's face, and awaited his directions. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• A vapor seemed to spread in all directions from where the salt solution struck the board, extinguishing the flame as it went. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Professor Hertz proved in 1888 that a spark, or disruptive discharge of electricity, caused electro-magnetic waves to radiate away in all directions through the ether. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• McCormick’s machine had two cutters or knives, reciprocated by cranks in opposite directions to each other. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• We ought to have our roll of directions, like Christian. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We must go in different directions, seeking aid. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• When I calculated that this impetuous young woman would overdo it in new directions, was I wrong or right? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Hence, two messages can be sent in opposite directions over the same line simultaneously. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Remember directions! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• We can soon see, replied the police officer, and ringing a bell he summoned an assistant to whom he issued a few directions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The messenger waited near me while I was reading to receive his directions when I had done. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• After lunch, Miss Fairlie and I shoulder our sketch-books, and go out to misrepresent Nature, under your directions. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A vigorous official himself, Airy was deeply impressed by the calm decisiveness and definite directions of the French mathematician. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

Edited by Gertrude