Discuss

Examples

• We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I have heard professors reply that it wasn't their business to discuss human nature but to record and interpret economic and political facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In attempting to prove that the soul has three separate faculties, Plato takes occasion to discuss what makes difference of faculties. Plato. The Republic.
• I never discuss a Saint after dark, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• To make short of a long story, I am afraid I have wanted an object; but I have an object now--or it has me--and it is too late to discuss it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It is impossible to discuss that time without discussing our own time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I shall be too busy for whist; I shall have two parishes, said the Vicar, preferring not to discuss the virtues of that game. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The marriages of either were discussed; and their prospects in life canvassed with the greatest frankness and interest on both sides. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In other words, Edison's real work has seldom been seriously discussed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The subject well deserves to be discussed at great length, but I will here take only a single case, that of working or sterile ants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• They discussed the matter thoroughly but arrived at no solution. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The subject of reading aloud was farther discussed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• We have already discussed the relationship of social development to the restriction of the idea of property (chap. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Influenced by his predominant idea, he even fell into a habit of discussing with himself the possibility of her being in some way associated with it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Mr and Mrs Boffin, sitting side by side, with Fashion withdrawn to an immeasurable distance, fell to discussing how they could best find their orphan. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Among the more rigid socialists and reformers it is not customary to spend much time discussing mental habits. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• No, interposed Crispin quickly, before Eunice could speak; we were discussing photographs on yonder sofa. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Why, that is the very point, Sophronia, that Georgiana and I were discussing as to herself! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• There were no servants present, and the gentlemen, with chairs closely approaching, seemed to be discussing some subject with great earnestness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They found Margaret with a letter open before her, eagerly discussing its contents with her father. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Graham Wallas touched the cause of the trouble when he pointed out that political science to-day discusses institutions and ignores the nature of the men who make and live under them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• As for him, he methodically discusses his matter of business as if she were any insensible instrument used in business. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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