Displays

Examples

• Their success was immediate, and from these displays has grown the successes of today in pyrotechnics. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• All large displays of fireworks are now fired by electricity and every known color and effect is produced by the pyrotechnist of the present day. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We have dealt thus lengthily with the First Crusade, because it displays completely the quality of all these expeditions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My first displays the wealth and pomp of kings, Lords of the earth! Jane Austen. Emma.
• They were the pioneers in this line of displays. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Edison's boldness and breadth of conception are well illustrated in his idea of a poured house, in which he displays his accustomed tendency to reverse accepted methods. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Even in this uncertain state, his passion to be useful to mankind displays itself in a powerful manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In 1865 the first displays of fireworks in the United States, illustrating historical events, were made by a company in New York City. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• On every point of general literature he displays unbounded knowledge, and a quick and piercing apprehension. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• For the rest, the Western world displays itself as traditional and conservative as China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The History of Herodotus displays little or no dissatisfaction with Athenian political institutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Here then the contradiction betwixt the propensities of the imagination and passion displays itself. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The illustration shows a battery of powerful searchlights, the use of which furnished some very effective displays during the Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco in 1915. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But such displays of firmness could not prevent the lesson of that flight soaking into men's minds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And his fine, thin nostrils, the nostrils of a pure-bred street arab, would quiver with contempt at Leitner's splothering gymnastic displays. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I will endeavour, in my relations with Mrs. Merridew, to emulate the moderation which Betteredge displays in his relations with me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It will be amusing to go to these eurythmic displays, and the German opera, the German theatre. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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