Doing

Examples

• Your marriage was your own doing, not mine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• By no means, Alexandros; for by so doing we would close up the only avenue of escape left to us. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Hence, when his name was casually mentioned by neighbouring yeomen, the listener said, Ah, Clym Yeobright--what is he doing now? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I seem to have been doing that ever since I knew you, judging from your frequent mention of the fact. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I would be quiet if he liked, and as to talking rationally, I flattered myself I was doing that now. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Let us be doing something. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I have no common interest in Crawford's well-doing. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He was always to her a being apart, doing what she objected to. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• So he said, My precious little woman, what are you doing here? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We were always doing something as it was. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The only independent one among them, he warned her that she was doing too much for this man, and was placing herself too unreservedly in his power. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Those who are showing the world what female manners _should_ be, said Mr. Bertram gallantly, are doing a great deal to set them right. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• My horse hasn't got a load behind him going back, as he had coming up in the mornin'; and he won't be long a-doing of it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• What are you doing? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• That was your doing, papa. Jane Austen. Emma.
• A little close, poor soul (as you know), about herself and her doings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Sad doings, Miss, these here bills being returned. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• As the door closed on her she said to herself softly, It's Baxter's doings and Baxter's dooty--that's what it is. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When you and your brother are friends, his doings are indifferent to you. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Shabby doings of any description were not endured under his sanction. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• We have had some very strange doings at Hurlstone, and the police have been able to throw no light upon the matter. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• We jumped at the offer, for we were already sick of these bloodthirsty doings, and we saw that there would be worse before it was done. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She became a subscriber; amazed at being anything _in propria persona_, amazed at her own doings in every way, to be a renter, a chuser of books! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I have heard of your doings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A connecting link is found in the stories, traditions, songs, and liturgies which accompany the doings and rites of a primitive social group. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• We cannot give here at any length the story of the wars and doings of this monarch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I could never hope to equal my own doings at Randalls. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I know 'em; I've seen all their doings; I can't bear to think of all they'll bring you to;--and they'll make you give out, at last! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Such half-and-half doings never prosper. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• That's Baxter's doings, that is. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Typed by Dewey