Doings

Examples

• 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.

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