Encouraging

Examples

• It is encouraging people to marry if you make so much of them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• As regards its quantity and quality, the accounts are most encouraging. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Our out-of-door life easily threw one in my way, and I delicately said that there was a responsibility in encouraging Richard. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Miss Price, will not you join me in encouraging your cousin? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The nondescript replied in encouraging terms, and brought him to a coffee-shop in the street within a stone's throw. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It was clear what the end would be, since Mary openly placed Farebrother above everybody, and these women were all evidently encouraging the affair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was impossible to make the confession more dispassionately, or in a tone less encouraging to the vanity of the person addressed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• He was of opinion, in fact, that southern people needed encouraging. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I returned an encouraging response. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Oh, that some encouraging voice would answer in the affirmative! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Other prominent Frenchmen made encouraging experiments on small steamboats--followed in 1784-86 by James Rumsey and John Fitch in America in the same line. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I think your manners to him encouraging. Jane Austen. Emma.
• After all, I was only encouraging the most absurd vanity, contrary to common sense. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The spinster caused Briggs to write back to the Colonel a gracious and complimentary letter, encouraging him to continue his correspondence. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And this is old Fitzurse's boasted policy, encouraging these malapert knaves to rebel against us! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• There is always plenty, Herbert, said I, to say something encouraging. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I am very ill, Harriette, said the dear sufferer, with encouraging firmness, holding out her hand to me; but don't frighten yourself. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Clara, visited by an human pang, pale and trembling, crept near him--he looked on her with an encouraging smile--Do you fear, sweet girl? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Calhoun, from whom he received very encouraging letters. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Not that I imagine he can think I have been encouraging him hitherto. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Those days were heroic ones, for he then battled against mighty odds, and the prospects were dim and not very encouraging. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He could not believe her to be encouraging him. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It was encouraging a nasty class of intellectuals to interfere in the affairs of sound business men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If you could kindly mention now, for instance, what nine times ninepence are, or how many shillings in twenty guineas, it would be so encouraging. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• But the misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices I had been encouraging. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He was a skilful master, and successful in his profession, employing the mildest and most encouraging methods. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• After I had pondered a little over this encouraging sentiment, I asked Mr. Jaggers if I could send for a coach? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It is chiefly by encouraging the manufactures of Europe, that the colony trade indirectly encourages its agriculture. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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