Exchanging

Examples

• Richard came back as we finished exchanging these hurried words and gave me his arm to take me to the coach. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr. Bell would have had it keep still at exchanging wild-beast skins for acorns. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Long banished Robinson Crusoe,' says the charmer, exchanging salutations, 'how did you leave the Island? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In exchanging, indeed, the different productions of different sorts of labour for one another, some allowance is commonly made for both. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What are the rules which men naturally observe, in exchanging them either for money, or for one another, I shall now proceed to examine. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He did try to prevent the English from exchanging exports for European gold, while permitting imports in the hope of depleting England of gold. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Well, we shall see what good they will make by exchanging a fool for a wise man. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He and Esmeralda are exchanging religious experiences on the back porch now. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Every man thus lives by exchanging, or becomes, in some measure, a merchant, and the society itself grows to be what is properly a commercial society. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It gives a value to their superfluities, by exchanging them for something else, which may satisfy a part of their wants and increase their enjoyments. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I have known as many as three copper-plate engravers exchanging the most exquisite sallies and retorts there, at one time. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As was natural, they were exchanging with each other some particulars of their history. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Merchants and traders in unarmed ships, who accommodate different nations by communicating and exchanging the necessaries and conveniences of life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• He was silent, and they walked on a few yards without exchanging a word. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I should as soon think of exchanging an old-fashioned mother for something modish and stylish. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Aren't we exchanging the substance for the shadow, aren't we forfeiting life for this dead quality of knowledge? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• A new sort of people, these people of leisure and independent means, were asking questions, exchanging knowledge and views, and developing ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Fling Paris back into the distance, then, exchanging it for endless avenues and cross-avenues of wintry trees! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• It could only end, if she held firm, in an exchanging of hard words and bitter accusations on both sides. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She held out her hand as the train resumed its level rush, and they stood exchanging a few words in the aisle. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

Editor: Roxanne